Diet Thread
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Re: Diet Thread
Postby Nobody » Mon Jan 16, 2023 3:42 pm
https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/health ... 5cbha.html
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Re: Diet Thread
Postby matagi » Wed Jan 18, 2023 7:11 am
Interesting article and highlights the importance of good urban planning. Those maps were quite informative.Nobody wrote: ↑Mon Jan 16, 2023 12:52 pmWe may have thought that food deserts were mainly an US problem. Apparently they are in greater Sydney too.
https://theconversation.com/are-you-liv ... lth-196477
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Re: Diet Thread
Postby Nobody » Wed Jan 18, 2023 9:00 am
Yes, a beneficial environmental setup in both the home and suburb clearly makes a difference. Especially for those who haven't got iron like "purpose power" working for them. Thanks to articles like that the issue is becoming more widely know. But I doubt that anything will be done about it as that would require money and committment. Especially in established suburbs.
However, for people who care about their health, it's still worth knowing to help plan where they might want to live. One of the factors as to why the wealthier generally have better health - other factors being a better level of general lifestyle education and often more time for meal prep and exercise. Also healthy foods are generally more expensive than processed foods for the same energy intake. Sadly, when it comes to health, we live in a class society. One can buck the trend, but it takes a lot more effort to do so living in a food desert and in a home that people fill with junk food (like mine).
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Re: Diet Thread
Postby Nobody » Fri Jan 27, 2023 10:50 pm
Australian of the Year Taryn Brumfitt takes body positivity message to kids - ABC News
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Re: Diet Thread
Postby Nobody » Sun Jan 29, 2023 4:28 pm
The below video highlights the problem with processed foods in wealthier countries. I'd expect this problem to spread to most of the world in time. Since many governments don't appear interested in preventing businesses damaging their people's health.
70% obesity in Nauru is a shocking statistic.
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Re: Diet Thread
Postby Nobody » Mon Feb 13, 2023 12:55 pm
I also encouraged both my fathers to ask for the vegetarian menu for the benefit of their health. But neither have.
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Re: Diet Thread
Postby warthog1 » Mon Feb 13, 2023 7:11 pm
The Royal Childrens Hospital in Melbourne has a McDonalds outlet in the hospital.
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Re: Diet Thread
Postby Nobody » Mon Feb 13, 2023 8:39 pm
Yeah, that's a shocker. With examples like that, you can tell that business prmarily calls the shots. Money talks. Some are trying to get the practice of fast food in hospitals stamped out in the US. Westmead hostipal has a number of cafes and shops that wouldn't be much better than McDonalds. I'm going there this week. I might take a closer look at what they offer.
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Re: Diet Thread
Postby Nobody » Sat Feb 18, 2023 11:07 pm
Another opinion on the subject of body positivity.Nobody wrote: ↑Fri Jan 27, 2023 10:50 pmThe highly contentious topic of body image. Can't say I agree with the whole concept of positive body image that's associated with an unhealthy weight. Since being positive about being overweight ignores the health problems associated with it. Making Taryn Brumfitt the Australian of the year validates a dubious concept IMO.
Australian of the Year Taryn Brumfitt takes body positivity message to kids - ABC News
https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/healt ... d824a1b446
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Re: Diet Thread
Postby Nobody » Sun Mar 26, 2023 9:47 am
The above video is typical these days about the cause of obesity, in which most are ignoring the fat and salt in their diets. The below video addresses this, in which IIRC there is a statement that 70% of all highly palatable foods (like processed foods that cause weight gain) are due to fat and salt. So sugar doesn't appear to be the main culprit. You may find the below video hard to follow as he seems to switch from one point to another rather quickly. The basic messages I got from the video - and there are likely many others in there that I missed - is that the addictive/hyper-palatable/ultra-processed foods are more prevalent now than they once were. Of them, the main players of the addictive ingredients appear to be fat and salt. He also suggests that saturated fat in particular as being more hyper-palatable. Dairy is well known to be addictive, with cheese considered to be the pinnacle of addictive foods. It's high in saturated fat, salt and caso-morphines.
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Re: Diet Thread
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Re: Diet Thread
Postby Nobody » Thu Apr 27, 2023 7:47 pm
A problem with the English language is there isn't different words for diet for their different applications. There is what someone normally eats, which is referred to as their diet. As in animals have a specified natural diet. Diet in the context of "on a diet" usually refers to a change in eating habits for a specific time, usually to lose weight. Most of the posts in this thread refer to the former meaning. If diet is planned and executed well, then there should be no need to be "on a diet". Like you said, diet should be "a way of life" or a lifestyle choice. It shouldn't have a finishing date and doesn't need to be associated with a specific goal. Most people who change their diet as a conscious lifestyle choice often keep improving it over time.
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Re: Diet Thread
Postby Mr Purple » Sat May 06, 2023 9:47 am
My thought is the human body is evolutionarily adapted for survival. As a result the so-called 'caveman diet' is not really the one that's going to work the best, or make you live the longest. Thinking we had easy access to meat in those times is a falsehood - the vast majority of the population would have been one missed meal apart from starvation, and evolutionarily adapted to survive the best we could on the minimal calories we had available.
Now we have easy access to more food than we could possibly eat our bodies are still holding on to fat reserves the best we can as that's what they were designed to do - prepare for times of starvation.
Honestly in my experience people both oversimplify and overcomplicate diet. The fundamental of it is that the first law of thermodynamics applies - energy in must be less than energy out to lose weight. How you achieve this is up to you - some ways work better for some people, other ways for others. You just have to find out the way that works for you.
For some people this will be all vegetarian, for others all meat, heck, there's people losing huge amounts of weight on a 'potato only' diet (do not recommend unless you want some decent vitamin deficiencies). There's no magic bullet.
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Re: Diet Thread
Postby stevenaaus » Sat May 13, 2023 7:09 pm
I'm suprised to hear Mike Woods describe 'vegetables' as a more complex food, as opposed to chicken! when talking about stressing out his digestive system.
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Re: Diet Thread
Postby Nobody » Sat Jun 17, 2023 2:52 pm
There is a lot more to a healthy diet that the basic macro ratios though.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epd ... joim.13639
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Re: Diet Thread
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