An important core element of living a Low Density Lifestyle is diet and nutrition.
The more of a whole foods diet you eat – with an emphasis on whole grains, legumes, fresh vegetables and fruit – the healthier and happier you will be.
And you’ll be well on your way to living a Low Density Lifestyle. That’s because the foods listed above are lighter, less dense, easier to digest and eliminate, allow for a better energy circulation, and don’t cause inflammation to occur in the body.
You’ll notice that one of the food groups I didn’t mention above is meat. And when I say meat, I mean meat in all its forms – beef, pork, poultry and fish.
Now the reason I didn’t include the category of meat in my food listings above is not because I believe that to live a Low Density Lifestyle you have to be vegetarian or vegan. You can be a vegetarian/vegan and live a Low Density Lifestyle very easily.
Yet on the same hand, eating meat and living a Low Density Lifestyle also are doable. The key is that meat consumption has to be in smaller proportion to the rest of the food you eat.
Americans in particular eat way too much animal food. For most Americans, it is the staple food of their diet.
Eating this way is the quickest way to damaging your health and getting a one-way ticket to a High Density Lifestyle.
A high-meat based diet will lead to heart disease, cancer, colon problems, arthritis, and countless other chronic and degenerative ailments. There are no shortage of studies to reinforce this.
So what I’ll be doing over the next few weeks in this series is presenting the case against eating lots of meat, along with telling you many other things about the world of meat and non-meat eating.
Stick around because you’ll learn a thing or two. It’ll help you on your quest to live a Low Density Lifestyle.
And for full disclosure: I am not a vegetarian. I don’t eat much animal food, and I don’t eat beef or pork. I eat some poultry and some fish, but not a lot. I can go a week or a few weeks without eating any animal foods, then on other weeks I may eat animal foods once or twice in the week.
And the poultry I eat is not given antibiotics, steroids, or growth hormones; and the fish I eat is not farm-raised.
I’ll talk about this during this series.
I also don’t eat dairy food, but that’s best left for another series.
Beverly says
Excellent advice, as always. That top picture of a slab of beef all full of fat sure doesn’t make me want any for dinner. I’m looking forward to rest of this series.
Bruce says
Beef alone has 3 nanograms of estrogen. Implanted beef has 5 nanograms of estrogen. A salad bar has 12 nanograms of estrogen. Birth Control pills have 36,000 nanograms of Estrogen. So where is problem maybe in the garden? Antibiotic use hyas declined significantly due to better management practices in the Cattle industry over the last 20 years. I agree all things in moderation but meat is a healthy part of a healthy lifestyle and vital part of who we are.
rachel says
OMG, you are trying to say that sex hormones from animals are the same as plant phyto-estrogens from
plants foods??. They are not at all the same thing. However this is a common mistake to believe. They are NOT the same animal, so to speak,
Plant estrogen-like compounds are health protective, have no SEX hormones, no choletsrol, do not clog
the arteries. They do not feminize men. Vegan males actually have higher testosterone than omnivore man.
All animal SEX hormones are ALPHA and have the direct effect of stimulating growth.
Plants typically have lignans, oxylates, phytoestrogens, genstein, isoflavones, etcetera.
All are health protective, have no SEX hormones, no cholesterol, do not clog the arteries, do not cause E.D.
Phyto-estrogens, found in soy, have both Alpha and Beta inside them. Many studies show that soy has
anti-cancer properties, in addition to the result of REDUCING estrogens in the humans body of both men
and women. Call them “Anti-estrogens”. They are used for men to be protected from prostate cancer, and
also in men who have prostate cancer, and in women to prevent breast cancer, and for women with breast
cancer. Soy does not reduce sperm quality, testosterone, or sex drive. Here are some studies:
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25160742/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6390141/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5188409/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30956643/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27161216/
https://nutritionfacts.org/video/the-role-of-soy-foods-in-prostate-cancer-prevention-and-treatment/
https://nutritionfacts.org/blog/soy-phytoestrogens-for-menopausal-symptoms/
https://nutritionfacts.org/video/gmo-soy-and-breast-cancer/