I think my protein-fat-carb balance is off. My carbs come from fruits and vegetables. My protein intake is moderate at best. I eat avocado and lots of nuts each day. In general, then, I think my balance errs on the side of fat being my primary fuel. But I'm really tiny. I weigh 118 and am 5,3, very low body fat. I dance 12 hours a week. It occurred to me that even though I eat healthy fats, perhaps that is still too much fat. Is there a danger in this? I don't eat grains at all. A) I have celiac disease and B) they just mess with my blood sugar big time.
I should add that my proteins are greek yogurt, then nuts and whey and non GMO soy, plus the green stuff (I use a green powder that has 13 g/protein). I eat hormone free meat but rarely.
From the sound of it you're eating a very good, healthy diet - and you're getting plenty of exercise which is good.
General thinking on this issue is that one should obtain about 30% of one's calories from fat, 15% from protein and 55% from carbohydrates.
The maximum fat intake is 35% of calorie intake. If 'you' are going beyond that, that would be unadvisable and needs to be reduced to the safe limits.
(Peanuts excluded) Nuts are a very healthy food. Walnuts especially, then almonds.
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Your diet is fine, however you still need to supplement with all 90 essential nutrients to maintain health. There is no way to determine how many minerals are in the veggies that you eat, and you don't want to guess when it comes to your health.
100,000 people under 30 die each year because they don't supplement, and as you age you aquire several "diseases" along the way. Doctors treat these "age related diseases" with prescription drugs, that treat the symptoms but do nothing for the cause.
In the old days, grandma would put the ashes from the wood stove into the garden. She called them ashes but in reality they are minerals that the tree sucked out of the ground during its life. The ashes, AKA minerals, were placed in the garden, and eating the resulting plants would give the necessary minerals for good health.
Plants cannot manufacture minerals, however they can aquire them from the soil, thus the need for wood ashes. Now that we use electric stoves, gas, and propane, there are no minerals to add to the soil, and as a result, most people are deficient in several essential nutrients.
Plants require 8 minerals to be healthy, while we require 60.
Fats, protein, and carbs don't really mean alot... its the nutrients that are important.
Your diet is fine, however you still need to supplement with all 90 essential nutrients to maintain health.
Fats, protein, and carbs don't really mean alot... its the nutrients that are important.
So I'm beginning to understand I take a whole food powder supplement (green it has chlorella and algae and barley grass and that kind of thing), Vit D3, a calcium/magnesium/zinc combo, DHA, and apple cider vinegar.
As far as supplements go, I'm learning by reading here, and I don't think I can afford all the supplements I probably need so I'm trying to eat the foods that I think offer the most nutrition the best I can. What I'm guessing I need to invest in next is a minerals supplement. I'm seeing my dr next week and I'm going to ask her to run a panel to include whatever she can in the way of minerals (zinc, copper, etc) as well as your normal bloodwork (I've been having extreme fatigue and chills as of late) so I can hopefully get some info on the best place to start.
I just got concerned because I really do think my diet is balanced with fat at the upper end. I don't really like to eat anything but vegetables, fruit, and yogurt, but that doesn't provide me enough calories/fuel as a dancer, so I've been supplementing with more calorie dense (read: higher fat) foods, because otherwise.. I'm a chronic undereater.
I wouldn't be overly worried about all this. You're on a good diet, far healthier than the majority of Americans are on. You're fit and active, and not in any way overweight.
A lot of people go totally overboard on this supplement thing. If you have a diagnosed deficiency, fine. Other than that your best bet is a quality multivitamin/mineral. (Personally I prefer and would advise a divided dose.)
Supplements in themselves are just that - supplements. i.e. to back up any shortfall in the diet. There is no substitute for a healthy, balanced diet.
I wouldn't be overly worried about all this. You're on a good diet, far healthier than the majority of Americans are on. You're fit and active, and not in any way overweight.
A lot of people go totally overboard on this supplement thing. If you have a diagnosed deficiency, fine. Other than that your best bet is a quality multivitamin/mineral. (Personally I prefer and would advise a divided dose.)
Supplements in themselves are just that - supplements. i.e. to back up any shortfall in the diet. There is no substitute for a healthy, balanced diet.
There is no such thing as a healthy balanced diet. This may have been true 100 years ago before Monsanto and Bayer came along with their chemicals and engineered poisons, and while the soil contained all 60 minerals, but this is no longer the case.
The so called quality multivitamins are mostly synthetic. The minerals they contain are made from ground-up rocks, and go by the name of carbonate or gluconate, or oyster shell. Humans cannot absorb rocks, and since vitamins won't work without mineral co-factors, most multivitamins are useless.
People who listen to their doctor are told they can get everything they need from the four food groups. This is a lie and has always been a lie, that is why people are getting sicker and sicker, because you can't cure a deficiency unless you supplement with all 60 minerals in colloidal form.
Most soil is depleted of several minerals, and has been since the mid 30's. Farmers add NPK (nitrogen/phosphorus/potassium) to the soil for maximum crop yield, however they do not add selenium, copper, boron, nor any of the other 57 minerals.
Plants take C02 from the air, and use the power of the sun to create vitamins, but cannot manufacture minerals, and as stated in an earlier post, you cannot tell how many minerals are in a carrot just by looking at it.
