(September 17, 2016 at 12:49 am)Maelstrom Wrote: I eat everything, and I have never had a problem.  

Some people like to find a blame where there is none, which is precisely how so many unnecessary food fads begin.

Depends on the person though.

What's "healthy" to one person isn't necessarily "healthy" to the next, some people will tolerate certain diets better than others. Some people just aren't built for the high-protein and high-carbs Western food and can't maintain their health on it, then you've also got people who literally can't get the nutrients they require on a vegetarian or vegan diet. You've also got some who are intolerant to grain and/or dairy products.

I think it's on everyone as an individual to find what diet works best for them. It's fine to experiment and have "fads", sometimes these fads can turn someone's life around.

(September 17, 2016 at 12:59 am)Yeauxleaux Wrote: Depends on the person though.

What I really meant was that one individual's intolerance to a certain food tends to turn to a fad where everyone thinks they are having problems with the same food when they actually are not.

Gluten-free is a prime example.

Gluten free comes about because someone has Celiac disease, which can only be properly tested through a blood test. My oldest has it. To have her on a gluten free diet is no fad. She's had two intestinal surgeries because of her insides being messed up. We take that sort of thing very seriously around here. Also, a gluten free diet is very expensive. So really, unless there's an underlying medical condition that warrants the use, I don't agree with people doing it.

As for advice - back in June, I too, had a health scare. From that point on, I removed all the processed foods from my house. I want a snack? I have to make it from fresh and bulk ingredients that we keep here at the house. I make homemade potato chips. pretzels, soft tortillas, bread, pasta sauce, salad dressings etc.
If it can be found in a box, I learn how to make it with fresh ingredients instead.

I have not had an intestinal flair up since I started doing this. It has been well worth it to have to make my own food and buy staple items in bulk. Add to this the fact that I am severely allergic to all peanuts, tree nuts etc. I absolutely cannot have any of that stuff.

I also try to keep my dairy consumption down to a minimum because it can cause constipation. I do, however drink a glass of milk in the mornings.

(September 17, 2016 at 1:35 am)Nymphadora Wrote: Gluten free comes about because someone has Celiac disease.

I perfectly understand Gluten-free. However, where I work, people ask the stupidest questions in relation to gluten, which means they have no idea why they are excluding it from their diet. Fads begin for serious reasons that actually affect others.

(September 17, 2016 at 1:35 am)Nymphadora Wrote: I have not had an intestinal flair up since I started doing this.

https://www.crohnsandcolitis.com/crohns?...64Z1844741

I stopped eating processed foods about 15 years ago, for the most part. I still have some canned food that gets used in my cooking -- beans for chili, and of course bacon or sausage with breakfast or on a pizza, that sort of thing -- but a good 90% of my diet is fresh food I prepare at home. Being able to control the ingredients, skipping the polysyllabic additives, and most especially the enormous amounts of salt in American prepackaged food has done me fine. 50 years old, 5'10 and 150 lbs, with cholesterol and BP readings well inside norms.

I eat red meat once, maybe twice a week, chicken three or four times a week, bacon and sausage perhaps twice a months each, and with plenty of fresh vegetables, often uncooked, to scrub the ugly stuff out and keep the mail moving regularly.

Yolie mentioned a Mediterranean diet, and that's a big part of things for me. Grilled meat and olive oil, good lord that's about perfection anyway, couple it with tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, and some feta on flatbread topped with a little yogurt, I could eat that all night.

(September 16, 2016 at 10:56 pm)Sterben Wrote: I recently had a mild health scare, the other day I ate at local restaurant for breakfast. About 25 minutes  after eating I came down with food poisoning. now I've had food poisoning before and was not nearly has bad. So, I've came to conclusion that it's the American diet that is at fault for my illness. I read up on other countries diet and the way the Japaneses dine makes the most sense in most of their habits. I use to drink a lot of Caffeinated drinks when I was younger, and now I want to adopt their styles of tea's. Does anyone else here follow more the Japanese style of food and drinks? If any one else practices what I want to do, I would like to hear from you on how to start inter-grading more of their habits into my diet. Other traditions as well, I've been using house shoes and not wearing outside shoes in the house. If any one has any other tips I'd be grateful to read your responses.

Food poisoning takes hours to kick in. Sometimes weeks.
If it was food poisoning, it wasn't the food you ate at the restaurant.
Incidentally, if you'd eaten at a Japanese restaurant, where a lot of the food is served raw and involves seafood, your chances for getting food poisoning would not necessarily be less.
Most food poisoning occurs from the victim's own homes.
My biggest tips would be to use sanitiser on food surfaces, bleach cutting boards often and only use wooden ones for bread, store food items in the fridge covered and dated, never store cooked meat under raw meat, never use the same cutting board for cooked meat that was used for the same meat before it was cooked (or the same knife), never allow mould to grow in your fridge, make sure to throw away food items that are past their used by date, only ever reheat cooked food once, don't let hot food drop below around 65 degrees and store at under 5 degrees.
Cooked food between these temperatures will grow bacteria exponentially allowing greater chance for food poisoning.

To the OP: I get lots of herbal tea from azuregreen.net, I eat lots of fish and lamb. I try to eat rice at least once a day. I make my own sushi. I exercise half an hour twice a day, mornings before breakfast, and before lunch. I also do a full cleanse once a month. 3 days of tea and bananas, then 5 laxative pills a day with only water for the rest of the week.

Just like to add that those temperatures I was talking about in my last post were in Celsius.

Firstly, I think food poisoning is more to do with the hygiene of the place you're eating in rather than how healthy the actual food groups are or the cultural roots of the food.

I mean you can eat fresh chicken that's part of a fairly healthy food group, but if the chicken is kept unrefridgerated on the floor it's going to give you food poisoning.

Secondly, no I don't eat Japenese style food.  Doesn't sound like a bad idea in theory.

My diet is pretty much prioritizing on veg first, then meat, then I get treats at the weekend like muffins, donuts fried food.  I've never focused on a particular culture before.