Gisele Bundchen has given some interviews in the past where she’s tried to sound all Earth Mothery and like she’s all about feeding her family the most all-natural food ever. But Gisele and Tom Brady’s personal chef has given an interview to Boston.com, and it honestly doesn’t seem like they really eat that much of everything. We’ve seen some intense elimination diets in the past, but Gisele and Tom might take it next-level. Tom, Gisele and their children do not eat: white sugar, white flour, MSG, caffeine, fungus, dairy, peppers, mushrooms or eggplants. They do eat meat though. Lean meat with whole grains, beans and quinoa.
What’s it like to eat like a professional football player and a supermodel? Apparently not very fun, according to an interview with Tom Brady and Gisele Bündchen’s personal chef Allen Campbell.
“Eighty percent of what they eat is vegetables and whole grains: brown rice, quinoa, millet, beans,” Campbell told Boston.com. “The other 20 percent is lean meats: grass-fed organic steak, duck every now and then, and chicken. As for fish, I mostly cook wild salmon.”
However, there are certain vegetables Brady, 38, won’t eat at all.
“[Tom] doesn’t eat nightshades, because they’re not anti-inflammatory,” explains Campbell. “So no tomatoes, peppers, mushrooms, or eggplants. Tomatoes trickle in every now and then, but just maybe once a month.”
Campbell does not cook anything involving white sugar, white flour, MSG, caffeine, fungus or dairy for the health-conscious couple.
“It’s very different than a traditional American diet, but if you just eat sugar and carbs – which a lot of people do – your body is so acidic, and that causes disease,” Campbell told the website. “Sugar is the death of people.”
It feels like this “I don’t eat nightshades” thing is a trend that’s happened recently. It’s the new Zone/Paleo diet for 2015-16. And I don’t get it. Eggplants are good for you. The tomato is an amazing antioxidant. Peppers will keep you young and clean out your system. Anyway… except for the nightshade thing, I suspect many celebrities do variations on the no-sugar, no-white flour, no-carb diet. But I could not. Life would not be worth living without carbs and the occasional piece of milk chocolate. And I wouldn’t be able to function without caffeine. So… if you’re ever invited to spend the weekend with Tom and Gisele, just be prepared. Pack an emergency soda and candy bar.
Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet & Gisele’s Instagram.
OMG…they’ve outdone Goop and Madge on eating restrictions. My jaw hit the floor, I need to go find it…
News flash tom and gisele.. you are both going to die someday! Have a cup of coffee or a piece of chocolate once in a while, live!
Word!
Amen
Fabulous! Yes. Enjoy life a little and stop trying to compete for the most hardcore bad a$$ celebrity diet!
You do realize that there are people who just don’t like the taste of coffee and chocolate, right?
My 2 year old has juvenile arthritis, an auto-immune disease, and we’ve eliminated most of these foods from her diet. They are inflammatory foods. We do give her 100% whole grain wheat bread, (but anything that is processed like crackers are gluten free) and almond milk and goats milk products instead of cows milk. It’s not as bad and limiting as you would think. Trader Joes is amazing and In the past few years the gluten free market has exploded. She just eats lot’s of fruits, veggies, meats, and hummus. It does make eating out very difficult. I sneak gluten food while she naps, i could never totally go without.
I bet the food this Allen cooks is so delicious, despite the ingredient restrictions!!! I was just telling my husband that if we were crazy wealthy, the one thing we would spring for is a private chief to cook most of our meals!! When healthy food is cooked ‘right’, it can be just as tasty!!! I also know people with Lymes disease and the diet is so limited, but am amazing at the options available these days. And, following it makes their symptoms go away! Maybe they have family history of disease they are trying to avoid with dietary restrictions. Of course they will die some day, but they just might be improving their quality of life. I, on the other hand, and having 1 cups of coffee that has caffeine/white sugar/dairy alllllll in my one cup! Ha!
And she looks terrible in that top photo. (Why does that give me some joy this cold morning? bwah ha ha haha)
That’s what I thought too. Too ropey looking in the arms. It made me snicker too lol. I’ve just recently been diagnosed with high blood sugar so no more carbs and sugar for me. I’m already veg so meat is gone as well. Wonder why they didn’t cut out meat – it’s one of the biggest ways to cause inflammation. It’s not that hard to cut out the carbs and I will never completely give up alcohol lol. But yeah sugar is a killer (sadly).
@Pandy: I don’t know what you consider “carbs,” but if you don’t eat that or meat, that’s not a ton of options. Also, meat is neutral in its effects on blood sugar, no?
Santia:
So does he… Thank you, no, I’ll stick to my refined everything, loads of carbs and yummy fat, Swedish comfort foods-diet this cold winter, I think. 😉
She’s so into the natural but that didn’t stop her getting some sort of crap shoved into her body to pad out her boobs recently (allegedly). Maybe they are quinoa implants.
I wish they had “like” buttons on this site. The hypocrisy is strong in this one.
*sporfle* Quinoa implants. Mmm, textural.
Hemp fiber!
Or not.
Quinoa implants 😂😂😂😂
LOL
She liked them so much, she even did it twice.
Originally had them in 1999/2000 (see her early amazing runway videos), hence the nickname ‘Boobs from Brazil’.
Took them out, and put new ones back in the last year.
Quinoa implants. Omg. I’m dying. Thank you for that.
Quinoa implants!! I just snorted out my coffee!!!
BINGO! She’s a major hypocrite. As I have said before, she is a major trade down, in every way, from Moynahan.
Quinoa implants-LOL!
If you read the whole article, the Bradys eat sushi with…wait for it..tamari. Guess what? Tamari has (naturally occurring) MSG in it!! Looks like they better stop eating sushi guys because I thought they didn’t eat MSG?? What’s worse – breast implants or MSG? Giselle, please tell me I need your wisdom.
I wondered about this, too. Are her implants organic? Non GMO?? Anti-inflammatory??? How about botulism injected in her face? it is organic botulism???
Snark, yes, but I do wonder why she would go to such a restrictive diet and then put fake plastic bubbles in her body?? I think it’s not so much health as the reason they eat this way – it’s just their weight they want to keep down.
Quinoa implants! I don’t normally reply to individual comments…but, holy cow, that was funny!
[*It’s gonna be hard to top that one…*]
I hate to defend these fools because I hate them both, but you can get no-msg, non-gluten, low-sodium tamari. I know, because I’m sensitive to msg (hives and drowsiness) and use that instead of regular soy sauce or regular tamari. It’s expensive compared to other sauces, but totally worth it.
So pretentious these two are! I wonder what Tommy’s family thinks of this? I think they are pretty much down to earth Bay Area folks.
They kill the fun in living that’s for sure (no mushrooms and tomatoes? No pepper? Why not?)/
No mushrooms. That’s a major misstep. One of the most anti-cancer foods known to man. Whatever honey, you’re ageing just like the rest of us…I only the rest of us are aware of our own mortality
I love me some nightshades.
I get their diet decision.
I currently suffer from Sibo & leaky gut and their diet sounds Similar to mine but I eat more animal protein than them . I was undiagnosed for 4 years and I spiraled down with prescription meds from my Gastro. I wish I didn’t have to eat this way “clean” way, trust me. I wish I could eat pizza and pasta and sugary cherry pie. I would give my right toe to have a normal GI tract. I hate eating this way but I have to sothat I can function and not have a flaire up. A flaire can consist of bad constipation, horrid food allergies, arthritis/ joint pain, psoriasis, roseacea, low thyroid issues and the list goes on. Perhaps they are taking preventative measure so they don’t end up like me. I respect that decision.
I wish I would have eaten healthier in my younger days but I ate where my mom wanted to go ( McDonald’s, Wendy’s, Burger King , etc). Fast forward 15-20 years later and here I am with extensive GI issues. I make the effort to also feed my kids healthy whole foods as well in order to set them up with a healthy diet palette early on in their lives. Hopefully they will not suffer what I’ve been through. I did fire my Gastro and now work with a doctor who is getting to the root cause (gut) and doesn’t mask all my issues with prescription meds. He had me switch my diet and I’m feeling much better. Hate it, but I’m feeling better.
Dana – where it’s medically required and helps you function, I’m all about it. When you’re using food (or religion) as a way to make sure everyone knows you’re better than other people, I’m off the boat. And clearly, Tom & Gisele have handed their children means of rebellion on a silver platter.
Brady Household, ca. 2019. Ben has just come home from his friend Tommy’s house.
Ben: Hi, Mom!
Gisele: Hi, Sweetie! Come and give me a hug.
{Ben walks over to his mother, hugs her. She pulls back, bridles.}
Is that chocolate on your breath?
cannibell: Sorry, but I couldn’t read your comment. Pathetic! HOW do you know they are using food as a way to make sure everyone knows they are better than other people? Do you know them? You are so insecure! Tom Brady is a professional athlete.
Oh, and they ARE better than you.
Diet fads make me crazy (speaking as a person who eats low carb because i feel so much better that way). Eat food that makes you feel good. If your food doesn’t make you feel good don’t eat it, or indulge on occasion. That’s it.
What he describes is just the food pyramid. I don’t think that really qualifies as a diet fad. It’s just the way that humans with western diets should eat. His/her preferences against mushrooms and tomatoes or whatever sound fine to me. There are things within the bottom groups of the pyramid that I don’t eat either.
I agree. I am not a health nut and I try to avoid most of these things, too. There are actually tons of crap I still find to eat and cake or chocolate do not need any of those ingredients so I think their nutrition plan sounds way harsher than it is. I still eat McDs but more or less salad and hamburger patties w/o buns. After stuffing my face with anything available for years i am kind of in shock how ,uch i can still eat after frequently nixing those things.
I wish I had a chef .
I agree too. In fact, I wish I had a chef come and prepare my meals in such a healthy way as opposed to me going to CVS for dinner.
That’s exactly what I mean. This isn’t a fad, it’s just eating. I side eye the nightshades thing, but whatever, if they want to cut them out, cut them out.
My food does make me feel good while I’m eating it. When I’m done the guilt kicks in.
I’m not mad at them. If I could afford a personal chef I would eat a whole lot better as well. But I will keep my nightshades; they hide my face from the sunlight.
this sounds to me like an anti-antiflammitory ‘diet’ (not losing weight diet, but food choices diet). It is recommended for people with chronic pain and auto-immune disorders. I’m not going to dump on them for that if that’s the case.
I have Hashimotos – if I eat a tomato, I have pain in my left index finger for 2 days. If I eat peppers, I break out in my in area, and if I eat gluten, I get a flaky scalp. If I stay away, I am good.
Yeah I’m trending this way myself because of auto immune problems. Sounds like there’s plenty of room for them to get what they need in their diets and they can afford the fancy meats and ‘heritage’ grains and seeds – and beans are cheap!
Don’t some people have bona fide medically diagnosed problems with the nightshade family? The trouble is when a sub-group has this kind of thing, the food trendies pick it up and make it seem ridiculous. Cross reference: people with celiac disease & non-celiac gluten intolerance. They have more products to buy now, but the groupies have made it seem like a fad, and for the former group, it is a lifelong management challenge.
