Eliminating processed carbs - for kids?

[Anonymous]

Fairly new additions to the food chain? Thousands of years.

[Anonymous]

I was just going to post the same thing. Saying white rice, yes white rice, is new to the human diet is stone cold stupid.

Less so, but still not new additions, would be things like udon noodles and pasta made from semolina durum.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Fairly new additions to the food chain? Thousands of years.

Compared to the total number of years humans have been around? Homo sapiens sapiens has been around about 200,000 years.

We've only been eating rice (I believe the first domesticated grain) for maybe 7,000-10,000 years. So that's what, about 5% of human history we've been eating any kind of grain?

I don't know when the Chinese started milling brown rice to make white rice. But Europeans only started milling grains in the 1600s.

And if you go back even further in our history, Homo sapiens sapiens has been around 500,000 years, at least. So really, the time period whan our species was eating any grains of any kind, much less processed grains, is really quite a small percentage of our total time on the planet. That's not to say we shouldn't enjoy a bagel!

[Anonymous]

Try whole grain substitutes for all of the items you mentioned -- rice, bread, cereal, crackers etc. Think "brown" foods instead of white.

This is really so easy to do! More nutrients, more fiber but just as many calories and not a noticeable change or loss for DC.

[Anonymous]

Some people swear by zero carb.

Meat and water. All day every day.

Check it out:

www.zeroinginonhealth.com

(I do NOT follow this diet but the forums are hilarious...)

[Anonymous]

Bacon has been around for less than 2,000 years, folks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bacon has been around for less than 2,000 years, folks.

Who said anything about bacon???

[Anonymous]

If I understand the OP correctly, she wants to eliminate grains from their diet, leaving fruits and vegetables and meat, nuts, seeds basically. The source of carbs would be fruit and vegetables. NO GRAINS.

OP, is your DD a big fruit eater? What kinds of foods does she tend to like? In theory it could work, but it depends on her eating. The brain prefers to run on glucose which is one reason that kids (growing and learning at a fast rate) tend to enjoy carbs from fruit and grains quite a lot). Is it possible to try the diet yourself while leaving your DD's diet unchanged for the moment? What is your motivation to change her diet? You mentioned she is slim, does she have any health issues herself?

[Anonymous]

OP can chime in further but nothing she wrote was about reducing carbs to zero or cutting out grains. She wants to cut out "empty" carbs and white processed crap. Nothing wrong with that.

For our DD, we've followed the Super Baby book idea of a whole grain + lentil/bean combo breakfast for a whole protein meal. Quinoa, amaranth, brown rice + lentils, split peas, beans kind of thing. Not every day. Other days we do steel cut oatmeal, omelette, etc. Occasionally we do pancakes or french toast kind of things. Fruit also at breakfast.

Cooking these things is easy. Brown rice takes the longest but amaranth, quinoa and millet cook in 25 min or under. I cook big batches and freeze some. When we're traveling or at other people's houses we're flexible; but at home we eat "better".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If I understand the OP correctly, she wants to eliminate grains from their diet, leaving fruits and vegetables and meat, nuts, seeds basically. The source of carbs would be fruit and vegetables. NO GRAINS.

OP, is your DD a big fruit eater? What kinds of foods does she tend to like? In theory it could work, but it depends on her eating. The brain prefers to run on glucose which is one reason that kids (growing and learning at a fast rate) tend to enjoy carbs from fruit and grains quite a lot). Is it possible to try the diet yourself while leaving your DD's diet unchanged for the moment? What is your motivation to change her diet? You mentioned she is slim, does she have any health issues herself?

No, I don't think that's what OP is saying at all. Read the title of the post--eliminating PROCESSED carbs. Good for her!

[Anonymous]

OP I think has ditched the discussion a long time ago!