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- SoCalDissident, on 11/03/2009, -2/+36"In Europe, breakfast consists of a small croissant and/or fruit with coffee"
Oh REALLY? I must be going to the wrong (or right) parts of Europe, where breakfast is quite the meal, and everything I've ever read says to have a big breakfast and small dinner. And the next sentence about what Americans is just as suspect, since a good number of Americans skip breakfast.
http://ohioline.osu.edu/flm97/fs04.html
The other tips are more in line with what I've heard (such as having 5 meals instead of 3, etc) - nepidae, on 11/03/2009, -0/+23Grouping Europe together as one cultural entity is one of the stupidest things I have heard.
- TheKriket, on 11/03/2009, -1/+20Spicy foods that contain capsaicin work great at boostng your metabolsim.
- skelooth, on 11/03/2009, -3/+20I'm pretty sure this article is piss poor. I've been an avid reader of bodybuilding websites for many years, and this article is not worth reading. Fruit juices and crackers for snacks? Only if you LIKE extra adipose tissue.
- Dexter77, on 11/03/2009, -0/+15Do you mean hotel breakfasts? Besides Britons, Europeans usually eat very light breakfast. Weekends might be different when you have more time. Speaking as a European.
- FritoPendejo, on 11/03/2009, -0/+12Seriously, I don't know any fellow American who eays pancakes, waffles, and eggs daily. These are usually reserved for eating out at IHop or as a weekend morning treat at home. Most people I know eat cereal, toast, some kind of breakfast shake, or nothing at all. Sorry for going against the Be More Like Europe(C) zeitgeist though.
- mikebritton, on 11/03/2009, -0/+11If you eat a tiny meal every half hour and painstakingly record each in a fitness journal, you just might be a douchebag.
- stonebear, on 11/03/2009, -1/+11A very amateur article. The solution is muscle mass, plain and simple. Muscle is very expensive to maintain; the more of it you have, the harder your metabolism must work to service it. It's more about density than size (ladies); build your muscles, and the rest will take care of itself 24/7.
- Trifold, on 11/03/2009, -0/+9You know what's a great show? Doctor Who.
- stonebear, on 11/03/2009, -1/+7You are dead.
- mikebritton, on 11/03/2009, -0/+6Dugg for 'retarted'.
- osteor10, on 11/03/2009, -3/+9im glad you used the word adipose, now i can pretend like you're smarter than me.
- obsessedglobe, on 11/03/2009, -0/+6I regularly catch fire to keep my metabolism burning.
- anonymousmedic, on 11/03/2009, -1/+6Yes. Eat all protein. Your liver and kidneys will love that.
You need a balanced diet, not just to cut out one thing or another. - happyimbecile, on 11/03/2009, -0/+5I dunno, I think a lot of people could go the gym 3-5 times a week easier than changing the foods their used to. Maybe that's just me though, I've got nothing to back this up with.
- galanz, on 11/03/2009, -0/+5Well actually, a croissant is a horrible way to start the day.
You might as well stop off at the Krispy Kreme. - dromni, on 11/03/2009, -2/+6Well, you can always SMOKE. Nicotine is a well-known metabolism booster. 8-)
- anonymousmedic, on 11/03/2009, -0/+4Not that simple. It's the reason that diets that only focus on one thing do not last. A balanced, tailored diet and exercise are needed to maintain health. There are other things to consider besides carbohydrates, such as various fat contents, and protein, and chemical compounds in the food production, such as olestra.
- cgoose34, on 11/03/2009, -0/+4Actually beer does have some hydrating effect when drank in moderation. Same for coffee and tea. It's when you overload on it that you send your ADH levels out of wack and end up losing more water than you put in.
- cezx, on 11/03/2009, -0/+4From myexperience, breakfast in Europe is generally NOT small.....and does not consist of croissants, but rather cold cuts, cheese, and vegetables like tomatoes and cucumbers combined in cute little sandwiches.
who eats croissants for breakfast ive heard of no such nation to do so!!!!! - poesybeater, on 11/03/2009, -4/+7Beer is a diuretic. There is nothing hydrating about it.
