What is Digg?108 Comments
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -2/+145Carrot Sticks
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Sugar, Whole Corn, High Fructose Corn Syrup, Artificial Flavoring, Vegetable Oil (Fructose, Glucose, and Sucrose). - unangst, on 10/11/2007, -2/+60Research shows that drinking beer and then throwing up (on Alex's couch) is still the fastest way to limit caloric intake.
- kevinrose, on 10/11/2007, -3/+44@royall64 - not exactly. Green is less oxidized and thus has more of the good stuff (polyphenols). White undergoes even less oxidation - which in theory is even better for you then green. But unfortunately not as much research has been done on white.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -5/+40You know what's so great about Fritos? Look at the ingredients. "Whole Corn, Corn Oil, and Salt."
I'm not kidding. All they use, is corn and salt. No sugar, no flavoring or preservatives, just corn and salt. And they still taste AMAZING. Completely off topic. - kevinrose, on 10/11/2007, -4/+37I'm curious as to the overall volume -- are we talking small traditional Japanese tea cups (2-3 oz ='ing 20-30oz of tea per day?)
I'm looking for more info... - allaboutdatiki, on 10/11/2007, -0/+25This article makes me want to head over to the Whole Foods on the other side of town right now and buy all kinds of tasty stuff that won't kill me. I swear I salivate when I think of that place ... it's gotten so bad that the mere thought of trudging into my regular "normal" supermarket gives me the willies.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -1/+19What dose the couch have anything to do with it?
- glock22ownr, on 10/11/2007, -1/+17I found a thing on here about what 4 years of consistenly working out can do and it led me to these two posts::
http://forums.johnstonefitness.com/showthread.php?t=1222
and
http://forums.johnstonefitness.com/showthread.php?t=19229
I followed the advice, started an exercise regimen, and I am now at 13% bodyfat. All that set aside it is disgusting how hard it is to eat clean in the US. Everything has crap in it. I would recommend reading those 2 posts though, long but really good !! - allaboutdatiki, on 10/11/2007, -3/+18Ten cups of green tea a day. I'm floating just thinking about it. Is that running water I hear?
Buy green tea futures. And chocolate. Really good chocolate. - 5m0k3, on 10/11/2007, -1/+14"Vitamin D deficiency is widespread. The following health problems have been linked to vitamin D deficiency: type 1 and 2 diabetes; multiple sclerosis; rheumatoid arthritis, osteoarthritis, periodontal disease, increased susceptibility to infection; osteoporosis, low birth weight infants; low seizure threshold; cancers of the breast, prostate, colon, pancreas and ovary; non-Hodgkin's lymphoma; hypertension, myocardial infarction, stroke, congestive heart failure; wheezing in childhood, and compromised muscle strength and falls in the elderly."
Wow I'm glad I spend a lot of time in the sun - RHMac, on 10/11/2007, -5/+16New on McDonald's Dollar Menu: Carrot sticks.
- sanityvortex, on 10/11/2007, -0/+11My fav mix is Green Tea with White tea and Yerbe Matte sweetened with agave or sum good honey.
may leave some jittery. - silverchrysalis, on 10/11/2007, -0/+11off topic- WFM also has a good employee policy. i have never encountered a grumpy face or bad attitude there. i asked a cashier once why they were all so happy and he just smiled and said they treat their staff like gold!
rare in this day and age - macabaret, on 10/11/2007, -2/+12I for one welcome our new dietary overlords.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -0/+9Studies also show that getting a new couch will not make Alex stop talking about the old one.
Every episode. - aukxsona, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7wish we had whole foods...
- salmonmoose, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8Warning: May contain traces of Peanut.
- endgame, on 10/11/2007, -0/+7American Farm policy is crap. We really need to stop adding all the garbage Corn Syrup to EVERYTHING.
- rossmcd, on 10/11/2007, -1/+8Weil says that nutrition = good... where's the problem? Dr. Weil has an MD from Harvard medical school. What are your credentials?
- c5kirk, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5I've been traveling a lot lately and it is crazy how difficult it is to find anything even remotely healthy to eat "on the run" in this country.
- Ninnux, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6Green Tea contains EGCG or epigallocatechin-3-gallate and has been demonstrated as a very potent antioxidant.
Here's a great article from the Mayo Clinic about it.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?Db=pubmed&Cmd=ShowDetailView&TermToSearch=17550753&ordinalpos=3&itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum
A couple of cups of green tea, a 52mg of asprin per day, cold water fatty fish like salmon every once in a while for the n-3 PUFA, and colorectal cancer is a bad memory of yore.
I agree with Number23. As a graduate student and my wife a post-doc, we had to cook at home.... it was the only way we could eat. Cooking healthy is amazingly easy and cheap. Even with the stress and crazy hours of grad school, I was never sick. Not once. - Bokista, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5"You doctors have been telling us to drink eight glasses of gravy a day!"
- c5kirk, on 10/11/2007, -1/+6Sounds good... the real problem I have is finding anyplace in this country to eat healthy when you're "on the run"... been traveling a lot lately and the disgusting stuff you get from "fast food" places or airports is nearly inedible.
