Would eating only nuts, seeds, egg whites, fruits, and vegetables be healthy?
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DumbledoresPhoenix
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See title. And I am not referring to weight loss, just being healthy. Would that be enough nutrients?
I am tired of worrying about what to cook and what to eat, and nuts, seeds, egg whites, fruits, and vegetables are easy to make and good foods to eat. I just want to make sure that I wouldn't be missing something nutritionally important. I would be eating a variety of each (excluding egg whites obviously).
And since I know someone is going to ask why egg whites and not the whole egg, regular eggs make me sick. I can tolerate egg whites fine, though.
Thanks in advance!
I am tired of worrying about what to cook and what to eat, and nuts, seeds, egg whites, fruits, and vegetables are easy to make and good foods to eat. I just want to make sure that I wouldn't be missing something nutritionally important. I would be eating a variety of each (excluding egg whites obviously).
And since I know someone is going to ask why egg whites and not the whole egg, regular eggs make me sick. I can tolerate egg whites fine, though.
Thanks in advance!
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You could make a healthy diet of that if you wanted. But it would depend on the amounts of each, the balance, etc.6
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You'd probably want to keep an eye on your micronutrients (vitamins and minerals) to make sure you're not making yourself deficient in anything. Maybe throwing in a daily meal replacement shake or multi-vitamin would help.
I'm amazed that you'd be able to eat the same limited menu every day, I never could. I usually just do a weekly meal-prep of 3-4 large batches for my fiance and I to eat all week.3 -
I would discuss such an extremely limited diet with a doctor. If you're only eating a very small set of foods, then it depends a LOT on what foods you choose from those categories and how much of each you eat.4
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Toxikon, the micronutrients is what I am worried about the most. I think I can get a good balance of macronutrients, but I am worried I might be missing an important vitamin or mineral.1
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I'd include legumes in there and maybe some fruit. Legumes for protein, fruit for carbs and sugar.
Maybe some oils/fats/avocados to round out your diet, too.1 -
Where are you getting your protein from? Whilst nuts and seeds contain protein they are more of a fat source than protein source and egg whites will not provide all the amino acids you need either? Also what about carbs? Again extremely limited sources of carbs. Why can't you add meat, fish, beans, tofu, quorn, pasta, rice, bread, cereals and grains?2
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Body healthy, yes if your variety and quantity of vegetables is good. Brain healthy, that's doubtful.2
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It could be done, but would be difficult at best and leave little wiggle room for mistakes, would be my opinion.
That much restriction would mean that you'd have to be incredibly careful to control intake amounts of each macronutrient and micro... I'd also recommend regular doctor's visits during to monitor health and deficiencies.
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Chocolate is good for your mental health...5
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I can't possibly imagine it would be healthy. It's such a narrow range of foods that you'll be missing lots of micronutrients and/or your intake will be unbalanced (too little of some micronutrients, too much of others). The good thing is that you'll probably be bored long before anything serious happens to your body.
It's a fun thought experiment, but something most people leave to their imagination or TV shows.
I would instead figure out what is going on. You are tired of worrying about what to cook and eat? Why? Are you afraid of food? Do you think food shouldn't taste good? Don't you know how to compose good, healthy meals? If you are willing, you can work on all those things, and you attack them at the same time. When you experience that nothing bad happens when you eat well, you'll be motivated to prepare good meals. Healthy eating is not just a healthy diet, it's a healthy relationship with food, too.
Good, healthy meals are made up from a variety of foods from all the food groups:
1. Fruit
2. Vegetables
3. Dairy
4. Meat, fish, eggs, beans
5. Grains and starchy vegetables
6. Nuts and seeds
7. Fats and oils
Combine components from at least three groups into meals that look and taste appealing to you, and have something from each group every day. Eat different foods from day to day. It's not really complicated.5 -
karenbeckwith5 wrote: »Where are you getting your protein from? Whilst nuts and seeds contain protein they are more of a fat source than protein source and egg whites will not provide all the amino acids you need either? Also what about carbs?
Egg whites are a complete protein. I would be getting carbs from fruit, but yes, that might not be enough. Hmmm...1 -
JeromeBarry1 wrote: »Body healthy, yes if your variety and quantity of vegetables is good. Brain healthy, that's doubtful.
Why not brain healthy?1 -
karenbeckwith5 wrote: »Where are you getting your protein from? Whilst nuts and seeds contain protein they are more of a fat source than protein source and egg whites will not provide all the amino acids you need either? Also what about carbs? Again extremely limited sources of carbs. Why can't you add meat, fish, beans, tofu, quorn, pasta, rice, bread, cereals and grains?
Just FYI - you don't need carbs. If your glycogen stores are depleted, your body begins burning dietary fat in place of carbs in a process called ketosis (you've probably heard of the "keto" diet)! There's nothing particularly unhealthy about being in a constant state of ketosis, as far as I know from the research I've read.2 -
kommodevaran wrote: »I can't possibly imagine it would be healthy. It's such a narrow range of foods that you'll be missing lots of micronutrients and/or your intake will be unbalanced (too little of some micronutrients, too much of others).
Could you be more specific? Which micronutrients would I be missing? What would not be balanced?1 -
DumbledoresPhoenix wrote: »kommodevaran wrote: »I can't possibly imagine it would be healthy. It's such a narrow range of foods that you'll be missing lots of micronutrients and/or your intake will be unbalanced (too little of some micronutrients, too much of others).
Could you be more specific? Which micronutrients would I be missing? What would not be balanced?5 -
Need2Exerc1se wrote: »
With how limited OPs diet plan is, I wanted to make sure that nothing was left out.
I have a number of picky eater friends IRL who "say" they like and eat fruits and vegetables but eat bananas, broccoli, carrots, romaine lettuce, and corn exclusively.
I apologize if I was being redundant, but it was in an effort to be thorough.5 -
"healthy" is such a broad, abstract word... but to your question - do I think it's ideal? No. Do I think it's a recipe for disaster? No. Would you be willing to take a couple of specific vitamins/supplements to address potential deficiencies?0
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Are you able to hit all your macros and micros with that diet? Are you satisfied? Do you feel like this is a sustainable way of eating?
If you answered no to any of these questions, I'd rethink it and come up with a more sustainable plan.0 -
I'd include legumes in there and maybe some fruit. Legumes for protein, fruit for carbs and sugar.
Maybe some oils/fats/avocados to round out your diet, too.
and whole eggs instead of just egg whites...most of the nutrition in an egg is in the yolk...
Frankly, I'd be bored out of my gored...5
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