How Nice of a Food to Lose Weight for You

We have been down the road of explaining the advantages of warm and raw vegetable salads (warves)  However something I have found something else that should be discussed.

Since they have increasingly become the backbone of my daily intake I have been losing weight. It strikes me that here is a food, virtually devoid of refined carbohydrate, except occasionally when I add a little cooked rice or blackeye beans, on which my weight has slowly lost six and  half kilos. I  think therefore the digestion of the meal itself is using lots of calories.

  It makes sense that the gut is stimulated to work harder by the tough and rough of the food, ie its sheer physical presence and that uses up the calories.

  If I was into the physics of food metabolism I might even postulate that the energy I am using up on my basically raw meal is the energy ones' stove would supply in turning it into the standard cooked vegetable meal.

  What is nice also to know that the nutrients are kept pretty much intact, something that won’t be likely if the food is cooked.

It is worth considering that the Nutribullet does one no favours in the manner above
- that 20,000 rpm motor they advertise has done it all for you. The slurry it produces requires little if any energy to move it along the gut.

More Thoughts on the Nutribullet

   At the outset consider a liquid diet as unnatural - impossible to find in nature as such and denies the need for our teeth, and much of the digestive mechanisms orientated around the mouth. The makers or proponent push the fact that so much fibre can be digested this way - I say the fibre in fruit or vegetables one uses is almost certainly damaged so much as to have little mechanical effect on intestinal motility and therefore intestinal health.
   Undoubtedly some fibre remnants persist to enable some sort pre-biotic function but the liquefaction to the degree they show occurs by pouring the result through a filter without obstruction is really worrying.
   Enzymes, vitamins and other nutrients are bound to fragment of the fruit or vegetable used and are released in a manner controlled by mastication and the normal peristalsis and rhythms of the gut.
   When a smoothie or whatever from a Nutribullet is swallowed it exposes the gut to unprecedented level of nutrients, some intact possibly, certainly some knocked about, and not just physically.
   We all like fruit salad but even this might be worrying as the mixed fruits have different acidity levels and particular nutrients in any one item may be damaged by another. Where in nature does one find any animal mixing food in this manner and how much more is that situation.
If this is the case with fruit salad think how much more damage occurs when they are blitzed in a Nutribullet?
The one case where the Nutribullet is useful is liquidising nuts and seeds but it is an expensive way of doing it as blender a quarter to a third of the price will do this nicely. In fact the Nutribullet probably goes overboard reducing any natural irritant effect of a ground nut or seed to zero.
 Something I have mentioned before is the immediacy of the effect of a problem ingredient - this could be allergy or a vegetable or fruit product that should be cooked.
The high speed of the mechanism, said to be 20,000 revs per minute, could easy create enough heat to cook the mix it is making.
Another well advertised and more expensive blender seen in department stores on demonstrations shows by extending the blitz time the mix heats up and renders itself as a soup.
I think, all in all, one has to be wary about the use of the Nutribullet as an aid to health living.

When Fixing The House It's DIY But For Health It Should Be MIY.

Supermarkets are making a fortune out of you from foods you can make yourself (MIY) and polluting the world for the privilege.
This is just a short note on how we have become dependent on supermarkets and stores for the most
ordinary things usually at high price in money and certainly a high price in the environment as these
items are packaged attractively almost seductively in protective surrounds of shaped clear plastic, under protection of expanded polystyrene and paper labelling and clear film to view the contents.
Yet the contents can easily be made at home so that they are fresher, the items used of equal or better quality and done so without the use of preservatives and fancy packaging which will pollute the environment.
Things one never bought before like made up custard, creme caramel ( often sold in glass dishes complete with  a raw sugar sachet to glaze on under the grill at home )  and even sandwiches at costs each of which would buy a loaf of bread and a chunk of cheese to make a dozen sandwiches.
This whole thing of dependence for such things is just a failure to get across to the public how easily it is to do as good - of course there is the convenience thing but there is the confidence thing and the lure of the packaging, most of which will become land fill.
This brings me to the business of MIY which is Make It Yourself.
There has to be intelligent and focused teaching and even by television on really simple, everyday stuff.
Most programs on meals that can be made in 15 or 30 mins simply lie about the reality as even the presenters struggle to make the grade and they have the backing and preparation all ready at hand.
The preparation of a meal means having a menu in the head - not a specific one but a rough outline.
Then all one has to do is to fall back on a little experience, have a look whats in the fridge, vegetable basket and cupboard and then make up as one goes using common sense to pick the best way to deal with what one has.
I'll elaborate on MIY soon.