My takeaway is I wish I had a personal chef to make sure I ate all the things that are good for me and avoided all the things that are bad for me, and pack healthy snacks for this busy on-the-go times. : )
Yes, my co-worker has bladder issues that are triggered in a severe fashion by anything acidic, which includes nightshades. This is a problem for her because her diet used to consist almost entirely of Mexican food and iced tea. She still eats/drinks the offending items up to the point of excruciating pain and then she will back off and eat right for several days until it subsides.
There is a big different between people who are required to restrict their diet for certain diseases and people who talk about all of their diet restrictions so that they can be food martyrs.
I am a post lung transplant patient and there are many things I can not eat anymore; I do not talk about them. I just don’t eat them. I have two friends with severe food allergies who do not complain or talk about all the things they can not eat; they just don’t eat them.
Gisele and Gwyneth need applause, for any reason.
i think a lot of this is for Brady. He’s an older football player. Doing whatever he can to limit injuries and the associated pain.
Anti-inflammatory immediately struck me as being based on his career.
I agree with you Katie, and stay well.
I was thinking the same. It sounds like someone in the family might have gut issues. I have terrible IBS and I basically have to eat like this plus no alliums (garlic/onion etc) and very little fruit. It’s really unpleasant and not something that most people will stick to unless motivated by physical symptoms. Although, I’m sure having a person chef makes it much easier.
I have chronic pain and inflammatory issues and the last time I looked into it there was no good evidence the “anti-inflammatory” foods had benefit on long term outcomes. As I recall, it was something a random dietician made up. Some of the restricted foods such as whole grains actually do have supported data associated with lower mortality.
Inflammation can mean different things, and can at times be beneficial such as when fighting a cold. We don’t know if the inflammation from inflammatory diseases is cause or effect at this point, and treating them with diet may make the patient feel productive but probably doesn’t help. I’d side eye a health care professional who recommended an anti inflammatory diet, that wasn’t a naturopath/chiropractic type.
I can’t eat many of the items they don’t eat. I also have Hashimoto’s as well. My sister is visiting me and I decided to have regular food (with gluten) and I feel extremely sick.
I read this and thought one of them must have an auto immune disease, too. That’s the only reason I restrict my diet similarly. It sucks, but I feel so much better.
All the things mentioned in the headline are things that can make people feel bad, especially if they have any sort of inflammation issue or chronic illness. Soooooo, nothing wrong with this. It’s not a fad. It’s basic health management.
My opinion? And I’m older than most here and also have a sister who’s a Registered Dietitian and eats very specific things, so I’ve seen so many food trends, it’s ridiculous!!!
I think most health issues from food come from the fact that we eat processed foods and that we eat vegetables that have 20 times more Round-Up on them than they (the vegetables) used to be able to tolerate. Why?? GMOs. It’s not the modified seed that gets us sick, IMO, it’s that the modified seed can now take 20X the pesticides/herbicides it used to be able to tolerate. Where does that go?? Into us.
During WWII, when everyone had Victory Gardens and grew their own food, people were healthy. My family had all smokers and drinkers, but all four grandparents made it into their 80s. They all ate vegetables they grew. My father grew all our veggies from when I was about 7 to adulthood, and my mother froze them. We ate his organic veggies all year, although we didn’t call them organic. He just refused to put pesticides on them. 🙂
The best thing we could all do for our health is to buy organic veggies, and even dairy – NPR had a story once that organic butter is missing some enzyme or has an extra enzyme so that it doesn’t cause the troubles that animal fats do to the body. With all of these new illnesses popping up – fibromyalgia, a ton of celiac intolerance that we never heard about for my first 40 years, I think how well we used to eat. Our beef and pork and chicken weren’t laden with hormones, our milk came from local farms. If you can afford to do so, only organic foods. If not, then try to grow as much as you can, even if only lettuce in a flower box window in NYC. And everything in moderation. There is such a thing as worrying yourself to death, also.
Organic produce still has pesticides.
@ Betsy. Produce cannot have pesticides and still be organic.
Organic controls for insects (neem oil, beneficial insects, etc) are not chemical pesticides.
Produce can, indeed, be treated with a number of pesticides (and fungicides) and still be considered organic.
“Eat food that makes you feel good. If your food doesn’t make you feel good don’t eat it, or indulge on occasion. That’s it. ”
+1
Another decent piece of advice is to eat and drink in moderation.
A lot of people react badly to caffeine. 1 dose of excedrin (about 130 mg caffeine) puts me on the ceiling. Two doses in one day, forget about sleeping… V8 Fusion has an “energy” fruit drink I got on sale to try when up against a deadline. Don’t know how they did it, but the 80 mg caffeine plus whatever other magic was in that little can kept me wildly awake for more than 24 hours…. I was still well wired after meeting my deadline! So I use caffeine very sparingly, emergencies only, just to keep me from falling asleep on the toilet (yes, I can now do that, amazingly enough without falling over).
The nightshade prohibition is not a fad, quite a few people have had trouble with that family for ages. Historically, tomatoes (and potatoes?) were initially assumed to be toxic when first introduced in Europe and it took a while to get past that. But a certain percentage of people have always had trouble with them. I can’t eat tomatoes every day myself – I almost fainted during a test with them when sorting out my allergies. My pulse rate went sky high for a few minutes, lucky I was on a couch. I had suspected them, but in testing I was more sensitive because I was testing foods one at a time. I can eat them occasionally now, but have switched to cucumber sandwiches most of the time (love tomato sandwiches- just good bread, mayonnaise, tomato, and salt). I have to be careful not to eat tomato sauce too often also. But there are tons of other foods to eat.
These folks seem to be avoiding white sugar and white flour, that doesn’t mean they don’t eat any sugar or wheat. Plenty of people prefer other sweeteners and whole wheat. There are also many wonderful foods to use in place of wheat, and there are places in the world where wheat isn’t really on the menu at all. Their diet doesn’t really seem restrictive to me.
Damn. Her ok. Him how does he sustain the energy to play football and support such a large frame.
Is it like Danielle O. The Ben Affleck nanny on hidden on the plane. Is Tom sneaking pieces of Chedder in the private jet on the low down?
Probably a ton of protein, especially the fish. I know a few professional athletes, they are all on extremely lean/high protein diets, excluding sumo wrestlers 😛
I like what @ Barrett said when she said this: “Is Tom sneaking pieces of Chedder in the private jet on the low down? ”
It reminds of when Goop used to say her family doesn’t eat junk food and then we would see pap shots of Chris Martin with a bag of chips in his hand.
Can you imagine going out to dinner with Tom and Gisele. Just for kicks I would order the biggest juicy cheeseburger with the works including extra cheese, bacon , tomatoes and mushrooms, along with cheese fries and a huge glass of soda. Dessert would be a bowl of ice cream, cookies and a big old glass of milk. I would take joy in the disgusted look on their faces.
He might not be disgusted; she might; but much as it seems silly or pretentious, they have every right to put in their bodies the food that they think works for them.
As you can see with this comment I wasn’t judging them, just poking fun. And yes they do have the right to put in their bodies the foods of their choice. But when their personal chef decides to go public and blab about it people are going to have opinions.
Lol, it’s not women Tom would cheat with but food! Mmm cheese…
Lol!
A lot of athletes are actually vegan. You don’t need to eat meat to get protein.
Milk from a cow and cheese are horrible for your body and there is no real benefit to eating them.
How is milk and cheese from a cow horrible for you? Tell it to the Maasai. Dairy is full of protein and calcium, and the only reason to avoid it is if you have a food allergy.
It depends on your personal physiology and genetics. For some people, milk is great, for others not so much. That’s why some people benefit from cutting out dairy while others (like me) do not do well. Life without butter, milk or cheese is not worth living for me. I try to get most of my dairy grass-fed and local, and I can tell when I haven’t been consuming enough. I also drink raw milk (yes I know where it comes from, I used to work at a dairy) so there’s that too. I find it much better, both in taste and for health.
Also, studies done in Denmark and the UK have shown that eating dairy causes your body to excrete a higher percentage of dietary fat undigested, so there’s that. (Arne, Bendsen and Hother Neilson, 2007)
@Denisemich – Exactly! I have been easing into a vegan lifestyle for over 3 years and after my New Year’s 3 day juice cleanse I made the decision to go full-time whole food plant based vegan. I am doing this because I am 53 and want to live. My father’s family has a history of high blood pressure and heart disease.
Over the Christmas holiday, a friend of mine, who is younger than me, had his second heart attack and underwent quadruple bypass surgery. While he was recuperating from the surgery, he was begging people to bring him a BBQ sandwich. Right before he was released he was told he had gall stones, kidney failure and pancreatis. They have scheduled his gall bladder to be removed as soon as he is able. He is not that overweight.
For the same reason Bill Clinton adopted a whole food plant based diet after his heart scare, I am adopting it hopefully as a preventative. I want to take care of my health before I need to.
Watch the documentary “Forks Over Knives.” It’s on Netflix.
Crumpet – It’s not just food allergies, think of people with inflammatory bowel disease. Foods that claim to be good for you are actually bad for you. Dairy is the number one culprit. Some people, like those with IBD, have an awful time digesting that stuff as their bodies react extremely. Think of how bloated one can feel after eating a lot of cheese and drinking a lot of milk. Athletes especially don’t want that. They need to feel good/be able to move.
Sherry, yikes, sorry about your friend, it’s pretty sad to have these problems so young and also to be conditioned to crave bad foods while you know they’re going to put you in hospital! Maybe there’s value in starting good eating habits at an earlier age (OK, I just petted myself on the shoulder right there). It’s going to be my third year as a vegetarian, so kudos to you for going vegan. I can manage only three days without animal protein (eggs), more than that and I get really angry and Neanderthalic.
I’ve eliminated dairy from my diet and I feel so much better! No more stomach issues and bloating. My skin has never been better. At 40, I was still getting pimples right before my period, and now I don’t get them.
I do miss cheese, but there are some good dairy free options at Whole Foods.
Also, I had the best vegan Chai muffin yesterday…..so glad I can indulge without having dairy!
It’s about how you process it. Some do it better than others. There’s nothing wrong with these things in moderation.
I really don’t take issue with vegan lifestyle, but it’s not superior to any healthy lifestyle habit with food. Too many independent studies have shown this because we are not all built the same. And too many independent studies have also shown the agenda of vegan type lobbies that push the lifestyle as the only way to be healthy.
P.S. I’ve had too many patients that go on vegan diets (and do them right) only to have them develope some pretty serious conditions because their body cannot handle the new system they’re forcing it into.
Moderation, Hydration, Education.
Vegan isn’t awful, but it’s not correct for everyone.
I love dairy, I have no problems with it. So I eat it. I don’t eat beef or pork for animal abuse and cruelty issues unless it was raised humanely and killed humanely. But even then, it makes me kind of nauseous to think that I am eating another animal’s flesh.
I’m going to go have a bowl of Vanilla ice cream – with hot fudge. Yummy!!! There goes my diet!!!
It’s true. The majority (65% according to the National Institute of Health) of humans are lactose intolerant.
He’s still eating whole grains, just not refined white flour.
You don’t need flour and tomatoes to have energy.
But I need Tomatoes and Cheese to not be a Crank.
Chopped meaty tomatoes, fresh cubed Mozz cheese, Kalamata olives, baby spinach, tossed in a custom blend of fresh olive oil, oregano, parsley, and basil. Salt and pepper to taste.
