Reply to: "Super" foods

[RetSet]

Smoothies can only count for 1 of your 5 a day regardless of the content as blending fruit & veg affects the nutritional value, and actually releases more sugars than would be present if not blended.

Are you sure you mean blending, which keeps the whole fruit/ vegetable (including fibre etc.), and not juicing, which removes all the solids and does indeed create a very high sugar/ very high Glycemic /index drink?

[SueEllen]

This look like worms.

You should try them.

They are actually crunchy snacks that the British stole from the Indians.

[BrilloPad]

This look like worms.

Designed to be sold to masons...

[Bee]

This is all you need.



If vegans can eat only this and still look relatively healthy it has to be a superfood.

This look like worms.

[contractorinatractor]

So if I buy a bag of humble carrots from say Aldi, is it covered in this synthetic tulipe? What about local greengrocer? i.e. where's the cut off point?

If the carrots are whole, with skin on and in a bag, they are likely just fine. You'll notice some different between variety of carrots. Different varieties taste slightly different; much like the difference in taste between variety of strawberry.

Pre-prepared trimmed fruit/veg, de-skinned, cut, bagged, almost always have some form of preservative to keep them from decomposing within a few hours. Removing air isn't enough, so they use gasses and complex synthetic starches to keep it looking fresh. If you've had this type of semi-ready fruit/veg before, you'll have noticed that it tastes pretty weird and as an unusual texture.

Edit: to add - the ONLY reason these preservatives and weird synthetic starches are added is to benefit the company, not you. Rather than prepare fresh food to take away, companies would save money and make more profit by using weird artificial chemicals to make something last longer, thus optimising logistics and bulk moving items. That's how supermarkets work.

Don't use supermarkets where possible.

[No2politics]

But I think that study is flawed - because the key thing is going to bed/sleep on a full/empty stomach.

If they repeated the same test but those who ate between midday and 11 went to sleep at say 3am (so approx 4 hours after the last meal) then would there have been a difference?

I was always under the probably misguided impression that eating late at night was bad because your body was slowing down and did not digest it because you were not active enough.

And when you think about it there must be some truth in this because 'time' is a man made construct.

OK I'll rephrase it for you. Don't eat loads in the three hours just before you goto sleep.

[greenlake]

Now THESE are superfoods....

[northernladuk]

WGAS

[Bee]

Food, I love food...

Bacalhau com natas
Leitão da Bairrada
Cozido à Portuguesa
Polvo à Lagareiro
Bacalhau à Lagareiro
Espetada à Madeirence
Atum à Madeirence
Peixe de Espada Preto frito ou grelhado com pimentos e cebola.
Sardinhas
Ameijoas à Bolhão Pato
...
...
...
with a glass of red or white wine

Oh Jesus...

[mudskipper]

Unlike me who'll order a beefburger meal and a side salad.

What are the best things to shove in a salad? Any exotic stuff like kale, spinach or just the usual suspects?

Just because stuff is exotic doesn't make it better for you than every day stuff. It's also much less likely to be grown locally and therefore fresh. Although I wouldn't class kale and spinach as exotic - are you from up north?

When salading, I aim for as much of a rainbow as clientCo's salad bar will permit -

so Tomatoes, grated carrot, sweetcorn, lettuce/cucumber/watercress/spinach and beetroot. Chuck on a handful of sunflower hearts for good measure. ( I pair said salad with a jacket potato laden with butter and cheese )

[RSoles]

Any 'easy wins' I'm missing?

Hobgoblin.

[darmstadt]

Don't eat any vegatable with either an 'a' or an 's' in it

Don't eat any fruit with either a 'b' or an 'o' in it

Don't eat meat from animals that have an 'i', an 'm' or a 'z' in it

Do eat from shops that have a 'y' or an 'c' in their title

Don't drink anything that contains liquids from countries with an 'o' or a 'w' in them

Only use forks that have at least 4 tines

Ensure that your crockery is not made in a factory that is within 100 miles radius of a town where there are a higher percentage of people over 51 then under 13

When preparing your food ensure that you wear mismatched socks and that your underwear has been bought within the last 6 months

Don't believe anything anyone tells you about food because someone else will tell you the exact opposite approximately 4 months later after you realised that the diet you are following has made your left nipple the size and colour of a burnt Tandoori Naan bread

[TheGreenBastard]

24 hours in the day e.g. a clock is a man-made concept.

Getting up when it is light and going to sleep when it is dark isn't e.g. what many animals do.

Majority of animals have cycles that coincide with light cycles.

[SueEllen]

What?

24 hours in the day e.g. a clock is a man-made concept.

Getting up when it is light and going to sleep when it is dark isn't e.g. what many animals do.

[SueEllen]

But I think that study is flawed - because the key thing is going to bed/sleep on a full/empty stomach.

If they repeated the same test but those who ate between midday and 11 went to sleep at say 3am (so approx 4 hours after the last meal) then would there have been a difference?

I was always under the probably misguided impression that eating late at night was bad because your body was slowing down and did not digest it because you were not active enough.

And when you think about it there must be some truth in this because 'time' is a man made construct.

You would likely get a weird result due to people's circadian clocks. (That's unless all your subjects were teenagers and undergraduate students.)

Most people bodies have evolved to do certain things more efficiently in daylight and to be sluggish when it's dark. Yes electric light does screw up people's circadian clocks but studies on shift workers and those who work in the night show they have problems with eating habits and staying awake at night.