If eating trash makes us sick, why do we keep eating it?
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'scratches head' are we talking about deficits or chakras?0
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andreavan28 wrote: »the carbs and crap in the food actually make you crave more of it, it is a vicious cycle.
I agree with this. I crave carbs and sugar and yes it is difficult to not eat it. And yes it does make me feel less than great when I eat deep fried stuff. There is no moderation because when you eat it you crave more. The only way is to cut it out almost entirely.0 -
Wow, I've seen a lot of screwed up statements in this forum. This takes the cake though.Charlotte, I gave up defending my fellow Australians years ago. You just have to go to Bali and you will see some dreadful behaviour at times and their eating habits and idols seem to revolve around alcohol. Fun loving and gorgeous people but at times not too bright.
Beginning to think she's my mother-in-law.
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Sounds like what it must be like for people who get hangovers. They know they will feel like crap the next day but they still drink. I am very lucky and I don't get hangovers. I also don't get sick from eating crap, which isn't so lucky.0
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Wow, sorry your m-i-l is like that. I wouldn't be able to handle that...
Wow, I've seen a lot of screwed up statements in this forum. This takes the cake though.Charlotte, I gave up defending my fellow Australians years ago. You just have to go to Bali and you will see some dreadful behaviour at times and their eating habits and idols seem to revolve around alcohol. Fun loving and gorgeous people but at times not too bright.
Beginning to think she's my mother-in-law.
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Deirdre, we don't have tornadoes here. It must be quite scary at times. Where do you go if a tornado hits?
Charlotte, I gave up defending my fellow Australians years ago. You just have to go to Bali and you will see some dreadful behaviour at times and their eating habits and idols seem to revolve around alcohol. Fun loving and gorgeous people but at times not too bright.
Actually, I really don't mind Pete. I think if he can get people discussion nutrition then it is a good thing.
I've been to Bali many times LeenaGee. It's not just the Aussies of course, but there are certainly more of them because of our proximity. Drinking and partying and playing up is what young people tend to do, Aussie, Kiwi, Brit etc...
I don't believe that you were painting a very balanced picture of what was going on in our country nutrition-wise. Change for the better evidenced by Paleo cafes and silly Pete is embarrassing. Most of us are a lot more discerning.
I think Pete's a good chef, but a poor advocate for healthy eating because he's caught up in the paleo cult and he simply doesn't have the knowledge to see that healthy eating doesn't need to involve cutting out food groups and defending it as the only way.
A funny thing, they briefly advertised bulletproof coffee in the little coffee shop near the health institute at the university where I work. Their custom plummeted and it was very quickly removed from the menu.
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It's engineered to come as close to addictive as a food can possibly get, people usually don't make deliberate efforts to avoid marketing that claims it's cheap, and it wins out over most healthy foods on the convenience factor.
That first part is the only thing out of people's control. Cutting out live television and adding a decent tracker blocker to your web browser will do wonders. Why sit through ads for rubbish when you can go straight to what you really want to see? Yes, a decent blocker will get rid of those annoying Youtube ads. Save money by cooking things ahead of time and make your healthy choices the easiest and fastest choices you have and blow what you saved on things that make you feel irresponsible.0 -
Where do you go if a tornado hits?
When I was a kid we lived for a while in Oklahoma and didn't have a basement, so we always went over to my next-door neighbors to go in their basement. You are supposed to do that, if possible (the basement, not bug your neighbors).
Later we lived for a while in Alaska, which has earthquakes rather than tornados, and the first time one came my mother freaked out and had us all go into the basement that we now had (which is of course not what you are to do).
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Earthquakes scare the bejeezus out of me. Could not live in California.0
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That is a great question. Do the alerts on your phone cover only your county or other areas? The NWS offers a free mobile app that can be used to receive various types of alerts http://inws.wrh.noaa.gov/. They do allow you to select different categories of alerts, but I'm not sure if flood advisories would be in the category with other severe weather. Another option would be a NOAA weather radio; you would want one with S.A.M.E technology, which allows you to select specific alerts for a specific county.DeirdreWoodwardSanders wrote: »ForecasterJason wrote: »All one simply needs to do if a tornado watch is issued is have a way to be notified in case a tornado warning is issued. If a tornado warning is issued, then one should be in a closed structure away from windows, preferably on the lowest level of a building if possible.
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I'm honestly not sure how to be notified -- I have an app on my phone but it goes off all night long for flood warnings, and I'm not in a flood zone. I check the computer every 15 minutes but I'd really like to get some sleep! Is there any device or app I should use that will let me select just tornado warnings?
