Fri, Jul-06-18, 10:26
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Posts: 19,218
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Plan: atkins, carnivore 2023
Stats: 200/211/163
BF:
Progress: -30%
Location: Massachusetts
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Eating low carb, most grain products have left my plate. Except for items like chia seeds, flax, and glutin. In an effort to reduce the infalammtion in my body to dump the extra water weight..... it led me here: The long and short is that we have forgotton the old ways to prepare foods to eat.
https://gundrymd.com/remove-lectins/
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Below are a few different ways to help remove lectins from your diet. Now, I still recommend avoiding these foods as much as possible, so if you’re going to use these methods, do so in moderation.
5 TIPS FOR REMOVING LECTINS (OR AT LEAST REDUCING THEM!):
1. SOAKING
When you were a kid, did you ever see your grandparents rinse and soak beans – and even grains – before boiling or cooking them? They may not have even realized it, but they were doing this to reduce the lectins. Now, there are different traditions when it comes to soaking beans in various cultures, but here’s how I like to do it:
First, soak beans overnight in a baking soda bath. Start early enough to change the water a few times before you go to sleep – and leave them soaking overnight. Then, change the water again when you wake. Remember to add baking soda to each new soak. Drain the beans and rinse them really well before you start cooking in a pressure cooker.
2. PRESSURE COOKING
If you have to cook with beans (beans wreak havoc on your gut if not cooked properly), tomatoes, or potatoes for whatever reason, your best bet for destroying the lectins is a pressure cooker. It won’t get every last lectin – and it won’t come close to knocking out the lectins in wheat, oats, rye, barley, or spelt – so avoid those entirely. That said, pressure cooking can do a pretty good job with certain veggies and legumes. So, get used to cooking with pressure.
Just soak in a few changes of water (for beans), then pressure cook according to the manufacturer’s instructions on YOUR pressure cooker. It’s that easy.
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3. PEEL AND DESEED
Whenever you cook with high-lectin plant foods, such as cucumbers, eggplant, and squash, you must peel and deseed them. The most harmful part of any plant is it’s lectin-filled hull, peel, or rind.
I repeat: The peels and the seeds are where those pesky lectins hide.
I like to use a serrated peeler to remove skins. Because they’re super-sharp, they work for both hard and soft fruits – even very-ripe peaches and tomatoes. Another simple way to remove peels from tomatoes is boiling them for a minute or so.
Once peeled, simply cut fruit in half, and use a spoon to scoop out the seeds.
4. FERMENTING
When you ferment a fruit or vegetable, you allow good bacteria to break down and convert lots of a plant food’s defensive and damaging substances. That’s part of the reason the world’s healthiest cultures eat so many fermented foods. For example, I recommend staying clear of regular soy products (tofu, soy milk, edamame). But I do like tempeh and miso because they are fermented.
And vegetables are not only great when fermented, but they also become a wonderful probiotic-rich food. Again, fermenting doesn’t kill all lectins, but it can significantly reduce them.
5. GO REFINED
Finally, if you absolutely can’t give up grains no matter how hard you try, always choose refined, “white” grains over whole grains. Don’t go for brown rice, go for white rice. Don’t eat whole wheat bread, find the healthiest version of white bread you can.
You see, even though lots of people think brown rice is better for you than white rice, people whose cultures have always eaten rice have always stripped the hull off of brown rice before they eat it. Why? Because they know that the hull is where all of the harmful lectins live.
IN THE END …
It’s nearly impossible to avoid lectins all together. But, these five tips can help you cut down on those disease-causing lectins. These are tried and true methods that have been used all over the world – in some cases, for thousands of years. So, take a lesson from our ancestors, and neutralize those toxic plant proteins! Your body will thank you.
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