Healthy Eating - how seriously should you take it?

[beanbandit]

My input it:

Eat some fish. Make sure it's ethically sourced (ie NOT haddock and cod every day, cos they're not in good supply anymore)
Sainsbury's sell only well farmed, RSPCA Freedom foods salmon. It's only come from Scotland too, and not all the way across the atlantic. You can get enough for 2 large adult portions for about £2:50. We had some for lunch on Tuesday. Just heat oven to max, and then when it's hot, put salmon in on foil, for about 6 minutes...

Eat lots of fruit. Vegetables are good... but fruit is very rarely cooked, so maintaind a lot more vit c and frankly it's easier to eat at work than a head of broccoli.

Try to have some pulses... beans. There are now loads to choose from. Flageolet, red kidney, borlotti... whatever.. just ue those to replace some meat in whatver you make. It's cheaper too... just rinse them WELL if they're in salt water.

And try to eat as many different colours as possible. If you can manage a red , a green, a white and a purple thing, you're rocking

Some very good and basic advice. Shame i don't eat fish, but i did set out a new years resolution to try new foods, with fish being one of them. But i just seem to shy away from it.

and frankly it's easier to eat at work than a head of broccoli.

A work mate eats broccoli stalks raw at work, i've tried one, not the best snack food i've had.

[djw74]

Just a heads up. After trillions of dollars of trying to figure out diets, pills, and fat. Still, the primary contributor to health is the number of calories and variety of those calories... NEJoM and Oxford agree... for the blue moon moments.

[kurosagi01]

to be honest,i've been worrying about my diet ever since i lost my 1stone(used to weigh 14 stone and now 13 stone),all i did was eat less and exercise a lot,i normally do 30 sit-ups per night and on tuesday i go to a leisure centre and play badminton then in school i play badminton again on wednesday and thursday so i'm pretty much okay but i still worry about my eating when it comes to holidays i get lazy

[jordan427]

to be honest,i've been worrying about my diet ever since i lost my 1stone(used to weigh 14 stone and now 13 stone),all i did was eat less and exercise a lot,i normally do 30 sit-ups per night and on tuesday i go to a leisure centre and play badminton then in school i play badminton again on wednesday and thursday so i'm pretty much okay but i still worry about my eating when it comes to holidays i get lazy

sit ups are useless.

But to the subject of this topic - I don't take healthy eating all too seriously. The basics are: if you consume more calories than you burn, you gain weight; if you burn more calories than you consume, you lose weight. I try and eat fruit and veg but I certainly don't avoid treats (chocolate and such).

[PeterS]

I agree. Have your basic low calorie diet, but don't worry about the occasional chocolate or pizza. Keep up the exercise, walking is good for those who don't like the gym. Be sensible, if your weight starts to go up you are eating too much for the exercise your are taking. Eat less, or exercise more.

Peter

http://www.seniorwalkinggfitnessblog.com

[Whiternoise]

Is going to the gym actually worth it?

Currently i've got free run of the pool at university - pay once at the start of term for a sports membership (£32) and you can use it whenever for the rest of the year. I've been meaning to try and go more regularly simply for the sake of getting some exercise. I'd have thought half an hour or forty five minutes every day/every other day would be better than going to the gym a few times a week. Simply on the grounds that you work "more" of your body in one go.

Other than that, powerballs are good for a cheap arm workout, 15 mins a day on each arm whilst watching TV is more than fine i've found. Just ratchet up the power until your arms feel knackered after time's up (good thing about them is that absolutely no one can say they can't provide a challenge ).

As for a healthy diet, you can cut the vast majority by not skipping junk food. The myth that healthy eating is all rabbit food is rubbish. I think the only time you need to cut serious amount of things is if you're dieting. Big difference.

Diet: The aim is to cut weight fast, so you decrease your calorie intake and do more exercise (cardio usually i imagine). You can also eat those so called "negative" calorie foods that supposedly take more to digest than they give back.

Healthy Eating: The key work here is maintaining. This is at the point where you want to be, so you don't need to lose weight if you don't want to. Simply, you can eat good food and treat yourself to a chocolate bar when you want to, provided you put the work back in to equal it out. You don't have to cut back on eating or increase your work, you just want an equilibrium.

A really important concept in both cases is that if you cook for yourself, pile on the veg and try not to snack too much, you'll be fine. Don't eat junk food when you can learn to cook (has far more benefits than just health). Something i've found very effective is when you're hungry, keep a jug of water near your desk and down a glass - stops the hunger and improves your water intake too!

