As has been previously explained several times, @Hal Pollner , either Ken or I will happily edit your post if you ask one of us to do so. The reason for the short editing time is because of people writing a post and then deleting it after other people have read and responded to their post.
@Yvonne, I know you have explained it many times before, but I will now beg you to extend the edit window to 24 hours, please! Hal
Hal... I understand your frustration because we all feel it at times, however, the minority spoiled it for the majority, and it really was a mess to see how people were editing and sometimes deleting a thread after they'd got into some kind of spat with someone else... and then the whole thread made no sense whatsoever, or in some more serious cases, that a ''victim'' ( for want of a more appropriate word).. would be left looking like the perpetrator once the latter had edited their posts out of all recognition... ...so it's much better this way...
You are super human @ Hal Pollner. Up until my D2 diagnosis I too looked on food as you do. Tho I had reduced eating processed meat years earlier. 1/10th of a ton?
If these are in your diet then the answer is no. The NOVA food classification system, which is recognised by global health agencies including the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation, and used by many researchers globally has found that hi or ultra processed foods have been linked to serious disease. According to the NOVA system, examples of typical ultra-processed products are: Sweet or savoury packaged snacks; ice-cream, chocolate, candies (confectionery); mass-produced packaged breads and buns; margarines and spreads; cookies (biscuits), pastries, cakes, and cake mixes; breakfast 'cereals', 'cereal' and 'energy' bars; 'energy' drinks; milk drinks, 'fruit' yoghurts and 'fruit' drinks; cocoa drinks; meat and chicken extracts and 'instant' sauces; infant formulas, follow-on milks, other baby products; 'health' and 'slimming' products such as powdered or 'fortified' meal and dish substitutes; and many ready-to-heat products including pre-prepared pies and pasta and pizza dishes; poultry and fish 'nuggets' and 'sticks', sausages, burgers, hot dogs, and other reconstituted meat products, and powdered and packaged 'instant' soups, noodles and desserts. Heck I eat a decent percentage of those items.
My husband and I were just having this conversation a few minutes ago. I told him I'm going to stop buying so much "junk," but we love cookies and chips. Argh. Other than a weakness for junk, we eat very healthy meals.
I eat cereal and hot dogs. That is about it for the list. I used to eat potato "chips/crisps", but found they would affect my blood sugar for days afterward, so gave 'em up.
I look at it as everything you consume is like a teaspoon of some sort of liquid in your life bucket. Your bucket gets filledwith your choices. At some point, if you don't put some good stuff in, then your whole bucket is just full of crap. (Not at all suggesting I have made great choices through the years.)
Good on you @Shirley Martin. Sorry to say I still eat meat, fruit and savory pies, sausages (low fat and salt) instant soups and sauces. I do eat cookies, candy, ice cream and yogurt.. but only low fat/sugar.
I rarely (if ever) eat foods on your list Craig I eat yoghurt every morning that’s low fat / lowest sugar of all I’ve checked ..as far as bread go’s I buy bakers delight cape seed .,yep it’s $6 a loaf it lasts me a month I had to eat cheap stuff when young due to finances now I have the best I can buy to suit our budget / taste. We eat mostly freshly prepared foods ,last night we had a beef casserole made with lean gravy beef added Swede ,green peas ,carrot ,one small potato , celery ,onion and a tiny bit of chopped cabbage I always precook ( with a tiny bit of olive oil to prevent sticking to bottom of pan ) the onion / celery / carrot before adding to the meat which I also partly brown before adding any liquid If I make a roast chicken I get hubs to cut the fatty backbone ,and allot of extra fat out then cook it with a bread seasoning in a oven bag (delicious) moist chicken
Just so everybody knows, @Kate Ellery is referring to rutabagas, not Swedish people when she refers to eating them.
They are what you call Swedes, or Swede turnips, a cross between turnips and cabbage that supposedly were developed in Sweden. To most Americans, when you are throwing a Swede into a stew, they picture you tossing a resident of Sweden into the stew. A bit cannibalistic perhaps? Rutabagas or Swede turnips are turnips that store better than regular turnips and usually have a yellow color to the flesh, but not always. I grow some that are pink inside.
Kadee we also eat mostly healthier prepared foods.. but sometimes wifey wants something simple in which case we resort to pre cooked fare. That cutting the fatty backbone from the chook.. never heard of that. Yeh that poor Swede.