Eating healthier.

My go to salad is chunks of sweet peppers, meaty tomatoes, peppery radish, bit of cucumber to bulk it out and then a bit of chorizo or chicken or something in there with it. Takes me 2 minutes to wash out the pot and sling in some new salad when I get in from work and I can eat it with one hand while reading a book.

If you have really very fresh good quality stuff then it's beautiful, doesn't need any dressing. I can see why your average brit doesn't eat much fruit and veg - if I was buying the crap in the supermarkets I wouldn't see the appeal either. You really do need good quality produce to make a salad worthwhile.
 
Sounds good :)

Mine is a mixed young leaf salad (rocket, spinach etc...), cucumber, cherry tomatoes, chicken breast and some lardons, avocado, olive oil, mixed seeds, pine nuts, bulgar wheat. It's fresh, delicious, and filling.
 
Soured cream is a good base for a salad dressing as well. Makes a nice change to oil based dressings.

Love raw onions in salads, it makes a boring salad into a spectacular salad.

As said use myfitness app, and don't cheat yourself use scale at least for the first month or so.

The issue with supermarkets, isn't so much that it's rubbish. It's they use vegetable breeds that give good uniform shape, long shelf life etc. All at expense of taste. It's why I like growing my own. That way you can use old traditional breeds, that taste great. And one reason I like buying meat from online butchers, compare a Gloucester old spot pig, to the breeds and raising methods they use in supermarkets. the taste is totally different, in fact I'm not surprised some people don't like old spot pigs, as they aren't used to the full flavour.

On a more general note. Depending how much you want to get into it. The simplest thing that will improve most peoples diets, is simply making 99% of stuff from scratch themselves. that cuts out so much crape just on it's own. Before you even look at carb, fat, protein balances as well as which fats are good/bad etc.
 
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willhub said:
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Fruit is sugar, and won't eating 550g of Strawberries a day end up rotting my teeth to nothing and causing problems?
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Eating whole fruit isn't a problem, you're only likely to overdo fructose if eating a lot of highly processed foods containing high fructose corn syrup or downing a lot of fruit juice. Whole fruits such as berries are great for you so get them down. Mixed berries with natural Greek yogurt is a good snack. Blueberries, blackberries, raspberries, strawb's etc, don't tend to keep that long in the fridge though, so I either buy fresh and freeze them or buy them ready frozen, easy to eat straight from frozen as they thaw enough in the time it takes to put them in a bowl and add whatever you're having with them.
 
Glaucus said:
The issue with supermarkets, isn't so much that it's rubbish. It's they use vegetable breeds that give good uniform shape, long shelf life etc. All at expense of taste. It's why I like growing my own. That way you can use old traditional breeds, that taste great. And one reason I like buying meat from online butchers, compare a Gloucester old spot pig, to the breeds and raising methods they use in supermarkets. the taste is totally different, in fact I'm not surprised some people don't like old spot pigs, as they aren't used to the full flavour.
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Oh I'm well aware of supermarket buying practise, it's just that the veg they sell is garbage and it's bloody expensive for what it is.

I have grown my own before but I just don't have the time or space to grow year round.
 
Somnambulist said:
Sounds retarded unless she has an actual intolerance - large reproducible studies have yet to show non-celiacs have any adverse affects eating gluten or health benefits avoiding it. Bet she doesn't even know what gluten even is.
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To accuse someone of being retarded for making a choice not to eat something that is at best in the grey area of diet/nutrition, is retarded in itself, and of course she should have carried out her own randomized studies before deciding to go gluten free!:rolleyes:
 
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Eat lots more fish (proper fresh fish and not fish fingers or battered frozen crap) and avoid meat especially processed red meat (burgers, bacon, sausages ..etc)
More vegetables and fruit are also good for a healthy balanced diet imho.
 
Freefaller said:
Indeed a salad can be as interesting as you're willing to make it. My salad has no salad dressing, but I make it up to be around at least 1000 calories as I need them for my herculean physique, however, you can make an equivalently filling and nutritious salad for half of those calories easily.
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I've read recently, balsamic vinagear is a good choice for a dressing. Though I can't remember the exact reasoning behind this...
 
BeatSpec said:
Saywhut? Avoid meat?
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I can see why not for the ones he mentioned but not sure why in general - Meat is a good source of protein.

Some of the processed red meats have been tentatively linked to prostate cancer when over indulged in i.e. if your eating sizeable portions of bacon twice a day every day. (Plus there is the whole cholesterol and saturated fats angle, etc. to them).
 
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Rroff said:
Meat is a good source of protein.
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There are better and much healthier sources of protein such as:

Fish
Beans
Nuts
Tofu
Eggs
...etc

If you 'must' eat meat go for the healthier option of skinless chicken or turkey instead of red meats and espicially processed rubbish like ham, bacon, sausages, burgers ...etc ...etc.
Even in relatively small quantities red meat and espicially processed red meat is very bad for your health on a number of levels!!

“This study provides clear evidence that regular consumption of red meat, especially processed meat, contributes substantially to premature death,” said Hu. “On the other hand, choosing more healthful sources of protein in place of red meat can confer significant health benefits by reducing chronic disease morbidity and mortality.”
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http://archinte.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1697785&resultClick=3
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/pr...of-total-cardiovascular-and-cancer-mortality/
 
Oh yay more posting of crap "science", should never even be published. Such "research" really is misleading and rubbish, it in no way proves cause and effect, it relies on people tempering what they have eaten, and does in no way distinguish between high red meat clean diets, and high red meat ready made and takeaway diets.

Oh yay cholesterol crap again. That really needs to be buried as an out-dated bad science from days gone past, that doesn't stand up to scrutiny. I mean even NHS has gone back on deity cholesterol in things like eggs having an effect on blood cholesterol.

There are so few proper health studies and these studies really should be thrown in the bin.
 
FrenchTart said:
I'm getting severe deja-vu here. Didn't C.R.A.Z.Y post this same rubbish a few months ago too?
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Probably, it's hard to remember names, as everyone believes it. It's been ingrained for so long, yet modern clinical trials do not back it up, and in fact say the opposite. If the very few good quality trials there are.

Someone needs to set up a charity to do proper research.

Even most of the clinical trials are well rubbish. One I read which was a test of Palo/primal etc against normal and low fat high crab. Didn't even use the right oils and included refined products etc in the HFLC side.

It's always worth reading the method, to find out what is actually being tested, rather than their conclusions. I found 90% their conclusions didn't match upto their method. Or like in his study his posted. The quality of the research is so low quality it only tells us standard diet is unhealthy, which everyone knows.

I mean go back 100 years and Americans ate 0.2lbs of refined sugar a year, now it's 156lbs. Let alone the rest of the processed rubbish, in normal western diet.
 
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C.R.A.Z.Y said:
There are better and much healthier sources of protein such as:

Fish
Beans
Nuts
Tofu
Eggs
...etc

If you 'must' eat meat go for the healthier option of skinless chicken or turkey instead of red meats and espicially processed rubbish like ham, bacon, sausages, burgers ...etc ...etc.
Even in relatively small quantities red meat and espicially processed red meat is very bad for your health on a number of levels!!


http://archinte.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1697785&resultClick=3
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/pr...of-total-cardiovascular-and-cancer-mortality/
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Please ignore all of this, what a lot of nonsense.

Red meat is good for you, and there is nothing wrong with eating skinned chicken execpt of course for increased calories that it brings.

http://www.artofmanliness.com/2013/01/18/how-to-increase-testosterone-naturally/

A good article which includes an outline of a healthy diet and it's benefits with some good backing.
 
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