Healthy Eating Ideas in times of Covid-19 coronavirus

I thought it would be a good idea to have a thread were we could easily find good ideas for our food/eating.

I make a lot of soup and found this to make soup tastier:

https://www.simplyrecipes.com/easy_ways_to_make_a_better_pot_of_soup/

A recipe finder from the British Heart Foundation:

https://www.bhf.org.uk/informations...KDg2UJ72T6Ne80WqVvxoCML0QAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

Quick and healthy recipes from the BBC good food website:

https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/collection/quick-and-healthy-recipes

I had a try at getting this type of thread started. With my Eat Real Food Help the NHS Save Lives thread. It didn’t grab a lot of attention

Dr Aseem Malhotra was consulted by Matt Hancock MP when Boris Johnson was struck with Covid 19. The consultation was largely on the link between Covid19 deaths and poor metabolic health and this was duly explained to Matt Hancock.

The YouTube video is jam packed with totally relevant material, too numerous to mention but one poignant point was made at about 29 minutes in where Dr Aseem Malhotra recalls a stunning conversation he had with a very high ranking Public Health England official. The question arises as to why the NHS is still promoting The unhealthy Eatwell Plate as part of national guidelines. The answer is simply that the system is corrupted by food industry and pharmaceutical industry money. This explains why some of us can walk into our local surgery and be advised a lot of nonsense on chronic illnesses and their solutions.



It’s a long video. I have bought his book on 21 day immunity, not to read because I know what is in it but as a donation to this man who is working so hard to set public health in the U.K. along the right path.

Should anyone have any comments as a consequence of not quite understanding what is being said, Dr Aseem Malhotra is available on Twitter and is very easy to engage with.

Currently I am eating more of my wife’s native food and this evening I had fillet pork in a marinade of onions and Data Puti. My daughter loves this but I like it too. They both ate it with rice but I ate it with egg bitter melon. This meal is low carb but not no carb. I followed it with 10% fat greek yoghourt , double cream and a strawberry raspberry and black currant mix with no added sugar. Far from being bland the meal was delicious. A relative high fat pudding however I am not putting on weight with food like this. My BMI is pretty close to being normal.

You have been very busy with the food ideas, John.
It would be great if we all contribute from now on, especially with the second wave of Covid-19 here and the vaccine off beyond the horizon for now.

Thanks. I am genuinely very busy on that front. I am now helping local people in my community in the same way.

I eat once a day, a decent meal but still only once a day, if I feel hungry then I will have a cup of tea or fruit juice, I never felt the need for 3 meals a day just because that's the norm, thay yoghurt looks very tasty John.

It must be preconditioning on my part as I couldn’t do that. I suppose I could if hard pressed. OMAD as it is called is used very successfully and by many, to keep their health in order.

When do you eat it? Evening time?

Yes, evenings.

You lot won't have these. Papaya leaves, got the papaya trees growing in the garden. Taste bloody awful but supposed to be very good for you, specially if you have dengue.

It’s that man Dr Aseem Malhotra again, He has been campaigning for better food in hospitals since 2011. Most hospitals serve carb and sugar loaded meals.

“Health secretary Matt Hancock announces initiative to improve hospital food for both patients and staff in order to tackle obesity!!

This is where my campaign started with a front page commentary in the observer in 2011 with support from Jamie Oliver and we’re finally making progress! I subsequently wrote about this in the Guardian, the Daily Mail, the BMJ and the Telegraph as well as making it BMA policy. He has a copy of the immunity plan and it’s also in my top ten recommendations for policy makers Persistence pays off but no time for complacency”

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp....free/2011/feb/13/hospital-food-poor-nutrition

https://www.bmj.com/content/346/bmj.f3932

https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/society/2013/jun/27/call-junk-food-ban-hospitals

Dr Aseem Malhotra.




https://doctoraseem.com/stop-hospitals-selling-toxic-treats-to-patients/

Does anyone have any thoughts about seafood and health?

I like seafood a lot. We all know that it is very popular in the Philippines too.

Is there any link in the Philippines regarding healthy seafood and low covid-19 outbreaks?

I think there probably is. Oily fish is great in particular. But the way Mrs Ash eats her fish (certain types) she fries it in olive oil but cooks it to the point that the bones become edible so she gets lots of vitamin d and calcium that way aswell as protein. I just wish I liked fish as much as she does.

I do believe they have a healthier diet ( with some exceptions ) than we do and the way they eat meat on a nose to tail basis is probably better than our ultra low fat approach. I believe overall, they eat the better diet.

New Study of patients in Spain.


Over 80 percent of COVID-19 patients have vitamin D deficiency, study finds

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/10/201027092216.htm

This article mentioned that men had lower levels than women

I take one of these capsules every day:

Do you take the vitamin D regularly, Jim?
What do you take daily or otherwise?

Should I not take the vitamin D so frequently?

We take the 1000iu or 25 micro grams of D3 daily. That’s Mrs Ash and I. But we also eat vitamin d enriched mushrooms, eggs and oily fish regularly. Mrs Ash and the nipper drink Sunny D