I and my 9 year old boy just came home from an overnight class camping / outing in a Pampanga farm. I was able to compare my son’s topless physique with the rest of his classmates and saw that he hasn’t progressed much even after we had cured his rough spot connected with his old primary complex, and got rid of his intussusception. My first choice is to put him on raw paleo diet like Aajonus Vonderplanitz’ Primal diet with lots of high meat, but my wife thinks it will be a hard sell for our boy to agree with doing the same diet I am on. Hey, I’m gaining weight and fat. So I’m looking at doing something else first. I’m looking at trying high everything diet, RRARF as described by Matt Stone at 180degreehealth.com… it is a sane cooked paleo-ish diet I can fix up that will be palatable to our boy.
I’m thinking cooked meat – coconut milk based dishes – or in ghee / gata, sweet potatoes and butter, brown rice, cooked green leafy vegetables, root crops… the big deal, the big bad culprit I want to cut down anyway is WHITE RICE and TOO MUCH FRUCTOSE LADEN FRUITS. I’ve wanted to strangle those out anyway. I hit 2 kids with this 1 attempt, my 5 year old girl who is carb sensitive and gets tooth decay, and probably my 9 year old boy as well who is malnourished so his body craves these instant energy foods. Height and heft wise, our 7 year old boy is doing just great.
The logic is simple, eat as much as he wants being served with food he likes and other see as palatable, even force feed for a while, as often as he wants, rest as much as possible, will get into measuring his body temperature too. See the details in 180degreehealth.com.
Of course I should see something drastic in 1 or 2 months. If this fails, then we definitely will go the full raw paleo diet route with lots of high meat. Something will eventually work.
Someone already blogged that Kamote (Sweet Potato) is superior to rice in every way:
Too many wrong instructions have been programmed into the Filipino psyche.
If we want to move forward, we must unlearn those things that bring us down.
Our counterproductive mindsets prevent us from sustaining whatever beachheads we have accomplished.
We are among the hardest to convince when it comes to retooling ourselves and
adopting scientifically- validated new methods. We’re afraid to venture beyond our comfort zone.
We are a nation blessed with tremendous natural resources and yet many
Filipinos suffer from hunger and malnutrition. While it’s true that the nation’s wealth
is cornered by only a few Filipinos, we must not lose sight of the fact that a good part of
our malnutrition problem is also self-inflicted.
Rampant malnutrition could have been significantly checked had the
government taken time to promote food alternatives that could even provide better nutrition than the usually consumed staples such as rice.
Ignorance, not just lack of money, causes malnutrition.
Captive to our comfort zone, our people either do not know their food
options or simply refuse to consider the other foods that are available to
them. The underrated kamote illustrates my point. Do you know that kamote far exceeds the nutrition and health values of rice?
Here are the benefits of substituting rice with kamote:
1. Kamote is more filling and suppresses hunger pangs longer. It is also
cheaper than rice.
2. Unlike rice, kamote is so easy to grow. It grows in backyards with or
without fertilizers. Local government executives can provide their poor
communities with idle government land for planting kamote which the entire community can share.
3. Unlike rice which needs to be eaten with a dish, kamote tastes good and can be eaten by itself.
Thus, substituting rice with kamote saves money for other needs.
4. Rice cannot match the nutritional values of kamote. Because rice
converts to sugar in the body, the Philippines registers as a top producer of diabetics in the world.
The poor tends to load up on rice and less on the dish which are more expensive.
That makes them vulnerable to diabetes, an ailment known in developed countries as a rich man’s disease.
5. The nutritional values of a 3 oz baked kamote are: calories 90, fat 0 g,
saturated fat 0 g, cholesterol 0 mg, carbohydrate 21 g, protein 2 g,
dietary fiber 3 g, sodium 36 mg, vitamin A 19,218 IU, folic acid 6
micrograms, pantothenic acid 1 mg, vitamin B6 <1 mg, vitamin C 20 mg, vitamin E 1 mg, calcium 38 mg, manganese 1 mg, carotenoids 11,552 mcg, potassium 475 mg and magnesium 45 mg. Compare that to a 100 g serving of white rice with: calories 361 kcal, water 10.2 g, total fat 0.8 g, dietary fiber 0.6 g, calcium 8 mg, phosphorous 87 mg, potassium 111 mg, sodium 31 mg, vitamin B1 0.07 mg, vitamin B2 0.02 mg, niacin 1.8 g, protein 6 g and carbohydrates 82 g.
6. Too much rice consumption can make you sick but kamote can bring you to health and keep away some health problems. These have been proved medically.
In a medical documentary, I was awed by the results of the research the Koreans conducted on the nutritional and medicinal benefits of kamote (which they refer to as sweet potato).
from: http://jenny43.multiply.com/journal/item/13
Hi there,
I have been checking your blog for a long time now and decided to comment. I have been following Matt Stone’s HED/RRARF for a year now and truly believe it is the the best way to eat. I have found that eating starch is very important for humans while too many sugars in the context of a not optimal metabolism can cause problems. I think you should try rice, as rice is more easily digested and much more hypoallergenic in the beginning when trying HED. If you have any other questions or concerns let me know.