Healthy tips?

Discussion in 'Health and Fitness' started by tlove, Jul 1, 2010.

  1. la Principessa

    la Principessa Member since '08

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    Count your calories and exercise. Eat junk food less often (or not at all) and in moderation.
     
  2. FreshDacre

    FreshDacre Senior Member

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    Eat plenty of everything unless you are overweight already... Make your own fun, Like BBAD once said laughter is about the best drug out there. Laughter heals guys trust me.
     
  3. david millar

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    best health tips ever

    1. Copy your kitty: Learn to do stretching exercises when you wake up. It boosts circulation and digestion, and eases back pain.
    2. Don’t skip breakfast. Studies show that eating a proper breakfast is one of the most positive things you can do if you are trying to lose weight. Breakfast skippers tend to gain weight. A balanced breakfast includes fresh fruit or fruit juice, a high-fibre breakfast cereal, low-fat milk or yoghurt, wholewheat toast, and a boiled egg.
    3. Brush up on hygiene. Many people don't know how to brush their teeth properly. Improper brushing can cause as much damage to the teeth and gums as not brushing at all. Lots of people don’t brush for long enough, don’t floss and don’t see a dentist regularly. Hold your toothbrush in the same way that would hold a pencil, and brush for at least two minutes. This includes brushing the teeth, the junction of the teeth and gums, the tongue and the roof of the mouth. And you don't need a fancy, angled toothbrush – just a sturdy, soft-bristled one that you replace each month.
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  4. Pressed_Rat

    Pressed_Rat Do you even lift, bruh?

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    I disagree regarding the overemphasized importance of eating breakfast, especially when people are eating processed, refined grains (cereal) and drinking sugar (juice). My opinion is that juice is only slightly "healthier" than drinking a bottle of Mountain Dew for breakfast. If a person is seeking to lose weight, it would be wise for them to cut out the sugar and grains from their diet. If you're going to consume sugar from fruit, it's far better to eat the fruit in its whole form. There is so much hype surrounding breakfast, yet most people eat absolute crap. Low-fat yogurt is a joke also, because most low-fat yogurt is loaded with sugar, which defeats the purpose of it being " low-fat." If a person is going to eat dairy, full-fat dairy is 100 times preferable to low-fat dairy. I keep my dairy consumption to a minimum, but I would never think to drink anything other than full-fat whole milk.

    The traditional health wisdom for what a healthy diet is is a joke.

    Also, calorie counting is unnecessary and will set a person up for failure in the long run. Calorie counting is not important, since it's all about the kind of calories you're consuming and not the amount.
     
  5. Cheesesteak

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    Eat clean, healthy foods, and exercise(not cardio all the time) and the lbs will come off if thats your goal. Whatever your goal is depends on your nutritional intake.
     
  6. donaldma

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    There are some tips mentioned below that can help you to maintain a good diet.

    Some Tips:

    Drink plenty of water which will can help to maintain diet
    Eat small amount of meal 4 to 5 times in a day
    Eat vegetables, fruits, and eggs etc.
    Try to eat raw foods
    Avoid fat contains foods and junk foods
    Avoid smoking, alcohol etc.

    Hope it will help you.
     
  7. Deranged

    Deranged Senor Member

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    Eat less. Eat healthy. Excercise more. Simple concept but takes willpower to keep on it

    To lose weight all you gotta do is burn more calories than you consume

    Balanced diet makes ya healthier. Think of the old school pyramid
     
  8. Pressed_Rat

    Pressed_Rat Do you even lift, bruh?

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    The food pyramid is a joke and one of the worst things you could possibly follow if you want to achieve health.

    Depriving your body of nutrition is unnecessary if you're eating the right foods. The amount a person eats has nothing to do with losing or gaining weight. Burning more calories than you consume to lose weight is not the optimal way to lose weight. It's also ineffective if the calories you are consuming are the wrong kind, since not all calories are the same.

    A person could eat 5,000 calories of saturated fat per day and not gain weight (in the form of fat) in the absence of carbs. As soon as one eats carbs, then fat is being stored.
     
  9. drawinginblank

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    Go the old-fashion way I say, no shortcuts. Be sure to set a schedule for working out. And don't cut out everything for your diet, just be sure to proportion and change the relationship with food. It is difficult, but in the end worth it.
     
  10. Deranged

    Deranged Senor Member

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    With vegetables its good to get many different colors in you. A dietitian told me that. Something about a good variety of nutrients. Omega 3 is important too. Make sure you take enough omega 3. Like the right mg a day. Most people who take omega 3 dont take enough. A multivitamim is good too. Get enough sleep.
     
  11. Shale

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    I disagree with this. That could be too much butterfat!

    Personally, I found the opposite to be true. I was doing 2% milk and I consume over 2 gallons of milk a week. It kept that little pudge around my middle since middle age.

    I went to fat-free milk, adding about a half a cup of fat-free dry milk to the gallon to make it thicker. I immediately lost 5 pounds. (I cut reduced fat cheese consumption in half at the same time).