This is maybe my favorite side dish ever. Cubed and marinated pork in the dressing is sometimes good too 🙂
Cheese is my kryptonite! I even read recently that they discovered that there is an enzyme or something in it that trips the addictive parts of the brain. No kidding! 😉
I’ve been making vegan versions lately that have helped me cut back but man, I definitely just have to indulge occasionally.
claire
I heard that cheese is as addictive as drugs article on Wait Wait. I get it, but for me i’ve never needed cheese like that. I was with the panel at that point laughing at those findings. Not that they aren’t true findings. Just the comparison was funny.
I understand the “no nightshade thing” since Tom probably has recurring injuries from football. It’s a pretty common avoidance for people with chronic joint pain.
Yup. I’m a chronic pain sufferer and nightshades are out of my diet. It made a huge difference when I stopped eating them. I don’t really understand the chemistry behind this, but I noticed that inflammatory pain increased every time I ate tomatoes, eggplant and peppers.
or maybe it’s the placebo effect… do you eat potatoes? you do know those are also “nightshades”, right?
Ok I have RA & clearly I’m behind the times, does excluding nightshade a really help?
@Wienerdogsmom, yes, it does. Significantly. Nightshades are pretty inflammatory. People without autoimmune disorders don’t feel it, but our bodies do.
This is interesting. I know someone in their 70s who was told not only that she is celiac but to avoid nightshades as well. What are the odds that a Canadian GP would tell a nice ordinary lady something like that unless it were real? She’s doing fine now.
Also, though it is rare, some people have a genetic intolerance to fructose, which is found at high levels in honey and some fruits (apples, pears, melons I think). It’s a compound sugar and harder to break down.
These intolerances and difficulties can be very unique to a person. The intestines are not just some hollow tube.
Some people cannot handle foods like Eggplant and tomatoes. Sometimes it’s only from the skin and sometimes only from the seeds left in if not the whole plant.
FMORC has this issue and his mouth breaks out from the acidic effects.
There’s only relief when things are coated in “FRESH” olive oil or he swishes it in his mouth to coat 1st.
no – it is 100% real. my mom has chronic pain due to a back injury (has a spinal cord simulator implanted to keep her out of a wheelchair before age 70 kind of pain) and cutting nightshades out of her diet made a huge difference in her mobility. she has reduced her intake of anti-inflammatory drugs by more than half.
To js No. I stopped eating potatoes, too. I’d been a potato junkie all my life and it was so difficult for me to quit the spuds. I thought it BS at first, but eliminating nightshades made a significant difference in my life.
I kind of enjoy the numb tongue I get from eggplant. : )
Kidding aside, I get very sore shoulder joints occasionally (hello, huge children who enjoy being held) and would be very sad to give up nightshades.
Me too. I love them all, avoid eating them. But when I do eat, I get really sick.
The “no nightshades” rule is part of a macrobiotic diet.
Just read that if you have plantar fasciitis (an inflammation), you shouldn’t eat nightshades.
For more on their eating regime, check out Food Matters by Mark Bittman. It makes sense. Though MB says to make vegs and fruit your 75% thing most of the time. Eating white flour is essentially like eating sugar cause that’s what it turns to in your body. Not that I’ve cut it out myself…
I get PF more than i’d like. When tomatoes are not in season I still get it. It’s from running. Everyone is very different. We don’t all react the same way.
Much like i’m highly allergic to capsaicin, but FMORC (husband) loves doing spicy pepper challenges. It doesn’t both him. So cutting peppers out of my diet makes me healthier. For him it makes no difference health-wise
AND if you have plantar fasciitis, you should pick the plantar leaves and put them in your shoes. The ones that grow in the grass, not plantains, the bananas. And they are wonderful for bee stings – the plantar plant is a very powerful anti-inflammatory agent. Really remarkable. I’m highly allergic to bee stings and it knocks the swelling down in seconds.
Sorry, I went off topic. 🙂
jib
Lol! I love thesethreads that go into what works for some/home remedies. Fun!
My doctor wanted me to eliminate both gluten AND nightshade vegetables, because I have bad arthritis. I find it VERY difficult, needless to say! But it’s VERY annoying and embarrassing to me when people at public gatherings have asked me,”Do you have celiac or do you just WANT to be gluten free?” I don’t really feel like baring my health woes publicly, but it seems like I’m supposed to justify my food choices! I think people that act all “holier than thou” about food are annoying, but otherwise I feel, let people eat what they want. I think it sounds like they are definitely on an anti-inflammatory diet; he’s super hard core about his health and career longevity. There are so many OTHER reasons to dislike the 2 of them!
That diet sounds joyless. So much of the joy of life for me is fantastic food. A juicy steak or a massive glass of wine. Yes, they look great, but they’re missing out on a huge part of life. JMO
+10000
Steak and wine are the two things they actually do eat!
This doesn’t sound so crazy to me. No refined sugars or carbs is pretty standard. I gave up dairy when I had a baby with a milk allergy. I don’t cook night shades anymore because my kids won’t eat them (insert grumbling here).
They make crazy amounts of money off their bodies. Makes sense they’d try to be as healthy as possible.
This is why, although their diet sounds extreme to me, that I cannot judge, their livelihood stems entirely from their bodies. Eat to protect that!
I don’t eat dairy very much (mostly because it makes me break out) and I hate eggplants, peppers and most nightshades, but even I couldn’t do well on this diet. No sugar? No caffeine? No tomato sauce? No chocolate?? I’d probably die of boredom after a week, lol.
I’m all for tweaking my diet to try and eat healthier but when people take it to ridiculous extremes I do shake my head. Steak and fish is all well and good, but what if I want to indulge in a cheeseburger? 😛
Then indulge in a cheeseburger. You don’t have to eat like them if you don’t want or need to.
There’s so much judgment about food choices.
Loads of judgement. There’s almost no correct eating choices that can be applied to everyone. We all need different things at different times.
They look great because of good genes and being young. They’re freaks of nature.
Look at Madonna who despite the good genes, workouts and macrobiotic diet isn’t aging well at all. Goop the same, her skin is bad even when hiding it under make-up.
You have to have some fat in you and not just from fish or coconut oil which is usually in small amounts anyway (and carbs).
Wait when they hit 50, there’s a reason why so many of them look so old quickly and turn to fillers and botox. Smoking and eliminating 50 food groups isn’t doing Hollywood any good.
Eating everything in moderation works better than anything else. Chinese and Japanese people have the worst carbs (noodles and rice) and they look amazing. French cuisine is based on rich food with dairy and fat and they are generally considered to be slim people (obesity has been going up due to fastfood like McDonalds and decreasing physical activity in recent years).
In the end, everybody dies. I want to die in the knowledge that I enjoyed life and food (a basic necessity) is a great part of the enjoyment. In moderation.
Exactly.
Preach it.
*applauds*
As long as you’re eating in moderation and staying active, you’re fine. Just burn more calories than you take in on any given day. Viola.
Nooo, Shambles. That’s only if you’re trying to lose weight. Otherwise, should be burn the same number of calories as you take in.
Yes, it’s great to eat in moderation. But we’re also not professional athletes or models whose bodies are their jobs. Tom’s at the tail end of his career and is trying to keep himself in top physical shape to prolong his playing days as much as possible. This isn’t average Joe down the block.
That makes sense, Embertine. My bad.
@Bridget
That’s true. However, many athletes have their own diet and many times this includes carbs. Eliminating fruit is really OTT as berries have little sugar and lots of health advantages. But then he does eat bananas which contains a lot of sugar and can contain starch depending on the ripeness. I don’t know, his choices are odd…There are also athletes who thrive on a low carb high fat diet. His diet is what he likes or what works best for HIS body but I don’t see their lifestyle as the pinnacle of health and the things some of this chef says is downright stupid. For example, he mentions the China Study which is a biased study and often mentioned by those eating a plant-based diet (and they ignore the high amount of carbs Chinese people eat!). Lots of food research is either contradicting or funded by food companies pushing their agenda (e.g. low-fat is healthier yet no medical evidence of this claim).
As for her body, she doesn’t need to be ‘in shape’, as long as she looks lean and toned, she’s good. At least she eats solid food. I remember her not caring all that much about her diet before Tom and eating whatever she craved before a big show. Maybe it’s his influence or maybe she needed a stricter diet after her kids, I don’t know.
If you notice, they’re not eliminating carbs. They’re eliminating refined white sugar, but that’s not all carbs. Whole grains (complex carbohydrates) are better for you and will fuel you better in the long run.
Artemis
Both your comments. Perfect.
Just to add to embertine/Shambles
It’s important to take in what you burn when going for fitness. You’re still adding muscle that will continue to need fuel to maintain even when not working out. If you don’t feed it or account for it you could lose it.
@bridget
Yes I read the article 🙂 However, why do they mention the China Study when that’s not the type of diet they follow? Seems to me like the chef and the Bradys pick and choose from different diets and aren’t all that informed. For instance lots of grains contain phytic acid; so when you want to eat brown rice for example, you have to apply a certain method (soaking) to reduce the phytic acid which is a LONG process and I haven’t found a reference to this process at all when celebs discuss their heavy grain diets.
There are many ways to get the best out of vegetables and fruits and many cultures take on a different approach but when celebrities discuss food it’s always so simple ‘oh just pick brown over white rice’ but that’s not the whole picture though. Or raw isn’t always the best way to get the most nutrients. And I doubt they’re bothering to get the whole picture which is why I find it dangerous when celebs talk about food and the chef uses maybe 1 reference to research. There are so many things I research for myself because food science is vague, if I can’t find a conclusive article on something, I’m sure as hell am not going to believe two celebs who are not known for their intelligence.
Brady makes pancakes for his kids too. With sugar, so yeah this ‘sugar is the devil’ stance is not always followed. That’s like Beyoncé’s type of veganism, not an actual dedication but merely a reflection of the vast resources and options they can access. Good for them but not for everybody.
“Eating everything in moderation works better than anything else. ”
“In the end, everybody dies. I want to die in the knowledge that I enjoyed life and food (a basic necessity) is a great part of the enjoyment. In moderation.”
You’re my girl crush.
Here’s my point: in a normal context, yes moderation is great. Ideally we all want to eat unprocessed foods, be careful what and how many sweet treats we choose, and eat lots and lots of veggies. Even then, eating too much fruit isn’t that different from anything with a lot of simple sugars, and if you’re trying to lose weight you do want to steer towards veggies more than fruits. But this isn’t even a normal context. Brady is an elite athlete looking to prolong his career far past the typical range, and what foods he puts into his body is absolutely a part of that. I’m not saying that the chef’s reasoning isn’t mumbo-jumbo-y, but it’s not like he’s the first athlete to be like that anyhow, and how many folks are looking for heavy-duty research when they’re reading an interview with a celebrity’s personal chef?
I’m sure he occasionally makes pancakes with his kids and has cheat days in the off season. It’s likely a very different story when he’s training and in-season (I’ve even read somewhere that during the season he goes to bed when his kids go to bed). I’m not trying to be a butthead here, but I personally don’t see any huge issue with this diet in the context of who’s eating it. If it was a normal person I’d say it was too restrictive, but when everything is being prepared by a personal chef and is likely delicious, and is for the exceptionally driven Tom Brady, I get it.
