Let's talk about healthy nutrition

[Eddie]

Ayadew, it looks like your approach is a mostly vegetarian version of the Atkins diet. Have you read about the blood type diet? The theory there is that some people have the same nutritional chemistry as our hunter/gather ancestors, before agriculture brought more grains and dairy. Paleolithic Prescription by Eaton says that everyone benefits from eating this way.

I'm this way. I feel much better when I eat a mixture of meat, fruit, and vegetables, than when I eat food made from white flour (which makes me sluggish) and/or dairy products (I have trouble digesting butterfat....gives me indigestion). (By the way, my blood type is O+.)

I have nothing against vegetarianism; I fully understand the spiritual implications of killing animals, and I would be a vegetarian if I could. I've tried it (several times), and it just doesn't work for me. After 3 days without red meat, I get ravenously (almost insanely) hungry, and no volume of any other food will satiate my hunger. My body needs animal flesh. Red animal flesh. Even if I gorge on fish, say, for several days, I still crave red meat.

I spent a number of incarnations as a hunter-gatherer, and at least one other as a herder of sheep and goats, who ate little else but mutton and goat. It's hard to break a 13,000-year-old habit.