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5 Foods You Should Be Eating
by Brian St. Pierre
05/17/10
If you want to build a healthy, muscular physique, the quality of your food matters more than the quantity.
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Perpalicious
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Never heard of cacao nibs before. I'm going to have to check it at my mega-chain grocery store. Hopefully they have it because it would be a nice addition to my greek yogurt. I have a Q, though. Is cacao nibs a cacao bean? Or what is it exactly? Would they be called a nib in stores? Wikipedia (I know, not a comprehensive source) doesn't show the nib.
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SteelyD
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Brian St. Pierre wrote:
A long time ago chia seeds were a staple food of some of the world's most dominant civilizations like the Aztecs, Incas, and Mayans.
... and look what happened to THEM!
I'll think I'll pass...
re: Sprouted Toast-- My local grocery store stocks a whole line of "Ezekiel" products now-- sprouted breads, wraps, etc. I love that stuff for the 'bread fix'.
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mtd25
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How does Chocamine compare to cacao nibs? Chocamine is a cocoa extract that can be a mild stimulant, I add it to my coffee like creamer, but wasn't sure if the nutritional profile of the cocoa extract was similar to the nibs.
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archiewhittaker
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All we need is greasy burgers, steak and women too cook these items for us - while we nap
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Dolce
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where do you buy this stuff?
is pasture butter the same as organic butter?
i was recently pissed when i found out my grocer raised the price of their ezekial bread $1.39 and added some "live right, organic food" label to it.
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BobParr
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Dolce wrote:
where do you buy this stuff?
is pasture butter the same as organic butter?
i was recently pissed when i found out my grocer raised the price of their ezekial bread $1.39 and added some "live right, organic food" label to it.
x2 on the pasture butter vs. organic butter question.
And it's nice to see you here, Brian! I've long been familiar with your blog.
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ghost87
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Hey Brian:
Disagree with the butter and bread suggestions. I agree if you want to eat bread, then eat sprouted bread.
However, I don't eat bread nor butter. I think bread is a "filler" product. If you need butter, use Coconut oil or just spray some Pam on the skillet.
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CAODEMARTE
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I can't find any of the foods listed at my local stores. Any good on-line source?
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toots27mkc
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I'm proud to say I already eat all of these except the chia seeds. Everybody also needs to eat hempseed. Hempseed is an excellent source of magnesium, zinc, iron, GLA, and protein. best suppliers:
They have the pasture butter at Whole Foods and most health food stores
The sprouted grain breads are at Whole Foods. I recommend Manna Bread by Nature's Path
extra virgin coconut oil, hempseed, the hemp protein 50/50 is also fuckin amazing for your training: http://www.nutiva.com/
cacao nibs: http://www.sunfood.com/
Don't fall for any of Sunfood's ridiculous bullshit they sell. Their maca and cacao are great though. The cacao powder is pretty nice to. They also sell Nutiva's hempseed and coconut oil.
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Majin
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Seeds are shitty food for humans, no matter how you slice it. You can sprout them and look for ones with omega 3(flax, chia)all you want but they won't shred water against animal products. And with antinutrients like lectins, sapponins and protease inhibitors, being used as cattle feed for when grass is scarce is the most you could get out of them.
Otherwise, I like the list. These are some of the best bulk fats out there.
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Kerry Gold's butter is soooo delicious I melt it on veggies or sometimes butter fry steak or other meat in it. Its way yellower than butter or organic butter one would find in stores. I am not sure about adding coconut oil to my diet sometime seems strange for meat or eggs to taste like coconuts.
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JoabSonOfZeruiah wrote:
Kerry Gold's butter is soooo delicious I melt it on veggies or sometimes butter fry steak or other meat in it. Its way yellower than butter or organic butter one would find in stores. I am not sure about adding coconut oil to my diet sometime seems strange for meat or eggs to taste like coconuts.
I've been cooking with coconut oil for a good while now and my eggs never, ever taste like coconut..
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I don't think any of that is available in my country. I suppose sugar free cocoa powder would do, but the other things I've never even heard of.
If it's alright, I have a question concerning aspargus. I've read that it increases testosterone. My levels are a little low, so I've been trying to find foods to correct that.
In your opinion, is the effect noteable, miniscule or just a myth? I hope it works, because my piss smells like rubber, and my sweat seems to have a much sharper stink than usual. I really have to plaster my arm pits with deodorant after eating this stuff.
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toots27mkc
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Majin wrote:
Seeds are shitty food for humans, no matter how you slice it. You can sprout them and look for ones with omega 3(flax, chia)all you want but they won't shred water against animal products. And with antinutrients like lectins, sapponins and protease inhibitors, being used as cattle feed for when grass is scarce is the most you could get out of them.
Otherwise, I like the list. These are some of the best bulk fats out there.
That's not true that seeds are shitty no matter how you slice it. Obviously, they aren't a replacement for animal foods as the protein is not as complete as meat, and they lack a high content of B vitamins, especially B12. They are generally a better source of minerals, essential fatty acids, fiber, and phytonutrients. You just need to find the ones that work for you. Not all lectins are bad for everybody either. For example, sunflower seeds make me sick, even organic; cooked or raw. However, I eat hemp and flax every day and without the hempseed, my diet is subpar. The flax just makes me poop nice. I gotta try those chia seeds.