- davidlow, on 10/11/2007, -3/+8I'm suspicious of that "linked to vitamin D" statement because more than half the time linkage runs counter to what you'd think is obvious. For example, those diseases might cause the vitamin deficiency instead of the other way around, or the sources of vitamin D might contain other beneficial nutrients which are therefore also reduced in the diet.
For some reason the medical community is especially prone to forgetting this basic statistical fact:
Correlation is not causality, and doesn't even imply causality. - aukxsona, on 10/11/2007, -0/+5can I come live with you...I'm headed to med school after my BS.
- austinwiltshire, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4A skeptical analysis. Which is really needed in this world that seems to think 16 year old anorexics is somehow more endimic of physical and psychological health than 60 year olds keeling over from heart disease. Otherwise, I kind of like Dr. Weil, he's happy and relatively open minded.
1. This point perpetuates the myth that somehow our 'ancestors' or primitive man was nutritionally healthier than we are. Primitive man rarely lived past his 30's, so doubtfully we can fully analyze their diet's impact on their later health. While there seems to be evidence that a wider diet is a better one, this has yet to be proven completely.
2. What is junk food? I mean, scientifically. Definitions could wildly differ. Moreover, how many of these calories compare to how many we ate in 1985 or 1970 or before. Moreover, what's the 'limit' of how much junk food is 'bad' for you is never established.
3. This contradicts other studies. Moreover, how many calories we are eating has very many different ways of being calculated. One of the most absurd being calculating the calorie content of the agricultural output of the US and assuming we ate it all. I.e., no wasted food and no exports. Calculating the 'added sweeteners' and 'added fats' would also be difficult, and misleading. Added calories are always going to come from fats or carbohydrates(or protein), that's what a calorie is.
4. While I would generally agree with the Vitamin D defeciency because we spend more time indoors, the link between the defeciency and disease(especially all the ones claimed!) has yet to be proven. Moreover this is hardly because we are eating 'more poorly' since most of our Vitamin D comes from the sun anyway, not from what we eat.
5. This, from what I understand, is entirely true. Blame farm subsidies. They pay you to grow corn(and the syrup that follows and is put into soft drinks) but could care less if you grow apples. Write your congressperson.
6. Green tea studies are notoriously hard to read. Most seem to point to the idea that, yes, green tea has some good effects. The proper dosage, whether it can be obtained via supplementation, method of action, etc, are still all as yet not understood. Moreover, there have been some indications of the possibility of overdose and contraindictions with dairy.
7. Other meta-analysis have found no result. The jury is still out on garlic. Many of these phytonutrient approachs(garlic, cinnomen, curcumminin, tumeric, etc) are hopeful, and more research should be done. If anything, this, and the above point, further that the widest diet possible, as opposed to any particular make up of macro-nutrients(high carb versus low carb, etc) seems to have the most beneficial on health.
8. This also agrees with most treatment of the mercury scares. Certainly some fish is to be avoided and mecury content should be taken into account. However, along with vitamin D, there's quite a bit of evidence there's widespread defeciency in omega 3 fatty acids and other essential fats.
9. No health benefits have been widly reported in organic foods. Same with 'unprocessed' foods. This is a widly distributed myth that has very little evidence. Processed foods tend(and only tend) to be more calorie dense than 'unprocessed'(fruits and vegetables). But this is because 'processing' is a pretty arbitrary way to split up food. Moreover, processing includes cooking, which means you move most of your foods from 'unprocessed' to 'processed' when you prepare them. That means you make them more calorie dense(fresh brocolli compared with brocolli with sheese and butter, for example). Local foods are more of an economic issue, and a mixed one at that.
10. This is good news. But the funny thing is, and what I respect Dr. Weil for, is that he doesn't immidiately scream at us that chocolate isn't worth eating because its still bad for us! Chocolate, like most things, is good in moderation. When these studies tend to appear in the media, you usually have some crazy dietician berating us for even thinking that anything makes chocolate good for us and how bad we all our. Its an entirely too moralistic issue. - sanityvortex, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5Just thought I'd share. This is a revised food pyramid not influenced by U.S Agriculture lobbyists.
http://www.honestfoodguide.org/downloads/21407.0_HonestFoodGuide.pdf
Don't 100% agree with it on issues of milk and meat though but good non the less. - johndi, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4In this case principally means "for the most part." It's not really misleading since we are a society that values the convenience of the sandwich, loves pasta, and most of our vegetable oils are corn or soy. Maybe he should have added tomatoes and potatoes, but that twist of lemon in your whiskey sour doesn't really count.
- fergl, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Britains are monstrously fat, and they're getting fatter faster than Americans.
British obesity levels at crisis point: http://www.nutraingredients.com/news/ng.asp?id=39017-british-obesity-levels
Obesity surgery doubles in size (heheh... size): http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/4414316.stm
Fat Britain: Tackling the obesity epidemic; Obesity rates in Britain are soaring with nearly a quarter of adults now classed as clinically obese. :
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/health/dietfitness.html?in_article_id=301419&in_page_id=1798
Britain's obesity death rate; More people are dying in Britain due to being overweight or obese than anywhere else in Europe, a study revealed yesterday.
