From this I know to look for foods with the least fats, and if a food has High Fructose Corn Syrup, avoid it like poison. We have been adding organic peanut butter to the celery sticks, making it more of a snack, however, looking a Skippy's Natural - it has twice the fat as carbs. Is there some kind of low/no-fat substitute that we can put on our celery to make it taste better?
I was in the whole foods-like Grocery store and there was Motts Applesauce, and the leading ingredient was "High Fructose Corn Syrup," yet right next to was Mott's Unsweetened Applesauce. This was an easy choice, but there are many others to make and I'm hoping Anthony's converts will share their brand advice.
I happen to love eating bread, and I now know not to butter it. Good bread by itself is fine, but I learned from the first ultra-low-fat diet guru, Nathan Pritikin, that you can sprinkle a little garlic salt or powder on the bread, or toast, and it tastes just like it was buttered.
So from memory, Anthony also says to avoid gluten. Are their good-tasting breads without gluten? And without poisonous additives? This mind wants to know.
Ditto Gatorade. Seems like a good idea to have a good tasting drink with the electrolytes (since we learn sodium and potassium are the prime reason to eat vegetables in the grazing protocol.) So I chose Gatorade ZERO to minimize the risk of High Fructose Corn Syrup, but what I really want is a similar drink - sweetened with glucose.
Which leads to refined versus unrefined. We know that highly refined table salt, while providing sodium, is not the best way to get sodium. Much better is an unrefined "Salt Complex" as is found in Celtic Sea Salt - which David Brownstein writes in his book SALT contains more than 80 trace minerals.
Refined verus Unrefined Glucose
Since glucose is the prime nutrient, and the major part of its function is to "drive other nutrients" with it into cells (We know via insulin, although this level of detail isn't mentioned.) Okay, one reason fruits are said to be excellent is because of the nutrients that are combined with natural glucose and fructose. That leads to the idea that a Glucose complex would be better than straight glucose, say in a sugar packet. Or, maybe it is as simple as taking their supplements and nutrients with glucose. (Vitamin C can enter cells, or at least DHA.. but more on that in other posts.)
Leading to Glucose tablets. As a diabetic, I purchased Walgreen's glucose tablets, in case I accidentally gave myself too much insulin. THEY ARE DELICIOUS.. I've been using them now regularly as a source of glucose.
But I decided to look at the label, UGH... At least these Walgreen's glucose tablets contain ascorbic acid...
The prime directive is to value and protect the health of the liver.
Eat clean foods, without toxins that otherwise "tire" or stress the liver. So if anyone knows of better, cleaner glucose tablets, without any additives that would stress the liver, please post!
Finally every time I check out of the grocery now, all the celery makes the clerk think of lentil soup... She assumes I am making soup or stew with the celery - I would if I could figure out a way to make it without fat
