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- inquebiss, on 01/30/2009, -0/+50How about not centering your diet around food that comes in a box. Learn how to cook using actual whole foods instead of "edible substances" come in a handy package. You'll be healthier.
- akchrs, on 01/31/2009, -2/+52Twix (1 package, 2 oz.) * 14 g fat (11 g saturated)
Saturated fat equivalent: 11 strips of bacon
I didn't know bacon was so healthy. - bastardx, on 01/31/2009, -1/+42Eat This Instead:
Apple - inactive, on 01/30/2009, -1/+32I grew up with a lot of crap frozen foods and prepackaged foods from price club, like the bagel dog. It is a good thing I was really active as a kid or I would have become a real fat ass, like a lot of kids today. Nobody should eat a lot of this ***** at any age.
Learn to cook. Teach your kids to cook. You all will be better off. My 2 cents.
The article was decent, but I would pass on most of the alternatives too. The food item that had me startled by it's sugar content was "Quaker 100% Natural Granola, Oats, Honey & Raisins." It sounds like it would be healthy, but unfortunately, no. - AlaskaLoneWolf, on 01/30/2009, -5/+35Dude... named 20 of my favorite picks at the grocery store.... damn.
- siandt, on 01/31/2009, -0/+18"Despite popular belief, muffins are very rarely healthy."
Who thinks muffins are healthy? They're cake, except people don't look at you funny when you have one for breakfast. Not that it's ever stopped me. - Fabbyfubz, on 01/31/2009, -0/+13Shop smart. Shop S-mart
- derek20cali, on 01/31/2009, -0/+13The gas occurs because bacteria within the colon are capable of digesting fiber to a small extent. The bacteria produce gas as a by-product of their digestion of fiber. Give it time. If you've recently added more fiber-rich foods to your diet for good health, your body may not have had time to adjust. Over time, people often find that gas production subsides.
And remember: Never, ever admit it was you. Blame it on the dog. - inactive, on 01/31/2009, -1/+13Sugar free syurp is ***** disgusting. If you don't want to have the plain syrup, try honey. It's less bad for you and tastes a hell of a lot better than sugar free syrup.
- DirtyVicar, on 01/31/2009, -0/+11Once an article starts obsessing over fat, then I have some issues with it. Fat is indeed calorie-dense and I agree it's vital to avoid trans-fats, but fat in does not equal fat out. In fact, fat does quite a bit to curb hunger and appetite and makes you feel satisfied with eating less of it. A balance of fat, carbs, and protein is the way to go, along with keeping your portions small or saving the excess for later.
- Super6, on 01/31/2009, -0/+11Dumbest list ever, they ignore serving size. Example: the bad cookie and the "better" cookie have near identical calorie to gram ratios.
- Csaliture, on 01/31/2009, -0/+10I bet to differ with the last one. I believe this is the worst food in America
http://www.junch.com/pork-brains-in-milk-gravy/ - Ithy, on 01/31/2009, -1/+11Ok, I like the whole healthy movement and all.
But recommending Kashi GOLEAN is the WORST IDEA EVER.
Seriously, never eat Kashi unless you want to fart for the next couple of hours. And not the tame kind of farts. The ones that can be bottled up and used as chemical weapons.
(I know this issue isn't isolated to me, I've googled it extensively!) - GrooTheWanderer, on 01/31/2009, -0/+9Why must you eat something similar but slightly less harmful instead? If you really care that much, just cut out junk altogether.
- Seminarian, on 01/31/2009, -2/+11I heartily agree with everyone who said the supposedly healthier alternatives are no better either. People should eat absolutely no transfat. It's like putting sugar in a gas tank. Don't do it!! And remember, food sellers can say "0 Grams Transfat" if a serving (as they define it) has less than half a gram of transfat. They get to round down! If you must eat processed foods, learn to look for terms like "partially hydrogenated." Really, though, the best advice is: Don't eat processed foods! Learn to cook (or get back to cooking), teach your kids to cook, use fresh, real ingredients. Don't eat anything your grandpa didn't eat (and, as a corollary, go ahead and feel free to eat what he did.) Avoid soy (except maybe traditional fermented soy foods), avoid high fructose corn syrup, cut way, way back on added sugar or other sweeteners, and don't be afraid of saturated fat (if it's not transfat.) Just make sure your meat is grass fed and organic, the milk is raw, whole and not homogenized. Eat tons of vegetables. Eat real food. You will feel better, you'll have more energy, you will be stronger and leaner, you will enjoy your food more, and it even costs less.
- sassafras1232, on 01/31/2009, -0/+9Their "replacement" for the cookie they didn't like is the EXACT SAME THING, just smaller...
Pillsbury Big Deluxe Classics White Chunk Macadamia Nut (dough; 1 cookie, 38 g)
* 180 calories
* 10 g fat (3 g saturated, 2 g trans)
* 13 g sugars
The Toll House replacement only weighs 28g. If you adjust its stats for the lighter weight you get:
* 176 calories
* 8.142 g fat (3.39 g saturated)
* 14.927 g sugars - inactive, on 01/31/2009, -0/+9I don't eat a damned thing on that list! Most of what I eat comes from either my garden, the produce aisle, the meat dept, or the dairy case.
