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Beginner August 2008

Earing well and being healthy?

geekypants, 6 August, 2009 at 13:14 Posted on Off Topic Posts 0 3

Are the two exclusive?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2009/aug/06/balanced-diet-food-health-wellbeing

I'm on the fence: part of me thinks I'll never follow the vegan, macrobiotic diet my yoga teacher promotes because, erm, I like the taste of meat. And cheese. And prawn toast.

The other part of me thinks I can't eat really rich food all the time, and frequently have a simple, healthy supper of soup or salad or whatever.

What do you think?

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Latest activity by Knownowt, 6 August, 2009 at 14:53
  • flissy666
    flissy666 ·
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    I guess it depends what you enjoy eating the most. I much prefer tomato-based foods, pulses, beans, crunchy veggies and salad; but I am not very fond of fried food, salty food, meat and dairy. So for me, eating what I enjoy is generally eating healthily.

    That said... I have plans for a fishfinger sandwich for tea ?

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    One day something is going to kill me.

    It might as well be a really good steak.

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  • geekypants
    Beginner August 2008
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    Excellent point, Pieman.

    I now have steak cravings. Gah, I am just so greedy, the merest mention of nice food and I want to eat it.

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  • Knownowt
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    I don't see any incompatability really. I don't think you need to shun unhealthy things forever in order to be healthy- if the majority of what you eat is healthy I don't think a small amount of unhealthy stuff undoes the benefit at all (I'm talking once a week, say). I also think that both eating well and eating healthily are about balance- too much rich food is both unhealthy and unpalatable, ditto a diet of nothing but beansprouts.

    I think part of the problem comes from the fact that we're encouraged to think of high fat foods as "bad". I think people are actually quite good naturally at determining what they need (small amounts of some things, large ones of others) and that this balance is also the most tasty. However we get conditioned into thinking that the things we should eat in moderation are somehow more dangerous and more delicious than other things, meaning we fret about them then gorge on them. I know that I've found myself reaching for something lardy when fed up when even the briefest consideration of what I actually wanted showed I'd prefer an apple.

    Anyway, what I'm trying to say is that it's misleading to think that, because rich food is delicious, a rich diet is delicious- I don't think it is, it just leaves you feeling a bit grim and sick.

    (Obviosuly I don;t always practise what I preach, but I think it's true nonetheless.)

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