Re: perfect foods spreadsheet-grains, potatoes

[Guest guest]

Hi Suz and All,

My personal opinion would be to leave out grains/potatoes. Even if

someone would have " extra " carbs to fill out their daily requirement, there

are other carb foods that have a lower glycemic index and also give more

bang for the buck. I think the only tuber that really could be included

would be yams/sweet potatoes, as they have alot of vitamin A.

Another good food, which hopefully I'll start making soon, is kefir. It's

higher in protein and lower in carbs (and if made with low fat milk is also

lower in fat) than milk or yogurt, and has additional vitamins and other

goodies (I seem to like that phrase) from the bacteria. I would say most

fermented foods in general would be good to add to your list. (BTW, I just

so happen to have a book called " Ferment and Human Nutrition " .)

Ben

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[Guest guest]

Suz: Sweet potatoes, I feel should be included (I agree with Ben there).

As for other whole grains, they do contain the ever elusive Vit E. There's

also the problem of not knowing what will be discovered that's vital to life

in the future in grains (or any other group of foods) that'll cure something

or other. It's only very recently that scientists decided that berries such

as blueberries helped with preventing some chronic diseases like

Alzheimer's. As we all know, they're coming out with such new discoveries

every day. So IMHO, delete a whole food group at your own risk. IOW the

more variety the better.

on 7/23/2002 12:26 PM, Suzanne Cart at massuz@... wrote:

> I'd like some input from the group on whether or not I should include a row on

> my spreadsheet for selecting a grain food each day such as oatmeal, wild rice,

> sprouted wheat bread, wheat germ, etc. In the past I recall some discussion

> about whether or not grains are even necessary in a CRON diet, and if so, are

> they necessary daily?

>

> I'm also a bit stuck on potatoes, and find myself wanting to put all

> tubers/roots onto the same selection line on the spreadsheet. It would look

> something like this: potato, sweet potato, carrot, beet, turnip. (The idea

> being to include a small serving each day of something that is dug up out of

> the ground.) I don't even know if that makes sense--if such foods have enough

> in common with each other to be grouped together that way. I suppose I'm

> thinking, " Hey, they're all starchy. "

>

> Another thought I had was to make the grains and tubers optional, at the

> bottom of the spreadsheet, if the daily tally warranted these extra calories.