Healthy eating?

**Deviant Esq** · 9th May 2007, 22:09

Bit of a ramble, so if you're easily bored (or live on KFC bro), no need to read this

Just went to the supermarket tonight to do our every-three-week "big shop." Except this time I was looking at things from a healthy eating standpoint as well as the usual - watching out for the specials. Anyway, what amazed me was some products that are usually perceived as "healthy" and generally good for you are actually worse than some products that are widely perceived as "unhealthy" or generally bad for you. Without going into benefits like vitamins and minerals, yada yada, and just looking at how much energy (in kJ) things have in them per 100mL or per 100g gives you a good indication of how good for you things actually are. High energy can be bad, as excess is stored as fat.

For example: a 3L bottle of pure orange juice (Pams), generally perceived as healthy, had over 200kJ of energy per 100mL. That is very high. A bottle of Coca Cola has only (but still very high) 180kJ of energy per 100mL. Basically the bottle of pure orange has more sugar in it than the Coke. Surprising. Once we noticed that and looked at some other groceries we would usually buy, we noticed that some were quite a bit higher in kJ than others. It was an interesting trip, and for the first time I felt like I'd been shopping for more healthy food. Got lots of fruit and veg too

Sorry, bit of a ramble I know, just thought I'd share.

**Curious_AJ** · 9th May 2007, 22:24

healthy food is good! I'm a bit of a health advocate...and i find that being vegetarian makes things cheaper and healthier.. if you know what you need to get all the things your body needs, then you're sweet.. I've never felt better!

**Motu** · 9th May 2007, 22:26

So how many KJ in a bottle of water?....

**McJim** · 9th May 2007, 22:28

Welcome home bro.

You'll also find we don't have close to the choice of microwave meals that there is in the UK

I heard about healthy eating but years ago decided I would have no truck with it.

**Big Dave** · 9th May 2007, 22:30

Originally Posted by Motu

So how many KJ in a bottle of water?....

yecch - Fish f*** in that stuff.

**Curious_AJ** · 9th May 2007, 22:32

mmmm fishy fluids....

**Big Dave** · 9th May 2007, 22:32

Originally Posted by McJim

I would have no truck with it.

Until you get older and your metabolism slows down and before you know it you need a truck to move your arse if you don't eat healthy.

The easiest way to beat obeasity is before you get it.

**The Pastor** · 9th May 2007, 22:35

I find my 3 pie a day diet is working well.

**gijoe1313** · 9th May 2007, 22:38

As someone who works in the industry of fast food (not by choice, just asian is why

), I find it all laughable.

All I know is moderation in everything including moderation itself! And if you like to eat a lot, take up weight lifting - heavens, when you do the physical excercise necessary, no need to worry about it all!

Stop bunging things down one orifice and get off your fat arse and do some ditch digging will easily result in fat loss and muscle gain. T'ain't rocket science!

When I was lifting weights at uni ... A typical day's food was like this ...

15-20 egg whites (30 on a power lifting day)
half a chicken
3 cans tuna
2L milk
6 bananas
2 potatoes
1 head lettuce
Apples/Pears/Oranges (2-3 pieces of fruit)

I was doing powerlifting and since I love to eat, perfect excuse to go eat!

Climbing up those steps from the gym back in the day after squat sessions took me 5 minutes... staggering and hauling my non-responsive legs up

Used to carry my pail of food to the lectures ... funny thing was having the conversations with other students along the line of "Fark! That's my whole weeks food you got there!"

And carrying the blender around to liquify all the food when I didn't feel like chewing it was another hard-case thing I did!

**Street Gerbil** · 10th May 2007, 00:02

Nothing like an imperial century (100 miles) on a pushbike.

**Dooly** · 10th May 2007, 07:50

Originally Posted by Big Dave

Until you get older and your metabolism slows down and before you know it you need a truck to move your arse if you don't eat healthy.

The easiest way to beat obeasity is before you get it.

You got that right!

I've adopted a healthy eating lifestyle, and its a cunt!!!!

We make sure that there is no junk food and all that kind of stuff in the house to tempt us, and fortunately living 15-20 mins from town its a pain in the butt to go get takeaways that are cold when you get home.
And I hate nuked takeouts so thats out of the question.
As a result of this change of life, I've lost heaps of kilos over the last year which equates to being able to go faster on the bike, so I guess there is a plus.........

I usually have an eat what I like day on the weekend, either Sat or Sun, and that fixes my cravings.
Mind you seeing that bloke on telly the other night at 200 kilos and eating KFC every night made me cringe.

**merv** · 10th May 2007, 07:53

Not to mention when my vegan daughter is home to visit the usual $200 trolley becomes a $400 trolley. There are big premiums being asked for some of the "healthy" stuff.

**Big Dave** · 10th May 2007, 10:00

Originally Posted by Dooly

Mind you seeing that bloke on telly the other night at 200 kilos and eating KFC every night made me cringe.

I got to 160kg. Bloody good paddocks here. Walked and exercised and dieted 50kg off.
I now know it's easier to not put it back on than walk it all off again.

**Toaster** · 10th May 2007, 10:05

Originally Posted by Big Dave

I got to 160kg. Bloody good paddocks here. Walked and exercised and dieted 50kg off.
I now know it's easier to not put it back on than walk it all off again.

So "Big Dave" may have to change his name then??!! Good effort.