1mo ago

Eating Healthy

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Like 52% of the developed first world can be considered morbidly obese.
I highly doubt it's a willpower or self-control problem, that's just blaming the victim.
The real issue is there's fucking sugar in everything.
Read the nutrition facts labels one day and try to keep yourself under 100g of net carbohydrates as a mental experiment while grocery shopping (net meaning carbs - fiber = net).
You'll quickly notice that the vast majority of things have added sugar via HFCS, even innocuous things like bread or even ketchup.
It's tough out there.
- My favorite advice to avoid this: stick to the outside aisles - the grains (though problematic), fruits/veggies, meats, and dairies. Only delve into the aisles for what you know you need/want. Not foolproof, but less temptation than walking every aisle, esp. when hungry
- There’s also the elephant in the room of all the micro/nanoplastics polluting our food. We’re only now scratching the surface on what this means for our health but the preliminary findings are not at all positive
- They arnt injecting sugar into meat fruit and vegetables yet and u can less proccessed carbs (less proccessed = longer chain carbs = slower to digest = better for u) that's what 99% of ur diet should be anyways.
  Also i blame soft drinks and sufar filled drinks as just as big of an issue. Drink fucking water its good for u, and if u think its boring have it with icecubes or a slice of lemon.
- Don't forget all the added salt in everything too. Doesn't affect weight but does affect internal health which is then compounded by weight gain.
  Basically our food industry is trying to kill us while our healthcare industry makes money off it.
- People who cut all the sugar - all the carbohydrates - from their diets do stop being fat
- I was shocked to find HFCS (and a bunch of other sh*t) in SOY SAUCE in the USA! WTF?
  Sorry, but if you look at real soy sauce in Asia, it has like 4 ingredients - water, soy, maybe some alcohol (from the fermentation?), and 1 or 2 that I forget. USA soy sauce (that I looked at) has like 10 ingredients.
  Looking at labels (on Amazon) now, Kikkoman seems to use the traditional recipe - no HFCS. But, La Choy soy sauce does have HFCS in it.
- A couple of years ago I started looking at the sugar contents listed on labels. Ho-ly crap. How does a pint of strawberry milk contain over 100% DV of sugar? Why does my PB&J consume 2/3 of my daily sugar budget? Its honestly sickening once you start keeping track of these things and I'm not even doing more than just trying to reduce my sugar intake and loosely monitor how much I take in

That whole "eat garbage all the time and then starve yourself with a diet for a while just so you can eat garbage again" approach never worked.
Your default meal should always be healthy and well balanced and provide enough nourishment to maintain yourself. And then once in a while you can treat yourself to a garbage meal.
- "Health" businesses / media: But how can we continually monetise people if they don't yo-yo diet?
- Just like alternating 12 hours sleep with 4 hours sleep each night is not healthy.

But what if I mess up on January 2nd? Then I get permission to not try at all until 2026. That's way easier. I can just overeat for a whole year and try again next January 1st.
- Honestly, every time I have successfully dieted for any meaningful length of time, it just started on a random day.
  Last time it was a random Friday in February. I stuck to it til the following September and lost about 50 pounds. I've put a lot of that back on, so maybe today's the next one.
  
  All successful habits start the day you decide to do them. If you plan to start them in the future, they're way less likely to succeed.
  (The above based on nothing but my own gut feelings and experience.)

People need a reminder that you can have fun resolutions too.
For example, this year when I pass by an ingredient I've never tried before, I'm going to buy it, look up a recipe that uses it and try it. With the goal being that I can expand the staple foodstuffs I keep falling back on week after week.
- My gf did this. Realised that we are allowed to have fun resolutions that make us smile, not just... "Better" ourselves :) enjoy!

Bah.
You don’t eat healthy when eating out. Eat well and right on your own at home or packing food for work. Eating out is a treat, not a diet to live on.

Living healthy is just the slowest way to die.

Eating a bacon cheese burger while I ponder these serious questions ..... slurping on a chocolate milkshake while I think harder.

as she read the meme she remembered the cold pizza from yesterday is in the fridge and that everything is right in the world

hyperpalatability is insidious. Healthy foods are delicious and packed full of flavors that the vast majority of people have never had the pleasure of experiencing - because all of your palates have been utterly fried by highly refined pseudofoods that are packed full of added sugar, salt, and fat.
My biggest vice is still salt. I have mostly been doing a decent job of reigning it in, but on one occasion recently I ate a bag of chips. Then a few minutes later had a plate full of home-cooked whole grain noodles with a variety of vegetables, in a light savory sauce. It was a meal I knew should have been gourmet, but because I had just consumed significantly more salt than I was used to, I literally could not even taste what I was eating.
Food is very much like drugs. There is a real addiction to it, but if you can work through the difficult beginning stages and commit to getting and keeping the junk out of your life, it becomes all upsides. Longer lifespan, better "healthspan" (ie., less suffering and chronic disease), and contrary to popular belief, food becomes more enjoyable.
- Maybe your veggie dish just sucked and you had to fool yourself into thinking it's gourmet by not eating anything decent so that it tastes good in comparison?
- There's just no substitute for salt. The trick is to have a little bit in every meal and not too much, but it really is a flavor enhancer.
  
  There are absolutely alternatives, that are particularly important for people with high blood pressure, and anyone wanting to potentially lower their risk of stomach cancer. If you get your salt in the form of miso, it appears the soy counteracts the harmful effects of sodium. Even more, there are potassium-based salt substitutes that have already been shown to have huge benefits for mortality risk. Currently I use an iodized 66% potassium salt. It's every bit as good as regular salt, and I think this kind of stuff needs to be in every home.

Eating good good is one of life's greatest joys. U can do that and be healthy symultaniously. Cook ur own food. Dont buy heighly proccessed shit. Try and avoid sugar. And ull be fine.
Also im pretty sure that most fat people are fat from drinking shitty sugar filled crap instead of water. Also the zero sugar artificially sweetened shit fucks with ur insulin making u fatter. Just drink water.
- Artificial sweeteners and insulin sensitivity is a reverse correlation, better methodologies have found they do not cause reduced insulin sensitivity or obesity: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33535094/
  People who are overweight or diabetic tend to increase consumption of artificial sweeteners as a result of their condition, not the other way around.
- Also im pretty sure that most fat people are fat from drinking shitty sugar filled crap instead of water. Also the zero sugar artificially sweetened shit fucks with ur insulin making u fatter. Just drink water.
  There's a multitude of (often chronic) health conditions that create sticky weight gain, or weight that simply does not go away through diet and exercise. Add in the challenge for women and minorities of healthcare discrimination and you've got a recipe for overweight people who simply aren't able to lose the weight no matter what they try, and doctors blaming the weight before testing for endocrine disorders (oh and of course financial challenges in accessing healthcare in the first place)

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