Fast-5 Diet and Lifestyle: [fast5] Re: Breaking Plateau

Heather Wrote:

>>"What floors me is that after getting lectured about how really, all you
need is "moderation in all things" ... they get diabetes or cancer or
whatever, and then it's just "it's just bad genes ... it runs in the
family"...<<

We, as a nation, have gotten SO far away from real nourishment that many people aren't really sure what to believe any more. Our gov has allowed way too much garbage to go on with our food sources. Now, a large majority is sick, out of shape and over weight. Many are desperate to get healthy so they turn to our government agencies for guidelines....the same agencies that have strong ties to many of the big, highly processed food corporations and big pharma.

I agree about other parts of the world having GREAT food. My husband has traveled around the world on several occasions, often times going into many 3rd world countries. He has eaten some strange things during those times. Last summer he went on a missions trip for the first time. A group from our church traveled to the southern part of Mexico to help build a small medical/community/church facility. They traveled WAY high up into the mountains where the people are pretty much a forgotten people. He said they eat some VERY different and strange food, but it was ALL local & fresh. Nothing processed. Very different culture. Loving, kind, peaceful and VERY hard working. He said they always had smiles on their faces and seemd so happy. I'm sure they do on occasion but, he said he saw no complaining, arguing or fighting, even among the kids, including the teens the whole time he was there. Never even saw a baby or toddler whine or cry. The elderly helped with meals, helped care for the kids and played with them A LOT. All the kids pitched in to help with whatever needed to be done and when the older kids that went to school came home they always helped care for the little ones...without being told to. They were eager to help. They are EXTREMELY poor but, in some ways, they're a little "richer" than we are here in America.

Thanks for your post, Heather. It was a great one. Thanks for the recipes you posted from Youtube too. I'm going to give them a try. They look pretty yummy:) I'm looking forward to giving Fast 5 a try. I'm hoping to give my gut a chance to do more healing and only having to worry about 1 meal a day sounds a heck of a lot easier than trying to get in several small ones throughout the day.

Nancy

> Wow, isn't the difference in cultures amazing? Most Americans
> would think the average Asian breakfast is gross or too different.... and
> tea for a "snack"?! Think of the possibilities if every family in the US
> changed the way they eat.
>

This is something I think everyone should pay attention to: there are a LOT
of people that don't live in America, Europe, or Australia. And all those
billions of people ... most of them have GREAT food! One of the major
differences in cuisine, is that for most of them, the pay a lot of
attention to flavor, and use very interesting spices. Your average SAD meal
is just salty, sugary, or oily. Asian cuisine (for an example) has salt,
sugar and oil also, but the oil might be a nice chili oil or sesame oil for
flavor, and it might have lemon grass or three kinds of chilis or boiled
peanuts or fresh lime juice (or kaffir lime leaves) or miso paste or boiled
kelp for flavor.

Anyway, I've been kind of working my way through Thai and Japanese cooking,
learning one recipe at a time. What I find is that having all that
*flavor*, the meal becomes something to savor. I probably learned to wolf
down my food while I was trying to finish eating in the 5-10 minutes I had
in the school cafeteria, or late to school ... but most of the food was so
insipid that maybe that was the best way to ingest it: without tasting.

When we actually started working at cooking GOOD food, the family kind of
refused to eat out at most places ... even when we could get GF food. The
family complained that it tasted rancid or like chemicals. Store-bought
meat too, esp. hamburger. Now that they are publicizing just how commercial
hamburger is made, it makes sense that it would taste bad.

But here is the deal: to all of you doing Fast-5 ... you only have to make
ONE meal. So it can be awesome.

Here is what I want to try today:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=904dG5l5AB8&feature=feedf

It's a bit more work, but I'm working toward something like General Tso's
chicken.

Below is about what I did yesterday:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=8z0fuAa87Yw

So that recipe takes all of 5 minutes to make, but it is delicious! It's
not actually Asian, although it is similar to a lot of the Asian recipes.
The main ingredient is honey ... the "watery" part can be any liquid.
Yesterday I used orange juice, but you could use BBQ sauce if you want that
kind of flavor instead, or 5-spice or Szechwan.

Heather Twist

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