If they still ate dairy, I would have to disagree, but because butter is my reason for living I am with you. For quite awhile I had cut out sugar (like nearly all non-fruit sugar), white flour and was eating a really low carb diet. I felt great and lost a ton of weight. Since I hate mushrooms and most nightshades (except tomatoes), not eating them is just my life. I cook most of my food so avoiding MSG is also easy. I’ve relaxed my diet a bit of late, mostly because eating that way takes a lot more prep work and planning and I just haven’t been able to do it, but I still don’t use refined sugar. Life is far from joyless or dessertless.
The trick is to have a professional chef cooking for you full time. You should check out the photos in the linked article – the vegetarian sushi he made looked delicious!
If I were the one cooking, however, yeah this diet would be a soul-killer.
Next year, I will have to remember to write “hire a personal chef” as one of my resolutions.
This is such a no-brainer! There is no reason for anyone not to be thin and beautiful !
😛
you can have a fantastic meal without the foods they choose not to eat. You just have to be creative.
I eat minimal white flour, minimal white sugar (I use sugar, just not the processed white stuff), I have nightshades in moderation, and I eat lean meats and lots of green vegetables. I don’t shy away from the occasional pizza, though.
Since when is a mushroom a member of the Solanaceae family? Fungi aren’t even plants! [/Hort major geekery]
Just when I think celebrities can’t get any more ignorant, vacuous and useless, something new comes along. The “sugar = acid = DOOM” thing is the stupidest piece of pseudoscience I have seen this century. Perhaps this fruitbat can look up ‘homeostasis’ in between rustling up his quinoa enemas or WTF ever.
“The “sugar = acid = DOOM” thing is the stupidest piece of pseudoscience I have seen this century.” Yes, I was thinking the same thing — it reminded me of the Laura Prepon “detox” post from yesterday.
All I know is I could not live without tomatoes, tomato sauce, salsa, etc.
LMAO Someone’s cranky. Fungi aren’t plants? See, I learned something today. Love that.
I get it though, I’m so tired of the celeb diets. If someone wants to eat a certain way, fine. I’m sure this diet is not unhealthy. Sounds like they get all their nutrients. But this “we’re all acidic as f*ck and DYING from it” makes me rage-y. There is no scientific proof for it. Refined sugar in large quantities is not good for us but a piece of candy also won’t kill me either. And the white flour thing … get away from me. *clutches muffin* Food is not just sustenance. There is such a big social aspect to eating as well. And it’s just FUN.
A mushroom is slightly less closely related to a potato than Tom Brady is, and looks a lot less like one too.
Lots of mushrooms are so good for you and low cal.
Littlemissnaughty,
not only is there no scientific proof that anti-acidic diets do anything…
…but the entire CONCEPT is NOT PLAUSIBLE IN THE SLIGHTEST!
NEWSFLASH to all:
Your body has something called homeostatis. The pH of the body is around 7.35 for ideal protein manufacture. You deviate from this even a little…YOU GO IN A COMA AND DIE!!!!!!!
YOU cannot change your body’s ph with diet! It is carefully controlled! Many people wrongly conflate urine pH with that of their body. No. NO. NOOOOO!!!!! Urine pH can fluctuate all over the place even depending on time of day. It is NOT reflective of your body’s pH.
End the spread of pseudoscience!
Pine tree- the blood has buffers in it to maintain its pH range, but acidity and alkalinity definitely do matter and vary tremendously in the mouth and urine depending on what you are eating and drinking. Many people have good reason to want to keep the pH range in the urine in the alkaline range (above neutral 7). Adjusting what and when you eat can help with that, unless you want to be popping baking soda routinely…. Avoiding pain is a great motivator. Alkaline urine can be less hospitable for some pathogens involved in UTIs, but also it can soothe tissue that may be damaged for any reason (from infection, kidney stones, unknown reasons as in interstitial cystitis).
Oral health is helped by neutral or alkaline pH in the saliva simply because that range is inhospitable for the microbeasties that result in cavities and gum problems. Women especially are likely to be in the acidic range orally, men often are not. Xylitol (6-10 grams daily, a little bit after eating or drinking) has a proven record for promoting oral health, and apparently it helps both by being inedible to the microbeasties and by bringing the mouth to neutral or slightly alkaline pH (dairy cheese or milk and walnuts will do likewise). You shouldn’t rush to brush your teeth after eating or drinking acidic foods since they temporarily soften the teeth (they harden up again with minerals from your saliva, as long as you’re not sipping coke all day….). But in addition to or instead of rinsing with water, you can try a little xylitol to slow down the microbeasties in their feeding frenzy.
Anyway- people with bladder issues might want to experiment with foods recognized as alkalizing the urine. Fruits and fruit juices are very acidic by themselves, but their metabolites that end up in the urine are alkaline. So lemon juice is actually the most alkalizing – next time you have a fire down below, try 1/2 a lemon in a glass of water (add sweetener if you need it) and see if it puts the fire out for you. People may have contrary sensitivities, but that’s very individual. Lemon juice definitely puts the fire out for me, as I accidentally discovered when taking lemon juice in water for a bad cough. Looking for lists of alkalizing and acidifying foods (with respect to the urine, not the blood) can be helpful if trying to make a beneficial adjustment to your diet for such purposes. We’re adults, we’re allowed to play with our food!
You’ll notice some contradictions in such lists, because of the way they try to assign foods (for example, by ashing the foods), but they can give you ideas to try. The usual advice is to not entirely avoid acidifying foods but just try to get a better balance of acidifying vs alkalizing if you’re having trouble. And the pH of your urine and mouth will naturally fluctuate over time. The ultimate test is actually your own body – reduction of pain and (if you’re obsessive or curious enough) testing the pH of the urine with simple color change test strips. You can test your oral pH that way also if you want to see how the pH changes over the day.
I’m just glad you brought up mushrooms, because all I can think about is,
“HOW DO THEY LIVE WITHOUT MUSHROOMS?!”
I love my shroomies on pasta, on pizza…. Oops. I guess it’s mushrooms + carbs that I really can’t live without.
And the tomatoes in the sauce?
You said it before I did!
Welp, smoking is the death of people and Gisele didn’t mind that until relatively recently. The sun is the death of people. Plastic surgery can be the death of people. All these things she does not mind.
But sugar? And baby formula? DONT YOU KNOW THESE THINGS ARE THE DEATH OF PEOPLE??!!!
yes. This x 1000. It gets to me when we extol French women or men or any culture’s people for that matter when the people use smoking to stay in shape. Smoking will help you keep weight off. It doesn’t mean it’s good for you. Similarly, these types of restrictive diets will help you keep weight off. Again, doesn’t mean it’s good for you.
And for anyone who says, “but they don’t eat restrictively!” I dare you – DARE YOU – to go to dinner at someone’s home (who is not rich) and see them eating like this.
Even at its most basic level – What is wrong with iodized salt? Iodized salt is a significant public health achievement!!
I read that goiter is returning because of everyone using sea salt these days. Maybe not Tom and G but for the vast majority of working class Americans, we need iodine because we cannot afford wild salmon every other day!!!
I think this is kind of kooky. For a chef to say that most foods are acidic and killing us is overkill. There’s no evidence for that acid/alkaline thing. Now smoking does keep the weight off – I quit 12 years ago and gained 35 pounds that I can’t get off. I’ve done everything – low carb, lots of exercise, I just can’t get it off. I hit menopause early, right after quitting smoking, so that is an issue, too.
And thanks, mb, for the reminder of iodized salt!! I’l buy a box of Morton’s next time I’m at the store!
The acid/alkaline diet thing makes me rage. It is complete crap. you cannot change your body’s pH with your diet.
It’s like no one took biology in high school…homeostatis. Your body maintains a constant temperature AND pH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HIGH SCHOOL!
“Gisele didn’t mind that until relatively recently…” Come on… She quit 10 years ago.
I call b.s.
This is some kind of prep work for a Gisele-and-her-chef project. Cookbook? Grocery service? Diet supplements? Diet tracker app? Website?
I’m curious about the nightshades. My son has moderately severe eczema and I’ve read that avoiding nightshades can help. I’ve no doubt that Tom would have the best nutritionists and doctors guiding him; if there was a risk of poor performance with his diet he wouldn’t take it.
We have a lot of eczema in my family, including my kids and my nieces and nephews. What is fascinating to me is that each kid has different triggers/ things that help- one avoids acidic foods like tomatoes and citrus, one needs to limit sugar/ carbs, and my kids seem to be most affected by external things like swimming/certain sunscreens in the summer (my oldest does swim team and around July the eczema really starts getting really difficult). A visit to a pediatric dermatologist really helped control my kids’ eczema, but finding the cause was harder. Good luck, eczema is tough!
My eczema flares up something awful, and my stomach gets very angry, if I eat tomatoes and sometimes eggplant (which I love). I have found that for me, raw tomatoes (eg, in a salad) do not bother me as much as canned and/or cooked. Zucchini,squash, and potatoes do not bother me, but I limit my potato consumption as they are high in carbs.
I have psoriasis and avoiding nightshades really helps. Both psoriasis and eczema are immune system disorders that manifest on the skin. Nightshades, since they can be inflammatory, can provoke an immune system response that can aggravate the skin symptoms. When you avoid those foods, it “calms” the immune system down some, which then can lessen the skin reactions. It certainly does not get rid of it for me, but there is a noticeable difference for me when that stuff is avoided.
I want to thank you so much for contributing this. Psoriasis is so nasty and it’s hard to find non-steroidal approaches for getting that sucker under control.
What they want to eat is their business but it sounds to me as if they push this diet on their child(ren?) as well. I don’t care what adults chose to do but I get irritated when they push these diets on to their kids.
Can you imagine what a nightmare she must be overseeing any playdates for her kids? I can only imagine the lectures regarding proper nutrition and the anger should anyone slip them a ritz cracker or something.
It’s no different than kids with allergies. I have to send mine with certain cookies to school when they have treat day, or bring him something from McDonalds if they’re having pizza. It’s mildly annoying but not impossible.
I do think it is different, since it is a dietary preference not necessity. But, yes, the nanny probably brings snacks from home, or maybe they are less rigid outside the home.
how dare she care about her children!!
But everyone does that. Don’t your kids eat the same diet you do (assuming you have kids)? Healthy or not, children eat what their parents eat.
And this diet isn’t unhealthy- they’re eating mostly vegetables along with whole grains and a variety of proteins. How is that a bad thing to feed their kids? It sounds pretty optimal and I’m sure they’ve cleared it with multiple nutritionists and doctors . These aren’t people who make dietary decisions on a whim, their entire income is dependent on their physical health.
everyone does that. if you eat junk your kids eat junk, people are just hating because its gisele.
I feel the same way. It’s a great way to give them some serious food issues.
Teaching them to eat a nutrient-rich diet is going to give them food issues?
I respectfully disagree. There are probably treats in their diet, but made of somewhat different ingredients. There is no law that says children must be fed cake, candy and pop daily or they will be deprived…of what? Of what the fast food machine promotes for high profit margins?
Their kids are eating what they know, it’s familiar to them, and it’s fine. Food should not come with value judgments. Feeding kids well as the foundation of health doesn’t equate to being the food police.
@lobbit – based on people who eat like this and talk about it, it’s not the healthy food that’s bad obviously. It’s the judgment about other foods, the sense of superiority, the weird issues around “clean” vs. “unclean” foods… Which is not to say that they’re passing that on to their kids with the healthy food, just that it seems easy to do.
