Food The Vagatarian Thread

American Diabetes Foundation would disagree.
Explain YOUR theory. Correction to mine - I should have said blood stream, not stomach.


I think you're being oppositional because it's inconvenient to change thought. Possibly you haven't studied the topic that much. All carbs are sugars, with the exception of non-digestible fiber. Veggies average much lower in all carbs than fruit, and average less COST per pound. My thought was you should try to incorporate more veggies over fruit. I understand fruit is good. ;) I wouldn't have processed and dried a few hundred lbs. of pears if it wasn't. But I did a lot of tomatoes too. *Children will always eat fruit - they usually have to be taught to eat veggies.

The veggies are sweeter because of human tampering too. Carrots used to be a sad little root. A lot of them have way more of the good nutrition than they used to. There's some kind of golden rice that has been engineered to have more nutrients, to try and battle famine in poor countries.
I didn't read this, so I don't really have a reply.
 
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Sure, it's never you being the duck is it, Ed? Think I'm a dick all you want. I don't live my life for your approval. I told you I wasn't interested. Listen next time.
Absolutely sometimes me being the dick. You were interested to a point. I don't live my life to listen to you ;)
 
American Diabetes Foundation would disagree.
Explain YOUR theory. Correction to mine - I should have said blood stream, not stomach.


I think you're being oppositional because it's inconvenient to change thought. Possibly you haven't studied the topic that much. All carbs are sugars, with the exception of non-digestible fiber. Veggies average much lower in all carbs than fruit, and average less COST per pound. My thought was you should try to incorporate more veggies over fruit. I understand fruit is good. ;) I wouldn't have processed and dried a few hundred lbs. of pears if it wasn't. But I did a lot of tomatoes too. *Children will always eat fruit - they usually have to be taught to eat veggies.

The veggies are sweeter because of human tampering too. Carrots used to be a sad little root. A lot of them have way more of the good nutrition than they used to. There's some kind of golden rice that has been engineered to have more nutrients, to try and battle famine in poor countries.
Some of the improvements kind of backfire - tomatoes with higher sugar content have worse problems of cracking open.


"Carbohydrates take the form of either sugars or starches (“complex carbohydrates”); but, a starch is simply a long chain of sugar molecules strung together, so they both end up as the same thing once they enter your blood stream (the only difference is that you need digestive enzymes to break up a starch). Most carbohydrates break down to approximately half glucose and half fructose (let’s ignore fiber and some of the other less common monosaccharides, for now). Glucose is then directly used by your cells for energy, whereas fructose must first be converted into glucose or fat by your liver." – Dr. Sarah Ballantyne, PhD. As stated pretty much everywhere.[/QUOTE]
You want me to take a site called The Paleo Mom as science? 😂 I have been vegan for more than ten years now, I am raising vegan children, and I'm an RN. Do you not think I have researched and continue to research nutrition? Your simplified explanation of food supplying energy to the body tempts me to show it to the MD sitting to my right. I would but she looks really busy atm.
 
Some of the improvements kind of backfire - tomatoes with higher sugar content have worse problems of cracking open.


"Carbohydrates take the form of either sugars or starches (“complex carbohydrates”); but, a starch is simply a long chain of sugar molecules strung together, so they both end up as the same thing once they enter your blood stream (the only difference is that you need digestive enzymes to break up a starch). Most carbohydrates break down to approximately half glucose and half fructose (let’s ignore fiber and some of the other less common monosaccharides, for now). Glucose is then directly used by your cells for energy, whereas fructose must first be converted into glucose or fat by your liver." – Dr. Sarah Ballantyne, PhD. As stated pretty much everywhere.
You want me to take a site called The Paleo Mom as science? 😂 I have been vegan for more than ten years now, I am raising vegan children, and I'm an RN. Do you not think I have researched and continue to research nutrition? Your simplified explanation of food supplying energy to the body tempts me to show it to the MD sitting to my right. I would but she looks really busy atm.[/QUOTE]

We should make out.
 
If anyone has been looking for a documentary that will make them go veg out of revulsion, there's a new Meet Your Meat in town, complete with drone footage. It is graphic af.

@OzSTEEZ it is all shot in Australia, it shows your meat industry because every non-American assumes factory farms are only here...
 
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You want me to take a site called The Paleo Mom as science? 😂 I have been vegan for more than ten years now, I am raising vegan children, and I'm an RN. Do you not think I have researched and continue to research nutrition? Your simplified explanation of food supplying energy to the body tempts me to show it to the MD sitting to my right. I would but she looks really busy atm.
Well thanks, you haven't said anything other than you disagree. At least roll out some theory. The woman quoted at Paleo Mom has better credentials than you on the topic. Her blurb was fairly concise. Please, show it to the doctor. Hopefully they are a nutritionist or an internist. Being vegan is not a credential - omnivores are vegan + meat. Or should I pull beetus out as my concern credential?

ThePaleomom.com is the award-winning website created by medical biophysicist and mom Dr. Sarah Ballantyne, PhD.
 
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