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I will punch the earth into submission... wind though? No, that's the devil.
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I moved to CA nine years ago and hardly blink any more at earthquakes. I remember we had a couple in a row at night a few years ago and for the first one of those I asked my husband, "was that an earthquake?" and he said "Yes" and we both rolled over and went back to sleep. The other one everybody was buzzing about but I slept through it.
If nothing is crashing in on my head or bursting into flames, I figure I'm good.0 -
Sounds like you adjusted quickly. My grandma was driving during northridge. She kept going, she was just out for a drive. She later told me it was like a movie. lol.0
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How about this...
The earth opens up and swallows people while they're just lying in bed. About a year ago (maybe two), some guy not that far from here was just lying in bed and the earth swallowed him up. It's scary chit.
Mother Nature is not always a nice woman.
I rely on Troy Bridges for my notifications. Troy is the best. He gives us a Haircast every day, with a little Hairometer, green, yellow and red. Green is a good hair day, red is bad, there's a little lever that tells you what kind of day it'll be. That's weather we can use. I LOVE TROY.
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How about this...
The earth opens up and swallows people while they're just lying in bed. About a year ago (maybe two), some guy not that far from here was just lying in bed and the earth swallowed him up. It's scary chit.
Mother Nature is not always a nice woman.
I enjoy alpine climbing, although to this point I kinda suck at it.
I have seen many ways first hand how nature has no issues with eating us, for good.0 -
Whoa. This thread took a turn for the better. Didn't think I'd find out so much about tornadoes. Much better than eating trash... Wait. Have we determined what trash is?0
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what happened to dumpster diving and binging on toxic waste?0
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Are you serious? Sound cold. I do not understand mountain climbing. They always use a rope, suspended from above. How does the rope get up there? If they go up there to nail it into the rock, how come they go back down?How about this...
The earth opens up and swallows people while they're just lying in bed. About a year ago (maybe two), some guy not that far from here was just lying in bed and the earth swallowed him up. It's scary chit.
Mother Nature is not always a nice woman.
I enjoy alpine climbing, although to this point I kinda suck at it.
I have seen many ways first hand how nature has no issues with eating us, for good.
I know it has to make sense. I just cannot make sense out of it.
Mother Nature is a fickle beeyatch.0 -
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dbmata, what! Australians behaving badly in Bail is the most screwed up statement in this forum?? Gosh there is even a TV show about it at the moment called "What Really Happens In Bali" so it hardly a radical, new or untrue statement. Actually, not very exciting at all, just a passing comment to Charlotte.0
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dbmata, what! Australians behaving badly in Bail is the most screwed up statement in this forum?? Gosh there is even a TV show about it at the moment called "What Really Happens In Bali" so it hardly a radical, new or untrue statement. Actually, not very exciting at all, just a passing comment to Charlotte.
But that show is hardly representative of all Australians in Australia, is it? - which is what you implied in your post.
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Now you are simply being ridiculous!! Of course it is not representative of all Australians and I would never imply that. Australians, are in general, amazing people but every country has its idiots. Get over it and move onto something a bit more interesting as I am not at all interested in continuing this stupid conversation.0
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Charlotte, I gave up defending my fellow Australians years ago. You just have to go to Bali and you will see some dreadful behaviour at times and their eating habits and idols seem to revolve around alcohol. Fun loving and gorgeous people but at times not too bright.
Why did you post this then?
What is the relevance of a few Australians in Bali to the thread?
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"food" companies (I use quotes because if it needs to be manufactured, is it really food?) hire chemists whose sole purpose is to figure out how to make foods more addictive. They then hire lobbyists to get ingredients cleared by the FDA.
I try not to eat anything that doesnt come out of the ground or that once walked upon it, in its most natural state. That generally means avoiding anything processed, canned, in boxes...eg: the entire center section of a grocery store.
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paperpudding wrote: »My thoughts are that 'trash food' is fine in moderation and your issue is portion control rather than the actual foods.
I totally agree - i think that basically anything is okay in moderation with proper portion sizes - which is why fast food has become so problematic. If we were using junk food and fast food as a quick meal every now and then or a treat, then it would be okay. But the fact that we depend so heavily on so many processed foods/indulge in them so excessively yet view them with such hatred is not only illogical but counterproductive. Gah. We - collectively as a society that is....not most people on MFP - are cultivating a society that has such an unhealthy relationship with food. It's insane!
If you're looking for a literal answer, there are neurological reasons why your body does that, which tie into things like adaptation, lifestyle, and habits.0
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