Yeah there poor children they always look so unhealthy and unhappy
Diane Keaton, for example, is vegan or vegetarian, but she said she would never push that on her kids and would let them make the choice when they were older. THAT is sane.
My grandpa smoked and ate like crap (little debbie’s, bacon and eggs and toast and steak, also lots of soda) until his death in his 80’s. I’ve seen naturopaths who eat like Tom and Giselle die at 60. Seriously, no one lives forever!!
These are the exceptions; we know that smoking is significantly correlated with earlier illness and death; that soda is significantly correlated not only with tooth decay but with systemic inflamation as well as weight gain, and so on.
That’s great for your grandpa, and I hope he felt well all the way through his life — while exposing his family to second-hand smoke.
Tom and Giselle aren’t eating like naturopaths. Naturopaths are so-called ‘alternative’ (cough) health providers. Tom and Giselle are eating what used to be called ‘health foods.’ Never understood why that had to be a pejorative. What does that mean everybody else eats, unhealth foods? If you mean “natural” foods, well that’s a can of worms. But maybe you meant organic, as in grown without the use of artificial pesticides and fertilizers (IE potentially harmful chemicals).
Tom and Giselle don’t sound like their vegetarians though. They appear to be eating lean meats. For the most part, it just sounds like they’re not having….junk food (which is what contains a lot of refined flours and sugars). They’re not eating a cake for dessert after their healthy salmon dinner.
They’re both very tall so it’s not an issue for them, but…I lived in Southeast Asia for many years, and while living there I learned the following: raising a child up without much meat and no dairy (i.e., a plant-based diet) gives you an adult who is very healthy, very lean, with low body fat – and who is about five feet four inches tall.
That being said, as an adult I would love to have a personal chef cooking like that for me!
Um, they’re eating really healthily, though. And…”pushing” onto your kids a healthy, nutrient-rich diet of mostly veggies, grains, and lean meats is exactly what parents are supposed to be doing.
Yup. What’s wrong with eating healthy? Isn’t it the point? They don’t seem to be denying themselves the pleasures of life. I mean, look at them!
I get irritated too. Even Diane Keaton, who is either vegan or vegetarian, said she doesn’t push her lifestyle on her kids and leaves it up to them to decide when they’re older. What is so wrong with that?
Life is short, have dessert 🙂
Exactly.
Take the trip. Buy the shoes. Eat the cake.
Yay!
Following comment applies to my experience only, but in my view their diet sounds good to me for the most part, although I couldn’t live without mushrooms, peppers and tomatos. I’m striving to become fully gluten free & vegan (am vegetarian but have dairy & gluten intolerances and aim to eliminate eggs and honey from my diet).
Once you’ve got used to no sugar in your diet, milk chocolate tastes the absolute worst. I dare say it tastes like the poison it actually is. They are also saying they’ve eliminated white sugar specifically – it’s not to say they don’t use honey, agave nectar, molasses or equivalent in their diet.
Yeah, aside from the nightshade thing (and maybe caffeine), I don’t think their diet sounds unsustainable to me, but I’m another lactose intolerant (I’m not gluten free, but I also don’t really eat much gluten and don’t have an intolerance to it) vegetarian trying to go vegan, so maybe we’re biased.
You absolutely had me until the poisonous milk chocolate. Poison is poison. Chocolate is unhealthy in large quantities. That is not the same thing. It’s not the dietary choices people object to, it’s the hyperbole.
I didn’t mean it to sound as literal as it did, I suppose. As mentioned below, it tastes like poison to me because it is so overwhelmingly sweet and rich. My dairy intolerance makes me see anything milk as a natural enemy by default, which sucks because most of my life I’ve been a huge fan of cheese. 🙂
Okay, I get that. I just automatically go on the defensive whenever someone describes certain unhealthy foods as poison or screams murder at people who eat meat. It’s like everyone forgot to have a normal discussion about food. Allergies and intolerances are a whole different ballgame and honestly, I feel bad for people who not only have to deal with those but also with crazy people who think they’ll die from eating bread because GLUTEN. They just give everyone who has to avoid it a bad name. Like those who prefer organic cosmetics because everything is absorbed “directly into the bloodstream” therefore TOXIC FACE CREAM!
AHAHAHAHA thanks for proving the point. White sugar is nutritionally identical to honey. The fact that the “natural is good” brigade think it’s a miracle food when it is actually just liquid sugar is hilarious. And agave nectar has a high fructose content, which causes insulin-resistance and is considerably less good for you than, wow, than sugar!
The “chocolate is poison!!1111” remark made me laugh though, thanks. I’m not going to ask you to explain exactly which toxins you’re referring to, as I suspect your answer will come under the category of Not Even Wrong.
I was a little bit hyperbolic there – I mean to me it tastes like poison because it is so overwhelmingly sweet/rich. Anything in moderation is unlikely to harm, but refined white sugar is hidden in a lot of processed items /ready made meals / sauces etc that people tend to buy .
I am not pontificating on the benefits or dangers of any alternative to refined white sugar. I merely pointed out that the quote specifically states they do not consume refined white sugar.
Now that I agree with. Particularly tomato sauces, where tons of sugar is added to hide the low quality of the tomatoes. Much sympathy on the lack of cheese though, sorry if I over-reacted.
Actually it’s pasteurized honey that is not good for you. Unpasteurized honey is full of antioxidants, it has natural antibacterial and antifungal qualities, it’s full of phytonutrients which actually have anti-inflammatory benefits and can even sooth a cough and sore throat and speed healing of a burn or cut.
Cooked tomatoes are actually better for you than raw as cooking increases a compound called lycopene, a powerful anti-oxidant that can help lower the risk of heart attacks and strokes.
So go ahead and eat tomato sauce and paste, especially if it doesn’t have any extra sugar and salt added, and unpasteurized honey. All good for you.
Well Jaded, honey is not good for all, please don’t give it to babies (pasteurized or not):
http://www.honeybeesuite.com/does-pasteurization-of-honey-kill-clostridium-botulinum/
Wrong spot.
I was a vegetarian for 22 years, but I could never go vegan as I love dairy too much even being lactose intolerant. Soy milk tastes disgusting to me, so I get the lactose free milk when I want a bowl of cereal or sonething. The great love of my life is cheese. Never giving it up.
If these two boneheads want to eliminate everything good from their diet, go ahead. I think moderation is key, and probably next year Gisele will be on a new fad, and this “diet” will go away. This couple just screams superficial to me.
My sister is a radical eater, has been for years, she is on this McDougall diet, it’s almost all carbs, but high density, unprocessed carbs. She is a runner, one of the fastest Masters runners in NJ, she is skinny as a rail, a Registered Dietitian and even she says of all the foods to worry about in the world, sugar is really low on the list. She uses sugar in her tea a few times a day.
yeah, cool. a lot of other dietitians say sugar is bad for you, guess your sister has a one up over all the others that don’t know shit about their profession!!
As an autoimmune patient with BMS who is hypersensitive to many kinds of carbohydrates (FODMAPs), I have to live with pretty much the same restrictions as those two, or even somewhat harsher, because I can’t eat any grains at all (I get all sorts of pains and health problems if I eat in a normal way). I’m often confronted with people who are horrified by that, but in my experience it’s nothing to be afraid of. If you’re able to eat about twenty percent of what you can buy in a normal supermarket, that’s still pretty much compared to the lack of variety people in poorer countries suffer from.
Does it make me angry that people put such restrictions on themselves even though they probably don’t really have to? I think the most important thing about eating is to feel good after a meal. If they do, they’re making the right choices.
You have such a nice attitude!
As I said below, my doctors put me on similar restrictions several months ago because they didn’t like what my blood work was showing. It takes completely rethinking one’s approach to food and a lot of planning but there are still plenty of foods to eat and I’m not going hungry. I’ve lost 15 pounds but most importantly, my blood pressure is back to normal, my blood sugar is back to normal, my cholesterol levels are excellent, and my liver function tests, which were all over the place, and the biggest cause for concern, have almost normalized.
The question is, if you just compared people on different restricted diets vs. just cutting the portion size and the calories, would the results be any different. Maybe it’s just the weight loss making them feel better.
All the latest pseudo scientificy food trends. ‘White sugar’. I suppose brown sugar is OK? Unless you have an allergy to dairy or nightshades, no need to avoid. How much do you want to bet Tom eats big old cheeseburgers when out from under her thumb?
Does the team do team meals before every game? What about when he is out of town for a game? Do they cater to his and any other teammate’s food requests? Or do they (him and any other teammate with special food requests) cater to them? When I’m talking about food requests, I’m sure if someone is milk intolerant or is allergic to eggs or some other food, that they are accommondated.
No.
Exactly crumpet. There is this trend that “Brown, whole sugar” is better than “white sugar”. No. It causes the exact same insulin release in the body. Same with honey (though honey can have antioxidants with the sugar) and other ‘natural’ sugars. They can all be harmful in large quantities.
Their food lifestyle (not diet) sounds fine.
I love variety but this is how I usually eat granted with less quality food!
Usually I would find all of this hoky, but this last year I started getting shaky and the sweats after I would eat a baked potatoe. To make a long story short I found out I have a thyroid problem. I have come to realize the best way for me to eat is the way they are eating. I don’t do that all the time but I can tell that I react to night shades, caffeine, certain fruits and vegetables and msg. I wish I had their personal chef at my house. I need to eliminate coffee but just can’t do it yet.
I mean good for them, but I couldn’t do it. I need dessert and pasta. And a good glass of white wine. I mean I guess they both depend on their bodies for work so it would be pertinent that they follow all the “trends” in the latest live forever in Hollywood scheme. I don’t know how they do that with kids though. Kids need protein and fat and carbs … they’re still growing. And I don’t think I could get my kiddo’s to eat what they do lol but I suppose if they were raised that way then that’s what they know.
I eat super healthy, also don’t eat the things that they don’t eat and I have dessert and pasta when I want. It’s just made in a healthier way. The other night I had a super yummy pasta sauce made out of roasted butternut squash and herbs, topped with a vegan parmesan cheese that I made myself. It was fantastic. For dessert, I had a coconut shortbread, made with coconut pulp, coconut oil, soaked chia, and almond flour. It was also fantastic. There’s a multitude of ways to eat healthy, and still eat normally. It doesn’t have to mean people who eat nutritionally well just sit around eating clumps of raw broccoli for dinner. lol.
Wow. That’s inspiring!
I have a chronic health issue so putting good versions of food in my body is my way of supplementing the work that my doctors do. It can kind of be a pain in the butt at first, but once you develop a routine it is fine, and I think it costs less in groceries! I have pretty much found that there is not a single item of food that I want to cook for myself that I can’t find a healthier version recipe for. Then, when I want to eat out and have a steak or sushi or something like that, something that I’m not going to make myself, and that I don’t ever want to eat a modified version of, it’s no big deal to my overall health. That’s the issue I think for a lot of people, is eating too much of certain types of foods that after a while take a toll on your health. It’s all about balance, and staying away from processed food.
I need this coconut shortbread recipe!
@Lisa: I don’t know if I can put all the links here but if you google Reboot with Joe, the coconut chia shortbread is in the recipes section. Next I’m going to try the nutella-like goji berry pudding and the carrot protein balls. 🙂 The butternut squash pasta is also on that site.