    Also, my cholesterol numbers dropped from 200 to the 180s.

    Age plays a part in diet also. All my life I managed to keep a trim figure eating anything I wanted, full fat dairy, pizza, donuts, mayonnaise, ice cream etc. Then around 40 my gut started retaining fat. Metabolism seems to slow down. So, I started giving up all the unhealthy foods that I used to tolerate in youth. In addition to keeping the fat off I am probably healthier for it in other ways.
     
  12. Bilby

    Bilby Lifetime Supporter and Freerangertarian Super Moderator

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    Australian nutritionist Rosemary Stanton explained the difference between fruit juice and fruit quite well. It would take anyone quite a while to work their way through five shop size apples but only 30 seconds to drink the juice of the same five apples. Mountain Dew contains HFCS . If you are going to consume a product that slows down you metabolism and leaves the hunger switch on , you are going to have problems. The first time I saw HCFS for sale in a health food shop, my jaw dropped. Just shows what a meaningless term health food is.
     
  13. Pressed_Rat

    Pressed_Rat Do you even lift, bruh?

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    I don't worry about fat -- butterfat or otherwise -- other than not eating enough of it, since my diet is around 70-75% fat. It flies in the face of conventional diet wisdom, but the evidence to implicate dietary fat consumption as being a leading cause of obesity and heart disease just isn't there. I have learned, both from reading and self-experimentation, that the body metabolizes fat entirely differently on a carb restricted diet, since you don't have the insulin response that causes the body to store fat. When you adhere to a low-carb diet, fat is rapidly oxidized and used by the body for energy as opposed to being stored in the fat cells (while glucose is utilized as the primary fuel). The body learns to burn fat for fuel instead of store it. I actually lost over 100 lbs this way, but obviously not all diets work the same for all people, so I am not going to come down on someone if the diet they're adhering to is different from mine but works for them. However, it is my opinion that most obesity is the result of some degree of insulin resistance, and that a good number of overweight people could greatly benefit from a low-carb, high-fat diet.

    But what you say about losing weight drinking skim milk is rather surprising, since many studies have found skim milk to actually be more fattening. One reason for this could be because of the higher lactose content in milk with lower fat percentages. I am wondering if you made any other changes to your diet around the same time you started drinking the skim milk that could possibly account for the loss of those 5 pounds you reported losing.

    Personally, I avoid pasteurized milk like the plague, since most of the beneficial bacteria that helps your body deal with breaking down the milk sugar is killed during the pasteurization process. This puts a huge strain on the pancreas, as it appears the body just isn't made to handle pasteurized milk. In recent decades, milk consumption has been increasingly linked to diabetes. Obviously some fare better than others drinking milk, but milk has been found to be very pro-inflammatory and creates a lot of mucus in the body. So I think most people could benefit from doing away with milk and most dairy products altogether. The only dairy products I do consume are butter, ghee, kefir, and occasionally yogurt and cheese (and they must be from grass-fed cows), because they do not contain the milk sugars that seem to cause most of the problems that so many people have with dairy.
     
  14. Pressed_Rat

    Pressed_Rat Do you even lift, bruh?

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    Yes, one thing sugar (and highly refined carbs) does is ensures people are always hungry. If people only did away with the sugar and heavily processed, high-glycemic carbs, and ate more fat, they would see that not only are they rarely hungry (as fat is satiating and does not cause blood sugar spikes and dips), but they end up eating less as well. Drinking orange juice to start off one's day is not only terribly unhealthy, but it sets them up for failure for the rest of the day with regard to their dietary choices and overall amount of food consumed.

    People often ignore the sugar content of fruit, and especially fruit juices. They assume that because it's natural sugar that it makes it somehow healthier. While fruit is very healthy and loaded with vitamins, minerals and antioxidants, the unhealthy amount of sugar found in juice far outweighs any of the other benefits, and will make a person just as fat as soda will.

    Also, HFCS is processed by the liver the same way naturally occurring fructose in fruit is. And while fructose has a relatively low glycemic response, it is associated with increased triglycerides. Many people are winding up with fatty livers, similar to those of alcoholics, from high fructose consumption.
     
  15. Shale

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    Yeah, there are so many different diets on this planet, some from millennia back.

    Such as the Inuit and other Arctic ppl living mostly on fat and meat. I've always been amazed that humans could consist on raw whale blubber and seals with very little vegetables or carbs but somehow they have adapted. How about cow milk mixed with blood, like some cattle herding tribe in Africa? From that to vegans is a wide, disparate range of diet.

    (Sitting here having my mid-morning cup of black coffee with two reduced fat Oreos) :p
     
  16. Bilby

    Bilby Lifetime Supporter and Freerangertarian Super Moderator

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    You do know that low fat diets have been shown to be associated with depression?
     
  17. Shale

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    That's why they make a reduced fat Oreo. It all balances out. :)

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