Around one in every 11 deaths in the UK is now linked to carrying excess fat - 50 per cent more than the rate in France.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=171497&in_page_id=1770 - jeff303, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Hunter gatherers were very opportunistic and ate whatever they might find in nature that didn't make them sick. You're definitely right that they wouldn't be eating significant amount of all of these plants all the time. Finding ripe fruit in nature is a rare treat in some parts of the world. However, corn, soy, wheat, and potatoes ("staple" crops of the west) are not edible raw (only through treatment/cooking can we ingest them without getting sick). People did not subsist on these crops until very recently. For more information see http://www.paleodiet.com/
- KenOh, on 10/11/2007, -1/+5The Vitamin D one is right on. People are going nuts about anti-sun damage "Daily UV Lotion" or whatever claiming that 10 minutes of sun makes you look 10 years older. Now they're finding out that, duh, we really do need to get a little UV. Daily.
In short, just live naturally. - hiPpymIck, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4eating healthily and cheaper on the run..
i buy a few things from a supermarket
say a couple of loose bread rolls, over-ripe Avocado (cheap and yummy), small 'Pepperami', Piece of Fruit, Danish/cookie - if i want sugar, Pint of milk - fresh from the Chiller (best cold drink on a hot day), grab a disposable knife,salt,pepper etc from somewhere
i find a park - we have lots in UK
sit down on the Grass - enjoy my meal
(or make myself a sanwich before i go out)
put all my rubbish in the bag and bin it - takes 20min+ - omgomgomg, on 10/11/2007, -2/+6haha 10 cups of tea a day.. i guess i should just install an IV with a plastic tube the width of a garden hose then.
- foolfromhell, on 10/11/2007, -0/+4Earl Grey, Hot
- aukxsona, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3I grow a lot of stuff...garlic, walking onions, zucchini, squash, winter squash, radishes, lettuce (the specialty kinds), kale, mustards, dill, tomatoes, cucumbers, turnips, turnip greens, egg plants, sweet potatoes...etc... We usually have enough to supplement our food budget quite a bit. A lot of these can be container grown if you get the right kind of variety.
- rossmcd, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3I've started really cooking at home in the last couple years, and have been genuinely surpised at how fast and easy it became once I got over the initial learning curve. It's relaxing too.
- sensia3, on 10/11/2007, -0/+3So true! On my weekly visit to supermarket I only see a set of vegies, no change, they stays teh same all over the year. On the other hand there is Whole Foods, but the cost of vegies are kinda prohibitively higher compared to regular supermarket stores. Only option left, Chinese market. They sell a plethora of green vegies, and at a price no one can beat on the street. We have a couple farmer's market around, but they prefer to sell the same mundane stuff, corn/tomato/brocolli and carrot.
- inactive, on 10/11/2007, -3/+6Isn't food the main source of the aging process? Eating food provides nutrients for the body, advancing it forward from it's current state. In other words, aging.
- orlyfactor, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2yes, especially that high fructose kind. BLECH!
- Number23, on 10/11/2007, -2/+4Dinner Tonight
Artichoke, Roast Chicken, mixed baby greens with toasted walnuts salad (balsamic vinaigrette dressing) , strawberries
Dinner Last night
Pasta with pesto, mixed baby greens with toasted walnuts salad, fresh asparagus, fresh cherries
My wife and I eat like this nearly every night. I do most of the cooking because she in med school and I can tell you it's really not that hard or expensive to eat well and healthfully - Vezran, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2do you live in El Segudo, CA? because the Whole Foods that opened there is unbelievable.
- SteelChicken, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2blame the corn companies. people and bitch about the price of corn going up because of increased ethanol production...maybe they can stop dumping so much corn into everything we eat?
- VeganG, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Iced green tea with passionfruit juice and boba is my beverage of choice.
- Number23, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2Another happy side effect of cooking at home is LEFTOVERS!
What would rather have for lunch? Some microwave while collar MRE? Fast food? OR Bowtie past in pesto and some asparagus with a little lemon butter? - aukxsona, on 10/11/2007, -1/+3your a sadist
see how relevant your statement is... - quick1, on 10/11/2007, -0/+2If your looking for a decent tea, I'm addicted to the stash fusion green and white tea. I probably go through about 6 cups a day. Its lighter then straight green tea, and in my opinion has a better taste then either green or white tea (I agree with the above poster on not being a huge fan of straight white tea).
- sanityvortex, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1@diversionmary (#7198468)
You could cut that in half if you double brew or go over recommended if you quad brew..just 3 cups with 4teabags each(or loose leaf equivalent) - diversionmary, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Dinner tonight: a 24oz bud light. Maybe a yogurt if I get too hungry.
- Dharmamooch, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Facts? Research studies quoted at a conference do not necessarily equal fact.
- nawzyah, on 10/11/2007, -0/+1Can you please expound on your statement?
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