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Diets

  • 21-07-2009 8:14pm
    #1
    Bob Z
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,587 ✭✭✭


    How do you get a good diet? Doctor? nutrientist? can you get them online. I think have pretty bad diet and was wondering what i should be eating


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  • #2
    EileenG
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,775 ✭✭✭EileenG


    Fresh whole foods. Aim to cut out most of the processed stuff and fast food, and eat food as close to its natural state as possible. Ideally, aim for a quality protein, a healthy fat and a green vegetable in every meal.

    Try basing your diet on oily fish, eggs, fresh meat, lots and lots of green vegetables, olive oil, nuts, seeds, fruit, dairy, wholegrains. Try to avoid anything with lists sugar as one of the first four ingredients (this lets out most breakfast cereals, by the way) and definitely avoid anything with transfats like hydrogenated vegetable oils.

    The trick when you go shopping is to shop round the outside of the supermarket. Fill up your trolley in the fruit and veg section, do some serious shopping at the fish counter and the butchers, get plenty of eggs and dairy, particularly cottage cheese and natural yogurt, and try to avoid all the center aisles with the packets and tins.


  • #3
    metamorphosis
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,991 ✭✭✭metamorphosis


    Bob Z wrote: »
    How do you get a good diet? Doctor? nutrientist? can you get them online. I think have pretty bad diet and was wondering what i should be eating

    There is not a '1 fits all' diet.

    Post your states eg. age, weight, height.

    Post your activity level and most importantly post your daily sample diet in full(warts and all)!! and you will get some helpful replies.

    I would advise you to read the fitness forum stickies to work out your needed daily calorie requirement as well as reading the stickies here.

    As a rule of thumb you should try to best stick to whole unprocessed foods like lean cuts of meat, fish, healthy fats like unsalted nuts and seeds, nut butters, cottage cheese for snacks, plenty of veg, fruit etc, good carbohydrates like wholegrain rice, porridge etc as these release energy into your body slowly keeping you fuller for longer.

    Bad carbohydrates like white rice, white bread etc spike your blood sugars very quickly leaving you hungry soon after you eat and this usually leads a person to the biscuit tin!!!!


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