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<blockquote data-quote="Marguerite" data-source="post: 237785" data-attributes="member: 1991"><p>Susie, you're spot on about "low fat" being bad for diets - I hada low fat diet for decades, literally, and slowly gained despite my best efforts. I found fairly early that I had to avoid commercially-prepared low-fat foods, because they tasted sweeter and had a high GI. But trying to live on a natural foods low-fat diet still had me slowly gaining weight - because the foods i was eating were (as a result of being low-fat as well as low-carb) generally high GI and sending a message to my pancreas to get ready to pump out that insulin. As a result I developed insulin resistance (which I'm sure easy child has in spades - she needs to see a GI man!).</p><p></p><p>We think of fruit as healthy - and it is. But on my current diet (I've been on it a year, I've lost heaps of weight and I'm currently in maintenance mode) I can only have one piece of fruit a day (one serving) which means, I can have one serve of fruit juice (which I have frozen as my evening treat) OR one piece of fruit. Per. Day.</p><p></p><p>A kid, especially a boy, could have more, but no more than three a day. He probably should start with two per day.</p><p></p><p>But frankly, if he began to sneak more fruit, instead of sneaking more crisps, it owuld be preferable!</p><p></p><p>ON the subject of milk and soy milk - go carefully. We had easy child on soy milk, she had no problem, but they have since found that almost as many people are allergic to soy, as are allergic to cows milk.</p><p></p><p>Another point - cows' milk may be OK, as yogurt. And yogurt needn't be something sweet. </p><p></p><p>If you want some healthy recipes, ML, duck over to Healthful Living and we'll give you some recipes. I have my own recipe book I've put together over the years. I need to work on a book that's cvompatible with my current diet - you could have just given me the impetus to do so. I have a travel version for when we go away on holidays; it's got recipes like teriyaki rainbow trout, for which I prepare ahead by bringing along some teriyaki marinade; I also have travel tips for feeding families in affordable style while on holidays.</p><p></p><p>A lot of my recipes are tasty and good for you as well. They are based on an Australian cuisine, we are a multicultural country of course, but with a different cultural blend to the US. It's amazing how different we can be, one country to another, when we seem so similar in so many respects. For example, Australia and New Zealand are so similar in so many ways culturally, that people sometimes say we should become one country. But although Kiwis & Aussies get on so well (except when some B**** Aussie bowls underarm at cricket - I'm an Aussie, I'm allowed to say that) we found when we travelled there that food-wise, Kiwis eat a great deal more sugar in EVERYTHING. BF1 loved the place - give him cinnamono-sweetened kumara to eat and he is in heaven. And just about everywhere you go in NZ, you see kumara growing. Well, North Island anyway.</p><p></p><p>So if you're game, give it a go. I'll post some if people want, or PM if there's only a couple interested.</p><p></p><p>Marg</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marguerite, post: 237785, member: 1991"] Susie, you're spot on about "low fat" being bad for diets - I hada low fat diet for decades, literally, and slowly gained despite my best efforts. I found fairly early that I had to avoid commercially-prepared low-fat foods, because they tasted sweeter and had a high GI. But trying to live on a natural foods low-fat diet still had me slowly gaining weight - because the foods i was eating were (as a result of being low-fat as well as low-carb) generally high GI and sending a message to my pancreas to get ready to pump out that insulin. As a result I developed insulin resistance (which I'm sure easy child has in spades - she needs to see a GI man!). We think of fruit as healthy - and it is. But on my current diet (I've been on it a year, I've lost heaps of weight and I'm currently in maintenance mode) I can only have one piece of fruit a day (one serving) which means, I can have one serve of fruit juice (which I have frozen as my evening treat) OR one piece of fruit. Per. Day. A kid, especially a boy, could have more, but no more than three a day. He probably should start with two per day. But frankly, if he began to sneak more fruit, instead of sneaking more crisps, it owuld be preferable! ON the subject of milk and soy milk - go carefully. We had easy child on soy milk, she had no problem, but they have since found that almost as many people are allergic to soy, as are allergic to cows milk. Another point - cows' milk may be OK, as yogurt. And yogurt needn't be something sweet. If you want some healthy recipes, ML, duck over to Healthful Living and we'll give you some recipes. I have my own recipe book I've put together over the years. I need to work on a book that's cvompatible with my current diet - you could have just given me the impetus to do so. I have a travel version for when we go away on holidays; it's got recipes like teriyaki rainbow trout, for which I prepare ahead by bringing along some teriyaki marinade; I also have travel tips for feeding families in affordable style while on holidays. A lot of my recipes are tasty and good for you as well. They are based on an Australian cuisine, we are a multicultural country of course, but with a different cultural blend to the US. It's amazing how different we can be, one country to another, when we seem so similar in so many respects. For example, Australia and New Zealand are so similar in so many ways culturally, that people sometimes say we should become one country. But although Kiwis & Aussies get on so well (except when some B**** Aussie bowls underarm at cricket - I'm an Aussie, I'm allowed to say that) we found when we travelled there that food-wise, Kiwis eat a great deal more sugar in EVERYTHING. BF1 loved the place - give him cinnamono-sweetened kumara to eat and he is in heaven. And just about everywhere you go in NZ, you see kumara growing. Well, North Island anyway. So if you're game, give it a go. I'll post some if people want, or PM if there's only a couple interested. Marg [/QUOTE]
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