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@frostedechoes Oops, you helped me realize I accidentally quoted from two different books in this post. Fixing. Let me think about that and get back to you. Are you more interested in the problems with the food ecosystem or some patterns you can adopt to help? That'll help me recommend better.
@frostedechoes So, I've read:
- Food rules
- How to change your mind
- In defense of food
- Caffeine
Thinking about this a bit more, I really think In Defense of Food is probably the best start. It combines history, how-to, etc. and he works through his famous slogan throughout the book ("Eat food. Not too much. Mostly Plants."). The introduction is free online here, to get a taste.
@toddgrotenhuis I am a long way from “there”, but I’ve also come a stretch from where I was. Down 18kg since 1/1-20. Still a long way to go though, and I really think this can help along the way.
I tend to eat too fast. I know that it takes approximately 20 minutes for the feeling of fullness to occur, so eating slower and savoring the food will both keep you from overeating, and make you appreciate the food more.
37 “The whiter the bread, the sooner you’ll be dead.”
That is not a good rule in my experience, because they use a lot of syrup in some breads to make them darker, hence appearing healthier, when they’re really not.
In Norway we have something called the “bread scale”, which makes all producers rate their bread with a pie chart of ¼ - 1/1 from finest to wholemeal bread.
@frostedechoes on the GI front I understand there is a desire to limit inflammation (reducing FODMAPs often helps) while also getting fermented foods and healthy probiotics. I don't know the best source on practices here (as I understand there is a tradeoff where you only want to ramp up the prebiotic material once you are feeling better about not having leaky gut). There was a chunk of advice in The End of Alzheimer’s but I admit I didn’t pay as close attention in those sections.
@odd good point about syrups. Is bread the scale useful, or is it “gamed” by untrustworthy players.
@toddgrotenhuis It is somewhat helpful, but if the bread is 51% whole meal it counts as ¾ the same as if its 74%, still ¾, so yes, there have been examples where consumer report programs have had tests, (in cooperation with the Norwegian equivalent of the FDA), and found this. But I don’t think they found false claims among them.