I consumed no evil all weekend.

[darxus]

I have a serious sugar addiction problem. It has concerned cathijosephine a lot. I don't know how anybody manages to consume it in quantities that aren't unhealthy. I saw something that suggested classifying refined sugars as poisons because they displace foods that contain nutrients in diets.

My current list of evil foods:

• Refined / added sugars.
• Refined grains (white flour, white rice).
• Fruit juice (refined sugar)
• White potatoes.

"Sugar sweetened beverages" are particularly evil.

Part of this process was google searching for sugar depression.

The paleo diet is neat (just meat, veggies, and fruits), although I'm not sure about its exclusion of whole grains. An inconvenience that occurred to me last night is that I don't think canned fruit is available in plain water. The blood type diets are interesting (different diet for each blood type), although for me it basically just points back to the paleo diet.

The raw meat diet fascinates me, but I don't really want to spend that much money on meat of sufficient quality.

Update: Apparently all rice has a high Glycemic Index, so I'm going to try to stop eating it.

Comments

I am confused

[drwex]

I thought that high glycemic index carbs (e.g. sweet potatoes) were preferred to low glycemic index potatoes (e.g. white potatoes) because the high-end carbs were more filling (so you eat less overall) and because they are better suited to the body's needs (more nutrients & fiber per calorie consumed).

I've been trying to move to more high-end carbs, though I do still eat a lot of sugar myself.

Re: I am confused

[darxus.livejournal.com]

You have it backwards.

"carbohydrate foods that breakdown quickly during digestion have the highest glycemic indexes."

The GI of sweet potato is 54, baked white potato is 85. So sweet potato is better, by GI.

Re: I am confused

[drwex]

OK, that's better. So the carbs I'm after are low-GI. Makes more sense.

Re: I am confused

[darxus.livejournal.com]

Yes. And not just carbs, all food.

There's a nice not terribly overwhelming table 1/4 of the way down this page: http://www.becomehealthynow.com/article/carbs/8/
"Most cuts of beef", and "pork" are high GI (bad). Chicken and turkey are good.

I would guess you associate GI with carbs because the worst GI foods are refined sugar, which are carbs.

Re: I am confused

[drwex]

Well, I'm mostly focused on carbs because I've found that to be a useful way for me to manage relative to my current diet. I eat no pork at all, and all the beef I eat is locally grown and grass fed, so the charts based off hormone-laden corn-fed animals aren't as helpful.

On the other hand, I loves me some chocolate, and many other sugars that I don't wish to remove from my diet. It's relatively easy for me to cut out things like bread, pasta, white potatoes, etc but if I want a carb in my meal planning then I'm going to try to select a low-GI carb.