Hey Dave, great question. I was actually supposed to film a video about that, but it started to downpour so I wasn't able to finish.
All we did was make sure that we had a really good breakfast (Rozanne & the kids had oatmeal and I had eggs) and then we packed a ton of fruit, water & nuts.
The kids had their treat of Tiny Tom donuts and then we just munched on fruit for the rest of the day. After we left, we went straight home and dinner was waiting – chicken & rice.
So, my tips are…

1) Really fill-up with something healthy before you go.
2) Don't deprive yourself of a treat…just don't go overboard.
3) Pack lots of fruit, nuts & water.
4) Eat a healthy dinner when you get home.

OR

You could just FAST for the day using Brad Pilon's EatStopEat Program (which I have also done on an all-day excursion w/lots of temptation).

Hope that helps.

Chris

Thanks, Isabel. I appreciate having an expert like you taking the time to read and leave an opinion on this issue.

Keep up the great posts

Isabel De Los Rios
http://TheDietSolutionProgram.com

Dude, you cited SoyNutrition.com as your source!?!

Isn’t that like me going to ILoveTransFats.com to get facts on why trans-fats are healthy for you?

***as an aside, Brent and I know each other personally and go back and forth all the time…you should see our uncensored conversations***

Definitely! Go to Dark Horse Espresso Bar on Queen E (just W of Broadview in front of the Toyota Dealership).

or

Dark Horse W on Spadina, north of Queen on the E side.

or

Lit Espresso Bar on Roncesvailles, N of Wright on the E side

@ErnieRazzano Great to point out that it is the chemical-laden crap that’s in grocery store products that will make you sick. I agree.

The study on Japanese women, I’m not too sure about. I don’t dispute the findings, I just don’t see how it is relevant to a healthy male population who doesn’t live in Japan (ie guys like you and me). If Japanese women who eat natural soy and have been doing it for thousands of years reduce their rate of breast cancer, then great! I don’t really see how north american, european or australian men can have the same benefit or if it’s even applicable.

It’s like what you said “But when these same people emigrate to the United States, and start eating our Trans-Fat-High-Fructose-Preservative HELL Diet, their cancer and heart disease rates go up.” So what happens when an American man, with ancestry from Europe, eats a diet that is primarily made up of foods from the far east? It’s exactly what Wolcott talks about in Metabolic Typing.

The problem I see is this…the term “natural soy” in the western world is closer to an oxymoron than it is to the truth. I don’t think the availability of natural soy is as prevalent here in north america as it is in Japan. When I say soy, I’m referring to all the stuff that the media leads us to believe is healthy, which essentially is “soy food products”. The truth is, that outside of the fitness or health expert population, nobody really eats natural soy…they eat the stuff that they see on commercials.

Either way, the fact that it’s estrogenic, plant based or not, is enough for me to leave the stuff alone.

Chris

I agree with the meat issue (and not because I’m veg) and am absolutely on board with Organic coffee BUT dude your SOY stance is baiting and under researched:

Myth: Soy foods contain estrogen compounds that may cause hormonal disturbances.

The isoflavones found in soy foods are sometimes called phytoestrogens (plant-estrogens) because they have a chemical structure similar to the hormone estrogen. Also, isoflavones can bind to estrogen receptors and exert some estrogen-like effects in cells.

That said, isoflavones are actually quite different from estrogen. Estrogen-like effects are rarely observed in clinical studies measuring the ingestion of soy foods or isoflavones.

This is not surprising since receptor binding – a common in vitro measure of estrogenicity – is a poor predictor of in vivo activity.

Compounds that bind to estrogen receptors often have different, and sometimes opposite, physiological effects depending upon how the isoflavone and receptor interact within different cells.

Clinical studies do show that neither soy foods nor isoflavones affect serum levels of testosterone or estrogen. In fact, several studies have found no effects on testosterone despite ingestion of isoflavones at levels that were 20- to 30-times higher than the typical Japanese intake.

No hormone-related abnormalities, such as thelarche or precocious puberty, have been ascribed to soy formula use in infants.

Source:
http://www.soynutrition.com/SoyHealth/SoyMyths.aspx

Brent

(and yes the estrogen levels are high here too with only 2 ladies – Ican’t imagine your house…no wait I can lol!)