I remember reading in one of the articles that eating the same thing each day can lead to a person developing a food allergy. However, I know of people who eat oatmeal everyday and I don't think they've ever developed an allergy. My plan is to always eat eggs and oatmeal in the morning. Will this case problems? Can someone please elaborate on the dangers of eating the same food all the time. Thanks!
Maybe if it is the ONLY thing every day.
eg, you eat oats in the morning, chicken for lunch with salad and fish for dinner with salad every single day, then perhaps your ability to digest other foods properly may reduce but I doubt you could straight out develop an allergy to it unless something else your eating has allergy causing agents.
I know people who eat nothing but fast food day in and out for breakfast lunch and dinner and they are the very sickly people. Very sad.
They’re at the point that when they are thirsty they cannot drink water… only a soft drinks.
It’s kinda sad so I often wonder what it would take to get their health back.
[quote]humble wrote:
It’s kinda sad so I often wonder what it would take to get their health back.[/quote]
http://www.T-Nation.com/readArticle.do?id=971737
There’s an example. I asked Dr. B what he did in order to get Dave to be able to consume clean foods, and he said it was mainly the digestive enzymes that he consumed with meals to help him digest instead of straining his trap muscle…
I’ve eaten damn near the same thing for breakfast for the past 4 years. Cheese and spinach omelet, blueberry smoothie, and a few cups of java. 7 days a week, no matter what. Sometimes I’ll throw in a donut or something as I like to cheat at breakfast rather than dinner. Anywho, I’m still alive and don’t have any food allergies. My personal opinion is, as long as you don’t eat it more than twice a day, you are fine.
[quote]analog_kid wrote:
I’ve eaten damn near the same thing for breakfast for the past 4 years. Cheese and spinach omelet, blueberry smoothie, and a few cups of java. 7 days a week, no matter what. Sometimes I’ll throw in a donut or something as I like to cheat at breakfast rather than dinner. Anywho, I’m still alive and don’t have any food allergies. My personal opinion is, as long as you don’t eat it more than twice a day, you are fine. [/quote]
Twice a day is stretching it if you’re doing it for months at a time though. That’s how I developed major gas from eggs. I’m taking a couple month break off of them right now, and hopefully I’ll be able to get them back as a protein source soon.
This thread talks about this problem at length:
http://www.T-Nation.com/tmagnum/readTopic.do?id=1387711&pageNo=0
Since humans settled down and started relying on farming to feed themselves, most societies only had a few crops they got the vast majority of their calories from. For example, if you lived in Asia, more than half of your daily calories everyday from the time you started eating solid food came from rice. If you were from mexico, or central america it was corn and beans, and so on.
Now, this is probably far from optimal as far as human health is concerned, but it worked, it kept people alive.
Since we have such a huge variety of foods to choose from there is no reason to limit yourself. But if all you want is eggs and oatmeal for breakfast, eat it as long as you like. If you develop an allergy, you’ll figure it out before it kills you.
i pretty much it the same thing for break fast and lunch for about a year and a half and i’m fine