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.
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.
