One demonstrative experiment is to go cold turkey on grains for a few weeks, then try eating something like a bagel or two. When I did this, I found that eating wheat products made me feel sick. Been largely avoiding grains since (though I "cheat" from time to time)
That's true of a lot of foods. Definitely true of meat, especially red meat. I don't think the fact that your stomach has to spend some time adapting to a food is really evidence that it's categorically bad for you.
>That's true of a lot of foods. Definitely true of meat, especially red meat.
I'd definitely be interested in a citation if you have one! I find this really interesting, especially since I've accidentally cut red meat out of my diet recently (despite enjoying it quite a lot, so I don't want to be ill next time I have it!), so I'm wondering on what sort of timescales these effects happen (both losing and gaining the ability to digest a certain food group).
I don't have a research paper to cite, but it seems fairly common knowledge that people who go vegetarian for a while --either by choice or by moving somewhere meat is scarce-- often have a period of re-adjustment when they return to eating meat; especially red meat. This is on a time scale of a few months in each direction.
This is not a universal truth -- I was raised vegetarian and began eating red meat in college; I never had an adjustment period. In fact, I suspect the incidence of this is greatly overstated and largely psychological.
I find that if I become addicted to junk food after a binge weekend, simply fasting for 24hours makes me craaave healthy foods like vegetables, even spinach which I usually hate, and white meats. Its weird, but I recommend at least 24 hours of fasting each week. Its a great system reset.
