Guest guest Posted January 5, 2008 Report Share Posted January 5, 2008 Lester, Why would you want to reduce your fat intake? There was a recent discussion on sci.life-extension about the problems with a low-fat diet and the necessity of adequate fats for proper brain function. Your present diet appears to agree with you; why change? > > >Louis: >About 25 to 30 percent of my calories are fresh and dried >fruit. About 50 percent is the sprouted wheat bread. The other 20 >to 25 percent is beans, seeds, olive oil, nuts, cheese, vegetables, >and herbs. The beans and nuts are best if soaked. I make a tomato >sauce out of tomato, serreno peppers, garlic, onion, basil, and olive >oil to put over my bread that has added to it the beans or vegetables >and a little cheese. I posted a sprouted seed soup recipe which >tastes similar to a cream of broccoli or cream of mushroom soup that >I eat on a less than weekly semi regular basis. Once or twice a week >I will have some honey on some warm out of the oven bread. My diet >is mostly the same stuff every day. I enjoy what I eat. I feel >really good about it and because of it. I don't know if most people >who have the overabundance of processed prepared packaged grocery >store selections could or would want to do what I am doing. I went >to the grocery store to buy some fruit a couple of days ago. The >oranges were a good price, so I got some of them. I walked through >the rest of the store looking for other stuff. I spent about 40 >minutes truly trying to find something else that I wanted to eat for >variety. I looked and I read some packages. Nothing intuitively >worked for me. I ended up getting a couple packages of raisins that >were on sale and that was it. The freeze got my tomatoes, basil, and >peppers this past week. My peas and broccoli seem to be a little >behind but are coming along. The spinach, kale, and carrots are >doing really good. Eating some of what I grow in my garden really >seems to make a big difference. I was trying to cut down on my fat >calories from less than 20 percent to less than 10 percent, but it >doesn't feel right. I think about 15 to less than 20 percent may be >better for me. I'm going to still try to minimize the oil and go >with a few more seeds and nuts. > >Lester Germanio Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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