Lately I’ve been making all my own milks and cheeses. One Green Planet is also a great site for recipes and they’ve got a list of the best 25 cheeses you can make. Smoked Gouda is my next project!
I think I could do it (or be willing to) if I got paid what they do. I’d probably fall off the wagon, but I’d be willing to get back on it once I saw my next paycheque.
I think the missing out on life part only happens if you’re not making the kind of money they do and are doing this diet for nothing, and the only affirmation you get is a like on Facebook for your beach body.
Green peppers are the devil!
Agreed.
Why? Curious b/c I eat them a lot.
Am I the only human alive who loves a good green bell pepper? Seriously, those things rock on pizza and in stir frys. I do not get the red pepper love – too sweet and odd for me. My husband claims they are “dusty” tasting but I’ve never tasted that. They’re just good. I think a lot of people cook them wrong and maybe that’s the problem. I generally eat them raw or close to raw.
You’re not the only one! I LOVE green peppers.
I hate them too. And mushrooms. My family thinks I’m nuts but they’re just GROSS!
are you by any chance related to that chick on the bachelor who proclaimed gluten is satan? No food is the devil…
Ugh. I know. I hate them!
Sugar is bad for you and depending on your body nightshades can be as well.
I gave up sugar, and dairy and my skin has never been more beautiful. If only I had known this back when I was a teenager suffering from acne!
Grains hurt my stomach, but I don’t like to eat meat too often so its a very limited diet for me as well. But while I may not enjoy eating anymore .. I feel and look better.
Sugar is also very aging, but I think its the sun thats doing her in. Her face looks terrible.
I consume sugar. MY skin is fabulous (thanks in part to good genes). What now?
LOL!!! Me, too!! I love sugar and I have always had gorgeous skin. It’s genetics, not sugar. 🙂
oh hey, some people do have bad acne due to their diet habits!! i dont see the point of this nasty comment? good for you for being able to consume sugar and have great skin, some people have to do different things to achieve nice skin, you self-righteous jerk.
Nightshades have been scientifically proven to cause an inflammatory reaction in some people.
This is totally true. I am one of those people. Trust me, it’s not fun. If Tom has legitimate inflammation issues with these foods, I don’t begrudge him getting rid of them. It’s dumb that it’s sort of become a “fad.” But it’s a real thing that legitimately makes some people miserable.
Sam, I agree. It makes it really hard for people with a genuine food intolerance or immune condition when stuff like this becomes fashionable.
All of the nightshade discussion on this board today is a complete revelation to me, I had no idea about any of it. I thought tomatoes and peppers and mushrooms were amazingly good for you. I might remove them from my diet for awhile and see what happens – too bad, they are staples for us, but I’m thinking my sensitive skin may appreciate it.
@Sandra – they are good for you, but people with any inflammatory or auto-immune issues should stay away from them. Everyone else who avoids them is just jumping on the “no gluten!” bandwagon. Cooked tomatoes are full of lycopene which can reduce incidence of heart attack and stroke. All varieties of wild mushrooms contain significant anticancer and immune-enhancing effects. However if you try avoiding them for a while and your sensitive skin shows improvement then by all means keep your intake of them minimal.
Their bodies are their livelihood so whatever works. Their personal chef must have had their approval to give an interview so one has to assume they asked for the attention. What else? At least Gisele doesn’t starve herself silly.
This is pretty much the diet my doctor put me on last spring because all of my blood work was bad. Six months later and major improvement
Some organs produce acid, some produce base. There is NO SUCH THING AS AN ACIDIC BODY.
THANK YOU KRISTA. I know I have my cranky pants on in this thread, but that’s because this stuff drives me absolutely batsh*t, and knowing that more and more commenters are going to be coming in to regurgitate whatever stupid food nonsense they read in a fashion magazine this week is so infuriating.
The truth is that the standard of science education in my country (UK) and in the US is so low that most people don’t even understand the very basics of how their bodies work. We don’t know how our digestive systems work, our muscles, our reproductive systems. And that makes us hella easy to manipulate. Politicians use that ignorance to control our choices and garner votes; marketing teams use that ignorance to sell us books and supplements that we don’t need; fashion houses use that ignorance to play on our insecurities and sell us unattainable beauty ideals.
Do you know why most commercial diet plans don’t work long term? Because if they design something that helps you succeed and then to keep the weight off, they are out of a job. THEY WANT YOU TO FAIL. Same with marketing supplements to women in pregnancy. A woman eating a balanced diet doesn’t need to take anything extra, but god forbid you fail to buy the latest faddy stupid vitamin pill. I mean, don’t you WANT a healthy baby?! It’s all about using our fears to make us buy stuff.
You don’t need to know the exact equations for buffer solutions in order to know that eating sugar couldn’t possibly turn your blood into acid*, but a dose of healthy scepticism when hearing of the latest diet advice would be useful. Hell, just understanding the scientific method so that we can recognise this codswallop when we see it would be a good start.
*Although do, because buffer solutions are fascinating and are a big part of how your body regulates itself
Who are these people who insist you take supplements during pregnancy? My midwives and OBs said if I was in decent shape nutritionally before conception, take a Flintstones if I wanted to (and since my diet shifts to crackers and coke for weeks, I do) but otherwise not necessary. In my limited experience, no one pushes any supplements on you while pregnant. With HG, I think it’s a different story, but that is obviously a whole different kettle.
And yet she has no problem putting in synthetic, silicone bags in her chest or filler in her lips. These people are all absurd with their food restriction and inorganic plastic upgrades.
Oooo nightshades. I didn’t realize tomatoes and eggplant were related. Makes sense. I had food allergies as a kid, and I could only eat very little of both (it showed up as mild allergy). Mild also to milk. Severe aka not allowed any chocolate and strawberries. I thank the heavens every day I no longer have any food allergies, it makes life so hard to have restrictions of NEVER having one food.
But was I the only one surprised they eat grains and lentils? I imagined salmon and spinach only for Gisele.
All of that dietary restriction for health, just to go and get foreign objects placed into her chest. Ugh.
Do we know she got implants vs. a lift? Just curious.
It was definitely implants after seeing those globes in her bikini and the before and after.
What I dislike is the superior attitude. Like Giselle saying she looks like she does because she’s willing to put in the work and sacrifice, and her sisters look the way they do because they aren’t. If you want to limit yourself to eating this way, do so. But it doesn’t make you a better person or a healthier person than someone who eats sugar, butter, etc. in moderation. I eat tomatoes almost every day, and I have not burst into flames from spontaneous combustion.
Yes! Please stop congratulating yourself on your amazing diet and appearance when we all know that you owe much of it to your plastic surgeon.
Do you know that Gisele has being working as a model since 1994? There are millions of pictures and videos of her in every phase of her life available for anyone to see.
Gisele wasn’t born yesterday inside of a highly secret surgery room like you think.
@Cassie I don’t think she was born inside a surgery room, and I do believe she is naturally beautiful. But she also wears a burka to get plastic surgery, then gives interviews about her “all-natural” beauty and health. I am all for women getting plastic surgery if it makes them feel better about themselves. And if they do, it’s no one’s business but their own—EXCEPT when they try and front that there appearance is due to all their restrictive eating and hard work. When you try and sell that crap to the public to promote your own (fake) image, you deserve to be called out on it.
https://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/killer-tomatoes-and-poisonous-potatoes/
Good Lord. They outGooped Goop.
I suggest they cut out carbohydrates, proteins and lipids from their diet, I heard their consumption is ultimately lethal.
I known for a fact that Gisele eats barbecue when she is in Brazil.
And when Gisele is in Brazil there are always pictures of her taken inside of restaurants, she always has a little bit of everything that is offered at the buffet on her plate. For anyone who think she doesn’t eat there are literally tons of pictures of her eating all kinds of food. If she has bulimia her body is the most perfect body a bulimic can only dream of.
My older healthy conscious aunt has been living in different parts of Brazil for the last 2 years (she is a nun and a health advocate, giving courses on homeopathy, etc.)
She praised the food in Brazil and still, lets it loose a little when she comes back home to eat all kind of treats and “bad food”.
She is the oldest of my in laws, and she looks the youngest, and is healthiest, has managed to avoid diabetes, which affects most of her younger siblings, men and women.
Maybe not having children has helped her, maybe it is solely her being active and her diet… it is something to think about.
We cannot be as rich as Gisele and Tom, but we can do something to live healthier.
Also, as a nun she must have a much more peaceful and less stressful life. No family issues to deal with or stressful 9 to 5 job.
+1! (that’s what my mother in law, her sister says ;D )
But she does work a lot. I see her more of a career woman than a nun.
She is over 70 something and she carries on working, before in the alternative medicine clinic that she created, and making homeopathic medicine, growing vegetables, etc. She was the manager of it. I respect her very much, but , yes, no nagging husband or children to worry or care for.
Having a career you’re passionate about can make all the difference. It’s one thing to work because you enjoy what you do, and it’s another to stress over a job you hate but must do in order to feed your kids. Good for her though, she seems wonderful !
I would DIE without tomato sauce and pasta. Love peppers and make mini pizza off eggplant base in the season 🙁 Tough based on some research and genetics, I should probably be avoiding nightshades as well. Actually whole this time I thought canned tomato was better because with heat and olive oil it supplies tons of lycopens which are great for basically everything?
BadAss – you’re absolutely right – there is no need to give up cooked tomatoes and tomato sauces, unless you have inflammatory or auto-immune issues, as they are full of lycopene which is helpful in preventing heart disease and stroke.
I want a big, fresh tomato, now!
I dont care about their diet, what I want is that celebs stop giving nutritious advice in any shape or form.
Me too. Actually, I have Hashimoto’s and it is completely controlled. Night shades are like 50% of my diet since birth (two Italian grandmas) and they don’t bother me. So I think it really depends on your genetics.
I never heard of not eating night shades. Near me there is an international type of food market. In the fruit and vegetable section there must be at least a dozen different types of eggplants and there is a section devoted to mushrooms, obviously these foods are in many different cultures. They are hard to avoid.
My memory tells me Goop wrote about it some years ago, that’s how I learnt about it.
My favorite favorites – I am allowed to say that at least once! – among plants are eggplant, potatoes, tomatoes, mushrooms, chiles and peppers. I can eat those Every.Single.Day. Three times a day. The diversity of all that stuff !!!!!! And what’s the critique, inflammatory properties? I never felt a thing. It depends on how our bodies process different kinds of food.
Wtf is a nightshade?
A member of the Solanaceae family of plants. Potatoes, tomatoes, peppers, chillies and eggplant. Many members of the family contain alkaloids, and eating them can exacerbate some immune disorders, particularly those involving inflammation of the joints.
Velvet, Velvet, Velvet, DO try to stay with us. How can you not know the latest buzzword in food trends. *sigh* to the back of the class.
Translation – thank you for asking, I had no idea, either.
So I guess I wasn’t the only one thinking they don’t like shades in their bedroom window that keeps the sun out. Or they don’t wear those transitional glasses known as nightshades. 🙂
I’m still trying to figure out what the hell gluten is. haha
This is also the first time I’ve heard that term in referring to food.
I had never heard of it until 5 years ago, when a nice older lady told me her gastroenterologist added nightshades, after gluten, to the list of foods she needed to avoid. She had had all kinds of problems before that and first tested celiac, then the nightshades. Totally mainstream person. Everything sounds kooky until you meet someone with firsthand experience, or have it yourself.
