You are what you eat...

Nemeses

So yeah, found this lovely article online (I get bored in work alot...) about the 9 foods I shouldn't eat. I lol'd at this a bit and got some dirty looks in the office..

http://www.trueactivist.com/nine-foods-you-should-never-eat-again/

The list:

1) White bread, refined flours.

2) Conventional frozen meals.

3) White rice.

4) Microwaveable popcorn.

5) Cured meat products with nitrates, nitrites.

6) Most conventional protein, energy bars.
7) Margarine.

8) Soy milk and soy-based meat substitutes.

9) “Diet” anything.

Read more: http://www.trueactivist.com/nine-foods-you-should-never-eat-again/


So if this article is fact...I've learnt something from it and taken my spin on it as my understanding of this is..........

1. Don't eat sandwiches or bread toast etc- They are toxic wrapped by Mr Brennan himself! *
2. Don't be lazy like me and cook a feckin' dinner, Buying Tesco's Finest MicroMeal is radioactive and could leave you walking away with a disease
3. Don't be rascist and eat Brown Rice - What did the fellas do to you in the first place?
4. Go buy popcorn in the cinema - Tatyo's Micropop are a hazard to your lungs and may stop you breathing, presumably by not choking on them...
5. Don't be getting them breakfast rolls from your local Spar at 6/7 in the morning - apparently they are cancerous.

My God, I'm only halfway and my life span has been shorten by a few years already.. carrying on..

6. For those energetic sports champs out there - don't bother with those engery bars - you'll get more energy licking the ground than from these chronic illness death bars
7. Don't be tight by buying margarine and go get some real butter from a Cow.. Or lard is a good alternative replacement for your lethal slice of toast in the morning (See point 1)
8. Soy Milk ? More like a cup of toxic waste bath water... very appealing.
9. Diet? More like die disguised as a 4 letter word..


So there you have it. If you are indeed you are what you eat and I am.. then I am a walking dead man and have planned my funeral for tomorrow as I clearly have poisoned my self to a degree where I am way beyond medical help!


Nice knowing you all!




* I do not know Mr Brennan, have no affixation with the company and other legal jargon that could get me into trouble..

The Backwards Man

I'm a big orange banana strawberry yoghurt.

NothingMan

I'm a level 7 vegan, so I don't eat anything that casts a shadow.

Nemeses

The Backwards Man wrote: »

I'm a big orange banana strawberry yoghurt.

Yes you are and God loves you very much for who you are.

Chucken

The Backwards Man wrote: »

I'm a big orange banana strawberry yoghurt with added crisps

Oink

Apparently I'm a pig, i.e, a tasty gift from heaven.

Tell me something I don't know .

OneArt

So in order to be healthy you have to spend a bloody fortune.

I'd rather be dead.

wexie

hmmmm....turns out I'm cheap fast and easy.....:-)

Nemeses

wexie wrote: »

hmmmm....turns out I'm cheap fast and easy.....:-)

Buying Microfoods like me too yeah?

uch

I must eat Fat so

wexie

Nemeses wrote: »

Buying Microfoods like me too yeah?

huh?

no....I've sloppy impulse control after a few pints

InTheTrees

Nemeses wrote: »

If you are indeed you are what you eat and I am.. then I am a walking dead man and have planned my funeral for tomorrow as I clearly have poisoned my self to a degree where I am way beyond medical help!

It's nice to be healthy and in your 20's...

Enjoy it while you can, kid.

:pac:

InTheTrees

Nemeses wrote: »

So yeah, found this lovely article online (I get bored in work alot...) about the 9 foods I shouldn't eat. I lol'd at this a bit and got some dirty looks in the office..

You should prove them all wrong and only eat what they tell you not to.

See what happens...

ScumLord

Life isn't worth living if you can't eat cured meat.

Conmaicne Mara

The Backwards Man wrote: »

I'm a big orange banana strawberry yoghurt.

Yeah but are you a Nitrate/Nitrite filled big orange banana strawberry yoghurt?

Nemeses

InTheTrees wrote: »

It's nice to be healthy and in your 20's...

Enjoy it while you can, kid.

:pac:

I'm mid 20s and dying - Did you not read my dramatic post?

tsk tsk

Nemeses

InTheTrees wrote: »

You should prove them all wrong and only eat what they tell you not to.

See what happens...

But then I'll even have a shorter life span...


