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What are your unpopular opinions about health / fitness?

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  • Carlos_421
    Carlos_421 Posts: 5,132 Member
    AnnPT77 wrote: »
    Rivers2k wrote: »
    Carlos_421 wrote: »
    Carlos_421 wrote: »
    Rivers2k wrote: »
    I finally have a place to say this :)Not all calories are equal. Calories from a hot fudge brownie sundae is going to affect your body differently than equivalent amount of calories from broccoli and a nice piece of steak. one is going to satiate and make you energized the other will leave you hungry and lethargic. The whole world knows this (even if they don't practice it) but you get death threats if you express this on MFP. So that is my "unpopular health/fitness opinion" wow that feels good. LOL

    You are confusing calories with food.
    The calories in the sundae and the calories in the steak and broccoli would be exactly the same (assuming proportionate amounts of food to provide an equal number of calories) in that the calories from each would provide the same amount of energy (calories are nothing but a measurement of energy) to fuel the body.
    Thus, either food choice would have the exact same impact on weight loss/gain/maintenance as they would result in an identical energy balance.

    The difference between a sundae and a steak lies not in the calories but in the nutritional profile. A sundae will not have as much fiber or micronutrients as the broccoli and not as much protein as the steak. This has nothing to do with calories and nothing to do with weight loss.

    If the calorie count between two diets is equal, the weight loss from both diets will be equal (assuming activity levels remain equal as well).
    Saying "all calories are equal" does not mean that all foods are equal or that all foods have similar nutritional profiles or that all foods will leave you equally satiated. It means that 2,000 calories from candy and 2,000 calories from vegetables will have equal impacts on body weight. That is all.

    ETA: This reply is not a death threat against you. Simply an explanation for why your statement is incorrect.

    I was thinking, when @Rivers2k first posted, was that the sundae would actually fuel my heavy lifting better than the steak. Carbs for energy!

    And I was thinking that the sundae would leave me feeling full longer than the steak. Meat and veggies alone don't leave me feeling full for very long (important to note since most of the "not all calories are equal" people tend to forget that "not all people's experiences with satiety are equal").

    That is very true, not all people work the same. Carbs give me to much of a rush in to short of a time leaving me feeling depleted. Be careful lumping people because I never once said everyone has the same experience. I could say the same about the CICO crowd and they are very vocal about it.

    Also just like not all calories are the same not all Carbs are the same (simple vs complex). I don't see athletes carbo loading with hotfudge they tend to use complex carbs.

    But at the end of the day is my unpopular opinion nobody else has to like it.

    Re: The bolded.

    Nope, no lumping happening there.

    :D
  • sardelsa
    sardelsa Posts: 9,812 Member
    CSARdiver wrote: »
    Carlos_421 wrote: »
    Hornsby wrote: »
    I'm Haribo Gummy Bears and Tootsie Pops kinda guy. Best fuel out there.

    Add my vote for Haribo Gummy Bears as well.

    Wrong. Sour Patch Kids.

    I keep telling you people... :|



    :D:p;)

    Oooh, but Haribo Gummy Peaches! Those are soooo good.

    I re-rebut:

    Bourbon Gummy Bears

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    OMG I love these!!!
  • OregonMother
    OregonMother Posts: 1,664 Member
    edited June 2017
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  • SiegfriedXXL
    SiegfriedXXL Posts: 219 Member
    Nachos are also acceptable.

    I want them NOW and dinner is three hours away. The cruelty of these boards. :tired_face:
  • stanmann571
    stanmann571 Posts: 5,727 Member
    CSARdiver wrote: »
    gothchiq wrote: »
    Bah screw it we are never going to agree about this other stuff so whatever. I want to know where one purchases gummy bears with bourbon included.

    Step 1: Buy Gummy Bears (The brand I have is Sugarfina Inc.)

    Step 2: Buy 22ga hypodermic syringe

    Step 3: Buy Bourbon

    Step 4: Load syringe with Bourbon

    Step 5: With bevel down and at a minor angle insert the needle into the body of the bear with greatest lateral aspect to ensure the body can support the bolus.

    Step 6: Withdraw syringe.

    Step 7: Repeat steps 1-6 and eat.


    Or you could just soak them for 24 hours
  • DamieBird
    DamieBird Posts: 651 Member
    CSARdiver wrote: »
    gothchiq wrote: »
    Bah screw it we are never going to agree about this other stuff so whatever. I want to know where one purchases gummy bears with bourbon included.