Well, to be fairl they do include flour (not white) and brown sugars.
That sounds good to me. Living out of their looks and what your body can do is a deal breaker.
I also have heard of rich people who watch out what they eat to prevent disease, but here those are the words of the chef, not them.
Actually brown sugar is nothing but refined sugar with some molasses added to it. It has no more health benefits than plain old white sugar but is used in a lot of baking as it adds a richer flavour. All sugars such as demarara, turbinado, raw, etc. are still full of empty calories and should be consumed minimally.
I am commenting this because the title says that their diet excludes sugar and flour, but they actually use a non- refined version, not “excluding”.
When they die people are going to be like ” What a healthy corpse!!”
Probably, I am not a health advocate, but I see my husband’s relatives who struggle with heath issues and the odd older relative who is healthier and more active than most of them and who is more watchful of her diet.
I get that folks dislike Gisele. But come on! We KNOW refined white flour and white sugar aren’t good for you and are just empty calories. We know that dairy really isn’t great for a lot of people. Are we seriously complaining that two people who make a living off of their bodies want to eat a super healthy diet when they’re at home? And want their kids to eat well?
I have no problem with Gisele, and I agree with OriginalTessa, GNAT and Artemis amongst others on this issue.
But you make a fair point.
If you have it in moderation you will be ok. No one is saying stuff it down your face every chance you get. But their chef is making it seems like dairy and flour is the Anti-Christ. There are plenty of others out there who make their living the same way these two do. Are we going to condemn them because they like a little flour and dairy in their diets.
Also this is a woman who doesn’t mind putting foreign objects in her body and not that long ago used to smoke but dairy is the end that ends all. And yes it is her body and she can treat it how she wants but when your personal chef goes on public record about your diet habits people are going to give their opinions about it good or bad.
I’m guessing it’s Tom more than Gisele. He’s been very, very strict with his body for years now – he wants to keep playing football for a long time, and is taking every physical step possible to make it happen. And again, we’re looking at this diet through the perspective of “normal people”. I said this below, but I’ll say it again: as people’s physical goals get more exacting, their diets get more exacting. When someone wants to maintain a precise, low body fat %age they’re going to have a very, very limiting diet with maybe a treat every 6-8 weeks. Their chef is using some silly words, but ultimately refined white flour and white sugar aren’t good for you. The fact that we like to eat it doesn’t really make it okay, it just means that we’re willing to make a trade off.
Yes, Bridget, you do make a fair point. It’s the attitude that bugs me, but maybe I’m putting some of that on her because of my own personal experiences? I’ve known a few holier than thou eaters and I really do believe that you can eat most things in moderation. But maybe I am unfairly assuming that she thinks she’s superior.
She probably does. But that doesn’t mean that this diet is the worst thing ever. Whole grains, lean meats, lots of veggies – it’s good for you. Not to mention, we’re not talking about a diet that’s for everyone. if you want a normal body, in good health, in good shape but not great then yes, you can eat in moderation. But as your physical goals get more and more exacting, your diet is going to get stricter and stricter. For example, the folks who want the super low body fat and super defined muscles are limiting themselves to a small treat maybe once every couple of months, are eating to satisfaction not to fullness, and are eliminating most simple sugars from the diet (fruit, dairy, any refined white sugar).
Bridget, do we really know that white flour and sugar are bad for you? When I lived in Paris I saw *so many* people munching on a baguette after work. Parisians also love their sweets. They are skinny and seem to be generally in good health. But also, Parisians are generally richer and tend to be better educated than most citizens, and they live in a city/country with a relatively good safety net and good friends and family close by (as France is quite small).
Show me one study that says that it is white flour and sugar which definitely cause death, diabetes, cancer, obesity, and you win.
Also – hat tip – google the Roseto effect. Sometimes it’s not just the food.
The Roseto Effect is fascinating to say the least. I do believe those that are close with their families and friends, have good relationships with all, and laugh and socialize a lot are healthier people in general.
Yes. We know that white sugar and white flour are bad for you. I’m not saying that normal people can’t enjoy a treat in moderation, but it doesn’t mean that it’s good for you. And to be honest I don’t really get what point you’re making that you see Parisiens eating baguettes.
I think I am personally jealous that I don’t have a chef preparing healthy meals for me.
I don’t even like white bread, I like whole grains/ wild grains.
My bigger issue is that I don’t have time to cook from scratch every day and all those ready meals or pre-fabricated meals or cafeteria meals have all those bad ingredients in them and the only thing you can do is to limit the intake.
@Bridget
I totally agree. If my career depended on me being in peak physical condition, I’d do likewise. Truth be told, their diet sounds very healthy to me and I’m sure their chef makes everything taste delicious so I doubt it’s even that much of a sacrifice for them to eat like that.
well duh, how dare they be healthy and care about what their children eat!
is that last pic a recent one of them? looks like her trip to Paris definitely included getting her breasts done as the tabloids reported.
Read a long NY Times profile on Tom couple of years ago. He has a health mental fitness geru that got Tom into a regime where they are attempting to keep Tom fit so he can play football into his forties. This is a big deal for him when he has to stop playing his own father said it’s not going to end well. So I thinks it’s more about him then her. She looks like she wants to eat clean but her I can see snacking or having a beer.
Play into his forties? For God’s sake why? They both have professions where they can retire in their 30’s and live very well. A footballer should not have such a long career…it isn’t safe.
Honestly, if they have a professional chef cooking for them, I’m sure what they are eating is very tasty. If I had someone cooking all my meals for me I would probably be able to stick to a better diet as well.
You can find so many people talking about their diets
Lzzy Hale is an amazing rock singer
https://www.facebook.com/OFFICIALLZZYHALE/posts/733177500045600
OK, their eating style is a bit on the side of cuckoo (absolutely no dairy? why no mushrooms?), but is really not bad at all. Plant based and good protein, no useless carbs. Plus, if a chef conceives and preps the meals, I’m sure they’re going to be fairly tasty. It’s said also that only Tom doesn’t eat nightshades, and I know two guys for whom bell peppers are toxic, so no comment there.
Their diet is similar to mine (if you don’t count the tons of coffee and MSG form East Asian condiments).
If I got paid what she does, I could do that diet for a while. Remember she can’t be a model forever, her time is almost up as that industry hates it when women age and there is always a “hot new thing”. In retirement, which for models is in their 30’s you can go for it and eat what you want ! I’d take that deal. Better than doing a 9 to 5 that pays crap until you are 65, but being able to eat pizza. I can wait on the pizza lol.
Yeah, I agree. They get well compensated for their looks so it’s not like they’re suffering from depression on this diet the way a poor person would.
The rest of their diet doesn’t sound that weird to me since they make a lot of money off their looks (especially Giselle), but how do they survive without caffeine? I need my coffee!!! What do they take in its place? I’ll cry if someone says smoothies…
how to survive without coffee? you get enough sleep, its pretty simple.
lol, but does he have a legit problem with nightshades? They have enough money to get an IgG test to find out. The SAD sucks, and is not nutritious by any stretch (even some of the ‘nutritious’ stuff isn’t), but this is just silly. Peppers and tomatoes aren’t going to kill you.
I need a personal chef! But I also need the money to pay them. My diet needs an overhaul. Sugar addict here.
Tomatoes, peppers, eggplants, mushrooms…..mmmmmm…….think I’m gonna have to make Eggplant Parmesan today…..but I’m going to call it Nightshade Parmesan a la Brady…
Hahahaha, I can’t stop laughing !!!!!!!! THX !!
This is garbage. If that’s how they choose to eat, fine. But when you start calling foods anti-inflammatory and spouting a bunch of pseudoscience, I have to draw the line. Young people read this nonsense and begin emulating these types of highly restrictive (and sometimes harmful) diets. Unless Tom is eating bushels of mushrooms or tomatoes, a balanced inclusion of them in his diet is not harmful. Outside of an allergy, sensitivity, or autoimmune disorder, elimination of entire food groups is unnecessary. If you notice that eating a certain food makes you feel bad, don’t eat it but that doesn’t mean that it’s bad and no one should eat it. These people are goobers and next year they will be spouting another diet plan based on some other flawed and incorrect “science.” If that’s not convincing enough, remember that Brady supports Trump. Enough said.
To be fair to them I don’t think it’s Giselle and Tom spouting the pseudo-science. It’s their cook giving the interview so who knows what the really think about their diet.
But here’s the thing – you don’t know if they are among the people with good reason. If TB actually has an auto-immune issue, then he’s totally right to try excluding nightshades. So if that’s the case, he’s not being stupid, he’s being smart. Maybe one of them is severely lactose intolerant and must avoid dairy and the other forgoes it in solidarity or something. I dislike how people presume that when stars talk about their diets, they’re being pseudoscientific. Maybe that’s how they eat. Granted, I think some of this reeks of fad eating, but how do you know it all does?
I bed she’d do a Cheetos commercial and actually put that “poison” in her mouth if she got paid to do so !
I’m guessing all that air that was let out of the footballs was “taken in” by Gisele and Tom for lunch?
I’m lactose intolerant so I can’t have any dairy, don’t like red meat, don’t like sugar and white flour (I get bloated after eating it) but I could not live without tomatoes! I eat them in every form, same for eggplant and mushrooms (plus lots of beans and veggies). I also love dark chocolate and once a week I’ll have a small soda or a croissant with jam (with a side of bloating) for breakfast on Saturday (love fresh croissants). I drink one cup of coffee a day with some soy milk and lots of tea. I suppose someone could say I’m on a diet but I don’t see it this way, I just eat what makes me feel good. During holidays or on vacation I don’t sweat over what I eat, just keep dairy away not to get sick.
My boys on the other hand would eat grilled cheese and ham sandwiches on baguette every day if they had their way and they often do – you have to pick your battles.
Two things:
1. I bet they drink alcohol.
2. I grew up with a wackadoodle “health nut” mom like this. It’s just another form of eating disorder. She passed it on to her four kids. We ALL developed raging eating disorders. I feel really sorry for her kids.
Just like Paltrow…lectures about healthy lifestyle but smokes !
Paltrow also tans her skin to a crisp and dyes her hair to a thin, straw-like texture. These women are so full of it. Like Giselle with her plastic surgery.
Oh my gosh, A~ I know some people like that. My friend developed a lot of health problems because of her parents. She grew up macrobiotic or something and developed an eating disorder. Her mom is now vegan, her dad is paleo and they are divorced! But in her family her sibs are either obsessed with “pure” food or they diet and then go crazy every 4 days on McDonald’s or they exercise themselves to death while doing one of the above. She had to go to years of therapy to undo all of that.
Yep, been there, done that. Fact is, severely restricting food is a dangerous business, even when you think you’re being healthy.
Something else missing from their diet: a clue.
This sounds a lot like the Young diet, one that considers most food groups to be acidic. According to this, excessive acid leads inevitably to disease and one can compare a hyperacidic body to a decomposing corpse. The idea behind it is to eat mainly or exclusively alcaline foods like raw greens and so on. I read about the diet and tried it but I found it to be hard to reconcile with a busy lifestyle
the only person I know who died of excessive acidity was my friend’s dad…from kidney failure (caused by crazy diets…meaning anorexia). Like the liver, skin, lymph, etc. will “detox” you, the kidneys do a fine job (provided you eat enough) of regulating our body’s acidity.
I see. I actually wanted to give it a try to see if I can reduce the persistent stomach burns i sometimes get especially when I’m stressed out.
I’m curious if any of you can refer me to science-based studies that support the exclusion of nightshades for auto-immune disorders. I have RA and when I mentioned this idea to my rheumatologist he said go ahead and try and see if you feel better, but science doesn’t support it. And the Arthritis Foundation doesn’t recommend it for all auto-immune sufferers either. Thanks in advance!
I have RA, too, and in addition to going low carb (less 25 g of carbs/day) (the science on that is iffy, at best, but I made my choice based on my mum having dementia, and the studies showing a low carb diet’s benefits in brain health when used in conjunction with medium chain triglycerides which I also take), and being gluten intolerant already, I’ve also eliminated sugar and nightshades. Whether it’s the Plaquenil’s effectiveness, its increased effectiveness from the diet, the diet itself, or a combination, my morning stiffness has greatly decreased. I’m even back to exercising first thing in the morning — being able to tie my running shoes was a thing of the past! Nutrition knowledge is changing now, and it’s becoming accepted that fat doesn’t make you fat; carbohydrates do. In my opinion, whether the science supports it or not, if removing things from your diet helps you to feel better and improves your quality of life, especially when you have chronic disease, then you should do it. Fortunately, dark chocolate is not inflammatory! 😉 I hope you find something that helps you feel better!
Thanks so much ReignbowGirl – I appreciate the thoughtful reply. I’m actually doing well – in remission on medication. I’m just trying to get educated. It’s difficult to tease out the recommendations that gain credibility just because they get repeated frequently, and those that have more substantial merit. I know it’s important to keep in mind, as you mention, that nutrition knowledge is changing. Glad you are doing well with the changes that you have made!
@ Ann — Yay for remission! That’s awesome! 😀 All I know is that I try something, and if works, I keep it; if not, it goes. Really, it’s all we can do! Cheers!
RainbowGrl, I hate to tell you that there is no science that carbohydrates make you fat either! I understand that you are coming from your personal point of view and health, but what people don’t understand is that just because low-carb has beneficial effects on blood sugar in diabetics doesn’t mean that people without blood sugar problems should eat low-carb too.
All the best to you!
One thing my doctor told me with night shades is you need to balance them out with protein. That does help so that you don’t get low blood sugar.
There is also this thing called “placebo effect”.
All the best for you!
I saw it yesterday somewhere and all I could think of was – not eating at all might be easier. This is way too complicated.
I also found when I deprive myself of something intentionally (like chocolate) I get obsessed with that food. For me a better way is to limit something but still have a small amount of it than trying to eliminate it completely.
I think it’s a little ironic that she’s into all this super-healthy stuff but is fine with him playing football, which has been scientifically proven to have risk of severe brain injury. It’s not like they money so badly that he couldn’t quit playing and do something else. It’s just kind of funny because the biggest health concern of all and she’s silent about it.
She has not always been silent about it. He has said many times that she has asked him to quit, especially after he had a serious knee injury.
All this talk about night shades, where is Nighty!
I didn’t even know what a nightshade was until I read this article! I had to look it up 😛
These two are such a-holes. I swear.
So he doesn’t eat fruit either? Where does he get his sugar intake from? Your body still needs some. What about when he has “away” games. Does his chef pack food for him?
What about the toxins in the make-up she wears and promotes? The perfume? The private jets they fly on and all the fumes they put into the atmosphere. Their carbon footprint must be huge. But who cares about the environment, as long as Tom and Gisele get their organic veggies.
They make a living off how well their bodies perform/look so I’m not surprised by this. We are so ingrained into the terrible diet that most westerners eat that when we see someone eating a healthy diet they seem like freaks – sad.
This has been interesting reading, as I’m sitting here enjoying my barbecue chicken pizza.
Oh there’s nothing better than enjoying some good food as you read through comments on celebitchy !!!
Word on the auto-immune diet, because that’s exactly what’s described here. I have psoraisis and all of these foods are a no-no if you are trying to keep flares at bay. I love peppers though and it breaks my heart that they are nightshades.
Potatoes are very healthy too. Perhaps not when you fry them with too much oil. But you can live on potatoes only for quite a while without getting sick because they contain so many nutrients.
I have no objections to organic food, though.
Okay, there are some digestive diseases.
But generally I think that there are so many food fad diets nowadays and some gullible people believe them. No dairy and lean meats only means they lack the b-vitamins and similar. Yep, some nuts do contain that stuff as well but without dark red meat and without dairy it is difficult.
Madonna has a very strict eating plan, too, and just look what her son Rocco is about to do now. He stubbornly went to live with his father. Probably not just because of the food but it is certainly part of it.
If you look around the world people survive on so many different kinds of food that you really can’t tell what a human being is supposed to be eating and what not. According to the human digestive system one can assume that humans are omnivores who have lost the ability to digest cellulose.
So happy eating!
Oh, and by the way:
Many plants and vegetables contain “secondary plant compounds” which among other functions help plants to defend themselves against parasites and funghi and viruses. 😉 Essentially those compounds are toxic especially in higher doses. So one can probably say that any diet based mostly on vegetables isn’t quite as healthy as some people proclaim. :-)))))
Second Oh:
Let me guess: TomGis is going to publish some lifestyle-cookery-fitness-book and merchandising? Brady’s football career won’t last forever and Bundchen’s years as model are over in that respect that she is too old for certain “model” jobs. She mostly gets jobs because she isn’t just a model but also a showbusiness-celebrity-dogooder.
1. “No dairy and lean meats only means they lack the b-vitamins and similar…” You are wrong!
2. You are trying too hard.
No wonder TB cheats – he must be starved for excitement in his (literally) tasteless life…
I can say with conviction that if my husband ever used the word nightshades there’d be several other things off the menu.
Sometimes, I like to imagine what it must feel like to be so wealthy that you don’t have to worry about how stupid you sound to educated people.
(Sugars are the building blocks of carbs, you couldn’t survive without them! The body always has a neutral pH except in the specific organs! Jesus H.)
@ Veronica
Thank you!
are you talking refined sugars …. that is proven to increase risk of diabetes, and is now touted to be the number one cause of cancer???? Many of my patients eliminate sugar completely in the their diet and major problems subside. Want to argue, go ONE WEEK without sugar and watch the change. If you get a headache the first 2 days, your body is detoxing and you need to eliminate it.
I’m talking about sugars in general. They’re the building blocks of carbs, which your body requires in order to undergo efficient glycolysis. This is basic biochemistry. You physically cannot survive without carbohydrates without significant side effects from alternative energy producing processes.
What we typically think of as table sugar is bleached sucrose, usually extracted from cane or beet plants. The bleaching process strips it off all of the vitamin and mineral content, which is why it has no nutritional value. Sucrose is not damaging on its own – it’s just problematic when it’s an additive in EVERYTHING because it’s calories without purpose. There’s nothing fundamentally bad about sucrose when used in moderate quantities. It’s addictive for the same reason any sugar is – your body can easily convert it to glucose and funnel it through metabolic processes.
I appreciate the nutrition information that I read about the Brady family diet. I have inflammation issues such as plantar fasciitis and rheumatoid arthritis. I appreciate reading others contributions regarding nutrition and diet on this thread. I intend to eliminate nightshade foods from my diet for awhile to see if it helps me with my symptoms. Thank You Brady Family and all of the above contributors!
Mushrooms are believed to be inflammatory in chinese medicine.
So dairy products are evil but Brady had no problem endorsing them when he posed for the Got Milk? campaign. Sugar and sodas evil again but no trouble cashing paychecks from an event called the Pepsi Superbowl. Like somedy said upthread, shill enough money and they’ll stuff their mouth with anything on a poster ad, trying to convince you it’s wonderful, whereas behind closed doors their personal chef only cooks things peasons won’t approach.
And people saying there’s no such special things in their diet. Maybe in US markets or groceries stores Himalayan pink salt is on every shelf,but definitely not where I shop.
After finding out I have gallstones (following years of excruciatingly painful episodes) I now follow a very low fat diet as it minimizes the attacks drastically. I also eat low carb because it makes me feel strong and vibrant.
It’s been a blessing quite frankly and fir the first time in yonks my weight has remained stable.
We are all different and different foods affect us differently. Good luck to em! I find this a whole lot better than the Jolie-Pitts endless junk food diet they and their kids seem to always be eating.
Wow I cant believe the amount of negativity regarding legitimately sound diet choices.
And the concept that this is a tasteless lifestyle is false– sugar is one experience, but minus sugar from foods and you discover the hundreds of flavors and experiences that sugar is blanketing over.
And to think it is cruel to children to give them healthy food—- just read that again and ask if that even shows a single trace of intelligence or logic.
To those chanting “but everything else is bad/but you will die anyway”: there are many things you can do to improve your bodily health and function, while it is alive, and to reduce the amount of damage and ailments. Some measures go farther than others. Eliminating sugar and flour makes a HUGE difference. And to equate this with absolutism, ie to think that this can only be done if you also then avoid all other agents which must be bad– sounds more like it is coming from a sense of guilt and shame than any reason. (“I eat oreos and bagels, but SHE still wears MAKEUP! She cant be doing anything good!”)
People— the big food monopolies have you fooled. You are eating food void of nutrition and fiber and packed with damaging refined sugar. Its easier than you think to ditch the crao they shill to us and in fact just one generation prior, our food wasnt processed to the hilt like it is today, and nobody said that life was bland. Actually people were healthier and there was more variety.
Banning iodized salt and only using Himalayan pink salt may be a sound diet choice to you but newsflash: not easily done for the masses. And conveniently all the posts defending their choices focus on carbs and dairy, but nobody has given a reasonable explanation for the pink salt being the summum of health.
Again, no guilt for me. But like I said above, Brady had his picture taken for Got Milk? campaign, plays for the NFL and tries every year to go to ther PEPSI superbowl. His wife will probably be front and center for the Olympic games in RIo (like she was in 2014 for the world cup), where it won’t be possible to watch anything without a Coke, M&M’s or any other junk in the background ads.
Sure, the big food companies have not fooled them.But worse, they have no problem cashing from them, promoting them to the masses, whereas admitting their bodies are too precious for them.
This.
Couple like them being anormal that explain why America is full of obesity
Their food choices were segmented on GMA today. I wish I could afford a chef to prepare delicious, creative meals minus some of this stuff, BUT I am a fan of nightshade veggies and tomatoes.
Don’t forget the HGH she has shipped in. The blonde fraud tries to make us peasants think she is all natural, she uses injections.
HGH? Wake up! Your comment is about Peyton’s wife!
I am not sure why I bother to comment on this, but this is what happens at 1pm, when one’s too tired to get to the bed..
I just wanted to say, that even after so many years of looking at this famous woman on tens/hundreds of magazines and without any doubt acknowledging her perfect athletic body, nothing and no one can make me think that she is beautiful. I am sorry, this is cruel, I know.. but she is just not beautiful – no classic beauty, no “interesting” beauty, no “smart” and etc. beauty.. She is simply very unattractive.. Maybe her personality is great – I truly have no idea since I only see her on pictures (no TV in my life) – but this does not transcend the paper.. I wish her luck in everything, but honestly, I see more beautiful women on the street every day! They don’t normally have her body, but fortunately also not her face..
Peace! and Good Night!