My Family Health Blog

I’ve been exploring the many different healthy diets. Shopping around if you will. I’m interested in the healing diets and the longevity diets. Those two are different. For example, I have seen that there are cases when raw paleolithic diet is called for. The high fatty content of such a diet may help heal certain conditions faster. Also depends on the environment, where in the world the person is, his genetic roots, his disease condition. Raw fruitarian may be called upon for certain cases as well… for faster detoxing, for curing cooked food cravings, curing addictions… and may be advantageous if the person lives in the tropics. I live in the tropics where fruits are essentially grown organic or wild.  Fruitarianism and periodic fasting is a key to longevity.

Just as babies require mothers milk and turn to other foods as they grow older. Children will have different needs. Teenagers too. Young adults as well. Middle age and old age will require other foods. I have come to a realization that we must continuously be in tune with the needs of our bodies. And in a family with mixed ages, we should not impose the same foods for people of different ages, conditions, and cravings. We must be conscious with our health and our feeding. We parents must be attuned to the needs of each individual child. I have noticed that my number 1 child’s food preferences and needs are very different from my number 2 and number 3.

So let’s keep an open mind on what is optimal food. But not grains. Grains are all bad. Grains are now classified under junk food in my book. This includes rice, bread, pasta, cakes, pancit, noodles, etc.

I was participating in a raw paleolithic diet discussion regarding grain consumption by some asians. Someone cited that the Japanese and the Singaporeans ate some rice:

I lived in Singapore for some years and worked with the local people. They might have eaten rice 3 times a day, but it was only about a handful at a meal. I don’t call that a lot. Occasionally they would also have an egg.

hey, i’d like to add something about these seemingly bizarre dietary practices in east asia. i lived in Japan for five years consecutively. loved it the entire time, btw. anyway, most every japanese person i knew ate rice about three times a day. almost every one was eating white rice, too, NOT whole grain. they were almost all slim. but, like someone else just commented, its all about calories in and out at the end of the day, the japanese i knew were eating a small handful of rice at each meal. in other words, even though they were consuminghigh glycemic white rice (pretty much sugar), it made up only a small portion of a larger meal usually containing very good quality protein
and a higher fat content than most 2008 americans eat (they do NOT, thankfully, have the fat-fear that we are plagued with). in other words (big surprise here…), its about balance.

now, dont get me wrong, living back in the states i am a little-to-NO carbohydrate carnivore all the way. no grains for sure and not even many veg, to be honest. i am all about grassfed beef, fish and dark chicken. anyhow, balance balance balance for most people on the earth is the secret, and history’s proof.

Then I chimed in about my observations of Filipinos, I’m pretty sure you will agree:

Hello,

I am a Filipino living in Manila, Philippines. I can contribute that Filipinos are rice addicts and eat more carbohydrate crap than those examples you gave.

Filipinos are hooked on rice. No, addicted to rice! Rice in the morning, noon and night. Rice cakes in the mid afternoon or mid morning. It is insane. Add bread, noodles and crackers to this along with the rice. Add the sweets, the coffee, softdrinks.  Let’s add porkas well. And if in the big city like Manila, a whole lot of junk food and fastfood. All cooked, all processed, they see that almost everything has to be cooked. Most can’t afford fruits. Most can’t afford quality meats, thus they buy farmed pork, farmed fish, farmed chicken; all fed on commercial feeds, they live in their own crap, and these creatures are stinky, weak and diseased.

I see many Filipinos are fat and diseased, most are constipated.

Then someone responded:

I see many Filipinos are fat and diseased, most are constipated. Many? That’s all? They should all be ten feet underground! LOL!

Funny huh? Beyond rice, it is much worse. The urban Filipino’s favorite style of cooking is FRIED. Frying with the cheapest trans fat cooking oil like corn oil, “vegetable” oil, canola oil, etc. The favorite food combination is RICE + MEAT, the most difficult combination requiring both an acid environment (for the meat) and an alkaline environment (for the rice). Fruits are seen as decoration, dessert or a luxury item only the rich can afford.

And in between meals? Merienda / snacks? More rice! Rice cakes like puto, kutchinta, suman, pancit / noodles, instant noodles, bread. A new favorite is bread with noodles!

Not only that, virtually ALL commercial restaurants and canteens and cooks have a cultural mindset that all meals need to be cooked and all meals need MSG!

So my raw Philippine green lipped mussel failed to give me good results.  I get to thinking and analyzing how Lyprinol works.  The product is effective, no doubts about that.  I think it is green lipped mussel oil plus extra virgin olive oil.  Both with anti inflammatory properties.

Do a google on extra virgin olive oil + anti inflammatory and you get all these articles.  Same thing with the research on green lipped mussel oil.  Combine these two items and you have a wonder product.

Now I’m wondering is Lyprinol can totally replace Non Steroidal Anti Inflammatory Drugs?  Say replace these common pain relievers when it comes to dental work?

I experimented eating raw green lipped mussels last Saturday and Monday.  My verdict?  Raw green mussels suck big time.  I do not recommend eating raw green lipped mussels for myself nor any of my family members.

Digesting the raw mussels was very hard on me.  I had an easier time with raw beef.  The transit time to poop was long as well.  And the worst part was I felt bad, sick, like wanting to throw up by Tuesday.

Of course this self experimenter was ready for this case with my dependable herbal colon cleanse Dr. Tam’s Miracle Tea.  So Tuesday night I drank 1/2 cup of the herbal colon cleanse.  I waited in the evening for some much needed poop.  Then in the morning more poop.  Ahhhh…. now I feel great again!

No more mussels for me.  Whether raw or cooked, it is all bad.  What?  You think the quality of your food gets better just because you cooked it?  Does a rotten saba banana get better when you cook it?  Does a rotten mango get better when you cook it?  Big fat no!  Rotten foods are masked by cooking to SEEM edible.  Let’s take raw eggs.   When eggs are rotten you can boil them or fry them and they seem fine, but they were rotten in the first place.  If you always ate your eggs raw,  you would immediately be alerted to the rotten state and merely throw it away.

Back to Philippine green lipped mussels.  Either they are polluted, or not beneficial in the first place.  The great thing about my food experiments is I can isolate the animal food I eat.  My base of clean food is fresh raw fruits.  I have concluded that green lipped mussels are not my food, whether raw or cooked.