natural fats are generally healthy and keeps you satisfied for longer and in a less crashy way as opposed to sugars/carbohydrates in general
I feel like I experience a reduced need to eat and snack when my food includes natural fats, especially when in combination with protein. To put it very simply, I’m persuaded the more healthy fats, the better, they should not be limited or demonized in the way that they have been maligned when sugar was the greater evil all along
Other than moderation in calories and getting some bare minimums of nutrients that probably isn’t an issue for most people, I think that one can’t really go very far wrong.
I personally try to eat more protein/fat and fewer carbs than I once did, and for the same reason you mentioned – I feel like a lot of carbs make me hungrier later. But, hey, as long as you can keep moderation with carbs, probably fine too.
Sugar is absolutely awful for you and American prepared food is loaded with ethically unacceptable amounts of it.
I use performance enhancing drugs, my nutrition is not your nutrition.
I track my macros, calories and micronutrients. I weigh EVERYTHING. A significant portion of my diet could be called “ultra-processed”, Most of the fat I eat is saturated. I also get blood tests every 3 months, and regularly check my blood pressure (120/80).
My diet would make most people go insane, but I understand nutritio and I’m chasing a goal.
I thought I knew stuff about nutrition, then I hired a professional and learned that lots of so called “healthier” or “better” foods were not so. I also learned not to think about food in terms of good or bad, food has no morals. It has been a great adventure to learn so much about how to take care of myself and feed me in the best way that I can each day.
More fibre pleases the colon gods and makes my poops more better. Also keeps me feeling full for longer.
“Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”
- Michael Pollan
If it tastes good it’s bad for me
Naturally colorfull dishes, as long as it isn’t meat, are the best.
I knew they were all wrong to judge my purple ketchup Tyson nuggies with mountain dew demi-glace
Recipe please
peanuts!
It’s delicious
It’s a vegetable
it has 10g of fiber / 100g
it has less salt than bread
decent protein content
Celery is like floss for your colon.
And teeth!
Its like nature’s g-string
If you can figure out what it contains by looking at it it’s probably good to eat. Basically the less it has been processed, the healthier it is. In general, nothing is inherently bad for you. Dose makes the poison. Things can be bad in excess.
Just to sideways add-on: as we know, unhealthy stuff can sometimes be replaced and upgraded with something else. Let’s take white rice. It so happens that there are other grains that are more nutritious and fibre-rich than even brown or wild rice. It also steps around the issue or rice naturally containing arsenic, which could be an issue for rice lovers. Substitutes might be things like barley and wheat berries.
Personally I’ve found steel-cut oats to be my very favorite rice replacement. Very nutritious, and I even prefer the flavor. They also naturally have a nice, calming quality, not unlike hops, valerian, skullcap, etc.
How to use? Well, SC oats can seamlessly replace rice 1:1 in soups & stews, no problemo. As a side dish, one will probably want to rinse them after cooking, as it can get a little slimey, a bit like sushi rice.
Yes, people seem to commonly associate “oats” with breakfast, but steel-cut oats are a different beast than rolled oats. They taste significantly different due to being whole, and less processed. Give it a try if you’re daring, and I think you might be pleasantly surprised!
Whole grains good, vegetables good, ultrapocessed bad.
A smashed avocado and a tuna packet on a tortilla is a phenomenal hiking lunch when I need a lot of calories without blocking up my mojo with a brick of a protein bar.
The three best things for you are water (drinking/hygiene), walks, and sleep. Ironically all things you get less of in a city.
Am I missing something, why would you get less of any of those in a city? You would definitely go on more walks in a city, and I don’t see how water or sleep would change.
Only thing I can think of is air and noise pollution impacting quality of sleep and benefits from walking. No idea about the water though lol.
City life is built around noise/hustle. There is a reason coffee is a stereotype in New York City. This routine is emphasized over the needed eight hours of sleep.
Water quality via plumbing and even rain quality is generally lesser in cities. Rain is often affected by air pollutants that come from buildings and vehicles which mix with cloud matter, while plumbing quality is affected by the quality of pipes and aquatic infrastructure which is typically further from the source.
Walking is affected because you’re living your life in an urban jungle with varying levels of danger (depending on the city) where your main range is measured in blocks rather than the openness of the world around you.
Have people in this industrial-loving place thought the advice was simply some kind of jab and chose to think rashly about it?
