You can figure out the RDA of fiber protein and water you need to consume at the USDA Healthcare Professional Quiz.

I stumbled on this quiz last week and I do not know how the USDA arrived at these numbers to give professionals. You can take the quiz even though you’re not a professional.

The thing is I’m skeptical of the results. The USDA is known to often be headed by industry folk not non-biased government officials. I’ve read in the book Uncertain Peril about the danger of industrial agriculture that the heads of Monsanto and other companies routinely go in and out of heading the USDA.

My RDA count is as follows from the above quiz:

21 gm fiber     40 gm protein     11 cups water / per day

I’m skeptical because in the 1990s the M.D. I saw who had a private practice in nutrition told me to have 50 gm of protein / per day.

The Harvard Protein RDA guide is here. Multiple your weight in pounds by 0.36. That gives me 43 gm protein.

From what I’ve also read within the last two years you’re supposed to divide your weight in half to get the number of gm of protein each day. And you’re also supposed to do this for the number of cups of water each day.

Here’s the Mayo Clinic Guide Water RDA.

Here’s the Mayo Clinic Fiber RDA:

Age 50 or younger:                    Age 51 or older:

Men: 38 gm                                  30 gm

Women: 25 gm                            21 gm

As you can see there’s different RDAs depending on which calculator and which “expert” opinion you believe. You can’t trust those diet books that people who are not professionals write. The last I counted at a public library in the diet section [613.25] there were a total of 30 diet books on the shelves. Thirty diet books!

I didn’t ever go on a diet when I wanted to lose weight. I read books on nutrition and changed how I ate one food at a time. I have also always done some form of exercise since I was a freshman in high school.

In my estimation the resources and sources I’ve listed above do seem like reputable guides to the RDA for fiber protein and water. The USDA guide for my fiber RDA was in line with the Mayo Clinic guide.

This should all reassure us that we don’t have to consume tons and tons of fiber protein and water just a realistic amount linked to our weight in pounds and other individual factors.

In coming blog entries I’m going to list types of common food and the gm of fiber and protein they have.

Indeed we can all can having orange juice not only because of its sugar. An actual orange as opposed to orange juice has 3 gm fiber for a medium orange. Orange juice of course does not have any fiber.

 

 

 

 

 

We need to have a sane conversation about the real deal when it comes to organic versus GMO.

The number-one reason GMO crops should be verboten is because they require killer amounts of pesticides to be grown. In this way industrial agriculture is not sane.

Products should be labeled if they contain GMOs simply because people want to know.

Yet the current backlash against GMOS has resulted in clever food marketing by companies that advertise their products as non-GMO. This is false advertising because “USDA Organic”-labeled products are legally allowed to have 5 percent non-organic ingredients.

Reading their ingredients label you’ll see they use “natural flavor”– a chemical legally lurking in food even though it’s not natural at all–it’s a chemical.

So Curate Snacks is the latest ploy of so-called “Non-GMO” products billing itself as having “no artificial flavors.” That’s technically valid yet if you go on their website and read the nutrition facts they list “natural flavor.” A natural flavor is not ever Non-GMO.

This is all USDA-approved “smoke-and-mirrors” so that big business can get away with using chemicals without listing their chemical names.

The solution is to eat mostly 80 percent or higher food that comes from God’s green Earth.

Any kind of power bar like Kind, Luna, Clif, Skinny Girl, and now Curate are not organic.

In fact, the Non-GMO label is being slapped on any products to suggest they are–when the bottom line is: we all could do better by eating whole food–that is real food not chemical-laden garbage.

I do eat food that comes from GMO crops on occasion. I shop at Greenmarkets because of their “No Pesticides” signs for the produce. “No Pesticides” is the real deal in how crops should be grown.

Locally harvested food is the real deal–not crops transported thousands of miles across the U.S.via gasoline-guzzling trucks.

Fair trade sticker food is the real deal too. Sharing a meal you cooked with others is the real deal.

This is the last time I’m going to write about natural flavors. The topic is finito. I don’t want to keep throwing this spaghetti against the wall to see if it sticks.

I’ll end here with this compelling evidence:

Eubie Blake was quoted at 90: “If I knew I’d live this long I’d have taken better care of myself.”