Are you trying to kill me??

Urquell

Ive often been called a pussy.

This thread has made me feel better.

Giggidy.

InTheTrees

Nemeses wrote: »

Are you trying to kill me??

You're doing fine by yourself.

Nemeses

InTheTrees wrote: »

You're doing fine by yourself.

Thanks for the reassurance.

Now if I can relocate my pack of cigs I should be smoking it then

Staff Infection

Excellent, I may be immortal so as I don't eat any of the nine "killer food items". I may also be extremely dull and boring but that is the price I must pay for life eternal.

Nemeses

Staff Infection wrote: »

Excellent, I may be immortal so as I don't eat any of the nine "killer food items". I may also be extremely dull and boring but that is the price I must pay for life eternal.

So you've never had bread, rice, toxic waste matter?

FreshKnickers

So what the hell am I going to do with my diet frozen, ready-meal pastrami sandwich buttered with margarine washed down with soybean milk-o substitute and popcorn with energy bar for dessert??!

Pug160

1, 2, 3, 7 and 9 seem pretty obvious. I'm not sure I understand what ''conventional protein'' means. Did they elaborate on that?

Edit: Nevermind, I checked the link and they just mean most protein bars. The comma confused me.

No one will ever be in full agreement when it comes to nutrition anyway. There are too many grey areas.

audman

wexie wrote: »

hmmmm....turns out I'm cheap fast and easy.....:-)

PM sent x

_Kaiser_

Ah I never pay attention to this rubbish.

You could eat right, exercise all you want, and still drop dead of a heart-attack in the morning, or get run over by a bus etc

Besides the years this "unhealthy lifestyle" threatens to take off you are always those crappy ones at the end when your kids have stuck you in a home/flat where you live in fear of everything and unable to look after yourself

If that's the reward for "eating right" then you can keep it! *mulls over ordering Chinese, chipper or pizza*

Hootanany

NothingMan wrote: »

I'm a level 7 vegan, so I don't eat anything that casts a shadow.

Lentils cast shadows when they are viewed from a certain angle

El_Dangeroso

1) White bread, refined flours.
Agreed, terrible for you.

2) Conventional frozen meals.
Ditto

3) White rice.
What?? Did someone tell the entire continent of Asia this?

4) Microwaveable popcorn.
Agreed, not many people realise these are the biggest source of trans-fats

5) Cured meat products with nitrates, nitrites.
BIG difference between a ganky hot dog and artisan prosciutto. The nitrite thing is a load of bollix, the biggest source of nitrite in our diets is leafy veg, which we know is very good for us. Issues may arise from heating nitrite but if you have a glass of orange juice with your bacon you'll be fine

6) Most conventional protein, energy bars.
Yeah, pretty much agree

7) Margarine.
Agree

8) Soy milk and soy-based meat substitutes.
Agree

9) “Diet” anything.
Agree

Basically you can't go too far wrong from eating things that ARE ingredients not MADE OF ingredients.

Staff Infection

Nemeses wrote: »

So you've never had bread, rice, toxic waste matter?

Well I'm a vegetarian so I abhor fun, I also don't eat lots of things on that list like nitrate meats as a result too.
Definitely haven't eaten any bread or white rice in the past five years anyway as I try to only eat complex carbohydrates (I'm keenly aware how dull that sounds). As for the toxic waste matter, well I do try but those fancy glow in the dark plutonium mushrooms are tempting by times

stefan idiot jones

You are what you drink.........and I'm a bitter man.

krudler

Ah fcuk that, everything is bad for you and gives you cancer these days, if you lived on water and lentils you'd be told you'd get cancer from that too. I'll be enjoying my steak and beer and take up smoking cigars when I'm old.

BeerWolf

Avoid rice... yeah right, feck off!

humbert

Any knowledgeable people able to shed light on the truth about whether nitrites and nitrates are actually bad? I've read some conflicting reports on that.

Menas

Everything in moderation is the best guide for me.

massdebater

You are what you eat? That's funny, I don't remember eating a sexy beast.

Nemeses

massdebater wrote: »

You are what you eat? That's funny, I don't remember eating a sexy beast.

That's because you didn't...


Sorry dude. You be plain fugly yo'll!

NothingMan

Nemeses wrote: »

That's because you didn't...


Sorry dude. You be plain fugly yo'll!