    Step 1: Buy Gummy Bears (The brand I have is Sugarfina Inc.)

    Step 2: Buy 22ga hypodermic syringe

    Step 3: Buy Bourbon

    Step 4: Load syringe with Bourbon

    Step 5: With bevel down and at a minor angle insert the needle into the body of the bear with greatest lateral aspect to ensure the body can support the bolus.

    Step 6: Withdraw syringe.

    Step 7: Repeat steps 1-6 and eat.


    Or you could just soak them for 24 hours

    Doesn't that make them sticky?
  • VintageFeline
    VintageFeline Posts: 6,771 Member
    DamieBird wrote: »
    CSARdiver wrote: »
    gothchiq wrote: »
    Bah screw it we are never going to agree about this other stuff so whatever. I want to know where one purchases gummy bears with bourbon included.

    Step 1: Buy Gummy Bears (The brand I have is Sugarfina Inc.)

    Step 2: Buy 22ga hypodermic syringe

    Step 3: Buy Bourbon

    Step 4: Load syringe with Bourbon

    Step 5: With bevel down and at a minor angle insert the needle into the body of the bear with greatest lateral aspect to ensure the body can support the bolus.

    Step 6: Withdraw syringe.

    Step 7: Repeat steps 1-6 and eat.


    Or you could just soak them for 24 hours

    Doesn't that make them sticky?

    There's a thing here (UK) where you throw all kinds of sweets/candy into bottles of vodka to make randomly flavoured vodkas.
  • nutmegoreo
    nutmegoreo Posts: 15,532 Member
    edited June 2017
    peppypea wrote: »
    OK, dunno if I will be lost in the shuffle, but I'll post mine:
    Organic is a scam and a waste of money

    GMO are safe and verified and there is no need to label them

    You don't really need 8 glasses of water- thirst exists for a reason

    Almost no one can follow a fad diet forever- and healthful changes will only last with a change you can sustain for the long haul

    That's all I got for now

    Science>woo

    You might find more and more people are agreeing with this. Although there are still a lot of propaganda driven "mocumentaries" out there. It muddies the water.

    Edited for clarity.
  • jseams1234
    jseams1234 Posts: 1,219 Member
    edited June 2017
    nutmegoreo wrote: »
    peppypea wrote: »
    OK, dunno if I will be lost in the shuffle, but I'll post mine:
    Organic is a scam and a waste of money

    GMO are safe and verified and there is no need to label them

    You don't really need 8 glasses of water- thirst exists for a reason

    Almost no one can follow a fad diet forever- and healthful changes will only last with a change you can sustain for the long haul

    That's all I got for now

    Science>woo

    You might find more and more people are seeing this. Although there are still a lot of propaganda driven "mocumentaries" out there.

    Even sarcasm wouldn't make that comment appropriate...
  • canadianlbs
    canadianlbs Posts: 5,199 Member
    Carlos_421 wrote: »
    Hornsby wrote: »
    I'm Haribo Gummy Bears and Tootsie Pops kinda guy. Best fuel out there.

    Add my vote for Haribo Gummy Bears as well.

    Wrong. Sour Patch Kids.

    I keep telling you people... :|



    :D:p;)

    Oooh, but Haribo Gummy Peaches! Those are soooo good.

    rowntrees fruit gums. /discussion.

  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,224 Member
    Carlos_421 wrote: »
    Hornsby wrote: »
    I'm Haribo Gummy Bears and Tootsie Pops kinda guy. Best fuel out there.

    Add my vote for Haribo Gummy Bears as well.

    Wrong. Sour Patch Kids.

    I keep telling you people... :|



    :D:p;)

    Oooh, but Haribo Gummy Peaches! Those are soooo good.

    rowntrees fruit gums. /discussion.

    Randomly found those the other day on clearance at an office supplies store (???) and omg. So good.
  • canadianlbs
    canadianlbs Posts: 5,199 Member
    Randomly found those the other day on clearance at an office supplies store (???) and omg. So good.

    FRIENDSIES!!!!

    except . . . if i were in the same room with you i would steal your fruit gums. they're cruelly intermittent as far as availability in canada.

  • VintageFeline
    VintageFeline Posts: 6,771 Member
    Carlos_421 wrote: »
    Hornsby wrote: »
    I'm Haribo Gummy Bears and Tootsie Pops kinda guy. Best fuel out there.

    Add my vote for Haribo Gummy Bears as well.

    Wrong. Sour Patch Kids.

