Re: Rodney's diet

[Guest guest]

Rodney: I'm quite surprised to see these items as part of your diet.

Bagels are extremely high in calories (and unless whole wheat are devoid of

much nutrition), and canned beef broth is swimming in salt!!!! These are

hardly CRONIE foods. I would urge you to ditch these foods in favor of for

example, oatmeal for breakfast and low salt V-8 in lieu of beef broth.

Don't mean this as a lecture, just perhaps a wake up call.

on 3/29/2004 8:49 PM, Rodney at perspect1111@... wrote:

> It is interesting looking at the foods I eat with this in mind. The

> bagels I eat in the morning contain six times that much (and I

> haven't even got the can out of the cupboard yet!). The whole wheat

> bread more than seven times, and the can of 's beef broth I

> got for a recipe has 298 times as much.

[Guest guest]

Hi Francesca:

Well I have posted before about the relative nutrient contents of

white and whole grain breads. Which is best appears to depend on

which nutrients you happen to be short of, because each has more of

various nutrients than the other. Both have the high salt content.

(I realize, of course, that that is not the conventional wisdom.)

And, of course, whole grain breads are more than 80% white flour

anyway. So if you don't approve of white flour, why eat so much of

it in whole grain bread?

What would be interesting to see is epidemiological evidence of the

health of people who eat a lot of germ and bran and no white flour.

If it showed they were demonstrably healthier it would be enough to

change my behaviour.

As for the beef broth, it is not a regular component of my diet, I

bought it because of a recipe that requires it and seemed worthwhile

trying. I had not anticipated the huge salt content. It would be

better to buy some beef and make a salt-free stock from it.

Rodney.

>

> > It is interesting looking at the foods I eat with this in mind.

The

> > bagels I eat in the morning contain six times that much (and I

> > haven't even got the can out of the cupboard yet!). The whole

wheat

> > bread more than seven times, and the can of 's beef broth

I

> > got for a recipe has 298 times as much.