What did you eat? I'm trying to figure out what this means. The odd placement of grammar in an otherwise "street" sentence baffles my fragile little mind. Did you mean Yo?

Nemeses

NothingMan wrote: »

What did you eat? I'm trying to figure out what this means. The odd placement of grammar in an otherwise "street" sentence baffles my fragile little mind. Did you mean Yo?

I know nothing.

TheLastMohican

I just hovered over all this thread with my Applied Kineasology necklet and quite a few fruitcakes turned up

Nemeses

TheLastMohican wrote: »

I just hovered over all this thread with my Applied Kineasology necklet and quite a few fruitcakes turned up

That is expected behaviour.

Try a Big Mac to calm your nerves.

TheLastMohican

Nemeses wrote: »

That is expected behaviour.

Try a Big Mac to calm your nerves.

Done! With medium fries and a strawberry milkshake

Paramite Pie

OneArt wrote: »

So in order to be healthy you have to spend a bloody fortune.

I'd rather be dead.

Many of the things on that list are expensive ; soya products/protein bars/diet foods are all pricey.

Also frozen meals/packaged foods are really deceptively expensive. You might save time but in the long run you end up paying much more.

I've definitely saved money buying fresh ingredients when possible and cooking at home. It takes very little effort once you get used to it. Meat is still expensive but marinades were invented to make cheaper cuts of meat taste better.:D

I don't buy anything exclusively marketed as healthy, cos it's usually not.

Insect Overlord

Fruit and vegetables can be got very cheap in most towns (between Dunnes, Tesco, Lidl, Aldi, SuperValu and others trying to out-do each other every week).

Butchers do quality meat at good prices, so chicken and beef are readily available too.

Brown rice is the same price as white, isn't it? Just throw some turmeric into the water while it's cooking and it'll come out tasty and yellow!

Get the portion sizes right and you can eat pretty damn well for less than the cost of a take-away every day.

Pumpkinseeds

Most of the stuff on that list is easily avoidable. It's funny how you're tastes change as you get older. I can't bear the texture of white rice, if it isn't brown basmati rice then forget it, the same with pasta, I prefer the wholemeal stuff and wholegrain bread, white bread tastes awful to me. 10 years ago I'd probably have been disgusted if someone served them to me as a healthier option though.

I haven't eaten meat for years, but I do eat fish. A lot of the healthier options can be got relatively cheaply. I don't eat a lot of dairy but I get organic butter and low fat organic milk from Tesco and it doesn't cost much more than the regular non organic stuff. I'm terrible at eating fruit, even as a child I wouldn't care if I never ate a piece of fruit:D

Ruudi_Mentari

Are you callin me a ham stuffed potato?!!

Spunge

i used to be afood nazi and only eat all that ****.

but its mostly bs, just try to eat balanced.

brown vs white bread, most overrated **** ever.

brown rice vs white rice, they are basically the same.

Pug160

Spunge wrote: »

i used to be afood nazi and only eat all that ****.

but its mostly bs, just try to eat balanced.

brown vs white bread, most overrated **** ever.

brown rice vs white rice, they are basically the same.

The problem is that some people are buying certain breads thinking they're healthier but they're not checking the labels properly. White bread has little nutritional value but in some cases other breads are not much better. The glycemic index and nutritional value is what's important. Crappy bread generally makes people more bloated and has little value in terms of nutrition.

Spunge

Pug160 wrote: »

The problem is that some people are buying certain breads thinking they're healthier but they're not checking the labels properly. White bread has little nutritional value but in some cases other breads are not much better. The glycemic index and nutritional value is what's important. Crappy bread generally makes people more bloated and has little value in terms of nutrition.

they both have carbs, their glycemic index isnt vastly different its not like eating sugar vs oats

Archeron

I am a rock. (bun)

Das Kissen

Pug160 wrote: »

The problem is that some people are buying certain breads thinking they're healthier but they're not checking the labels properly. White bread has little nutritional value but in some cases other breads are not much better. The glycemic index and nutritional value is what's important. Crappy bread generally makes people more bloated and has little value in terms of nutrition.

All bread has little nutrition. Better off not touching the stuff.

Pug160

Spunge wrote: »

they both have carbs, their glycemic index isnt vastly different its not like eating sugar vs oats

GI varies a lot between breads but white bread has very little nutritional value. That's been pretty much agreed by every credible source there is. Eat away at your white bread if you want but don't expect too much.