Can things I've learned the hard way.. help people.. before they suffer more?

[ceagle]

Started to get a lot of heartburn a long time ago.
Had a lot of tests.
Told to cut out nearly all hydrogenated oils and lard (essentially the same thing).
Almost no heartburn anymore.

Cut back sodium (under 2200mg/day) and caffeine soda (about 1 can a week).
Almost no more headaches, and (with some regular exercise) lowered blood pressure, too.

And balanced meals. Plenty of water. Vitamin C and wash hands after doorknobs and money.

Those are the basics anyway. I'm still learning.

Best of wishes... ^v^

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[hastka.livejournal.com]

So what DO you eat? :)

I've been working on my diet too (as I sit here eating a twix and drinking a pepsi at 9am), but I dunno, old habits are hard to break. At least when I eat FOOD-food, it's generally somewhat healthy. And I've been trying to get more water but that's always hard -- why does that stuff have to taste so like-nothing? ;)

Which I guess begs the question... is there a historic physiological reason that water tastes like nothing, versus how sugar tastes good or, for example, dental resin tastes bad.

[austin-dern.livejournal.com]

So what DO you eat?

Be nice, now ... he's still trying to live down people discovering how much scavenging eagles do.

I kind of like the taste of dental resin, but I encounter very little of it, and was always a really strange person.

hyeh hyeh!

[c-eagle.livejournal.com]

*looks up with big eyes, frozen in the act of rummaging through the pantry...*
Ya caught me!

[mortonfox.livejournal.com]

Water, or at least tap water, didn't taste like nothing at first. I just got used to it and don't notice it any more.

[c-eagle.livejournal.com]

the taste does indeed seem to vary from place to place...
Luckily ours has about the best taste I've ever found, though other family members prefer Perrier, of which I'm not terribly fond.
Bottled waters are just tolerable for me, Sparkletts, Arrowhead... I'm sure they're good, but they are a bitty 'tinny' to my taste, so I just drink the tap most of the time... often with orange juice with about 1/3 water to make orange-ade. :9

[c-eagle.livejournal.com]

hehheh!!
Good Q!

Um... well... okay...
Breakfast is usually a few bowls of frosted shredded wheat, or maybe also a super sugar crisp wheat puffs... Those are the only two good fiber, good nutrients, low sodium cereals I've ever found (less than 40mg per bowl, + 150 for the milk).
My dentist said it's good for the gums to takee a multivitamin, so I take half of one of those too (the rest of your day should provide enough of the rest of the nutrients). Recently I've also started adding calcium, taken with the milk which has vitamin D for absorbtion.

Unless I am at a punch-clock type job which has a lunch hour, I often skip lunch and just have light snacks throughout the day, such as cashews, low salt Ritz, or a candy bar and some orange juice and/or a soda. Take brief breaks for water too, hopefully. They say 48 to around 64 oz of water through the day is a good goal. Many liquids can contribute to this, but if you have caffeinated drinks, they count less because they are diuretics.

Dinner... mmm, ahhhhh... :9
I try to go to buffets a lot, since I can balance the meal better than say, a standard coffee shop type meal. I usually dine out, since it works out pretty evenly when you subtract the time, energy and money one would've spent with shopping, cooking, and cleaning. If you like leftovers, you can certainly save money (a bit), but unless that's a factor the savings is generally nil.

So... I'll try to get a salad (fiber), a protein (usually chicken or turkey or fish, and a couple times a month perhaps some beef), some veggies (3 or 4 helpings), maybe some bread, a drink, and (sometimes) dessert.

I follow the simple balance method for daily variety intake: 4 vegetable/fruit, 4 bread/cereal, 3 dairy, 2 protein.
Breakfast covers 2 to 3 of the cereal and dairy, so if I have another bit of bread at dinner, those two groups are completed.
The veggie/fruit and protein sections I try to cover at lunch, snacks and dinner. *warble*
I still have a few sweets in there (not considered necessary food groups)... my favorite one being the almond M&Ms. :9
Then after dinner I try to keep it simple, by just sipping water or orange-ade, which is easier for digestion.

Ah hope that helps... any more Qs, feel free ta ask! :D

[hastka.livejournal.com]

Sounds good, thanks ;)