- askantik, on 11/03/2009, -0/+3The ethanol is diuretic... the water still hydrates you. It might negate the hydration of the water... Either way, maybe that's not true, but I feel damn good sipping a beer when I'm thirsty as hell. Anyhow, check this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beer#Health_effects
The main active ingredient of beer is alcohol, and therefore, the health effects of alcohol apply to beer. The moderate consumption of alcohol, including beer, is associated with a decreased risk of cardiac disease, stroke and cognitive decline.[123][124][125][126]
Brewer's yeast is known to be a rich source of nutrients; therefore, as expected, beer can contain significant amounts of nutrients, including magnesium, selenium, potassium, phosphorus, biotin, and B vitamins. In fact, beer is sometimes referred to as "liquid bread".[127] Some sources maintain that filtered beer loses much of its nutrition.[128][129]
A 2005 Japanese study found that low alcohol beer may possess strong anti-cancer properties.[130] Another study found nonalcoholic beer to mirror the cardiovascular benefits associated with moderate consumption of alcoholic beverages.[131] However, much research suggests that the primary health benefit from alcoholic beverages comes from the alcohol they contain.[132] - FritoPendejo, on 11/03/2009, -1/+4It's not simple to eat that way at all with meals between meals. Do you enjoy living your life this way? Why don't you just kill yourself. I swear these people come out of nowhere anytime exercise is mentioned and start telling you about their lame-ass feeding habits. I exercise every other day and I eat whatever I want in moderation and go out to restaurants with my friends. Enjoy your unnecessary supplements and your obsession with working out.
There's a hilarious parody of this kind of talk on The Onion web site, but it's blocked at my work. Maybe someone can post the link. - sleestakslayer, on 11/04/2009, -0/+3Who eats croissants?
Here in the states, we cut them open and add processed meats and fake cheese, wrap them in wax paper and throw them into some slob's car at the drive-in window. "Here's yor croissanwich you fat piece of *****."
Source: Richard Jeni's HBO special, A Big Steaming Pile of Me - gregdogum, on 11/03/2009, -2/+5Who says you shouldnt eat within 3 hours of bed? That is a myth.
- EnnuiStudent, on 11/03/2009, -0/+3Another article purporting that a higher meal frequency speeds up someone's metabolism. While studies have shown that eating regular small meals and breakfast in particular, is inversely correlated with obesity, this is simply a correlation. Correlation is not causation.
This study explains it in particular:
http://journals.cambridge.org/download.php?file=%2 ...
There are even various studies on the blood lipids, triglyceride levels, and even metabolism of subjects who participate in Ramadan. Even when they fast the entire day, waiting for night to fall, somehow their metabolisms were functioning the same. Amazing. - EnnuiStudent, on 11/04/2009, -1/+3You do realize that seasonal affective disorder is a depressive condition right? Not a metabolic one.
- Enterres, on 11/04/2009, -0/+2No thanks - i'd rather not become impotent, among other things.
- sleestakslayer, on 11/04/2009, -0/+2Snack on nuts such as walnuts, almonds, sunflower seeds, etc.
I heard a doctor give this adice to a friend who had a similar problem. - stormborn, on 11/03/2009, -0/+2This has got to be the greatest collection of diet myth nonsense I've ever read. One after another - from their "Science Daily sourcing," to random doctors of pharmacology. Does anyone here know what pharmacology is the study of?
Give me a break. You're better off reading 17 magazine diet tips than this trash. - catvllvs, on 11/03/2009, -0/+2I like the arvo snack "For this, trail mix and a little chocolate, an apple and a piece of cheese or crackers with some slices of deli meat are ideal"
For ***** sake.
It's like the moo moo wearing idiots in my office eating a weight watchers meal at lunch then ploughing through a packet of biscuits for arvo tea, - PinkThing, on 11/04/2009, -0/+2In Australia -- we WALK -- of course having a country the size of the USA but only the population of Chicago helps -- we dont' meet so many people -- try it out on our most accessible bush walk
http://www.thegreatnorthwalk.com/Companion - mwilkinson, on 11/04/2009, -0/+2way to represent the FJ forum - DoWork
- EnnuiStudent, on 11/03/2009, -2/+4Damn, you beat me to it.
+1 for you, sir. - FritoPendejo, on 11/03/2009, -0/+1Poesybeater learned that beer has diuretic properties, but he didn't make it any further than that. People claim the same crap about soda, believing that the diuretic properties somehow negate the water content, as if you would die of thirst on a desert island if you had nothing but soda to drink. Too bad you have to drink multiple sodas to even start to see the diuretic effects.
- sh0x, on 11/03/2009, -0/+1I'm successfully trading fat for muscle but I want to understand why. There are at least three philosophies, which seem to contradict each other, and I do sort of a hybrid of these three. I eat lean protiens, in small amounts, my first meal being a protein shake and banana, and watch my total calorie intake. Usually dinner is my biggest meal of the day. Often times anything goes. I also exercise, although only about 30 minutes a day, 3 times a week. I do heavy cardio on a crosstrainer machine. So why is it working? Is it:
1. Calories out > calories in = fat loss
2. Eating small meals and concentrating on lean protiens and low carbs = fat loss
3. Counting total calories and avoiding fats = fat loss (the Weight Watcher's theorem, expressed in points) - EnnuiStudent, on 11/03/2009, -1/+2You're way off.
One pound of muscle can cost the body 6 calories a day. One pound of fat can cost the body 2 calories a day.
