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What exactly is quinoa? Do you use it in place of rice or what?

 

Yeah, pretty much. People use it on salads to as a filler. My wife’s a fan of it, and I’m warming up to it overtime, LOL.

 

I like croutons as a salad filler. I make my own with squares of bread sauted to a crisp in olive oil with garlic and paemesan cheese.

 

Quinoa is good. Have you tried Farro?

 

For you to ingest. There's much more research on this if you're curious. This was just the first article I found but I read the same thing a decade ago and found it to be true.

Exploding the Fiber Myth: What You Might Not Know that Could Be Hurting You

By Dr. Eric Berg

There are a lot of myths surrounding fiber, especially about how much fiber we need daily, how good fiber is for us, how much fiber we need to cleanse the colon, and where we should get our fiber, and these myths have been pretty pervasive for a long time now.

Exploding the Myths about Fiber


Do you know those people who have those very distended, swollen, basketball-looking bellies? One of the main causes of this kind of big belly is not always necessarily fat. In fact, it could merely be bloating in the intestines because they’re consuming too much fiber.

This fiber myth has been around 30 years now—this myth that the more fiber you eat, the more you will decrease your likelihood of developing colon cancer. This is a myth because eating too much fiber might actually increase your risk of developing colon cancer.

When you are constipated, sometimes the doctor will tell you to eat more fiber or to take Metamucil or other synthetic forms of fiber, and you might experience some relief in constipation, but that is because of the negative things this extra fiber is doing to your colon, not the positives. See, what all this fiber really does is irritate and stimulate the colon, making it dump waste faster.

Fiber isn’t even necessarily forming the bulk of your stool.

Here’s What Happens in the Body When We Take/Eat Too much Fiber

Here’s what really happens from this fiber, especially when we get our fiber from whole grains, bran, Metamucil and other over-the-counter fibers people take. These forms of fiber create a lot of inflammation in the colon and cause a lot of mechanical damage as the fiber passes through the intestines as well.

See, one myth that people have about fiber is that it improves digestion because it slows down the digestive process. The only reason it does this, though, is because it actually impedes the digestive process. And impeding the digestive process can create a host of problems including heartburn, ulcers, constipation, IBS, chronic inflammation, and Crohn’s disease.


Any undigested fiber in your gut is basically food for undigested microbes. That’s why if you eat too much fiber, you get gas. These undigested microbes are becoming fermented in the gut, just as when you make beer, bread, and other alcohols.

That’s why too much fiber can create an over-gas situation because all of these bacteria are basically going crazy in the gut, causing fermentation and, consequently, causing you to blow up like balloon, where your stomach looks distended and swollen.

Too much fiber can be particularly damaging if it’s let to go, untreated, for a period of time.

So, How Am I Getting Too Much Fiber Anyway?

The ways you could be getting too much fiber in your diet could be in that you’re eating too many grains, or it could be that you’re eating too many of certain types of vegetables, especially cruciferous vegetables like kale, broccoli, Brussel’s sprouts, cabbage, cauliflower, and even avocados. Kale, by the way, is the least fibrous of the cruciferous vegetables.

Why would these vegetables be problematic? Well, they can create bloating, and if you bloat from those vegetables, this merely means that you have not established enough good bacteria in your gut to digest them properly.

And some people can enjoy these vegetables with no gut reactions at all.

Myself, in the past, I had the biggest problem with broccoli. I would have so much abdominal pain that I would double over. And even in when I only had traces of broccoli in certain foods, like broccoli soup, it would still do that.

What I eventually did so that I could enjoy the nutrient properties of these vegetables without experiencing any negative reactions such as gas and bloating is to juice them. When I began juicing broccoli, for example, and I was able to drink this juice with no negative reactions, I knew that the problem was the fiber.

Some people bloat from cereal, and that’s because cereal grains and bran can really cause a lot of distention in the gut.

See, you have more nerves in your gut than you have in your spinal column. That’s why today, the gut is called by many doctors, “the second brain.”

If the gut is not right, then the brain is not right, and you can experience a host of mental and psychological disorders from forgetfulness, to brain fog, to attention-deficit disorder, to a lack of ability to focus, to inhibited higher executive thinking, to anxiety, to depression, to sleep problems and all kinds of other mental/psychological disorders.

What you want to do is to make sure fiber is not the culprit. So what I highly advise is a log. Create a diary of what you eat and how it reacts within your gut. This way you can avoid or find new ways to get these vegetables in your diet, that don’t create such negative reactions in your body. You really don’t want to eat anything that causes irritation to the colon or bloating and gas, especially when you’re on a quest to eat clean, eat healthy, and lose weight.

So what should you eat for fiber and optimum gut health?

1. First, you want to avoid grains, bran, cereals, and all of those kinds of fibrous foods that are often high in sugars and carbohydrate as well.

2. And, you might want to switch your vegetables to zucchini, spinach, lettuce, romaine lettuce, celery, string beans, squash, tomatoes, beets, asparagus, cucumbers, all those are usually low reaction foods that contain healthy fiber.


Today, so many people think that fiber is helping them, but it is actually destroying the gut in all kinds of unhealthy ways.

So try experimenting with vegetables, keeping a symptom log, so that you can find what works and does not work for your body, and try the other tips I have offered you above, so that you can find a balance with fiber that works for you, enabling you to get the vitamins and nutrients you need, with no stress on the gut.

And you might want to consider a great probiotic to enhance the gut flora so that you can eventually eat a wider array of vegetables and, eventually, more fibrous vegetables as well.

Please comment below and let me hear your voice.

Thank you,

Dr. Berg

False Claim #1: Dietary Fiber Prevents Colon Cancer

http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/fiber-full-story/#colon

False Claim #2. Fiber Prevents Breast Cancer

http://cebp.aacrjournals.org/cgi/content/full/13/8/1283

False Claim #3: Fiber Reduces The Risk of Heart Disease

http://www.gutsense.org/reports/transcript.html

http://www.gutsense.org/fibermenace/fm_transcript.html#breast cancer

 

I have, for the last year, been running all of the fresh I usually hate through smoothies. I think cabbage is disgusting, but camouflaged by other fruits and OJ makes even kale tollerable. I lost a ton of weight and have the energy of a person 20 years younger.

I eat 0 bread and maybe cheat with posta and rice. But that's just being a coonass

 

So you're damned if you do and damned if you don't. My mother was into juicing. She was pretty good with the carrot juice mixed with apples and celery and maybe something else. She made it so it tasted good and so that we would drink it. Now I find out it was bad for us. Fuck it all. I'm going to order a pizza.

 

I figure its the processed stuff. The rest is fine

 

Did you read the article? It said that the good fresh fruits and veggies now are bad for us. Please pass the Cheez Whiz.