/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.5374366]

>cut out all food except for fish, seeds/nuts, and organic produce (no high sugar fruit, though) for 2 years, only drink water
>food tastes better than it has my entire life, love the healthy foods i hated before

Christ, it feels good to have an uncorrupted palate.

[Anonymous No.5374398]

now you have more mercury in your system than my old ass termometer

[Anonymous No.5374399]

nice placebo feelings OP

[Anonymous No.5374441]

>>5374366
The fuck would you cut out red meat?

Are you some kind of fagot?

Also why would you cut out cheese?

Are you a nigger?

>muh saturated fat

Kill yourself.

[Anonymous No.5374449]

But you're still only eating fish, seeds/nuts, and organic produce

[Anonymous No.5374457]

nice, i always like to see these kind of experiences.

i experienced something similar when stopped cooking with salt. my palate totally changed.

now im with the same diet you describe but without fish and some veg juices every now and then. this is heaven.

[Anonymous No.5374483]

>>5374366
That's great but you really need to watch that fish.
Depending on where it's from, it could contain traces of DDT, PCBs and PAHs. Even the farm-raised stuff has mercury.

[Anonymous No.5374492]

>Pay more attention to what you eat
>HOLY SHIT GUIZE I LOVE FOOD NOW JOIN PALEO 4 LYFE

Kill yourself

[Anonymous No.5376384]

Congratulations, you have Stockholm syndrome over food.

[Anonymous No.5376397]

>>5374366

You should include whole grains and legumes, and of course don't limit yourself to non-sugary fruit, eat any fruit you want. I can understand thinking that more sugar = bad, but even the sugariest fruit, when looked at clinically and scientifically, shows health benefits

[Anonymous No.5376509]

>>5374366
>organic
my sides

[Anonymous No.5376779]

>>5374398
>chia seeds
>more omega 3 than salmon
>more calcium than milk
>high protein
>hight antioxidants
>magnesium
>potassium


dude I just eat hemp and walnuts and beans and quinoa for protein, I don't even the fish.

organic soymilk etc.

[Anonymous No.5376781]

>>5376384
>says the person who eats mcdonalds all day?

[Anonymous No.5376784]

>>5376509
>laughing at an apple that was grown without some monsanto douchebag going "HEHEHEHEHEHEHEEHHE" and spraying poison all over it

[Anonymous No.5376992]

bump

[Anonymous No.5377434]

>>5376779
You do not understand what omega 3 means.

[Anonymous No.5377553]

>>5376781

Cool story, mexican. Pick some more lettuce, bitch.

[Anonymous No.5377562]

this is my favourite thread, i fucking lost it
10/10, op

[Anonymous No.5377616]

>>5377553
75edgy150me

[Anonymous No.5377637]

>>5377616

[Anonymous No.5377642]

>>5377434
clearly you do not

[Anonymous No.5377644]

>>5374366
>Christ, it feels good to have an uncorrupted palate.
I don't know if I'd use the word uncorrupted, but the wife and I have been eating mostly plant based foods for two years now. We have meat, fish or cheese maybe once a week, and the rest of the time it's vegetable based meals - stuff a vegan would eat.

At this point tons of stuff tastes great that was just OK before. Lunch today was dal and cauliflower curry over rice, and my wife commented, "A couple years ago I wouldn't have found this the least bit interesting, but it's really delicious."

When we have meat and/or cheese it's still delicious as well, it just tastes heavy. I had my first cheeseburger in over a year the other day, and it was very tasty. But it left the inside of my mouth covered in grease in a way I almost found unpleasant. All I could think was, "It'll probably be another year before I have another one of those."

It is true; you can change your taste. Unlike OP I don't see it as something to brag about. But it is interesting that it can be done. Because many of us base part of our identity on our food preferences, and it turns out they're something that's completely changeable.