If you spent years and years gaining even 25 more pounds of muscle, that's about 210 extra calories a day you can eat. The average rate of muscle growth in a non-drug-using weightlifter is 2 lbs a month, for a newbie (6 months or less of regular weightlifting). It typically goes down to 1 lb a month for intermediate weightlifters. It can even be 1/2 lbs a month for advanced weightlifters. So in general, the rate of muscle gain decreases the longer you practice weightlifting, due to people peaking out at a somewhat "normal" genetic muscular limit.
These estimates of muscle growth are based on a male's physiology. For females, realistically speaking, they would gain muscle at half the rates stated above (variety of hormonal reasons). The assumptions stated above also assumes that you're training very regularly, and eating sufficiently to add on bodyweight (of which will be a mix of muscle/fat). So that's a bunch of givens...
So I've mentioned all this above, to mention that it's more realistic to just pay attention to your caloric intake. Don't pretend that muscle growth is going to effectively "speed up" someone's metabolism. Especially given the amount of time to gain muscle (assuming that you aren't using drugs). - locondcoco, on 11/03/2009, -0/+1Plain and simple? yea, its easier said than done. its much easier to jump start a healthy lifestyle by adjusting how you eat. Gaining muscle mass means you need to workout. I believe its a LOT tougher to get someone to workout than to adjust they way they eat.
- FritoPendejo, on 11/03/2009, -0/+1So is being fat. But metabolism is a fun word to say, so let's say it some more.
- FritoPendejo, on 11/03/2009, -2/+3Just follow his "simple" rules of obsessively eating the same bad tasting food every 3 hours.
- askantik, on 11/03/2009, -3/+4I keep my metabolism in check by not eating crap (most of the time) and biking to and from work. It's not hard. I also enjoy a good beer after I get home-- helps me not eat as much at dinner. (Yes, I'm aware that beer is full of calories, but it's still healthy in a hydrating sense if not overdone).
- SoCalDissident, on 11/04/2009, -0/+1No, I mean with any family I've ever stayed with in Romania, where breakfast was almost always eggs, bacon, some veg, maybe polenta with cheese... juice or milk, and maybe some sweets... But definitely not light. I don't remember it being too different in Italy. Maybe it's different in western Europe?
- inactive, on 11/04/2009, -0/+1as also a EU i back dexter77 statement*.
*without the croissants.Thats more a french thing...but its a light breakfast culture. - mikebritton, on 11/03/2009, -0/+1If you stop lifting weights for any period of time, it all turns to fat because you're now overeating, being used to the diet of an athlete. Then you get bitch *****, and there's nothing special about that.
- Rantus, on 11/03/2009, -0/+1David Beckham is a bitch. If you want to feel good instead of just looking good then you should consider eating a balanced diet, weight training and playing some team sports. Any form of exercise that involves interacting with opponents is always going to build muscle and increase your metabolism faster than ones that don't. They also build coordination and sharpen reflexes. It also exhausts you that much faster.
Try running a mile or two one day, then playing a game of basketball or two the next. Or maybe take some Taekwondo lessons. See how you feel after each one. There ain't nothing for free in the real world. - EnnuiStudent, on 11/05/2009, -0/+1Yes. Melatonin is related to light. Which is related to Seasonal Affective Disorder.
But melatonin doesn't significantly alter or have anything to do with metabolism. Not in this context anyways. - sleestakslayer, on 11/04/2009, -0/+1The working out before lunch idea will not work for me. This is the first time I had heard that.
I do all of my working out at night. - Alli3388, on 11/03/2009, -1/+2If you think a meal of, say, stir fried veggies and a grilled sirloin with sauteed mushrooms is bad tasting, that's your problem.
- Enterres, on 11/04/2009, -1/+1This one has a big metabolic problem. Rather than being fat i'm actually way too skinny, with almost no fat left on me at all. Started having metabolic issues when i moved to the far north, and it took years before i discovered it was Seasonal Affective Disorder, now i can't work or do much else because it took so long to figure out what was wrong with me.
Does anyone out there have any other advice for kick starting my metabolism? Even when i can get access to a full spectrum light it feels like getting kicked in the stomach the way my metabolism will suddenly speed up.
It's probably a hopeless case unless i can find something to make me happy to be alive again, but still, any advice peeps? - Alli3388, on 11/03/2009, -1/+1Yes, I do enjoy living my life this way, thanks. I happen to like protein and veggies, and I also happen to like making a hobby of being really healthy. Why do people have a problem with this?? I mean, I still eat Thanksgiving dinner and cake on Bdays, and I do still go out to restaurants, just sans the giant pile of potatoes... I also enjoy drinking booze - just no beer, thanks. People are such haters. Also, I never mentioned working out at all, Judgie-McGee. Gee, sorry I enjoy eating well! I guess I will kill myself! Oh, and I know the Onion article you're speaking of, and it is hilarious.
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