- BossKey, on 01/31/2009, -1/+9Or how. Do you want to go quietly after a long, active life, or as a 47 year old, 300-lb diabetic having a heart attack?
- vio3, on 01/31/2009, -0/+7This article is totally misleading in content. I was expecting to find "don't eat this bad snack but instead eat this healthy snack, like um for example fruit, nuts" etc. but not "eat this bad snack instead of the bad snack you're eating, because it's a less bad than the 1st". What's good about replacing something bad with a lesser evil? Both are unnatural processed stuff.
Buried for inaccuracy and misleading info. - CaptSnuffy, on 01/31/2009, -0/+7"That's why we created the Eat This, Not That! Supermarket Survival Guide, the brand-new follow-up to our national bestselling nutrition books that will help you cut through marketing mysteries and food-label lies in order to make the smart choices that lead to fast and permanent weight loss for you and your loved ones."
The only way to permanently lose weight is to change diet and exercise habits permanently. How can a permanent change happen fast? - bastardx, on 01/31/2009, -0/+7Damn supermarket, you scary
- inactive, on 01/31/2009, -0/+6What vio3 said.
The "alternatives" are crap also. Sugar free? Read aspartame or some equivalent carcinogen. I could go on, but you get the picture. I read every ingredient on the back of everything I buy. After a while of looking things up and reading labels, it becomes easy and you end up settling on quite a few dependable things, so you're not having to reread labels. Read about the unpronounceable stuff in your food. - A2007HokieAlumn, on 01/31/2009, -0/+6Link to page three, "Worst Backed Good"
- inactive, on 01/31/2009, -0/+6... i smell "motivation" from a few select companies....
- tylerdurden7, on 01/31/2009, -1/+7You'd be amazed at how bad our food is (even the supposed "healthy" food) compared to other countries. I've lived in Mexico for some time and South Africa and lost weight eating the regular burgers, pizza, etc.
- pyroglass, on 01/31/2009, -0/+6eat this instead? wtf? that crap is almost just as bad.
- grbruner, on 01/30/2009, -0/+6I second that. My roommates and I rarely have super processed food items in our carts.
Although, I do admit that Granola is delicious. And beer doesn't count as processed. - Rivetgeek, on 01/31/2009, -0/+5Ok seriously... if you think pop tarts and cookies MIGHT be healthy, you are doomed to be a lard-ass
- matt.rubin, on 01/31/2009, -0/+5Quaker 100% Natural Granola, Oats, Honey & Raisins (1 c)
* 420 calories
* 12 g fat (7 g saturated)
* 6 g fiber, 30 g sugars
Granola, for all its good reputation, is usually weighed down by a deluge of added sugars. In fact, for the same amount of sugar, you could have a bowl of Cocoa Pebbles more than twice the size—and you'd get more fiber and save about 60 calories in fat.
Calorie equivalent: 8 chicken wings
time to get cocoa pebbles! - romistrub, on 01/31/2009, -2/+7The bitch that wrote this article doesn't know how to eat. (S)he's attempting some kinda "baby steps" approach. If you're buying ***** like this, switching from 25 twix bars to 12 isn't gonna fix your ass.
P.S. Saturated fat is *not* bad for you. Eating cholesterol is *not* bad for you. ***** look that ***** up if you don't believe me. ***** Ancel Keys. - hreynolds2, on 01/31/2009, -0/+5Yeah... there is some bad stuff even on the alternatives. Here is my list:
http://simplehealthandwellness.com/eat-this-not-th ...
~harris - omjeremy, on 01/31/2009, -0/+515 years ago or so, they were thought of as a health food.
- sunkist22, on 01/31/2009, -0/+4I third that!
- screwy3333, on 01/31/2009, -0/+4They forgot any food product produced or marketed by Safavi Inc.
- doublsh0t, on 01/31/2009, -0/+4I fully endorse the suggested south beach deluxe pizzas--sooo good.
- DteK, on 01/31/2009, -2/+6this should have been titled "20 Best Supermarket Foods"
- Pxtl, on 01/31/2009, -0/+4Yes, but consider Fuzzy Pink Niven's law: don't waste calories. They said a pair of Twix bars has the same amount of saturated fat as 11 strips of bacon.
Seriously, who the hell looks at that much bacon and thinks "yknow, I'd rather have Twix".
Same goes for the icecream - Haagen Dazs is nice, but a meager little half-cup of icecream vs a burger? No contest. 360 calories you can get one of those big thick juicy frozen lean-beef burger patties that will fill you up for a whole meal even if you put it on a thin bun. - inactive, on 01/31/2009, -0/+4Learn how to grow it in your own back yard while you're at it. Don't be a health nut about it, but just try to eat mostly stuff that comes out of the ground and not stuff that's packaged up in a factory somewhere!
