Who Eats Healthy?

I've become more "health conscience" but I only enjoy and make an effort to eat healthy when I'm with my mom either when I was in high school or every few weeks for a few days. I'm just not motivated and well-versed in the kitchen but I am getting better.

Who eats healthy and cooks a lot of home made dinners? Organic? Vegetarian? Soufflés?

 

From a very young age, I've always been conscious of things that are unhealthy and wouldn't eat them. I guess having a very sensitive stomach helped.
I try to eat healthy as much as possible, things that are greasy, salty, too sugary, stuff like that automatically makes me feel sick.

I don't take anything to the extreme. I don't buy organic only products and I'm not a vegetarian. I simply cook my own food, use healthy ingredients, and prepare healthy home-made meals the best I know.

 

Always cook from ingredients. My family is very traditional in growing ones own and supporting themselves. Prepackaged food does not taste the same. Not to mention how terrible it is for your health.

When you learn to cook and always buy ingredients you end up learning a lot about food and prices. You then learn that cooking for yourself can make you leftovers that in the end saves you money!

 

I eat reasonably healthy, it's actually quite easy.

Probably the unhealthiest thing I eat is the the huge amount of potato chips I ingest. But even then it's fatty but it's not really unhealthy, just potatoes, oil and salt.

Last thing I ate was a can of vegetarian chili(I'm not a vegetarian, just doesn't hurt to cut fat out your diet where you can), corn and peas all mixed together with garlic chipolte sauce that I was using as a dip for tortilla chips till they ran out.

Then I just went at it with a spoon.

 

I do kinda... I eat a ton of fish, lots of salmon, lots of fruit all day, my usually lunch i bring with me to work is 2 bananas some yogurt roasted peanuts and tunafish.

I cook everyday for dinner, i find that when i cook i eat way less, like for some reason it prevents me from over eating, its weird.

 

I eat very healthy.
I calorie count everything, and count nutrition too(protein, carbs, fats, etc.)
I eat a vegan diet, 95%+ organic. My diet is 30% raw, 60% home cooked and 10% pre-packaged on the average day

 

I eat a vegetarian diet and have been for about 4 or 5 years now. I try to stay away from junk food and it's easy because I don't find it that appealing to begin with. Most of the time I'll go for the organic even if it's a little more pricey. I need to get back into pilates though. I feel so good and energetic.

 

i eat like shit. i really need to start eating healthy.

 

just this year i got obsessed with all things fresh, and developed a strong aversion to anything overly fatty or greasy, especially greasy (probably has something to do with me doing all the dishes, i thought "jesus if it takes this much to get the grease off a dish how the fuck long does it take for it to get out of my body?") and i just got really fed up with being a fatty, so about 40% of my diet has been changed to fruit (mostly grapefruit, i LOVE grapefruit) but i need to mix it up more cuz all the acid hurts my teeth sometimes, and for the rest of my days i live on plain rice, white if im treating myself, brown if im in the mood, and then i make something and fill it with veggies, fresh veggies, and i cut my portions down considerably, occasionally ill use my outrageously awesome cooking skills to treat mysely to some whole wheat pasta, homemade sauce with all fresh tomatoes and herbs, and sautee lots of very lightly oiled onions and peppers etc. and ive been going real easy on meat. and sometimes i take speed for a few days in a row and i dont eat at all. and i usually exercise around my tiny house (even more while tweaking on speed) by basically walking around it all day, sit-ups, trying to get better at pushups, and (this is gonna sound really dorky) shadow boxing, and basically creating my own training routine since i dont have any formal training, but ive had my share of fights so i think i can make my own style (like i said, dorky as fuck)

probably the only unhealthy thing i make nowadays is pan-popped popcorn, with light salt and butter, but thats only for special occasions..

 

grapefruit is amazing!!! and makesmommycry: do you make that whole wheat pasta from scratch??

i eat a fairly healthy diet, but more adamantly so here recently. My parents were pretty health conscious eaters while I was growing up. we had veggies at every meal and I didn't know about fast food until I was 7 and my cousin introduced it to me

I am a vegetarian as well (not solely for health reasons, part of me thinks I should eat meat, but that's just not going to happen), I have cut out high fructose corn syrup, hydrogenated oils, and working to completely cut off soy (trying to figure out if soy lecithin has as much potential to fuck with my body as other soy proteins and oils). I can't think of the last time I ate packaged food, except maybe a chocolate and salsa (and not with chips,with a black bean chili!), but the ingredients aren't too bad!

