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Re:Mediterranean diet may lower dementia risk by a quarter, ... by 11235813213455 on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @08:24AM (#35150334)
where do you live? for me it's local food, mostly raw vegetables, lots of fruit, olive, nuts, figs, dates, clementines, oranges, persimmons, onions, garlic, leek (fermented), rice sometimes, rarely (few times per year, raw eggs or small fishes) as I'm full with fibers. It makes a lot of sense to do that as we don't spend as much energy as our ancestors or wild animals, and the climate is getting hot and dry due to climate destruction
Re:Mediterranean diet may lower dementia risk by a quarter, ... by gardenhedge on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @08:25AM (#35150348)
What raw vegetables do you eat? Do you do any prep to them?
Re:Mediterranean diet may lower dementia risk by a quarter, ... by 11235813213455 on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @08:46AM (#35150592)
onions, garlic, mushroom, leek, carots, peppers (with lemon or fermented - I let them get very ripe and soft or I get them at the market, that's the ones nobody want but are the most nutritious)
Re:Mediterranean diet may lower dementia risk by a quarter, ... by mistyvales on Wednesday March 15, 2023 @12:41AM (#35163970)
You should cook mushrooms for better nutrient absorption. They have thick cell walls full of chitin that needs to break down during cooking, so eating them raw isn't great for you
Re:Mediterranean diet may lower dementia risk by a quarter, ... by 11235813213455 on Wednesday March 15, 2023 @03:23PM (#35173421)
even for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agaricus_bisporus? I masticate them well, and it tastes good

I see what you mean, for example for tomatoes as well, but it's a compromise, cooking destroys other valuable things

Re:Mediterranean diet may lower dementia risk by a quarter, ... by mistyvales on Thursday March 16, 2023 @10:28PM (#35192151)
Cooking also activates other nutrients, such as for dark greens such as spinach which is full of oxalic acid which breaks down during cooking so you can absorb more calcium and iron.

The mushrooms you posted definitely are absorbed better in the body by cooking them. All mushrooms have chitin in the cell wall that needs to break down by cooking to digest.

Re:Mediterranean diet may lower dementia risk by a quarter, ... by sva_ on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @08:51AM (#35150657)
I live in Germany and went vegetarian some 15 years ago. Traditional German food is hardly agreeable with a vegetarian diet, so I learned other dishes. Then at some point, I started eating fish again, and that's where I ended up.

I also came to be on a high fiber diet for a while, as you describe, but I got some stomach issues from it and had to adjust it.

Re:Mediterranean diet may lower dementia risk by a quarter, ... by 11235813213455 on Tuesday March 14, 2023 @09:44AM (#35151376)
Ok, I'm in France, I can relate because the traditional French food is bread, cheese, meat, etc.. even around mediterranean. I haven't eat bread since years and for fibers, it takes time to transition (your guts bacteria), and also relearn how to masticate efficiently, typically I eat almost everything (seeds for example grapes, melons, watermelons, skin when possible, e.g kiwis, persimmons, grapes, mangoes, many others), I like it more than the juice itself