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Food and Beverage Choices for Improved Physical and Psychological Health. {Please keep on Topic}.

Food and Beverage Choices for Improved Physical and Psychological Health. {Please keep on Topic}.

Hello to members who have been active in “Henry's Landing Strip and Hangar” thread. I have started this thread on healthy food and drink choices and wanted to invite you, and other members, to have a look and participate if the topic and content might interest you.

None of the information, that is posted on the thread, should be considered or applied as if it were medical advice.

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I would like the thread to develop with Australian input, information and personal reflections. The following site, though, is one that I have been interested in for a while and thought that it would make a good starting point. Many of the ideas presented by Melissa Norris, who has an engaging and informative style, are easily transferable to the various different environments around Australia. She lives near Seattle on the North-West coast of the USA, just South of Vancouver, Canada. I find that I have to take Melissa in short bursts, because she packs a lot of information into her presentations. She appears to be both genuine and also practical in her application of the principles by which she lives and that she conveys to others. We don't all live in the same type of environments or with the same resources, but I hope that the thread allows us to adopt and adapt ideas, that others have found useful and productive, in and for our own particular situations. We may be able to offer each other our own suggestions, or references to those offered by others, with which we have felt comfortable.

The initial reference, that I am posting, is to the YouTube video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZlceOZeryY

entitled: "13 Ingredient Swaps to Make NOW That Saved My Life"

Melissa K Norris: “Yes .…...... I always say, homesteading is a state of mind, and for people who are moving into the homesteading lifestyle and even those of us who have been in it for a while, we all do have pretty much the same goals of being able to raise our own food, to provide clean, good food for our families, to be more self-sufficient in all of the ways that we're able to. And so when we all have that common goal, we actually all come about it differently in a lot of aspects because we're in obviously different geological or geographic locations, we have different climates, there's different acreages, there's suburban, there's apartment homesteaders, there's large rural, all of that. And though we all have this common goal, we've all figured out because we're at different points in our life and all those circumstances that people will come at it at different angles.”

Some of the links to her videos are included here:

I do hope that we can put some interesting material, here in this thread, that will be helpful in our journey, and that of others, toward the ever developing goal of improved health and consequent enjoyment of the lives that we live.

With Best Wishes

@HenryX

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Hey my shaz
Or ma

Lol

@Shaz51

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Hello son @MDT 👋😃❤

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Something that is not mentioned here which I may discuss is gluten. Gluten can induce mental illness episodes. I used to occasionally buy bread from a bakery and every time I ate it, it would induce psychosis.

Later I watched an independent health summit and many presenters were saying it was not healthy to eat gluten . One health professional cited I think a site called Pubmed which had thousands of articles on diseases caused by gluten. You just click on the studies and gluten can make you very sick. Included in these studies was a correlation between mental illness and gluten consumption. Personally I would not eat it.

Some psychiatric studies have also noticed a link between mental illness and gluten. If you want to make the switch from gluten to non gluten foods you would be happy to know that under normal conditions supermarkets are usually full of non-gluten foods. You would be surprised at the range.

All you need to do is buy the gluten free variety. For example if you normally buy wheat pasta you just substitute with the gluten free variety. It does not have to be expensive either as the stores may also have the own in-house brand such as Woolworths gluten free buttermilk pancakes or Woolworths gluten free bread.

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@HenryX

Now that I've more time to reply, I find that I don't have much more to add!

Melissa is far from the worst presenter, but something grates. But anyway, that's my issue.

In a more general response, I see the discussion about removing/drastically reducing the amount of sugar in one's diet. I know this to be a good thing, but find it very hard. I've at least cut out chocolate mostly, also sweets like Allens etc, but I still have a packet of life savers on the go. I only have 'diet' soft drink...I could be doing worse, but there's room for improvement 🙂

As I said earlier- I look forward to content from forumites and other sources as this thread continues

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@HenryX @Shaz51 I started modifying my diet late November, at first for weight loss reasons, but as my research progressed it became more about health.

I was gluten free for about 6 years, probably 5 years ago but I wasn't doing it in any kind of healthy way and I ended up putting on a lot of weight. I quit gluten as a way to rid myself of decades and decades of migraines, which it did. The only migraines I got during that time was if I accidentally got glutened. And when I nervously re-introduced it, I was surprisingly fine.

But sugar has been my number 1 nemesis. I was literally raised on it. And hubby is a serious sugar addict so there was always lots and lots of it in the house. Since quitting I have dropped weight. I have noticed my pain levels improving (still a long way to go). Sleeping better. And the hunger is finally passing. At first I was SO hungry 24/7 for weeks and weeks. I had read it was suppose to subside after a couple of weeks but no matter what I ate or how much I ate I never felt satisfied. That is finally getting better and I actually think the green tea is helping a lot with that.

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Hugs @Bow

yiu know what makes me angry and self critical is every start of the year there is so much focus on diets, food, exercise on social media eg Insta and Facebook abd tv commercials.
it’s so hard for individuals to deal with eating disorders.

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Hi @HenryX I just try and eat as healthy as possible. They say that frozen veggies are as good as fresh ones. Unless, of course they are organic. I always have both available. Mostly frozen. Stir fry’s are always good. Everyone has different needs. Mine are, no sugar, limited carbohydrates. I need meat and other protein foods often. One coffee and tea a day and lots of water. But, like I mentioned we all have different foods that we can/cannot eat.

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Sorry it’s triggering for you @Bow @BlueBay

I am just trying to eat healthy because I don’t want to feel so unwell, not for weighl loss/ gain. Sorry if I triggered you.

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