Reddit reviews Food Rules: An Eater's Manual

In my opinion, calories don't matter. It's quality over quantity, i'd rather eat 1000 calories of vegetables than 1000 calories of chocolate bars. Certain fats are healthy, omega 3 is very healthy, omega 6 isn't so much, you have to maintain a proper ratio.

Yes I recommend the book Food Rules by Michael Pollan

I control my Crohn's disease with diet and I consider my diet extremely healthy. I don't follow veganism, and I also don't follow the western diet. My diet is close to the Mediterranean diet, mainly 50% vegetables 30% fruits, 5% carbs (rice), 15% fish/lean chicken.

In my opinion, if your meals are mainly carbs (pastas, fried rice), you will spike insulin, and your hormones will become imbalanced. If your meal is mainly animal protein you will have too much unhealthy fat, lots of toxins, feel acidic and irritated, and your vitamin d absorption will drop. Therefore your meals should be mainly vegetables with sides of carbs and meat.

What I avoid:

• Bread
  
• Pastas
  
• Sugar (white, corn, etc..)
  
• Sodium
  
• Soda
  
• Fruit juices (they're mainly all sugar anyways)
  
• Fried food
  
• Dairy
  
• Red meat
  
• Bad oils (vegetable oils, soybean oil)
  
• Poison ingredients and additives (Carrageenan)
  
• Anything made by machines/corporations
  
  What I eat:
  
  
• Leafy greens - eg. Spinach, Arugula
  
• Vegetables
  
• Fruits
  
• Nuts
  
• Herbs and Spices
  
• Legumes
  
• Sprouts
  
• Fish (sometimes chicken breasts)
  
• Honey (only natural and not pasteurized)
  
• Coconut milk/coconut oil as a cream to my soups
  
• Rice
  
• Oils - flaxseed (do not cook with), walnut (do not cook with), olive
  
  
  I find that when I was on the paleo diet and I ate more meat, the more meat I ate the more sugar cravings I had, and was very moody. When I lowered my meat to 10-15% I felt much much better, and 80% of my "meat" is fish. The only carbs I eat is rice, that's it.
  
  The only thing I cook in a skillet is eggs, everything else I cook is either broiled or steamed, preferably steamed.
  
  I eat a lot of salads and I put bean sprouts and sometimes tuna on them. I don't use dressings, I only drizzle flax seed or olive oil, and some cranberry vinegar. I also put a lot of herbs in there, chives, basil, oregano, and a little salt.

I normally eat non-organic fresh foods, but lately I've been thinking more about going organic with food and all beauty products. I am not really afraid of GMOs right now, but am always reading about nutrition, health and stuff, so maybe something will convince me to switch.

I recently watched Michael Pollan's In Defense of Food on Netflix, and found it really inspiring and informative to start eating more real food, and focus less on the calories. As he mentions (or maybe this was in Fed Up, which I watched immediately after), I have the unpopular opinion that a 200 calorie candy bar is metabolized different than 200 calories of unprocessed food, and the fiber/sugar differences are incredibly important.

Diet foods like Diet Coke and Halo Top are often really appealing to me, because I do have such intense sugar cravings, but these are seeming more and more like poison.

This is a really awesome book by Pollan, illustrated by one of my favorite artists. And here are his food rules.

i thought r/loseit might like this image. it's from this awesome and beautifully illustrated book about eating.