Changing our eating habits
Sept 27, 2011 18:49:19 GMT
Post by Charlie Arnold on Sept 27, 2011 18:49:19 GMT
In modern Britain, in fact in most modern countries we have it instilled it into us that you must eat your five portions of fruit and veg a day to be healthy. Food must also be full of colour and flavour and our meals must be varied.
For FM and HFI sufferers however this cannot be, as it would be the most unhealthy thing you can do. So this is where we must change our thinking, and not allow others to influence this. Megans diet is what I should imagine our grandparents and greatgrandparents ate. Good quality meats and fish slowly cooked in their own juices, rice, potato and seasonal fruit and veg. Or no fruit and veg at all if you are very intolerant. You can still make foods look good in your presentation of them, it just won't be very colourful.
For children the earlier you can bring this into their daily life as the norm the better and healthier long term for them.
Although the FM diet allows sugar and a few other sweeteners surely it is better not to have too much in the diet to keep the bowel as healthy as possible and keep the blood sugar as balanced as possible and avoid the yo-yo effect sugar can create.
Fruit, in any diet is better eaten separately from other food groups as it only takes about 20 minutes to digest and if mixed with other foods it will sit and ferment in the bowel. Therefore as alot of FM sufferers have gas and bloating as symptoms they are more likely to experience problems here.
Most of my recipes I use have little fructose content to them mainly as this suits my daughter best but everyone has different tolerance levels. Alot of my meals are designed so that we can eat together the same foods but I add vegetables or different stocks at the last minute to other family members plates.
For FM and HFI sufferers however this cannot be, as it would be the most unhealthy thing you can do. So this is where we must change our thinking, and not allow others to influence this. Megans diet is what I should imagine our grandparents and greatgrandparents ate. Good quality meats and fish slowly cooked in their own juices, rice, potato and seasonal fruit and veg. Or no fruit and veg at all if you are very intolerant. You can still make foods look good in your presentation of them, it just won't be very colourful.
For children the earlier you can bring this into their daily life as the norm the better and healthier long term for them.
Although the FM diet allows sugar and a few other sweeteners surely it is better not to have too much in the diet to keep the bowel as healthy as possible and keep the blood sugar as balanced as possible and avoid the yo-yo effect sugar can create.
Fruit, in any diet is better eaten separately from other food groups as it only takes about 20 minutes to digest and if mixed with other foods it will sit and ferment in the bowel. Therefore as alot of FM sufferers have gas and bloating as symptoms they are more likely to experience problems here.
Most of my recipes I use have little fructose content to them mainly as this suits my daughter best but everyone has different tolerance levels. Alot of my meals are designed so that we can eat together the same foods but I add vegetables or different stocks at the last minute to other family members plates.