[Anonymous No.5377650]

>>5377637
you austistic fuck

[Anonymous No.5377682]

>>5377642

I hope you realize that the omega-3 you find in seeds is vastly, vastly less bioavailable than that you find in fish. Seeds contain omega 3s in the form of ALA which the body then has to convert to the more useful forms of EPA and DHA and it does so extremely inefficiently. Less than 5% of ALA gets converted to EPA, and less than 0.5% of ALA is converted to DHA.

Basically, unless you're eating fish, give the fuck up. Nothing you get from a plant source will do you any good.

[Anonymous No.5377694]

>>5377682

>Seeds contain omega 3s in the form of ALA which the body then has to convert to the more useful forms of EPA and DHA and it does so extremely inefficiently. Less than 5% of ALA gets converted to EPA, and less than 0.5% of ALA is converted to DHA.

This is the same thing people say about beta-carotene and vitamin A conversion, but the reality is your body makes what it needs and scales its conversion according to what your diet is. If you eat a lot of pre-formed DHA/EPA, you convert less ALA. If you eat less DHA/EPA, you convert more ALA.

http://www.nutripeople.co.uk/news/conversion-of-dietary-ala-to-epa-and-dha-may-be-increased-in-non-fish-eaters

[Anonymous No.5377768]

>>5377694

If you read the actual study

>http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20861171

All they're saying is that they compared presumably self-reported omega 3 intake to plasma fatty acid levels and found that people who didn't eat fish ate less omega 3 than people who did and their fatty acid levels were lower, just not as low as would have been expected according to current knowledge of ALA conversion.

It doesn't mean that ALA is all you need, it just means that if you don't eat fish, your body is possibly not quite as terrible at converting it as previously thought.

[Anonymous No.5377775]

>>5377768

For more detail, there's also this commentary on the study:

>Lack of evidence for increased α-linolenic acid metabolism in vegetarians
>http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/93/5/1154.1.full

[Anonymous No.5378619]

>>5377768

>If you read the actual study

If you actually read the study

http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/92/5/1040/T5.expansion.html

Large difference in omega-3 intake, very little difference in total DHA and EPA circulating in the blood. The vegans there barely ate any omega-3 and yet they still ended up with about the same blood levels, and somehow ended up with more EPA than the fish eaters. Imagine people who also include omega-3 heavy foods like walnuts and flax seeds in their diet and you can see how getting omega-3 from plant foods isn't just adequate but ideal due to the other health benefits related to those foods.

[Anonymous No.5378637]

Replace fish with beef and I could maybe do it.

[Anonymous No.5378702]

>>5374399
placebo or not if you're not eating junk then good

[Anonymous No.5378706]

>>5374441
>never heard of organic beef


>>5374457
I cut sugar from my diet, but to make up for it I'm killing for salty shit. FML

[Anonymous No.5378729]

>>5376779
More omega 3 isn't necessarily good. The most important thing relating to omega threes is that you have a 1:1 ratio of 3 and 6. Having more 3 than 6 can lead to a tendency towards stomach ulcers.

[Anonymous No.5378731]

>went like 6 months without eating junk / fast food
>go on road trip with family
>make a bad choice and go get jack in the box jalapenos and curly fries
>less than 1 hour later feel like vomiting and feel terrible

[Anonymous No.5378747]

>>5378729

Not that guy, but I'm a fan of flax, which has about a 4:1 ratio of 3 to 6. Chia seeds are either 4:1 or 3:1 as well

[Anonymous No.5378755]

>>5377650
>austistic

Is that like, australian autism?

[Anonymous No.5378760]

>>5374457
>i experienced something similar when stopped cooking with salt.

What, you experienced bland food?

[Anonymous No.5378766]

>haven't eaten chain fast food for 11 years (the only burgers I'll get are from local places or little roadside stands, and even the only once in a rare while)
>mfw eating something from McDonalds on a long bus ride

I thought I was gonna die. That shit was not natural.

[Anonymous No.5378837]

starve myself for 3 months to loose weight
only eat 4 meals a week
oh my god onions are delicious, cant even wait for them t be cooked, i eat them raw