Are you on any particular diet?
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Pescatarian
Vegan
Vegetarian
Flexitarian
Macrobiotic
Low Carb
Mediterranean
other
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If so why and how effective is it?
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Vegetarian for years... like the last 25 years, but did a few times a month eat seafood and eggs. Last few years I added poultry on occasion. Now I have poultry or seafood on average 3 days a week, eggs and cheese pretty much as I want. I try to limit carbs as much as possible. I'm not a nut about it, but 2/3 of my meals have as close to zero carbs as is possible. I allow multigrain bread for a sandwich at lunch and throw in a small serving of some sort of potato or rice one, sometimes twice a week.
Why? Because as I got older I saw a need to eat better, plus I never was a huge fan of red meat or pork. I ate it because it is what people ate. As for the carbs, a vegetarian diet can easily become loaded with carbs and my doc about 5 years ago warned me my A1C was heading to prediabetic, plus I'd put on weight.
Has it been effective? I think so, so does my doc. I took off (over a couple of years) 20 pounds, dropped my blood sugars way down, cholesterol levels of a teenager and BP stays in the 117/74 range. I'm on no daily medications and for a guy beating down the doors of 70, my doc says that is great.
I did go through a cancer scare, but because I was otherwise quite healthy, I went through it and have done quite well.
Why? Because as I got older I saw a need to eat better, plus I never was a huge fan of red meat or pork. I ate it because it is what people ate. As for the carbs, a vegetarian diet can easily become loaded with carbs and my doc about 5 years ago warned me my A1C was heading to prediabetic, plus I'd put on weight.
Has it been effective? I think so, so does my doc. I took off (over a couple of years) 20 pounds, dropped my blood sugars way down, cholesterol levels of a teenager and BP stays in the 117/74 range. I'm on no daily medications and for a guy beating down the doors of 70, my doc says that is great.
I did go through a cancer scare, but because I was otherwise quite healthy, I went through it and have done quite well.
