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TitaniumLegs

I'm never eating McDonald's again

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But if you just had a book about using common sense & eating healthy, it would probably sit on the shelves.



True. That approach requires work and discipline, which are in such short supply that the book would never make it to the bestseller list.

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Oh no! You should've seen the burger I ate about 4 yrs ago! It was the first burger I had in 5 months or so, and I vomitted everywhere! I would chalk it up to food poisoning, except nobody else got sick, and I don't think I'm special! Anything that makes me ill is evil! Certain forms of alcohol are evil, too (The Captain comes to mind....)



Sounds like your body doesn't like red meat, and therefore probably doesn't need it. We all have very different bodies, and a diet that is perfect for one person is not necessarily good for another. I've found (for me anyway) that eating whatever my body is craving seems to work best, and since I've been doing this I find that I eat more balanced than I ever did before. I seem to eat red meat about once a week (when I'm craving it), and I always feel good and energized after eating it - it's never made me sick. I never eat huge portions of it, but I don't eat huge portions of anything.

All the various theories about what's good or bad for you seem to change so frequently that I think people are better off listening to their bodies than paying too much attention to the current trends in diet (not that you shouldn't pay some attention)... And, as I've already mentioned, realizing that everyone has different needs.

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We all have very different bodies, and a diet that is perfect for one person is not necessarily good for another.


I think that we all need the same basic things, and it really only varies by gender, height, weight and age. For example, women should get more calcium than men. My bone density/strength won't make me crave milk any more or less, though.

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All the various theories about what's good or bad for you seem to change so frequently


Yes, and that's due to scientific studies on food and its long-term effects becoming more accurate. Diet fads change all the time, but no one should ever follow those.

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so frequently that I think people are better off listening to their bodies than paying too much attention to the current trends in diet


I think following reliable sources (FDA and whatnot) is better than following what my body says. A smoker's body will tell it that it needs nicotine. A coffee drinker's body will tell it that it need caffeine. My body tells me that I need sugar and chocolate. I ignore it the best that I can.
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I never eat huge portions of it, but I don't eat huge portions of anything.



That, my friends, is large part of our nation wide obesity epidemic here in the good old US of A... we simply eat too much, even when we're eating healthy!

My g/f and I went to a 'Fresh Choice' restaurant last night, and for those unfamiliar with it, it's a salad, soup, breads, pasta kinda place, serve yourself, all you can eat.

Even though most of the choices there are quite healthy, the amount of food consumed by most of the guests (including me!) was way above and beyond what we should really be eating at a single sitting!

urp! :P

"If all you ever do is all you ever did, then all you'll ever get is all you ever got."

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we simply eat too much



Yup.

My wife and I bought a nice digital scale. I think it is a better investment than a whole stack of nutrition books.

It is amazing what a "proper" serving of food is, compared to what you make after getting accustomed to restaraunt-sized portions.

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My body tells me that I need sugar and chocolate.



Well you're probably better off not listening to your body then... :P

I crave different things at different times, occasionally sugar, but usually breads, vegetables, meats, dairy products - it works out to be right around what the FDA says is good for you anyway. But what works for me won't necessarily work for anyone else - it's only in about the last five years that I seem to have started craving what I actually need. When I was younger I did crave sugar all the time, but luckily that has changed.

I'm 32 and have been eating moderate amounts of red meat all my life. I'm in very good health and have low cholesterol, so I can't see any reason to change my eating habits now. I'm certainly not gonna start preaching to everyone else that they should eat red meat though. Since I haven't devoted my life to studying this in an actual scientific setting, I wouldn't feel comfortable giving other people nutritional advice based on what I've read somewhere or seen on tv... it's alright to share such information, but to state it as fact is a little bit misguided I think...

Edited to say: Sorry, I hope that didn't sound like a personal attack - I definitely don't mean it that way ;-)

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For some, food is a health habbit... for others, its a joy.



Yeah, food is a joy for me :-) It's one of the greatest pleasures in life, and I'd much rather live 50 years eating the stuff I love than live 100 years eating nothing but a bunch of bland crap! ;)

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