Hi guys!
I finally got my book shipment from Amazon with the Sissions book and a couple of other diet books. One is really intriguing me.
It's called "The Colour Diet for Ideal Health" and the idea is that we are naturally drawn to certain colors and if we listen to our instincts, we'll be attracted to the foods that are ideal for our body types, and we should exclusively eat foods of the color we are drawn to most.
My favorite color is orange, so I was thinking about all of the orange foods available: carrots, yams, butternut squash, oranges, cheddar, etc., but I am a little concerned about all of the carotene and the potential to turn orange.
My next favorite color is blue. The only blue foods I can think of are blueberries, blue cheese, and raspberry Airheads.
I'm just trying to shake these 10 annoying pounds, so it will be temporary. Do you guys think it is better to have a greater selection and risk an orangish hue, or to stick with blue foods? The Airheads could do a good job fueling my distance runs. And everyone knows blueberries are one of the most important foods on the planet. Blue cheese for protein, and it's a fairly well-rounded plan.
If you're interested, search for "The Colour Diet for Ideal Health" by Dr. Mary Ann Ure.
Last edited by midwife; 04-01-2010 at 09:00 AM.
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Spring makes me think GREEN! I've just been strangely attracted to green lately.
So I think my color intuition is to go for moldy foods: Roquefort cheese, that orange lost in the back of the produce drawer, and over-the-hill turkey breast.
Adding mold to one's diet also gives the health benefits of naturally occurring penicillin. Locavores will love heirloom strains of nature's own antibiotics! Right in your own refrigerator!
And I may indeed turn green myself!
Thanks for the heads up, Midwife! Let's start a colored food challenge!!
midwife - Not to worry about the orange hue. When my DS was born, he had an orange hue and our midwife put him under a grow light and it cleared right up.
Meg, you're brilliant! I was wondering how "green" people would get their protein! DD was saying she is a green person. I'm sure we have some greenish turkey at the back of the refrigerator!
Bill, I do have access to those lamps....maybe my potential orangeness would be short-lived. I might have to remove some babies from under the lamps, but I'm sure their parents would understand.
I can't decide if you are serious or this is an April Fool's day thread! I actually did turn orange from eating virtually nothing but carrots in one of my highly disordered eating phases in grad school. My palms and feet were VERY orange andthe rest of me just a tinge.
Bill- from my sample size of two, the grow light effect doesn't work in the long run. My daughter was born jaundiced and put under those lights and grew like a weed...all the way to 5'3" where she stopped. My son was a lovely baby pink and needed no lights and grew, and grew, and grew...to 6'3"! We hope that he's stopped.
I'm a green person, so I think I'll just coat my fish and chicken in parsely, sage, rosemary and thyme! Meg can have the moldy stuff!
When I announced that "I'm going on the Colour Diet for Ideal Health," it happened, as is normal for males, notwithstanding that this might exacerbate some of the male/female dieting prejudices of 3FC, that I dropped two pounds between "I'm going on" and "the Colour Diet for Ideal Health."
I was really wondering what the heck had gotten into you dear Midwife. Cause' I'm thinking to myself, well orange IS good, but so is yellow and green and red and white (cauliflower). R-E-L-I-E-F!!
Speaking of color. I made beets for the very first time the other day. It was Wednesday. They were fabulous. I just sliced them thin, didn't even peel them, laid them out on a roasting sheet sprayed with cooking spray, added some sea salt and roasted in the oven. DELICIOUS!!!!
Yesterday my DD told me that her pee was reddish. And then I noticed that mine was pinkish (just shows you who drink more water in this household), and again this morning. And then it FINALLY hit me - THE BEETS. Oh so color-ful. But really, I hadn't a clue that eating beets would change your urine. At least I'm assuming that's what it is. Okay. Going to google it now.
Last edited by rockinrobin; 04-02-2010 at 08:54 AM.
ALthough it was april fool's, I kept thinking..."those DEEP red peppers, and blueberries, almost excite me!!". BUt no one else but my diet partners would understand that!!
New Approach to Eating Plan
Totally April Fool's!
Bill!
