Originally Posted by
wolfchild
That's why I said to include lot's of veggies and fruits, because they have a lot of fibre and antioxidants. People who choose to avoid animal products can still get enough healthy fat in their diet by eating various types of nuts, seeds, organic olive oil and avocados. Getting enough fat in the diet is extremely important for an overall health and wellbeing... Avoid modern industrial oils and fats such as margarine, and most vegetable oils because those things are a toxic poison which will wreck havoc with your metabolism and hormones. Also avoid sugar and refined carbs. FYI. Eating cholesterol will NOT cause heart attack or cancer. Your liver makes about 1000 mg of cholesterol per day even if you avoid eating animal foods which are high in cholesterol.
Spot on. Even the Framingham Study, which I believe is rigged against eating fat, finds something interesting. Those with 'high' cholesterol have _less_ chance of dementia and score higher on cognitive tests. If you really take a look at their data instead of just reading the summarized info, you would probably tend to want your cholesterol around 300 or so as long as you run low triglycerides (~50 or so). Triglycerides are a function of carb (specifically refined) intake. Keep it as low as you can and still ride strong.
Farmyard eggs (especially Omega-3's) are good. Grass-fed (organic means nothing) animal products are good. Fats from whole grown foods (avocados, nuts, coconut, etc.) are good. Fats from cold-water fish (sardines, salmon, black cod, etc.) is good. Fat is not a 4-letter word...Carb is!
BTW, fruits aren't _that_ good. Fructose isn't your friend. Certainly whole fruits are better than juices, by a long shot, but 1 piece of fruit a day is plenty. Veggies on the other hand, you basically can't overdo. Eat them until you're blowing the bottom out of the toilet. Avoid grains. If you want to ramp up carbs for better performance on the bike (what I've spelled out it ~100 grams of carbs/day), then you can get them from sweet potatoes, yams, maybe some rice. Play with it and see how man carbs you really need. I promise it's less than you think.
Shoot for 1 gram of protein per pounds of body weight (2.2 grams per Kg of body weight). Eat 60% of your diet in good fats. Fill in the rest with green (or colored in general) veggies and a bit of fruit. You won't be hungry and you'll feel good.
I'm not saying this is the _only_ way to eat well, but I believe this is a very good way to eat.