Fruits and vegetables could improve sleep by 16%

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  2. A Bug

    A Bug Heavy Load Member

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    Fruits are full of sugar an vegetables are full of toxins. Since going nothing but beef, eggs, butter, and bacon a couple weeks ago I have been sleeping like a baby.
     
  3. Concorde

    Concorde Road Train Member

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    Turn these fruits into pina coladas and you’ll sleep better also.. it’s all in the recipe :)

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  4. 201

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    I just bought some 50+ mens vitamins that have "fruits and vegetables" on the label, does that count?:rolleyes:
     
  5. trucker-chase

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    A diet of a mostly-plants and whole foods seems to have a lot of benefits. I’ve been listening to / re-reading How Not To Die by Michael Greger, MD. It goes through a lot of research into diet, and how some foods directly contribute to diseases like heart disease or cancer. The book also discusses research that found that a diet of mostly plants and whole foods can prevent or even reverse these diseases. Author’s own grandmother had end-stage heart disease in her sixties and was told she’d be dead in months; but after enrolling in a clinic that did lifestyle medicine, namely plant-based/whole-food diets, she recovered from the heart disease and lived into her nineties. A lot of stories like that in the book. The author doesn’t say that you have to quit steaks or burgers, but rather that these foods should not compromise the entire diet. Once or twice a month versus multiple times a week.

    Another good one is Metabolical by Robert Lustig, MD. That one goes more into the weeds about diet, nutrition, and the body, and how our diet directly contributes to disease. Basic tenants is that it’s not the food but rather what’s been done to the food that matters. Something as simple as the pesticides sprayed onto your leafy salad vegetables can make the salad a processed food and unhealthy for ya. His rules are protect the liver (no refined carbohydrates, alcohol, etc. - foods that breakdown into sugar and cause fatty liver disease) and feed the gut (the microbiome in the gut wants to eat plants, fruits, etc., and when it doesn’t, it can eat on your intestinal lining and cause inflammation and other disease).

    it’s interesting lol
     
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  6. buddyd157

    buddyd157 Road Train Member

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    yeah, but your arteries are clogging up......soon, you will sleep for eternity
     
  7. A Bug

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    You do not know what you are talking about, my arteries are perfectly fine. It is still a common medical myth believed by a lot of doctors that red meat clogs your arteries. I have been eating at least a pound of beef everyday, the super fatty kind too. My last blood pressure reading was 110 over 71.
     
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  8. Big Road Skateboard

    Big Road Skateboard Road Train Member

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    And you mentioned you've done it for......weeks. Not years, decades, ....

    Did you have bloodwork done before you started this diet, and will you have bloodwork done 6 months or a year into it?
     
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  9. Walk Among Us

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    It's been documented for years that the keto and carnivore diets are very beneficial. I do it as much as I can.
     
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