dusters
Emperor
Hi Dusters, do you have any sort of certification? Not that I particular respect certification necessarily since I've seen supposedly officially certified dietitians offering ridiculous advice like that corn flakes + low fat milk is a healthy breakfast. Just curious.
I find I really can binge out on stuff like dried figs sometimes but that's just me & I have food issues.
A few questions.
What makes you certain the many meals spaced out is the best approach? For me it seems kind of like a pain in the neck & in my wannabe-self-sufficient frame of mind I tend to find the idea to eat so often a burden & would need proof to show me it's necessarily a superior way to eat. Also, when I eat often it's hard not to eat alot each time so I prefer just to eat 2-3 x a day. Also, there's the whole intermittent fasting thing (where rats simply do not eat at all every other day) which increases lifespan beyond even caloric restriction & seems to counter the constant-feeding approach (then again these rats probably don't do martial arts & are probably fairly inactive on their fasting days, of course most modern folks are also fairly inactive).
What frustrates me about diet is that are so many contradictory opinions & unlike in political/social thought where it's pretty easy to spot & disregard stupid arguments there seems to be evidence for different theories.
For example some seem to do well on low-fat diets whereas some argue that fat actually burns more efficiently than carbs once you can get your body used to using fat.
What seems logical to me is : lots of vegetables, especially greens (the science seems to support that green leafy & cruciforms veggies are good for health, reducing some cancers by half even), don't overeat, like you (dusters) said avoid heavily processed/stripped foods. I'd also add I don't tend to feel very good when consuming large amounts of vegetable oils. They are pretty much empty calories also though better than sugar. I do have some extra-virgin olive oil & flax oil & occasionally coconut oil but don't douse my salad too liberally (I used to use up to 16 tablespoons of oil in a huge salad).
I do find it amazing that we can put a man on the moon but people are still arguing over what macronutritent ratios are ideal for man/woman.
Thx for the thread.
Nope, no certificates. Self-study and research. Many meals - faster metabolism. The hassle with eating is to eat very slowly. Each spoonful, reconsider if you need it for your body or it is temptation to taste something sweet.
Well, oils are like 600+ calories per 100g, so use them very carefully. You can add water to salad to make it easier to ingest.
Junk food means unbalanced body usually. So less muscle mass, missing vitamins etc. You survive, but you linger as a walking dead if you eat junk food for long. (Walking dead - you can't lift your own weight or some general weight to mass ratio).
I don't actually monitor, however i pay visits to doc regularly to see if I haven't done something wrong. I do take anti-oxidant supplements sometimes.
Nutrionists are okay as long as they have a body to show as proof that their stuff works.
Raw milk, straight from the cow
Although I tend to get calcium from low-fat cheese and curd.
