Whole Food Plant-Based Diet
My wife, a dietician, and my mother-in-law, have joined ranks and are pushing me to give Arnold Schwarzenegger’s plant-based Whole Foods diet a go.
I typically eat about 300-450g chicken breast, and an egg with some added whites, and that’s the extent of my animal-based diet. The rest is veggies, brown rice, almonds, Ezekiel bread, and peanut butter. I’ve had that diet daily, for years.
Unfortunately, I’m 38 and the past 5 years, and 12 blood tests, I’ve had the following average blood numbers, regardless of clean eating and helpful supps: HDL 38ish, LDL 190ish, and cholesterol 270ish. Triglycerides stay at an okay 110ish. The bad blood is complicated but naturally high hemoglobin, so I have to donate frequently to keep it in check.
So, doing everything seemingly right, as a bodybuilder, endurance athlete, and clean water, I check all of the boxes. The only remaining option, before statins, is removing the animal based meats...
So, I’m curious what everyone’s experiences and advice are regarding following Arnold to a whole food plant based diet?
Thanks in advance fellas!
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Whole Food Plant-Based Diet
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Originally Posted by
C27H40O3
Watch that special on Netflix and YouTube on plant based diets. It made me stop eating meat a few weeks ago. I only eat rib tips from the chinese restaurant now. and some well seasoned salmon in the oven.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPW062dkWWE
I’ve seen it. It’s full of cherry picked, agenda based nonsense (for god’s sake the director has a multimillion dollar investment in a pea protein producer) and ignores much of the science that is inconvenient to said agenda (zoochemicals, problematic micronutrient deficiencies that come with it, etc.)
I’m not saying that one can’t do fine with such a diet, but they definitely make it out to have benefits that it does not, in any healthy population. It’s just as ridiculous as the carnivore/keto goobers who swear that all of the huge benefits that we see for Type 2 Diabetics apply to everyone who isn’t already fucked up. That’s not how any of this works.
Whole Food Plant-Based Diet
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IronLiver
The biggest problem with cholesterol seems to be eating cooked vegetable oils, margarine, pam, and hydrogenated oils. These oils will harden in the arteries and crystallize turning into rock like substances. Harmful cholesterol can also come from cooking animal fats, because our body does not contain the neccesary enzymes to properly digest cooked meats and eggs especially as we get older. Its the cholesterol that the liver produces from these cooked fats and cooked cholesterol thats a problem.
After studying diets of different indigenous people that don't get cancer or just about any other ailments that we get today, the common factor to living a long healthy life is eating a lot of raw animal fats. It would seem that cancer is basically a fat deficiency. A deficiency in utilizable cholesterol that normally dissolves and eliminates dead cells. Eating raw uncooked fats, like unsalted raw butter, raw eggs, cream, and cheeses will provide the body with good cholesterol, making a high cholesterol level beneficial and very healthy.
That entire last paragraph is pure conjecture on the part of some YouTube wank. The Hadza for example, don’t have these issues and largely consume their calories from honey, tubers, and leaner game animals.
The common denominator is related to the first paragraph. They don’t eat a shitload of chemically extracted vegetable oils, or a shitload grain products due to the lack of agriculture. They do not all eat large quantities of raw animal fats; pretty much none actually. They have fire. They’re not pre-flint discovery cavemen.
Stop listening to nonsense.