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Ultimate Sacrifice
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Seeker of the clear blue sky...Its better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt Moderator
There's a video doing the rounds on the internet, variously titled "5 foods that will make you fat/are supposedly healthy but aren't/are bad for you/will not let you lose weight!"
Basically, it's a dumb promo ad/information video that gives you those 5 foods (in about 3 minutes) - but also gives you 57 minutes of self-promoting, repetitive hyped-up jargon, about a specific diet programme, fitness club, health organisation, that they want you to join. They string the video out to the max and pack it with loads of unhealthy, fattening, pointless information and 'come-ons' that frankly make you want to slash your wrists....It's mind-numbingly boring, particularly as you KNOW what they're doing - butr you want to hear about these damn 5 foods, get ON WITH IT!!!!
Very often, they'll use a banana as an illustration, to entice you into thinking, "hang on, I thought bananas were good for you!"
They are.
bananas aren't one of the foods.
So: For your information, and in order to assist you lead fuller lives, and not waste a complete hour sitting listening to some over-paid advertising promoter, here are the 5 foods you "should never eat" if you want to maintain a healthy, balanced diet.
Only one of these 'surprised me'.
1: Concentrated fruit juices (particularly orange).
2: Margarine
3: Wholewheat bread
4: Processed soya products (tofu, milk, and whatever else don't look like the bean)
5: GM sweetcorn.
I eat none of those, BtW....
So, thank me for this perfectly useless information, if it was useful to you.
And no. I'm NOT intending to join the "Trim Down Club" any time soon. Not even for the amazingly low sum of £29.00 plus 4 free gifts.
No.
Basically, it's a dumb promo ad/information video that gives you those 5 foods (in about 3 minutes) - but also gives you 57 minutes of self-promoting, repetitive hyped-up jargon, about a specific diet programme, fitness club, health organisation, that they want you to join. They string the video out to the max and pack it with loads of unhealthy, fattening, pointless information and 'come-ons' that frankly make you want to slash your wrists....It's mind-numbingly boring, particularly as you KNOW what they're doing - butr you want to hear about these damn 5 foods, get ON WITH IT!!!!
Very often, they'll use a banana as an illustration, to entice you into thinking, "hang on, I thought bananas were good for you!"
They are.
bananas aren't one of the foods.
So: For your information, and in order to assist you lead fuller lives, and not waste a complete hour sitting listening to some over-paid advertising promoter, here are the 5 foods you "should never eat" if you want to maintain a healthy, balanced diet.
Only one of these 'surprised me'.
1: Concentrated fruit juices (particularly orange).
2: Margarine
3: Wholewheat bread
4: Processed soya products (tofu, milk, and whatever else don't look like the bean)
5: GM sweetcorn.
I eat none of those, BtW....
So, thank me for this perfectly useless information, if it was useful to you.
And no. I'm NOT intending to join the "Trim Down Club" any time soon. Not even for the amazingly low sum of £29.00 plus 4 free gifts.
No.
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In fairness, they did post links to back up their so-called food facts - but there again, you can say that everything is bad for you, in unwholesome amounts....
I personally don't believe GM foods are good for us, and I personally would rather not eat them so I am a fan of labeling, which we do not do in the US. So I avoid as much as possible foods that are known to contain them. What we eat literally changes our genes, and when the farther away a food is from it's actual natural source, the worse the effects tend to be. That said, I don't usually go by reading tons of articles to determine what is good for me. I have a really good sense of my body and tend to know inherently what is good and what is not.
There is nothing that makes a heads up warning more important than when finding oneself about to lie face down in a 2" evangelical puddle. :bowdown:
It sucks to hear that about wholewheat bread and soy products. I love soy milk and other products made from soya.
It was just one big, boringly repetitive advertising promo for the "Trim Down Club" and frankly, it was horrifically nauseating. I kept yelling at the screen, "For F***'s sake JUST GET ON WITH IT!!!"
(I somehow don't think she heard me, which is why the video has no means of being advanced, as they have on youtube.... they like to keep their audience riveted....)
And @seeker242.... it's with an 'o'. But 'bullocks' works, when you consider Bovine Scatology.....
Juice is commonly concentrated with a piece of equipment known as a 'Thermally Accelerated Short-Time Evaporator', or TASTE (!) for short. TASTE uses steam to heat the juice under vacuum, which enables the water content to be evaporated. Concentrated juice is then discharged to a vacuum flash cooler, which reduces the product temperature to about 55.4° F (13° C), very quickly. The pulp is separated from the juice by ultra-filtration and pasteurised. The clarified juice containing the volatile flavourings is concentrated at 50° F (10° C) by reverse osmosis and the concentrate and the pulp are recombined to produce the appropriate juice concentration. Juice concentrate is then stored in refrigerated stainless steel bulk tanks until is ready to be packaged or reconstituted.
Sounds wonderful, doesn't it?
