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Yucca

Yucca

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Hi all,

Ok, i had an idea that i would make a kind of checklist for a days eating and drinking to create a good quality ballanced diet. I want to make a list of food and drink that i can tick off every day to keep my diet good and me healthy.

(I put this in GD rather than sports as i think a good diet is not only for the health freaks amonst us).


I'l modify the list as you all make suggestions and we agree upon them



LIST...

5 fruit or veg a day
plenty of water
a cup of coffee
a cup of green tea
1 yoghurt
chicken/eggs/turkey/steak (aim for a couple a day, they dont have to be big portions)
2 digestive buiscits a day (i read somewhere that 2 a day is supposed to be good for you)
1 bowl of good cerial
2 peices of wholewheat bread
Some honey used as sweetner (rather than sugar!)
A handful of mixed nuts
Milk
Half a can of beens
Handfull of rice or side order of pasta
A little red wine
Fish/ 2 eggs a day
Some potato, atleast one a day.
 
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badgermonkey said:
A nice glass of milk. Or milkshake.


Also be sure to fill your diet with Pro-Plus and Red Bull! :)
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A glass of milk! Totally forgot that one. Added!
 
Raymond Lin said:
forget about honey and biscuits.

High Fiber (fruit and veg)
Low Fat
Plenty of fluid
With some meat and carbs.


Don't force yourself to eat biscuits and coffee.
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Which fruit and veg is particularly high fiber? I have heard that a cup of coffee a day is good for you to, the caffine is good for some stuff....
 
I have read a lot of good stuff about coffee in mens health. Everything i have read seems to point to the fact that its good for you as long as you only have a cup or 2 a day. People drink it before training to remember, so must be good for somthing!
 
badgermonkey said:
Yeah, caffeine is bad. Pretty bad.

For high fiber you can't beat beans, and as an athlete a good general meal (no sporting events at the time) can be something as simple as

Couple of sausages (The real kind, not processed crap)
Mashed potatoes
Beans
Mixed veg

Banana milkshake (Made with banana blended into milk :) )

Then anything reasonably ok, not necessarily fruit, for some kind of dessert if you so wish :)


I'l add beens to the list! I eat loads and loads of baked beans (low in salt ones) and i know there good for you. I rarly miss a day when i dont have half a can of beans. They go with everything!



Personally I prefer pizza+microwavable meal finished off with some cherry bakewells :D
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Ive added beans to the list. I rarly go a day without half a can anyway!
 
I get mine from the butchers. I suppose he means ones you buy from the delli counter at the back of the sapermarket rather than prepacked ones.
 
manveruppd said:
It's been proven that caffeine strengthens your short-term memory. I also remember reading that coffee enemas have been used by the ancient Phoenicians (it might've been Carthegonians) as a general cleansing process, and, apparently, some mathematician in Cambridge managed to survive bone marrow cancer by eating a hypervitaminated diet (bushels of citrus fruit) and giving himself 5 (yes, five! :eek: ) coffee enemas a day (read this in the Times 5 years ago so it's bona fide, incredible as it may sound).

Even given that the rest of us are (apparently) pouring it down the wrong end, it must still be doing SOME good! :p
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Yea this is the kind of stuff that i have read up on coffee. Well i'l leave the list with 1 cup a day on it. If anyone else finds this list useful and wants to use it as a checklist they can always leave the coffee off if they would prefer.
 
dustiestrat said:
glass of red wine a day is apparently good for you. my gfs mum was told to dirnk glass of wine and take aspirin at least once aday helps thin the blood preventing blood clots .
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Surley 1 glass of red wine a day is a bit ott? Or is that a good ammount?
 
iCraig said:
Be sure to get some fish in your diet too. Omega 3-6 and plenty of other healthy minerals. Tuna, Mackarel and Salmon are very good for you if prepared and served correctly. (I know a family who deep fries salmon and eats the battered chunks. :rolleyes: )
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I am going to add fish to the list. However its not always possible to get fish into your diet every day. What other food is good for the same minerals?
 
The only fish i like is white fish, cod, haddock ect. I'l add eggs to the list along side fish?

I want to try and make a list without using any tablets.
 
Gilly said:
I doubt very much that the content varies. My grandad would never eat sausages he hadn't made himself. Only he in the entire district used good meat for his sausages when he was a butcher. Everyone else used offcuts, skin, hair, eyes, etc.
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Eyes? hair? Eeeew! :mad:

Where can i get good sausages from then?!
 
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