Oh and i think the thing about milk is utter bullocks. Unless you want to have a horribly low bone density and have poor muscle quality, you NEED the calcium. You can take supplements of course, but why not have milk? (Unless of course you're a vegan) This also means no chocolate, no cheese, no cream, no quiche, no nice desserts a lot of things are cut off from you if you cut out milk and there's really no reason.

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[kasuku]

People, eat but eat in moderation. So eat healthy but not too much in quantity nor too little. Moderation is the key. Plain and simple.

[Barakka]

Oh and i think the thing about milk is utter bullocks. Unless you want to have a horribly low bone density and have poor muscle quality, you NEED the calcium. You can take supplements of course, but why not have milk? (Unless of course you're a vegan) This also means no chocolate, no cheese, no cream, no quiche, no nice desserts a lot of things are cut off from you if you cut out milk and there's really no reason.

Common myth, cows milk IS a source of Calcium true, but where do the cows get the Calcium from ? From eating all the green grass, Veggies and Vegans eat loads of greens so usually get much more Calcium than milk drinkers. Plus it's common to substitute cows milk for soy/oat/rice milk which has added calcium equal to that of cows milk.

As for the healthiest diet, proved over and over again, No Meat, No Dairy, but including Oily fish like Salmon, Tuna (fresh NOT canned) etc - has been repeatedly proven to be the best for long life, healthy lifestyle, plus recovery from and prevention of most modern lifestyle nasties like Cancer, MS, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Diabetes, and most recently psychological disorders.

[kalniel]

Common myth, cows milk IS a source of Calcium true, but where do the cows get the Calcium from ? From eating all the green grass, Veggies and Vegans eat loads of greens so usually get much more Calcium than milk drinkers.

Last time I checked, my appendix was non-functional and I only have one stomach.

Dairy is a much better source of calcium than greens, vegans have to really compensate on those greens that do have calcium as a result.

As for the healthiest diet, proved over and over again, No Meat, No Dairy, but including Oily fish like Salmon, Tuna (fresh NOT canned) etc - has been repeatedly proven to be the best for long life, healthy lifestyle, plus recovery from and prevention of most modern lifestyle nasties like Cancer, MS, Rheumatoid Arthritis, Diabetes, and most recently psychological disorders.

To put it politely, this is not proven at all, and suggesting that it might cause recovery from things like cancer is downright dangerous.

[Barakka]

Last time I checked, my appendix was non-functional and I only have one stomach.

Dairy is a much better source of calcium than greens, vegans have to really compensate on those greens that do have calcium as a result.

Yes, but by the nature of their diet vegans eat a lot more of those greens and take in other high calcium sources like soy milk and tofu, the idea that vegans have to supplement with calcium is not true. Providing vegans construct a well rounded diet there will be no deficiency in calcium or anything else, but this could be true of meat-eaters, if the diet is not good there can be vitamin shortages.

To put it politely, this is not proven at all, and suggesting that it might cause recovery from things like cancer is downright dangerous.

I didn't say it would cause recovery from cancer, but that it is the best diet for recovery from and prevention of, I presume you have not read The China Study? Also not sure how suggesting a well rounded low-fat healthy diet is dangerous to anyone.

[Perfectionist]

elitefitness.com/forum/gynecomastia/gynecomastia-associated-soy-product-consumption-606431.html

( rofl @ that forum though, a whole sub-forum for the subject! Full of steroid-addled yanks moaning about "puffy nipples" etc :facepalm: )

http://cornucopia.org/2009/05/soy-report-and-scorecard

the “dirty little secret” of the “natural” soy foods industry: the widespread use of hexane in processing. Hexane is strictly prohibited in organic food processing, but is used to make “natural” soy foods and even some that are “made with organic ingredients,” such as Clif Bars®. Hexane is a neurotoxic petrochemical solvent that is listed as a hazardous air pollutant with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

[zipzap]

I believe healthy eating is important, but not critical. To obtain a well-balanced lifestyle, you need both good and some 'unhealthy' factors, not necessarily for your body but certainly for your mind. What is life without a little pleasure? We only get that feeling of guilty pleasure when indulging in something we know we shouldn't have, and I think it helps us to bounce back onto whatever diet or healthy eating regime we have at the time. On the extreme side, obsessive healthy eating to me is an indication of an obsession with something else - body image, social status, fear of illness/death and other anxieties. It sounds like an irrational perfectionist mind at play. Milk is fine. Meat is fine. Enjoy your life at http://www.postalgold.com/!