If you listen to your doctor, you will most likely live to the average lifespan, and will be sick for the last 10 years of your life. If you supplement with all 90 nutrients, including 60 minerals in colloidal form (one ounce per 100 pounds of body weight per day) you can easily double the average lifespan and be in good health til the day you just don't wake up..at age 150
There is no such thing as a healthy balanced diet. This may have been true 100 years ago before Monsanto and Bayer came along with their chemicals and engineered poisons, and while the soil contained all 60 minerals, but this is no longer the case.
The so called quality multivitamins are mostly synthetic. The minerals they contain are made from ground-up rocks, and go by the name of carbonate or gluconate, or oyster shell. Humans cannot absorb rocks, and since vitamins won't work without mineral co-factors, most multivitamins are useless.
People who listen to their doctor are told they can get everything they need from the four food groups. This is a lie and has always been a lie, that is why people are getting sicker and sicker, because you can't cure a deficiency unless you supplement with all 60 minerals in colloidal form.
Most soil is depleted of several minerals, and has been since the mid 30's. Farmers add NPK (nitrogen/phosphorus/potassium) to the soil for maximum crop yield, however they do not add selenium, copper, boron, nor any of the other 57 minerals.
Plants take C02 from the air, and use the power of the sun to create vitamins, but cannot manufacture minerals, and as stated in an earlier post, you cannot tell how many minerals are in a carrot just by looking at it.
If you listen to your doctor, you will most likely live to the average lifespan, and will be sick for the last 10 years of your life. If you supplement with all 90 nutrients, including 60 minerals in colloidal form (one ounce per 100 pounds of body weight per day) you can easily double the average lifespan and be in good health til the day you just don't wake up..at age 150
My plan was to at least get the colloidal mineral supplement. Recommendations on a good one - cost effective and locally available would be nice. We have a few organic health food stores closeby.
There is no such thing as a healthy balanced diet. This may have been true 100 years ago before Monsanto and Bayer came along with their chemicals and engineered poisons, and while the soil contained all 60 minerals, but this is no longer the case.
The so called quality multivitamins are mostly synthetic. The minerals they contain are made from ground-up rocks, and go by the name of carbonate or gluconate, or oyster shell. Humans cannot absorb rocks, and since vitamins won't work without mineral co-factors, most multivitamins are useless.
People who listen to their doctor are told they can get everything they need from the four food groups. This is a lie and has always been a lie, that is why people are getting sicker and sicker, because you can't cure a deficiency unless you supplement with all 60 minerals in colloidal form.
Most soil is depleted of several minerals, and has been since the mid 30's. Farmers add NPK (nitrogen/phosphorus/potassium) to the soil for maximum crop yield, however they do not add selenium, copper, boron, nor any of the other 57 minerals.
Plants take C02 from the air, and use the power of the sun to create vitamins, but cannot manufacture minerals, and as stated in an earlier post, you cannot tell how many minerals are in a carrot just by looking at it.
If you listen to your doctor, you will most likely live to the average lifespan, and will be sick for the last 10 years of your life. If you supplement with all 90 nutrients, including 60 minerals in colloidal form (one ounce per 100 pounds of body weight per day) you can easily double the average lifespan and be in good health til the day you just don't wake up..at age 150
I've posted a couple of posts on here in the past on the nutrient depletion of the soil. And on the low absorption of certain types of mineral supplement i.e. calcium carbonate, the main 'osteo' supplement issued by doctors, having an absorption rate of only 7%.
Not true to tar all supplements with the same brush though.
Twice I've remineralized serious tooth decay, something your dentist will tell you can't be done. I used vegan amino acid chelated minerals derived from seaweed.
There are 'supplements' and there are 'supplements'. Plenty of sub-standard ones of limited value, but also some high quality and effective ones.
General thinking on this issue is that one should obtain about 30% of one's calories from fat, 15% from protein and 55% from carbohydrates.
Pure BS. If we were supposed to burn carbs, we'd store carbs, but we don't; we store fat, because we're supposed to burn fat. Fat intake from forty to sixty-percent is optimum, carbs should be below fifteen percent, with the remainder protein.
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I think my protein-fat-carb balance is off. My carbs come from fruits and vegetables. My protein intake is moderate at best. I eat avocado and lots of nuts each day. In general, then, I think my balance errs on the side of fat being my primary fuel. But I'm really tiny. I weigh 118 and am 5,3, very low body fat. I dance 12 hours a week. It occurred to me that even though I eat healthy fats, perhaps that is still too much fat. Is there a danger in this? I don't eat grains at all. A) I have celiac disease and B) they just mess with my blood sugar big time.
Pure BS. If we were supposed to burn carbs, we'd store carbs, but we don't; we store fat, because we're supposed to burn fat. Fat intake from forty to sixty-percent is optimum, carbs should be below fifteen percent, with the remainder protein.
Words fail me! Both dangerous and irresponsible!
Echoes of Stepen Brynes (who died of a massive stroke at 42 - though apparently nothing to do with his high animal fat/protein diet) and the infamous Dr Atkins (who weighed 18 1/2 stone when he died) (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/ar...Dangerous.html) and akin to the Masai diet (who have sky high atherosclerosis and an average lifespan of 42)...
If people want to follow a specific diet they should try a plant based diet or the Mediterranean diet, which have balanced levels of protein, fat and carbohydrate and a proven record of health benefit.
high fat?
I take a whole food powder supplement (green it has chlorella and algae and barley grass and that kind of thing), Vit D3, a calcium/magnesium/zinc combo, DHA, and apple cider vinegar.
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