Read more here.
http://www.fitday.com/fitness-articles/nutrition/healthy-eating/understanding-concentrate-juice.html#b
Really, there is no secret list of foods that if you consume or avoid will make a huge difference in your health. Mostly, we tend to eat too much and not exercise enough and no list of foods to avoid is going to fix that.
My wife is a diabetic and so avoids certain foods because it makes her blood sugar spike. Curiously enough, refined sugar isn't one of them. Diabetics can eat sugar or a candy bar once in a while. Sugar is just a carbohydrate, not a poison. She can have a spoonful of sugar in her coffee with no problem, but eating a slice of white bread makes her readings spike while a slice of wheat bread has no effect. Cheap hotdogs also mess up her blood sugar levels, while all beef hotdogs are OK. Over time she's learned what she can and can't eat.
The main thing is, she eats four meals a day with a small snack between them but less amounts for each meal. Turns out that's a healthy way to eat. That's why people who follow the monk's "eat a couple of big meals and then starve yourself after noon" type living isn't the healthiest one for a lot of people. But our bodies are designed to handle a lot of variation in our diet habits.
I can't find who said it first, but it goes back a long way. And seems infinitely logical.
Edit:
It seems these words are reliably attributed to Adelle Davis
(When you read all about her, you may be forgiven for thinking the above is not good advice. I'm of the opinion that it's probably one of the only good bits of 'advice' she ever gave....)
"Adelle Davis used to say that she never saw anyone get cancer who drank a quart of milk daily, as she did. She stopped saying that when she died of cancer in 1974, leaving behind her a trail of ten million books and a following that was large, devoted, and misinformed."
From:
http://www.quackwatch.org/04ConsumerEducation/davis.html
There is an old saying that my grandmother often stated: "You've got to eat a peck of dirt before you die"....but a peck a day???
The GM thing kinda annoys me though. All genes do is make proteins. So what if they put a fish gene in a tomato, it's not different to eating fish in tomato sauce once it's in your stomach.
As far as i know the Buddha didn't agree with gossiping around mindlessly, but what about other people going on with it? It is horrible.
Some people or websites are like that - they make one want to substitute ones brains with teflon - their shit just sticks everywhere! I can find myself thinking over their bullshit instead of enjoying the moment. :sawed:
I'll keep of dreaming of the lotus; mud all around, but still all clean and blossoming.
This is poison. Aversion (and attraction, and indifference) are worse then any physical poison you could consume. There is something wrong with the margarine. Whatever it is, it is not in the margarine -.-' This much i know.
Wholewheat bread just has more of the wheat grain's component parts, including more fibre.
people might like to check this out:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wheat-Belly-Davis-William-MD/dp/1609611543
Nations have a variety of terrible diets available. Tibetans, for example - high fat, salt etc. and plenty of heart problems, even without fast food joints.
Truth, as I have found it: Eat more calories than you consume, you put on fat. Exercise will make you fitter and may boost metabolism - a little. To burn off a chocolate bar, say 600 calories, will take you an hour of intensive exercise. Doctors, nurses and other experts in nutrition seem to be as prone to fatness or dropping dead jogging as the rest of us.
Have to admit it - there are very few really bad foods and Mum was right - 'moderation in all things' is the best way. I am unlikely ever to follow Mum's advice.
let's firstly admit that the lady on the right has lost some weight, and has apparently had a course of botox - to which she reacted badly, and as such has not repeated.
However, having watched both ladies on TV, I still feel the person on the right is one i would aspire to, rather than the lady on the left. She in turn has had to make drastic changes to some of her advice and recommendations, as they have been proven to be without foundation, substance or veracity. She even had to drop the title 'Doctor' because the provenance of her qualification was dubious. To put it generously.....
I'm sure as heck damned if I'm going to become obsessive about this.......
Many current food allergies have been put down to the over-elimination of natural 'germs and bacteria' which we would naturally build up an immunity to, if exposed to minute quantities...Instead, we go for sanitised, pre-packaged, sterilised food which looks fresh, clean....boring, bland and unappetising.
A cross-section of children questioned in a school, failed to make the connection between this - and this, these and this, or particularly, these, and these.
Many children absolutely refused to believe these items were in any way connected to their original animals.
We have become so clinical about our food, its provenance, processing and preparation, that we have completely lost touch with the essence and nature of a good diet. We eat strawberries in December, and parsnips in July. Our internal clocks are completely knocked off kilter, and natural eating has become a thing of the past.
I've taken a health and Hygiene Food standards course. My kitchen is clean. But I'm not into this crap about killing all germs 99.99% dead. And look at me, I'm not dead yet, either.
Do you remember Mr Thin? Dietary needs and understanding have moved on since those times.
Some of us will know how when blood sugar gets low, so does our mindfullness. Others will have allergies or difficulties with healthy foods.
Really I feel we each require what works for us . . . Water is quite good . . . mostly . . .
That's why my Kitchen is merely 'clean'. Not 'sterile'.