Eating at home, preparing fresh meals is the way to go so that you KNOW exactly what it is you are consuming. I love love love frutis and veggies. Unfortunately I can't afford to eat 100% organic, but it's my goal! I do eat chocolate most days, but they don't have hydrogenated oils or artificial sweeteners, soy lecithin is an ingredient tho... I don't usually want sweets unless I'm baked or have been smoking all day :sifone:

i think the American quality of life could be dramatically improved if simple health regulations were implemented for the food systems, agricultural systems, and food processing methods...

 

Theres no credible scientific evidence that organic food is any healthier, and it's been under heavy scrutiny for 20 years. That being said, I almost exclusively eat healthy organic food.

But I drink copiously, so that adds unnecessary calories to my diet, specifically fast metabolizing sugars.

 

I eat very healthy foods. I really love to cook so I make all my own meals. I've recently gotten into lentils thanks to wa bluska wica. I always use real ingredients when I cook and I no longer eat packaged anything.

I eat the exact same thing everyday for breakfast and lunch; Breakfast is three bales of shredded wheat with a couple spoonfuls of oatbran and ground flax seed, lunch is a tuna sammich with garlic and mayo. Twice a week I eat eggs for breakfast.

The beer I drink is the worst thing in my diet.

 

Moderate drinking has health benefits.

Actually I read this fairly detailed study that said that moderate drinkers outlive non drinkers. It also said that heavy drinkers outlive teetotalers.

I don't assume this is because heavy drinking is healthier for you. I would contend it's because people who don't drink at all are also less likely to go out, travel, make new friends, have sex, go on new adventures.

So that by the age of 60 or so, they have nothing left to live for and simply choose to die. :sunny:

 

i don't drink that often anymore, maybe for a friends birthday or something...a glass of wine or 2, here or there

i think this could be true of psychedelics as well, perhaps more so, depending on the person of course :sunny:

 

I'm probably in the "heavy" category. I try my best to counteract it though by exercising and eating well.

I've also heard that moderate alcohol consumption is "better" than none in that alcohol gives your heart a sort of workout so to speak, and it has some other qualities. Cannabis does the same thing for your heart.

One thing I have noticed about some people who don't use drugs or alcohol is they (some) can often be uptight or stressed as they don't have any reprieve from reality. Stress kills too.

Health includes mind, and as goodvibes83 mentioned, some drugs give your mind a "workout", something challenging. A healthy mind is very important, especially in older age. One needs something to live for and to be challenged intellectually, otherwise the mind atrophies.

 

Yeah, that's what I'm getting at too.

Not only challenged intellectually, but also something to strive for.

I'm sure if you looked at the statistics of people who worked till retirement and died within 5 years on their pension would be staggering.

Not because they're necessarily at their 'time' but because sometimes, and I'd suggest often, they lament working their asses off for 40 years and have nothing they're passionate about to show for it.

The drinkers/psychonauts are more likely to have a frame of mind that'll make them look for a new adventure.

You've got to give yourself something to live for.

 

Yea exactly.

A little while ago I watched this documentary about a needle factory somewhere in the UK. This place purposely hired older people who had already had and finished their careers, to give them a reason to get up in the morning. They all loved it and had a good time doing the work. The oldest worker was 96 but she looked and acted like most 65 year olders. She said that if it weren't for her job at the factory that she would have been dead a long time ago. The owner said that as long as they could walk up the 13 steps to the entrance, they'd have a job as long as they wanted.

Purpose is very important. Another guy was 101 and he still went into work everyday at the sports business he had started and operated over the past 50 some years. His son and grandson both worked for him. He refused to retire because he said that he didn't want to just sit around at home all day and do nothing.

I think it would be easy after retirement to simply lose the will to live if you weren't challenging yourself or finding new meaning in whatever.

 

I eat very healthy. I lean toward organic foods and read ingredients lists carefully. I look at most sugars/corn syrups as poisons. Lately I've been on a bit of a wild rice kick. Most of my meat sources are fish and poultry. Beef and pork are very occasional treats as is cheese. Milk and milk products are otherwise a big no-no- as milk is intended to nourish very young and growing bodies, not fully grown adult ones.

Pasta is whole wheat and the pasta sauce I make kicks ass.

I'd probably drink more if one or two beers didn't often deliver a crushing headache.

 

The great thing about living here is the food. Instead of going to the corner and picking up a burger, I can go to the corner and get grilled fish with rice with fresh veggies and world famous Kampot pepper and lime as a garnish for $2.

Some people don't metabolize ethanol very well. :biggrin:

 

Indeed it does! :2thumbsup: