red7204

Well I am 23 almost 24 and for most of my life I was a meat/pasta and bread person. I rarely ate vegetables or fruit. For some reason I couldn't keep down what I ate, I believe this is partly due to my diet eating processed foods, soda, and canned veges if any at all. My tastes buds simply rejected them.
I found a few articles about how your weight and height have to do with how much of certain nutrients like carbohydrates and proteins.
So I am:
23
150 pounds
6 '
I have a very high metabolism
I have started to think about my future health considering my poor diet for most of my life. I have also found out that diabetes runs in my family and the fact that I ate way to much sugar and soda in my youth I think its about time I considered what to do about this. I don't want to be a broken down geezer by 40. My idea for this came when I remembered I had a blender and I thought what if I blend up the fruits and vegetables. I drank v8 splash but way too much sugar and the v8 fusion is way to expensive for what it is worth.

I have recently been searching recipes for shakes and I have started for about a week drinking a strawberry/orange juice shake (6 strawberries, 1 cup of orange juice, 5 ice cubes) at breakfast and at lunch and dinner a blueberry shake (1 cup milk, 1/2 cup blueberries, and a few scoops of vanilla ice cream in addition to whatever else I eat. (One question I have is that I generally blend everything up and when I finish drinking the glass there are a lot of seeds, mainly blueberries at the bottom, am I missing out on anything healthy by not eating them. I have been pour juice or water in the bottom and drinking whats left for now, is that necessary. I really don't know why I did not do this sooner considering how great this tastes. I know blueberries are high in antioxidants and also help with your vision. In addition to this I have read a few sites suggesting adding supplements and vegetables to the shakes as well, they would be masked by the other foods.

If I did more searching I could probably find out more, but any one have ideas of what would work. Some of the examples I read it was suggested adding vegetables like carrots, or adding flaxseed oil. I even read about something called wheat grass shots that are in a poweredly form. If I start mixing flaxseed oil and wheat grass shots plus any vegetables that work, is that going to make me sick? Also strawberries and blueberries will be out of season soon, I am not sure what I can eat in the fall winter that could match what I can get out of what I am doing now.
Today I was doing some more searching and I read about something called goji berries that are supposed to be really high in antioxidants, what exactly are they and can I find them at a regular grocery store or will blueberries be enough. Also soy was suggested. There have been plenty of jokes made about tofurky. Some of my family members eat tofu but I will not go near it, anyone mind sharing some other sources of soy?

I have always been active in sports so I do drink lots of water and eat a lot of carbohydrates, and I eat plenty of chicken, ground beef, and steak. But Unfortunately I eat a lot of bad sugar like soda, candy, trans fat snacks like cheezits and I drink lots of gatorade. They are harder to quite than I thought but I am working on that.

Some simpler questions
have to do with
vitamin a
vitamin b
vitamin c
vitamin d
vitamin e
and Zinc
I am more hesitant about these because some of them in excess can hurt more than help. Instead of having to decide about do I eat this food or how much of that food, I was hoping to try supplements like vitamins, I do take a multivitamin but I doubt I could tell you what was in it. I was hoping to take set amount of each day hopefully with a supplement in addition to eating bread, spaghetti, fish, or whatever I decide to eat for the day.
Some of the foods listed like sunflower seeds, artichokes, yams, I don't eat them that is why I was hoping to find supplements that contain the same vitamins. I guess the question is, are supplements like vitamins really all they are cracked up to be or do I need to eat foods naturally high in them. Vitamin d might not be a problem, I think that is the one that our body produces when we are in the sun. 30 min of sunlight a day is supposed to help, but thats not a problem in the summer.

I was taking fish oil but I hate the fish taste afterwards, I stopped taking it for a while and the taste lasted for days so I switched to flaxseed oil and it is easier for me to handle than the fish oil. But I am not sure how much to take, the bottle says 2 or 3 capsules about twice daily, each capsule about 1000 mgs, does the dose depend on age, weight? I haven't seen anything that says too much is harmful.
I am also taking a relatively new supplement called gycline that is supposed to help with motivation and mood, I am still testing the dose but it is only $5 for 200 capsules.

I don't want to get into the idea more is better and end getting sick off of something. So I need help with mixing up all this stuff, and what to do about vitamins. I am not asking anyone to research for but maybe some direction on this, there is too much info on the internet and I want to see what others have actually tried.

Thanks