Hi,
Just listened to the audio. I am a personal trainer, RN, and nutrition advisor with a BS in foods and nutrition. I totally advocate eating foods with very minimal ingredients! Your talk about not eating cereals and breads (of which I do very little of) is accurate. However there are some alternatives out there that should be considered to include in one’s diet. Do you ever use Ezekiel bread? It is totally natural, uses only sprouted wheats etc and I use only the low sodium variety. It is great for the morning with a bit of natural almond butter or even putting some tuna or chicken on, gr onions, arugula, tomatoes and a broil it for a few.
Also, I know that some of the Kashi brands of cereals are still a bit high in sugars but there are some that are not and all the ingredients really are good. I still don’t really eat cereal since I would rather get my starchy am carbs from oatmeal. But I think they (Kashi) have a place in some diets.
Just wanted to say that I agree with the high protein intake and lower carb intake. Although I and what I preach is a diet of many lean proteins, lots and lots of vegetables, fresh fruits (mostly in the am or up to about 2pm), starchy carbs in the form of oats, br rice, sweet pot , occaisionally red or purple potatoes.
I do like to use fat free or red fat dairy products but only a few. Some very small quantities of fat free cheese (feta, mozz on occaision) but I do love Fage 0% yogurt. It is a plain nonfat yogurt imported from Greece which has only 2 ingredients. The best out there in my opinion…high in protein, low in sugar,
and carbs.
The one cereal item I do like but still use it in small quantities is Bare Naked low sugar granola. Very few ingred but all good.
Anyway……..there are my thoughts after listening to this audio.
Any response would be welcomed. Mostly want to know your opinion on the few items I mentioned.

sincerely, Dianne Carlson

That was a great discussion and I agree with it totally because anything we can do to reduce the stress placed on our digestive system the better of we are and what I have noticed was that with whole wheat bread and what I have learned from experts that when we eat whole wheat bread and if it has not been sprouted it leaves a fungus in our body when we digest it leaving us feeling bloated and full especially after we drink water with it. The sprouted wheat is digestable and requires less energy. Also, I have found that the times when I have craved bread was when I have had parasites in my body and since some parasites love the bread and the sugar in it I was giving them a hayday and when I got rid of the prasites my craving for bread also went away.. Thanks for reading the fine print for us as we fail to take a look at exactly what we are feeding our bodies because when it says healthy on it we jsut assume it is exactly that “healthy” and then we don’t seem to question whether it is or not but whole wheat bread places a strain on our digestive system and no wonder most of us run out of energy fast just from the digesting process alone. Thanks for enlightening us on this subject.

Helen Cowan

I was a low carb advocate for many years eating mainly veggies, fruits and protein and I now firmly believe I was marching down the road to cancer and heart disease. If you are truly concerned about your health and not just how you look,
read The China Study by Colin Campbell, The 80 10 10 Diet by Dr. Doug Graham and even Green For Life by Victoria Boutenko. You will find that all the scientific evidence supports a low fat raw vegan diet as optimal for health. I went from a high protein low carb diet to a low fat raw vegan diet and have never felt better. If you give these books an honest read I think you can’t help but question all the convential wisdom about diet, especially in the bodybuilding and fitness world.
George Hilgendorf DMD