Hey family,
I have a question, is it OK to eat fresh chilli peppers either red or green?
I think i have reached a point where i have lost appetite for bananas i seem to prefer mangoes and oranges.i have been eating bananas breakfast and lunch for now 9month and am bored of them since they are cheap to have here in Kenya.
I need new recipes am not as excited as i was 5months a go i starting to find cooked food appealing so i now am not eating enough food.

i gravitate towards avocados and coconut meat and of late am feel lousy and sad.

If you don't eat enough calories from fruit, you will be driven towards eating nuts, seeds, avocado, or other fats; refined sugars or other concentrated sweets; or cooked complex carbs. None of them will leave you feeling as good as if you had just eaten some fruit.
Hang tough, and put your confidence in 811.

Our perspective and attitude are affected to some degree by the way we eat, but food is not the only thing that can do this. Insufficient sleep can catch up to us over the months and years. Anytime we are low on energy because of insufficient sleep and rest, exciting foods and different combinations become more appealing because they stimulate us. This stimulation is short-lived, however, and we end up feeling more tired (and in need of more sleep) shortly after consuming stimulating foods.
Giving ourselves time to relax, listen to natural sounds and see beautiful scenery can brighten our day. Appropriate amounts of sunlight on your skin and through our eyes (without us starring at the sun) can enhance our mood too.
It's important to eat enough calories to stabilize your weight. A large excess or insufficiency of food can easily cause our attitude to be negatively affected.
So many more factors apart from food influence the way we feel. If in doubt, Anne, I suggest you attempt to love yourself a little bit more, each and every day.

SO is it OK to eat chili pepper either green or red? i went back to the 811book and couldn't find anyway that confirms or denies it.
can i mix it with orange juice as a dressing for my salad or no?

anne
kenya

Ok? You can eat anything you want but spicy peppers will taste terrible to healthy taste buds and most people will leave them alone. I'm quite sure the 811 book does mention that hot spicy food is not meant to be eaten by humans. There is no right or wrong but only consequences. Spices are stimulants and they create a false sense of excitment to our body only to drop us back to a low again and we reach for the excitment again to get the feeling again. Best to keep away. I live in New Mexico where the favorite food is roasted green chilis. I have never even tasted one since I lived here.

The capsaicin in chili is a powerful irritant to the body's tissues. They cause burning and pain to the skin and mucous membranes. They produce a warm to intolerable burning when consumed. Consuming them produces conditions of gastrointestinal disease from diarrhea to stomach cancer. It is important to know just what we are putting into our body. Like Ian, I resolve to avoid chili in my diet.