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h82diet
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Posted: 7 February 2012 12:03 am |
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He says no dried fruit in the book but I have TONS of organic dried apples from my trees. I was crumbling them on my salad. I don't eat many because if you don't also drink a lot of water they're constipating.
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Nir
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Posted: 7 February 2012 07:22 am |
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If you think it is too easy to eat calories from fresh fruit, this is more so with dried fruit so one needs to be super-accountable.
Fresh fruit are "unlimited" in Dr Fuhrman's plan,
whilst dried fruit are not included in the six-week plan but are included in the life plan and there are dried fruit included in various recipes in the book (we're talking here about some raisins in a recipe - not "free living" snacking).
Funny how the fresh fruit are both referred to as "unlimited" and elsewhere it is suggested to eat 4 or 5 a day. That's hardly my definition of "unlimited". Dr Fuhrman is not an over-eater - and whilst he talks about over-eating in other places, this is not given enough emphasis in the ETL book
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h82diet
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Posted: 7 February 2012 12:15 pm |
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I made a daily chart/diary for my fridge with check off boxes for the veggies, fruit, nuts, flax and beans. I only have 4 boxes for the fruit because I could easily eat 8 of them I have such a sweet tooth.
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Nir
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Posted: 7 February 2012 09:20 pm |
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More thoughts about dried fruit:
going back to the stomach cross-section diagram he likes to show, they are a dangerous food because they are easy to over-eat (too many calories per full stomach)
nutritionally, dried fruit are only one step removed from refined sugar
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