Anabolic Food

Fortunastesun:

note there are potential acidity buffers you can take as supplements: glutamine, beta alanine.

Even if this article is correct, its possible that a more acid diet simply increases protein requirements (becasue of greater protein degradation) than rather detracting from gains in LBM (pv you increase your protein intake to offset the degradation)

Hello all. I'm currently getting a gameplan together with a wide variety of foods on the menu. I have somebody putting it together for me and as soon as I get it I will post it.

fortunatesun:

How is the spinach kick going? Do you feel better with a better acid/base balance? How much spinach are you consuming? Funny enough I'm experimenting with a better acid/base balance diet myself based on this article: http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/beast35.htm.

Basically, in order to improve it, I'm consuming no grains (sweet potato instead), lots of vegetables, and trying to salt food less (because of acidity of chlorine). coffee is replaced with green tea. I'm still eating meat, but reducing dairy to about 1/2 litre per day of milk. It is really only the reduction of dairy that irritates me. Funny enough, whey is the only basic protein (not strongly though).

Spinach does rank number 1 on the acid/base balance list - as it rates number 1 on many lists.

Note, raisins only stand out on the list because they are dehydrated. The list is based per 100 grams, so any dehydrated vegetable (providing potassium and magnesium salts are not lost in this process) would do very well.

I Love food!! Hope to learn something new.

Hi, everyone. Thanks for the invite. I've been on a spinach kick lately, also. There was a thread about this some time ago in the martial arts forum. Diets high in protein like ours lead to an imbalance in the pH level of our body (+ acidity). Chronic imbalance leads to loss of bone and muscle, decreased IGF1 activity , and GH resistance. Spinach is highly basic, more so than other greens.

I'd done this before, but since I've overhauled my diet a month ago in an effort to loose a few (well, several) pounds I eat it almost every day. 90 sec. in the microwave with a little hot water on the bottom makes it nicely steamed and I've been throwing it in with just about everything. The more I eat the more the taste seems to grow on me. Strange but also convenient.

Anyway, that's the reasoning behind spinach. Carrots, cauliflower, celery, potatoes, apricots, and especially raisins also stand out for lowering pH

I'm against dieting....or anything of the sort :-)

bentoverrow, yes its me in the avi and negative on the good diet, but i'm trying to clean it up a bit.
Thandie, i made your Sweet Potato Fries....again! yummmmmmmmmm
these are so awesome, one of my favorite treats!

Sweet Potato Fries

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Cut Sweet potatoes into thick strips ( I usually do about 5 oz)

In a container, mix 1 teas olive oil and 1 teas each of red pepper flakes, Cinnamon, sea salt and black pepper

Add the sweet potatoes to the container and cover... shake!

Transfer to baking sheet and bake at 425 degrees for 30 minutes.

What are you macros Thandie. It looks like your cutting diet is very low fat.

BTW, how do yams taste versus sweet potatoes. They don't appear to sell them here (Australia)

Today:
Meal #1 1/3 cup oatmeal.
4 scrambled egg whites.
Large cup of green tea.

#2 Salad with baked chicken breast and brown rice. 30 minutes later, 3 oz organic yams.
#3 Breast of chicken, brown rice and vegetables.
#4 Baked organic yams (I always have protein with carbs, but I'm trying to get in the extra carbs)
#5 Chilean sea bass with roasted eggplants.

I'm cutting for a show, so is only 5 meals at this point.
Had about 140 oz of water.

finished back workout ate 1 lb of white pasta w/ red sauce, garlic bread, 1/2 lb ground beef, 1 liter soda, and a shake consisiting of 80 gram protein, 1 banana, 4 tblspoons all natural peanut butter, cocoa powder, 2500 cal weight gain powder, 2 cups whole milk. and 3 home made chocolate chip cookie from scratch and 20 Beverly amino pills. Man I love my wife for makin my food!