Nutrition

I've been fluctuating for years now about the food I consume. I grew up an all-American boy eating meat including Slim Jims, tube-steaks and a whole gaggle (Jamie's favorite word) of sliced, diced, whipped and processed swine. McDonald's was the usual stop before and after school-- Sausage McTinge in the morning and two cheeseburgers topped with fries in the afternoon. Of course Mom would recommend a variety of vegetables for the evening's slop. The past 9 years I've gone on and off vegetarian and vegan diets, each time inevitably switching back to eating food from my childhood.

Since I love my life and I expect to live a couple hundred years, recently I've gone back to an all vegan, mostly organic diet. I feel that I've abused my cosmic vehicle for long enough, and that if I don't switch I'm just a step away from getting a degenerative disease. With equal weight, my conscience can no longer bear consuming anything with a face.

I'm paying particularly close attention to the nutritional side of the foods I'm eating. I try to make sure I'm getting decent amounts of glucose, vitamins, proteins, amino and fatty acids, minerals and fiber.

Here are two key things that I've discovered through some rudimentary research:
1. Eat 80% alkalizing forming foods and 20% acidic forming foods. I found a fairly extensive list of these foods at http://home.bluegrass.net/~jclark/alkaline_foods.htm
2. Intake ratio of Potassium to Sodium should always be 4 to 1. So for every 100 mg of sodium I consume, I eat 400 mg Potassium. If one has too much sodium then the body's cells retain water and do not function properly. This ratio is essential for weightloss since the majority of our weight and "fluffyness" comes from water retention. I found nutritional data for the foods I eat at http://www.nutritiondata.com/.

Because I started eating properly, I have the energy to exercise which completes the cycle of health.

-Wes