Reddit reviews Eating on the Wild Side: The Missing Link to Optimum Health

Not directly related, but you'd probably be interested in Eating on the Wild Side. It's about finding the most nutritious fruits and vegetables in the supermarket, and goes into detail on the different harvesting methods that lower the nutritional content of each food type.

Specs: 6'4"ish, 180-190lbs. I've been shooting for 100g of protein, 550-600g carbs, idk about calories.

Breakfast: I try and bake a loaf of sourdough bread once or twice a week, so usually toast of some kind, I try all sorts of stuff so it might be a straight white or raisin or 100% whole wheat. Lately I've been eating a lot of steel cut oats with raisins and dates, I usually make some rice milk (just toasted brown rice and water) first then make a big batch of oatmeal for a few days of breakfast. Pour over coffee in the morning too, I feel like my system is so dialed in to that exact amount of caffeine from one pour over that it's hard to switch up to something else.

Lunch: Usually some kind of leftovers transposed into something a little different, nothing specific. I'd like to try and start consistently making a big salad with brown rice and nuts, ect. instead of what I usually have been eating.

Dinner: Lots of pasta, I like to make it from scratch (eggs, flour, salt). I'll make a fairly big batch when I do, keeping some rolled out in big sheets to make lasagna and some cut into linguine or thinner, which i can freeze and portion out as needed. It takes a bit of time but the process is really relaxing and god damn if fresh pasta doesn't kick the shit out of the box stuff every time.

Snacks: Lots of bananas and whatever fresh citrus I can get my hands on, I try and cut out refined sugar while training and definitely crave something sweet every day as a result. I scored a bunch of fresh dates for cheap which is awesome cuz they are stacked with carbs. When ProBar Meal bars are on sale I snatch a bunch of them, if you haven't had em they're hands down the best granola bar type thing I've tried. Lots of beer :)

My general thoughts on nutrition are the typical things you hear, try and eat local fruit and vegetables that are in season and find a good sustainable place to get your meat from if you eat it. I really enjoyed reading this book which gives a kind of hard science breakdown to which vegetables and fruits are the most nutrient dense as well as an historic context as to how they became cultivated in their current form. There are some really interesting tidbits in there about how to best store and prepare your food to maximize the nutrients in them.

I would be very surprised if anybody thought that deep fried foods were healthy. If I recall correctly, steaming is one of the better methods for maintaining nutrient content. If you're at all interested, I recommend this article and getting this book from the library.

I don't actually, sorry. I usually make it in the evening and eat it for lunch the next day. If you wanted to make it last longer, don't massage in the dressing; keep it separate and then mix when you want to eat it. The torn up kale should keep just fine in the fridge for a few days.

Oh, and if you're interested in getting more vegetables in you, this recipe has been one of my favorite jar salads recently. You could even skip frying the tofu, and I'm sure it'll be great. I like it because of the amount of raw herbage, even though it does have some cooked ingredients.

Apparently it's like that with a lot of fruits and veggies like tomatoes.

I'm reading this book right now and it's really good.

Eating on the Wild Side: The Missing Link to Optimum Health https://www.amazon.com/dp/0316227935/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_qotrxbAH1X1PG

TLDR: Most of the fruits and vegetables that hunter gatherers collected were higher in nutrients and antioxidants. They were also often more bitter and smaller. We accidentally bred out a lot of nutrition by trying to make things sweeter, paler, more uniform, bigger, and more stable to transport. I could probably do 5 TIL's from this book. Great info!

I read a book on this a couple years ago. It's much worse than "the last 50 years". If you look at the history of our produce, very few veggies are anything close to their original forms. They have been progressively selected for size, yield, and sugar content. Meanwhile, nutrient content has taken a nose dive. The best choice is to do your research and grow the wilder varieties. Also foraging.