#121

I’ve been eating beans on toast now for breakfast many times, hadn’t tried it before as far as I can remember. Thanks for the share.

It’s easy to eat and make and tastes totally O.K with salt and pepper. An easy way to get beans + protein + whole grains + dietary fiber, which tick a lot of ‘healthy’ boxes. Using 1 can of Heinz Beanz and three slices of toast. Bread is toasted from frozen.

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https://twitter.com/SirPatStew/status/1394771024240070656

I think I might eat it a looooooooot.

#122

I tend to have it with branston pickle, but that may not be available in your jurisdiction. I think of it as a good wide ranging food with a small amount of carbs. I have a half can with two slices of toast. Preparation time (elapsed) is much the same as cooking the toast in isolation.

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#123

@LaraPo are sure that you are still alive when your RHR is 38 :smile: Very low, i would prefer 50 but never measured mine. I might though if someone told me it is a number we should watch.

#124

Mine is naturally lower. It’s 38 only on some rare occasions per my Apple Watch. The average per month is 47 at night which is great as it indicates better heart health. Thank you for your concern, but I’m still alive and breathing!

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#125

THE LUSTGARTEN APPROACH

It was wrong to only measure apoB and lp(a).
How many biomarkers should we measure? All of them.

Basically there’s many different biomarkers which have associations that can be targeted for optimal associative all cause mortality risk, and optimal biomarker ranges for “biological age reduction”, many which overlap. By tracking food intake and running correlations one can find what foods are correlated with the most improved biomarkers. I of course value certain biomarkers higher than others depending on what disease they target, like apoB and heart disease, and quality of evidence. Later on one can try medications etc and see what happens to the biomarkers.

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#126

My diet today, I felt surprisingly well from it. Like I felt lighter. It was after eating dates and peanut/almond butter. Must be placebo.

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Low on a few vitamins, working on it.

#127

Seriously, these are all poison. what has your body done that you are so intently trying to kill it. You kidding me dude, where is 16OZ organic steak for breakfast, 16OZ organic steak for Lunch, and 16 OZ organic steak for dinner, lathered in butter and wine sauce. How can you go wrong with that.

A bit of a joke, but i would eliminate dates, peanut butter, pasta, pear, carrots, and Tempeh and add Wild fish, or organic Steak, EVOO to replace those calories. I’d keep my intake at 1800 calories unless i do long exercises.

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#128

LOw heart rate as 40- 38 is not dangerous unless you have dizziness, lightheadedness or other symptoms.

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#129

I recommend that you check Luigi Fontana’s recipes and diet. It is IMO really great way to eat healthy. It is not a diet per se it is more of a lifestyle approach, an easy way to eat more vegetables, less protein, but really nutritious great tasting food.

https://www.amazon.com/Path-Longevity-Plan-Extend-Healthspan/dp/174379682X

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#130

Why is peanut butter a killer?

#131

Peanut butter is really bad, peanuts are actually legumes, and rest assured that legumes will kill you but slowly, not fast. Also, any Soy products should be banned and possibly totally eradicated as a plant. Most of the plant food is usually useless with exceptions of some nuts, and berries but I’d want them organic. Most vegetables are also bad, meaning useless for us humans.

#132

Yes but WHY? Why is peanut butter (or legumes) a killer?

#133

There is this Harvard professor/doctor dude that explains it in detail, but forgot his name at moment. I also from my own experience know for a fact that is real bad as it makes my joints and fingers swell, and plenty of pain the next morning i wake up. Now i know not everyone would have such apparent side effects but that doesn’t mean it is not killing you softly and slowly. Enjoy that yummy tofu for couple more days, or maybe years. I’ll give you my ration also. lol

#134

There is a school of thought that is very anti-beans and legumes. Here is one point of view that influenced me many years ago:

Aflatoxins, or Another Reason to Shun Peanuts | Mark’s Daily Apple (marksdailyapple.com)

#135

Lectins have been ridden to the bank by many “influencers”. It isn’t that there is nothing to lectins, but rather the issue is overblown to make a buck. It’s an old way to make money.

Lectins can bother some people if the lectins remain in the food after cooking. If you eat raw beans you will feel sick. If you eat properly cooked beans you will be healthy. Some foods are cooked in a way that leave lectins intact. Roasted peanuts is one.

I have eaten roasted peanuts and peanut butter my entire life without any problems beside excess calories.

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#136

Thank you for that. Just from your link:

Aflatoxin is a carcinogen that has been shown to cause liver cancer in rats (and, presumably, in humans). The amounts given to the rats in the study were highly concentrated, of course, with the express intent to study the effects of acute aflatoxicosis. You won’t be getting a couple grams of aflatoxin with every bag of peanuts or anything, so acute aflatoxicosis isn’t a big issue for people – at least in the US.

I certainly don’t want cancer, but if I avoid everything that tests positive for cancer on the Ames test, or causes cancer in mice/rats at high concentration, I wouldn’t be able to eat anything. (I remember peanut butter testing positive on the Ames test maybe in the 1980s)

I have in the past eaten a lot of peanut butter. I’m guessing it isn’t the best for me, but it helped me transition into a low carb diet (I really don’t think I would have made it without it). I was eating a jar every four days several years ago but now I eat a jar every 3-4 weeks (all pure, no additives). I think it’s high in omega-6 fats which is a negative. It also has more carbs that I’d like, considering the amount that I tend to eat. And then there’s the “lectin” discussion which I don’t really follow: I see a lot of people talking about it and understand it in theory, but where is the research? I also tried avoiding lectins for six months and separately was carnivore for six months and felt not really different (I did feel better and lost weight from carnivore, but eating steak 24/7 scares me and I missed vegetables — is someone going to tell me this was the lectins?).

So what I’m saying is I want to believe peanut better is bad, but don’t really see the smoking gun — help me here, because in the words of Agent Mulder “I want to believe”.

Feel free to eat whatever you want; this is just my thoughts.

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#137

Believe it or not my favorite meal of all time is smoked bacon/prosciutto with fresh beans cooked in slow for few hours, and at the end add some sautéed unions in olive oil with a little bit of tomato paste and few spoons of cooking wine. Guaranteed that this is the food that they serve in heaven. Unfortunately for us earthly creatures this food will just kill us, not fast though, but slow. Rest assured though that it is my HAREM for at least once or twice a month. I wouldn’t dare doing it more often than that, nonetheless. .

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#138

Kansel I like you, but you have really odd tastes :sweat_smile:

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#139

I have enjoyed peanuts my entire life; as a child my favorite sandwich was peanut butter and honey…yum. Since I went low-carb and started to aspire to make my dietary choices through an evolutionary/paleo lens, I ate less PB, then when my son turned out to be seriously allergic to it, I pretty much stopped eating it. I think as a now-and-then thing it’s fine. I’m much less dogmatic about food than I used to be.

#140

Did not feel the same today from it, so it was probably placebo. I’ve been busy playing the cyberpunk game so couldn’t really reflect on it.