Beargryllz
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You should eat good food all the time. Except when you aren't hungry.
Haha...ok...that title's a bit of a misnomer. I know there isn't a "too soon" for that kind of thing. I mostly just want to know if there are other young'uns out there who take their diet to heart (har har).
I'm 21 and I try to watch my intake of saturated fats, sodium and cholesterol. Read labels, turn down high-fat, highly salty foods. All that good stuff. But I tell me friends about this (who are years older than I am) and they think I'm crazy.
I dunno. I guess I'm a real proponent of the phrase "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." I don't want to have to take high BP meds in my 40s for the rest of my life.
Amiright? *fist bumps all around*
I do the intuitive eating thing a lot. It does work. Like I crave healthy foods a great deal.
The only thing is that if you start doing intuitive eating after being on a very restrictive diet, like shortnsweet said, you will pig out on stuff you've been deprived of at first, probably.
But then you'll eventually get grossed out by that and want vegetables and stuff.
I don't know, though, some people really seem to not want healthy food. At all.
Yes, those are healthy foods.
Okay, healthy is different from "good for your health", IMHO. Olive oil is extremely caloric, red wine still has alchool which is bad for your health (I'm aware of the so-called French paradox, but plenty of statisticians are dubious about the methods used to support the arguments of the original study), eggs contain high levels of fats and can be contaminated. Obviously, I still eat plenty of olive oil, eggs and I do drink red wine, but I wouldn't consider my diet as particularly healthy, just average.
Some studies have reached this conclusion, and a roughly equal number of others have reached the opposite conclusion. Alcohol is generally a huge risk factor for heart disease (as well as innumerable other health issues), and this shouldn't be stated as fact.One glass of red wine per day is very heart healthy.
Noooooo. Eggs are high not just in fat but in saturated fat, and in cholesterol, and there's the risk of salmonella, yadda yadda yadda.I think eggs are a good choice regardless of fat because they are so high in protein and vitamins. (So if you're going to get your fat, get it in eggs.)
I really don't see the harm in eating a "heart healthy" diet. Can someone give me one good reason (ie. a reason that's not based on what you feel is right)?
A person without any kind of heart disease can eat an egg every single day with no dire consequences.
This is what is known as anecdotal evidence. You know what it proves? Nothing.Marmie Dearest said:My grandfather ate a lot of bran and wheat bread, and took a lot of vitamins, and ate a lot of fruit as snacks since he was from an older generation (I was very lucky to be raised by my grandparents and to have essentially been given a sensible diet growing up as a result of the fact of their age, since people actually ate better in the 1950's and 60's than they do now)...but he still ate eggs, bacon, British style fried fish with vinegar, fried chicken, and other kinds of traditionally Southern foods and lived to be 80.
I'd love to see you reconcile the bolded section with the rest of your post. The problem is not the foods, it's ... the consumption of cookies and other snacks. Of course it's how much you eat, but it's also the foods themselves. I agree with you about sugar.The problem is not the foods themselves but the ratio in which they are eaten, and often - like Quinlan pointed out - sugar is a HUGE FUCKING PROBLEM in our country, the consumption of cookies and other snacks, as though these treats were part of nutrition requirements. Also people consume too much sugar and high fructose corn syrup in beverages like soft drinks, Gatorade, etc...some people would lose weight if they simply stopped drinking these sugary beverages.
Haha...ok...that title's a bit of a misnomer. I know there isn't a "too soon" for that kind of thing. I mostly just want to know if there are other young'uns out there who take their diet to heart (har har).
I'm 21 and I try to watch my intake of saturated fats, sodium and cholesterol. Read labels, turn down high-fat, highly salty foods. All that good stuff. But I tell me friends about this (who are years older than I am) and they think I'm crazy.
I dunno. I guess I'm a real proponent of the phrase "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure." I don't want to have to take high BP meds in my 40s for the rest of my life.
Amiright? *fist bumps all around*
This is just completely made up. You're going to lose your license to practice medicine, Dr. Marm.