Welcome to General Chat - GAW Community Area
This General Chat area started off as a place for people to talk about things that are off topic, however it has quickly evolved into a community and has become an integral part of the GAW experience for many of us.
Based on its evolving needs and plenty of user feedback, we are trying to bring some order and institute some rules. Please make sure you read these rules and participate in the spirit of this community.
Rules for General Chat
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Feel free to give feedback as these rules are expected to keep evolving
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I just feel like venting today about my parents. Why is it that some people simply refuse to find the roots of problems. They always seek a solution in the form of medicine or doctor instead of the real effing root of most health problems which is our diet. If you like eating sugar and carbs everyday and your whole life and don't want to change, don't complain when you get sick! I feel like screaming.
Maybe they're addicted? Are there any ways of curing that sugar addiction? I've read it is more addictive then heroin and if it were being introduced today, there is no way it would be legal.
propaganda and laziness
Yes, it is frustrating as hell. And then if you give them advice, and examples, and show them the research and facts, I hear, "well my doctor never mentioned it". I know many people who have passed way too young because they could not change their eating habits, lifestyle habits, etc the one I love is "you don't need supplements, everything is in your food". Yes, if you have a person preparing each meal for you during your busy day, with enough fresh organic fruits and veggies, and grass fed organically raised meats, sure. I eat one meal a day, the rest of the day is small portions that have protein and superfoods, smoothies, and I take a LOT of supplements, if I was as rich as oprah I could probably get all I needed. The other thing is if your gut is not functioning the way God intended it to, you cannot absorb the nutrients Sugar is often the first addiction and over time it is also one of he deadliest. I see children on poor diets who have the stressed faces of older people, blank sugar stares, obese in their twenties. I could scream too. The kids are not poor, but the diet is. Quaffing energy drinks as they get on the school bus for 4th and 5th grade.
Any advice for gut issues?
no booze, no refined sugars, whole oat oatmeal, the good bacteria love oats, if you can tolerate fermented foods, kimchi and sauerkraut, a tablespoon with meals, collagen for leaky gut, simple foods, meat, whole grain carb, yams, etc. I believe in fasting to get off to a good start, breaking the fast with some bone broth. For me, personally, wheat is a bad grain, the gluten does a number on me, stopping that alone made a huge difference, but not everyone is the same. I really believe eating the foods our ancestors ate is the way to go. Wheat gluten is probably fine for Mediterraneans, Africans from northern Africa, southern europeans, but the farther north you go, refined wheat was rare. There is a little garden in our gut that communicates with our brain, we have to tend it by growing and feeding the good bacteria.
Thanks for the info! But I'm curious about your fasting regime. How often and for how long do you fast?