- inactive, on 01/31/2009, -0/+4I didn't memorize everything I read, but I remember reading an exhaustive article on how it got pushed thru the fda approval process (Rumsfeld, believe it or not, "made his bones" this way) despite quite a lot of evidence that showed it should not be approved. I'm not real up on the debate, but I do know that recently the High Fructose Corn Syrup interests are trying to do damage control b/c of all the bad press they've been getting. With these chemicals/molecules that our digestive tracts and livers are seeing for the first time there are always higher incidences of all kinds of disease. The human body spent several thousands of years digesting essentially the same stuff and it is quite adaptable (we're serious omnivores), but these new molecules are very unrecognizable to our digestive tracts.
Instead of trying to figure out whether or not you should be drinking diet coke based on what you read, do what I've done and try to become more aware of how your body reacts to certain foods/drink. Try eating ONLY 6 apples in one day. Eat no other food and drink only the purest water you can find (drink no juices or anything else). You will find that suddenly you will be quite thirsty and have to drink water even at night. Each time your muscles get tight or you begin to get a headache, drink some water. Then see how you feel the next day.
I eat raw, uncooked oatmeal w/ banana, dried cranberries, honey and a little cinnamon for breakfast. When I first began to eat whole grains and fruit and veggies I decided two things: 1. I wanted it to taste good so that I would stick with it, so I began tracking down good recipes and 2. I wasn't going to give up eating the things I like b/c then I would get mad at the new healthy foods that I was eating.
Something interesting happened; I now had a comparison as to how I felt SUBJECTIVELY (subjective observation is underrated imo) when I ate the different kinds of foods. Now I make no effort to avoid the old foods. I just eat them less b/c now my palate has expanded to include many new delicious things. I still go w/ the family to chow hard on bbq ribs, e.g., but I do notice how dehydrated my body becomes, etc.
If you do nothing else I suggest begin eating apple and ginger together as often as possible. Cut the apple (not granny smith or traditional red. I recommend braeburn, jazz, gala, honey crisp) into nice slices away from the core. Cut about a half an inch of raw ginger (any grocery usually has it. Make sure it's plump and not wrinkly). Peel the ginger and cut into 1/4" slices. Put it w/ the apple on a nice plate so that you have a visually pleasing presentation. Take a bite of the apple and a little bite of the ginger. Eat all the apple and ginger together in that way (you'll figure out what ratio of ginger to apple works for you). Don't drink water until about 1/2 an hour to 1 hour later. This will stimulate your immune system and you'll feel brighter in a way the coffee can simply reproduce.
I know you didn't ask for all this, but I feel like whether or not aspartame is good for you or not is almost irrelevant. The way foods make YOU feel should be the greatest determining factor in whether or not you should eat them. For the record, I don't drink diet cokes anymore; I prefer sugar (the body recognizes it, b/c it occurs naturally) coca cola if I'm drinking Jim Beam, e.g.
Sincerely,
Not a Saint - s0m31john, on 01/31/2009, -4/+8Now I have my grocery list for this week.
- vagarach, on 01/31/2009, -0/+3I wonder how it is in other parts of the world, same, less, or worse? It seems that the food scientists that make this stuff can't prevent themselves from using every trick in the book, resulting in monstrosities that are considered food! In my mind at least an ingredient list like an organic chem final is something distinctly American.
- dhughes, on 01/31/2009, -0/+3 Do not bad mouth Twix, it's delicious!
- smacksaw, on 01/31/2009, -0/+3***** Pilsbury. People who buy their ***** deserve their heart attack. You'd have to be a moron not to look at the copious amounts of trans-fat in their cheap-ass ***** and still buy it.
There's never any reason to buy Pilsbury. Everything they make, someone else makes for a similar price that is far less worse for you. - kineticarl, on 01/31/2009, -0/+3For real. People could be better off avoiding everything on that list, "good" and "bad".
- Gemfinder, on 01/31/2009, -0/+3Serious question: I heard aspartame was a carcinogen, then I heard that was debunked. Is it or isn't it?
- mizike, on 01/31/2009, -0/+3I posted this above already, but I'll mention it here too: Granola is absurdly easy to make from scratch. I was shocked when I found out how bad store bought granola is for you and started making my own, takes me maybe 10 minutes of prep and then just throw it in the oven. Healthier and much cheaper than store bought.
- temporarysanity, on 01/31/2009, -2/+5kicking and screaming, please...
- fluidfoundation, on 01/31/2009, -0/+3Don't forget those oversalted bag of chicken parts in the hot line at Publix.
- ShoggothDreams, on 01/31/2009, -1/+4Umm... what? It almost never listed Transfats, and that was one of it's flaws. Transfats are the most dangerous additive we've seen in decades. Converts even healthy fats into the equivalent of pure cholesterol. (save that at least with actual cholesterol your body has some methods for removing it....)
- garlicdeath, on 01/31/2009, -0/+3But most people are so used to the over flavored treats out the US that they forget just how complex and delicious that a handful of grapes can be, or an orange, apple, etc.
I mean mangos, whether ripe or not, are such an amazing snack compared to any kind of candy or chip. -
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