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#1 change: actually paying attention to what your putting inside you.

Kidney stones were a long time ago now, I've been continuously evolving since, and I've been super lucky to have a lot of help with both the cooking and research along the way.

One thing I learned specifically from that incident was that:

Raw spinach != Cooked spinach.

Specifically, the former has a specific chemical that will cause kidney stones. This is problematic for someone on the subway diet who substitutes spinach for the lettuce, because, you know, spinach is healthier than lettuce... which is kind of true, until it isn't.

Edit: what was easy? Knowing the impact that little daily decisions can have (a few day stay in the hospital). Also, cutting out the soda was easy after experiencing that level of pain (the kind where things become a blur, you accidentally rip out IVs, sister passes out just from watching, etc).

Also, I've changed my diet regularly as information changes for the past ten years. Every single time I thought I was "being the healthiest I can be." That said, I'm not suggesting a specific solution. What I'm suggesting is becoming familiar with the practice of iterating on your eating habits to maximize your life (in more ways than simply extension).

There is something ironic about claiming to eat healthy and regularly changing your diet due to new information. I don't mean this in an offensive way, it's not your fault dietary advice keeps changing. It just aptly reflects how little we know about food and the effect it has on the body.

Nothing ironic at all.

That's how I treat anything that is important to me.

I like to ask questions. And the world is always changing. To think continuous change is "ironic" sounds problematic to me. I mean, that's why they little fat kid inside the large obese woman thinks it's still alright to eat cake for breakfast.

Edit: there is such a thing as eating right for your age!

I think the GP was referring to the irony of 'eating healthy' only to later find out that what was previously considered healthy is now considered unhealthy. Spinach a nice example of that - I've been eating it raw for ages thinking I was being healthy, had no idea about the potential problems.

Yes this is what I meant to say, thanks for the clarification.

Ugh, so you didn't learn anything apart from having yet another 'revelation'.

And that revelation is 'avoid raw spinach, but it's too late for me'.

You had Kidney stones. That does not make you a health Messiah, quite the opposite really.

> That does not make you a health Messiah, quite the opposite really

Nice to see how you interpreted things, but that's all it is.

My point was alluding to the continuous practice.

And the proof is what I see in my and my partner's fitness compared to that of our peers. But don't take it from some random on the internet.

Lastly, yes it's a lot of hard work, and yes that's why you're avoiding it. Good luck!

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