And maybe you should check your facts as not all seeds contain protease inhibitors, or even enzyme inhibitors. Nuts are actually worse in this category. Hempseed actually contains protease and lipase, AND DOES NOT CONTAIN ANY ENZYME INHIBITORS.
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BobParr wrote:
Dolce wrote:
where do you buy this stuff?
is pasture butter the same as organic butter?
i was recently pissed when i found out my grocer raised the price of their ezekial bread $1.39 and added some "live right, organic food" label to it.
x2 on the pasture butter vs. organic butter question.
And it's nice to see you here, Brian! I've long been familiar with your blog.
It depends on the brand. Some organic brands do the bare minimum to get organic certification, whereas some go the extra mile and do it on a pasture without even saying it. I believe organic valley is a good one that's not labeled as pasture. A few might actually say in the description that the cows were raised on a pasture and their butter was harvested at the peak of CLA, but it's not actually labeled as pasture butter. Pasture butter would also not have any ingredients except butter and probably, salt. And it would have that nice color the article talks about. Either way, organic is generally higher in CLA.
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JoabSonOfZeruiah wrote:
Kerry Gold's butter is soooo delicious I melt it on veggies or sometimes butter fry steak or other meat in it. Its way yellower than butter or organic butter one would find in stores. I am not sure about adding coconut oil to my diet sometime seems strange for meat or eggs to taste like coconuts.
X2 on the meats in butter, it's also good for stir frys. Coconut oil doesn't take like coconut unless you eat it raw.
When you eat it raw, it has a mild buttery flavor with a hint of coconut.
I did my eggs in it yesterday and no coconut taste.
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toots27mkc
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I think Power Drive causes me to post more often.
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Majin
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They are generally a better source of minerals, essential fatty acids, fiber, and phytonutrients.
Incorrect. Animal products have more minerals and better fatty acids by the simple virtue of being fully absorbed due to not having antinutrients and not being degraded with cooking. Not to mention EPA and DHA instead of the crappy plant form. We don't need fiber and phytochemicals. Estrogenic componds in flax don't help either.
Not all lectins are bad for everybody either.
They generally are. Especially the ones from seeds, as they can actively destroy gut lining, at which point any glycoprotein that fits will enter the blood and wreck autoimune havoc.
And maybe you should check your facts as not all seeds contain protease inhibitors.
All seeds have antinutrients. And all of them are subpar nutrition. We don't have the stomachs to extract the most benefit from seeds. Not that there's much anyway.
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I'm sure Brian will be on soon to answer everyone's questions, but in the meantime I can say that I buy both my Chia seeds and Cacao nibs from a company called Navitas Naturals. You can easily find both on amazon.com
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I'm sorry to be closed-minded but if I go around trying to buy all this stuff I think I'll sprout little butterfly wings and fly off to some sort of land of Princesses.
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toots27mkc
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Majin wrote:
They are generally a better source of minerals, essential fatty acids, fiber, and phytonutrients.
Incorrect. Animal products have more minerals and better fatty acids by the simple virtue of being fully absorbed due to not having antinutrients and not being degraded with cooking. Not to mention EPA and DHA instead of the crappy plant form. We don't need fiber and phytochemicals. Estrogenic componds in flax don't help either.
I'm not going to get into a stupid online arguement, but it depends on the seeds and animal products. Obviously wild salmon is better than any seed. And we don't need fiber and phytochemicals? Well, technically we don't need dietary carbs or money either.
Not all lectins are bad for everybody either.
They generally are. Especially the ones from seeds, as they can actively destroy gut lining, at which point any glycoprotein that fits will enter the blood and wreck autoimune havoc.
once again, depends on the seeds
And maybe you should check your facts as not all seeds contain protease inhibitors.
All seeds have antinutrients. And all of them are subpar nutrition. We don't have the stomachs to extract the most benefit from seeds. Not that there's much anyway.
Not all of them have subpar nutrition, look at the hempseed and chia seed. Flaxseed also has anti-estrogen properties if I'm not mistaken, aren't the lignans anti-estrogenic? Not to mention the fact that almost all foods have anti-nutrients. Flavonoids are a type of anti-nutrient with powerful antioxidant properties. Legumes(soybean, garbanzo, etc) are also much higher in antinutrients and lectins. I can say first hand that those make me feel like shit.
Anyways, I'm done on this thread. If you say seeds are not beneficial, and that all seeds are inferior to animal products in general, you are not worth talking to.
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Perpalicious
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Tony Gentilcore wrote:
I'm sure Brian will be on soon to answer everyone's questions, but in the meantime I can say that I buy both my Chia seeds and Cacao nibs from a company called Navitas Naturals. You can easily find both on amazon.com
Would love to see Brian's response to Majin's comments that seeds aren't great for humans.
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freestylechaz
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Maybe you guys should check out
www.westonaprice.org
Its a non profit foundation who doesnt take funding from the dairy, meat, or any other industry, so one of the few you can trust to give you correct, and honest information!
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