Comments on: 9-A-Day Fruits and Vegetables Challenge Check In http://www.eatrundoyoga.com/blog/9-a-day-fruits-and-vegetables-challenge-check-in/ Mon, 19 Jul 2010 16:51:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Amy http://www.eatrundoyoga.com/blog/9-a-day-fruits-and-vegetables-challenge-check-in/comment-page-1/#comment-145 Amy Fri, 11 Sep 2009 11:43:55 +0000 http://eatrundoyoga.com/?p=555#comment-145 Great info Andrew! Thanks! The 9 day challenge is going ok for me. I have yet to make it to 9, i have made it to 8! Today is day 5 for me. I am finding myself picking more fruits/veggies to snack on and always thinking of ways to incorporate throughout the day. I am already noticing i have a bit more energy and i am less bloated! I haven't weighed myself yet, but even after just a few days i feel a little lighter! Happy friday! Great info Andrew! Thanks!

The 9 day challenge is going ok for me. I have yet to make it to 9, i have made it to 8! Today is day 5 for me. I am finding myself picking more fruits/veggies to snack on and always thinking of ways to incorporate throughout the day. I am already noticing i have a bit more energy and i am less bloated! I haven’t weighed myself yet, but even after just a few days i feel a little lighter!

Happy friday!

]]> By: Andrew McAuley http://www.eatrundoyoga.com/blog/9-a-day-fruits-and-vegetables-challenge-check-in/comment-page-1/#comment-146 Andrew McAuley Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:54:07 +0000 http://eatrundoyoga.com/?p=555#comment-146 Ok... I'm new to this whole blog thing, so here it goes. I LOVE to eat and I already have a diet of mostly fruits and vegetables. So, getting to the nine servings a day hasn't been a big problem for me. As I've recently started to explore my diet and what a healthy diet means to me, I'm beginning to notice that I am really interested in 3 things: nutritional value, food combining and variety. Discovering the nutritional value in unprocessed, organic, whole foods is fairly simple. I'm finding the harder part is discovering what foods should and shouldn't be paired with others in order to achieve optimal nutrient absorption. Only recently did I discover that some food enzymes can cancel out our bodies ability to absorb the nutrients we are trying to provide ourselves in our diet. Example: Oxalic acid, if consumed excessively, can inhibit calcium and magnesium absorption. Common foods containing high amounts of oxalic acid: Amaranth, Beet Greens, Chives, Parsley, Rhubarb, Spinach. Spinach, a calcium-rich food, is an exception. The oxalic acid it contains binds to most of its readily available calcium (up to 95%) preventing absorption of the calcium found in the spinach itself, but not from the other calcium-rich foods in your diet. The next step on my journey is to discover simple ways in which I can create a variety of different meal options with the foods I am finding are beneficial for me. However, that conversation will probably be best saved for another day... :) The 9-A-Day challenge has been good for me because it has reminded me that we should always be willing to re-evaluate what we are physically and spiritually consuming. I think Ghandi said it best, "Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position." This to me seems to be the healthiest diet... One that is willing to evolve as my knowledge and self-awareness continue to grow. Happy Eating, Andrew Ok… I’m new to this whole blog thing, so here it goes.

I LOVE to eat and I already have a diet of mostly fruits and vegetables. So, getting to the nine servings a day hasn’t been a big problem for me. As I’ve recently started to explore my diet and what a healthy diet means to me, I’m beginning to notice that I am really interested in 3 things: nutritional value, food combining and variety.

Discovering the nutritional value in unprocessed, organic, whole foods is fairly simple. I’m finding the harder part is discovering what foods should and shouldn’t be paired with others in order to achieve optimal nutrient absorption. Only recently did I discover that some food enzymes can cancel out our bodies ability to absorb the nutrients we are trying to provide ourselves in our diet.

Example:

Oxalic acid, if consumed excessively, can inhibit calcium and magnesium absorption. Common foods containing high amounts of oxalic acid: Amaranth, Beet Greens, Chives, Parsley, Rhubarb, Spinach. Spinach, a calcium-rich food, is an exception. The oxalic acid it contains binds to most of its readily available calcium (up to 95%) preventing absorption of the calcium found in the spinach itself, but not from the other calcium-rich foods in your diet.

The next step on my journey is to discover simple ways in which I can create a variety of different meal options with the foods I am finding are beneficial for me. However, that conversation will probably be best saved for another day… :)

The 9-A-Day challenge has been good for me because it has reminded me that we should always be willing to re-evaluate what we are physically and spiritually consuming. I think Ghandi said it best, “Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.” This to me seems to be the healthiest diet… One that is willing to evolve as my knowledge and self-awareness continue to grow.

Happy Eating,

Andrew

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