Starting on Sunday, March 28, 2010 and for the next six weeks Monique and I are starting our new \u201cGreens and Beans\u201d dietary lifestyle. So far, with sticking to just eating from our Weight Watchers menu items for the past three weeks we have both lost about 7 pounds each.<\/p>\n
Coincidently, Wednesday (March 24, 2010) on the radio PRI\u2019s The World did a piece on Jamie Oliver\u2019s<\/a> Food Revolution<\/a>, Marco Werman talked with British celebrity chef Jamie Oliver about the healthy food \u201crevolution\u201d he\u2019s trying to start in the US. Download MP3<\/a>. The interview excerpted below:<\/p>\n \u201cOne-third of American children are overweight or obese, putting them at increased risk for diabetes, heart disease, and other illnesses. The problem is so acute in this country that British Chef Jamie Oliver came all the way over here to do something about it. Oliver\u2019s TV series follows him to the town that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention labeled \u201cAmericas Unhealthiest Community, Huntington, West Virginia.\u201d Listen to the entire interview, Jamie Oliver\u2019s Food Revolution<\/a><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n Having just finished reading the book \u201cEat to Live\u201d<\/a> by Joel Fuhrman, M.D., on the same day, and he has some startling medical breakthrough findings that are quite eye opening.<\/p>\n 2% milk is not 2% fat<\/strong> And with our focus of going back to simpler, whole, and unprocessed foods, it makes sense to make from scratch whole grains, sauces, unadulterated foods from just about everything we are eating these days.<\/p>\n Critics abound<\/strong> Fuhrman advocates that on a per calorie basis that broccoli contain more protein than your average steak. After crunching the numbers in a comparison on both from various nutritional data sources, the average seems to be about equal amounts of protein in 100 calories for both, actually broccoli computed to 10 grams protein, and 100 calories of a rib eye steak was 9 grams of protein. The point is, you can fill up on 400 calories of broccoli or vegetables for that matter, before you fill up on 400 calories of steak. By the way, 400 calories of broccoli is about 13 cups, and 400 calories of rib eye steak is 5 ounces. The other point here about the ETL diet is that you will fill up on 100 or 200 calories of vegetables before you would fill up on meat.<\/p>\n We are going to try the ETL 6-week diet plan, and draw our conclusions during and after the timeframe.<\/p>\n The Six-Week Plan<\/strong> Fuhrman summarizes his diet by providing “Ten Easy Tips for Living with the Six-Week Plan”<\/p>\n For the next six weeks, I will be posting updates on our progress, in addition to some new recipes that are mostly vegetarian, with an emphasis on whole foods cuisine. If anyone would like to join us on this plan, please do, but I suggest that you get a copy of the book<\/a> and read it from cover to cover, then join us in this life changing experience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Six weeks to health and wellness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55,1134,610],"tags":[1138,2111,2062,1135,1136,2107,1137],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cajunchefryan.rymocs.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cajunchefryan.rymocs.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cajunchefryan.rymocs.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cajunchefryan.rymocs.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cajunchefryan.rymocs.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1617"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/cajunchefryan.rymocs.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1637,"href":"http:\/\/cajunchefryan.rymocs.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617\/revisions\/1637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cajunchefryan.rymocs.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cajunchefryan.rymocs.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cajunchefryan.rymocs.com\/blog2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nOne of Dr. Fuhrman\u2019s findings, for example is the truth about 2% milk.\u00a0 Did you know that this milk touted by the industry is actually not just 2% fat. The dairy industry fooled us into thinking that it is only 2% fat because they compare the entire % of fat to the volume of totaling all the liquid in the amount given. However, there are 43 calories from fat in a 1 cup (8 ounce) portion of milk, since 1 cup of milk has 122 calories, it is actually 35% fat from calories. When you compare 100 calories of one food to another, then you get a better picture of true nutritional value.<\/p>\n
\nNow some folks have said many negative things about Dr. Fuhrman and his ETL diet plan, attacking his comparison of broccoli versus steak and which one has more protein, is just one of them I found recently<\/a>.<\/p>\n
\nThe ETL plan has folks averaging about 20 pounds of weight loss in the first six weeks, then 10 pounds in the next month, and then about 1 \u00bd pounds per week thereafter.<\/p>\n\n