Modern nutrition: Forget all you ever knew about diets

[IGBT]

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Dr Peter Libby, a professor at the Harvard Medical School, may have a commonsense answer. He thinks we should be far more worried about the volume of food on our plate than about what food groups, vitamins, proteins or fats are represented on it. Nothing, he says, fascinates us "so much as the notion that what you eat - rather than how much you eat - directly affects your health".

In other words, when you sit down to dinner tonight, be it fish dinner, steak or tofu, simply eat less. Oh yes, and chuck out the cigarettes, forego the whisky and Red Bull and do a bit of exercise from time to time.

 

[mchammer]

nucular

 

[Hacp]

3 apples are better than one medium order of fries or a big mac.

 

[jlee]

I need to eat more..was told 3500-4000 calories a day.

But I'm not average. Meh. 😛

 

[imported_Tick]

Someone says this every 6 months. It's never been proven.

 

[JohnCU]

god damnit, i eat healthier but now im supposed to eat unhealthier but less of it?

 

[mercanucaribe]

Originally posted by: Hacp
3 apples are better than one medium order of fries or a big mac.

Apples have very little nutritional value.

http://nutritiondata.com/facts-B00001-01c20TB.html

The vitamins and minerals are all about 0-3%, except for vitamin C, which is still only 10%.

 

[Schadenfroh]

I still get to eat my fried chicken and ranch dressing?

 

[Bozono]

This is what I base my reasoning on when I scarf down 2L of Heavenly Hash in a couple hours.

 

[Linux23]

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
I still get to eat my fried chicken and ranch dressing?

yes, and make sure to wrap the fried chicken with bacon.

 

[Dunbar]

you might as well eat a bacon sandwich as a low-fat yogurt

You gotta love the spin the media are putting on this one :roll: The study did not adress the link between saturated fat and heart disease. Since most processed low-fat foods have just as many calories as their full-fat counterparts, I'm not surprised at al by the resultsl. All this study really shows is that eating too many low fat calories still leads to overweight, unhealthy people...

 

[JohnCU]

calories are calories. wanna lose weight? eat less calories but more than 1200 a day.

 

[OneOfTheseDays]

Want to lose weight.........try this diet out (very cheap too):

Breakfast: Bowl of cereal, banana or apple, and glass of OJ
Lunch: Turkey Sandwich on wheat bread (NO MAYO), 1 carrot, 1 apple
Dinner: Piece of chicken(preferably grilled), some rice, and steamed veggies.

Don't snack at all during the day, drink plenty of water, and exercise at least a few times a week.

 

[Leper Messiah]

Originally posted by: Sudheer Anne
Want to lose weight.........try this diet out (very cheap too):

Breakfast: Bowl of cereal, banana or apple, and glass of OJ
Lunch: Turkey Sandwich on wheat bread (NO MAYO), 1 carrot, 1 apple
Dinner: Piece of chicken(preferably grilled), some rice, and steamed veggies.

Don't snack at all during the day, drink plenty of water, and exercise at least a few times a week.

If I ate that, I'd be skin and bones within a month. I need like 5000 calories to stay fit.

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: mercanucaribe

Originally posted by: Hacp
3 apples are better than one medium order of fries or a big mac.

Apples have very little nutritional value.

http://nutritiondata.com/facts-B00001-01c20TB.html

The vitamins and minerals are all about 0-3%, except for vitamin C, which is still only 10%.

:roll:

It's still better for you than just about any processed or packaged food. Also, realize there's more to food than vitamins and minerals. Try scrolling down on the page.

Note that it doesen't say what type of apple. Each breed is different(granny smith, golden delicious, etc).

 

[IGBT]

Originally posted by: JohnCU
god damnit, i eat healthier but now im supposed to eat unhealthier but less of it?

..ya..you can have half a double cheese bacon burger now..and a big gulp soda..and half an order of xtra large fries.

 

[Darien]

Originally posted by: Sudheer Anne
Want to lose weight.........try this diet out (very cheap too):

Breakfast: Bowl of cereal, banana or apple, and glass of OJ
Lunch: Turkey Sandwich on wheat bread (NO MAYO), 1 carrot, 1 apple
Dinner: Piece of chicken(preferably grilled), some rice, and steamed veggies.

Don't snack at all during the day, drink plenty of water, and exercise at least a few times a week.

Flip lunch and dinner and that's close what I eat every day. (my lunches vary greatly though -- salads, sandwiches, burritos, fast food, soups, and so on) Can't say I'm losing weight though. Grad school has me on my butt 24/7.

< 165 lbs @ 5'7.

 

[Imaginer]

No diet caters to any individual. I say eat what you need and how much you need to be satisfied while having a balance of the recommended nutrition (or the combination of nutrition for what activity you are striving for).

Because the human body is not a cookie cutter build. Everyone is different and it is that fundamental fact no one gets in their mind other than quick fix stuff.

 

[otispunkmeyer]

exercise for the win?

seriously, you can pretty much eat what ever (within reason....ie not gorging on complete crap 24/7) long as you got a regular/routine exercise plan

 

[imported_Snagle]

Originally posted by: otispunkmeyer
exercise for the win?

seriously, you can pretty much eat what ever (within reason....ie not gorging on complete crap 24/7) long as you got a regular/routine exercise plan

im detecting a hidden agenda here, otis...😉

 

[skace]

Jesus, this is such terrible fvcking advice. "guys don't worry about what you are eating! just eat less of it!" It doesn't matter if your body is malnourished and you eat the worst fvcking trash on the planet. It doesn't matter that your body doesn't have enough energy to survive a single day or run up a flight of stairs. Let's not try and figure out what might be wrong with your diet that causes you to eat so much. YAY.

 

[FallenHero]

Originally posted by: Leper Messiah

Originally posted by: Sudheer Anne
Want to lose weight.........try this diet out (very cheap too):

Breakfast: Bowl of cereal, banana or apple, and glass of OJ
Lunch: Turkey Sandwich on wheat bread (NO MAYO), 1 carrot, 1 apple
Dinner: Piece of chicken(preferably grilled), some rice, and steamed veggies.

Don't snack at all during the day, drink plenty of water, and exercise at least a few times a week.

If I ate that, I'd be skin and bones within a month. I need like 5000 calories to stay fit.

DUH! Thats for people that want to lose some weight, not maintain what they have. You want to make your body burn up your fat reserves...if you don't have any, then your diet will be different.

 

[dullard]

My comments on this are in the original thread.

Originally posted by: Tick
Someone says this every 6 months. It's never been proven.

Um, there was an 8 year study that this article discussed that proves it. 😕

 

[Pantoot]

Originally posted by: Linux23

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
I still get to eat my fried chicken and ranch dressing?

yes, and make sure to wrap the fried chicken with bacon.

You'd better butter that bacon boy!
Butter it!

 

[DaShen]

Originally posted by: CadetLee
I need to eat more..was told 3500-4000 calories a day.

But I'm not average. Meh. 😛

Had a coworker at my old internship that ran, and yes I mean ran, Centuries. He got in the newspaper for being the youngest guy to run a certain number of Centuries. The guy was really weird though. He sprained his ankle bad (where he needed crutches) and still ran a 26k after 3 days of rest. Everyone told him he would be crippled if he kept that kind of abuse up.

He told me once his nutritionist said for him to eat 6000-7000 a day, because he ran to and from work most of the time, and ran at least 20 miles a day. That guy was a crazy mofo. Funny thing was he would only eat hamburgers or pizza or pasta, he was very picky about vegetables (basically he ate really poorly). Plus he didn't sleep much, because, he told me, he just had too much energy.