    I keep telling you people... :|



    :D:p;)

    Oooh, but Haribo Gummy Peaches! Those are soooo good.

    rowntrees fruit gums. /discussion.

    I take your Fruit Gums and raise you Fruit Pastilles. And milk bottles (I think you have to be proper British to know what those are).
  • middlehaitch
    middlehaitch Posts: 8,486 Member
    Carlos_421 wrote: »
    Hornsby wrote: »
    I'm Haribo Gummy Bears and Tootsie Pops kinda guy. Best fuel out there.

    Add my vote for Haribo Gummy Bears as well.

    Wrong. Sour Patch Kids.

    I keep telling you people... :|



    :D:p;)

    Oooh, but Haribo Gummy Peaches! Those are soooo good.

    rowntrees fruit gums. /discussion.

    I take your Fruit Gums and raise you Fruit Pastilles. And milk bottles (I think you have to be proper British to know what those are).

    I think I love you <3 h
  • nutmegoreo
    nutmegoreo Posts: 15,532 Member
    Macy9336 wrote: »
    Bry_Lander wrote: »
    lemurcat12 wrote: »
    Bry_Lander wrote: »
    lemurcat12 wrote: »
    Bry_Lander wrote: »
    lemurcat12 wrote: »
    Bry_Lander wrote: »
    Jruzer wrote: »
    The argument of "meant to" is a weird one. Humans are known for their adaptability. What was that thing that the men adapted to on the Lewis & Clark expedition? Camas root? The first time the ate it they were sick, but with it being the only food source available, they adapted to it (or something like that).

    What we are "meant to" do, if anything, is adapt to foods in our environment. It seems very odd to me, if you're going to ascribe to a philosophy of being "meant to" eat certain things, that you'd be plopped into an environment with certain foods not being meant to eat them. Or to better state the reality, given the ability to travel from one environment to another, and having a system which is hardwired to only survive in one's native region.

    It just doesn't make sense.

    "Meant to do" is inherently a religious argument, as it implies that there is something or someone who imposes meaning.

    Perhaps. I am an atheist, and I see it more from the perspective as "meant to" by means of biology/biological imperative.

    I do see your argument, but I don't assume that to be the only interpretation you can give to the phrase. I think on the face of it you're probably onto the most widely presupposed one (even if subconsciously done so).

    Please note, I don't think we're meant to do anything. I think humans have demonstrated the ability to do some things, and if you're going to use the "meant to" wording for that, well have at it. It doesn't bother me.

    I've never conflated the "Humans weren't meant to do" thing with religious beliefs either, i too thought these people were talking about the biological process.

    I'm not an atheist though, I just don't believe in religion.

    That was my interpretation- it concerns the compatibility of certain foods with what the animal was accustomed to consuming in the environment where it evolved. There is a reason that zoos don't allow people to feed their animals Fritos or Skittles.

    What is the relevant period and place where the human evolved for this consideration?

    Everywhere humans who were in the pre-agricultural period of advancement existed

    That's a hugely diverse diet.

    But why on earth would only the pre-agriculture period count? Why we were "meant" to eat whatever humans ate pre agriculture and not what we have eaten since then, even if our own genes reflect those later developments?

    Let me revise my time period - the period before man invented hydrogenated vegetable oil and Yellow #5.

    So nothing to do with dairy, then, which was the specific food under discussion that it was claimed we were not "meant" to consume. That and gluten (also firmly early agriculture, if not before).

    On the other hand, there are a number of things from even the later period that I would have a hard time justifying that we are not "meant" to have, like lots of antibiotics.

    I don't know anything about whatever debates exist about Yellow Dye # 5, but here is some information: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tartrazine, under the header "myths":

    "Rumors began circulating about tartrazine in the 1990s regarding a link to its consumption (specifically its use in Mountain Dew) and adverse effects on male potency, testicle and penis size, and sperm count. There are no documented cases supporting the claim tartrazine will shrink a man's penis or cause it to stop growing."

    I mentioned agricultural periods of development above because that is when humans began to raise animals instead of just hunting them, and that is when they started consuming the milk of some of these animals. This only started 7-8 thousand years ago - placing that in the context of the millions of years that humans have existed in one form or another, it is a blink of the eye. So I don't think that it is illogical to state that we weren't "meant" to consume animal milk, since it is something that we only "recently" started doing. The same with cooking our food - until fire was discovered we ate raw meat, so given that, in the grand scheme of things, we weren't "meant" to eat our food cooked. It doesn't mean we shouldn't.

    Humans and animals are able to consume all sorts of substances that they weren't "meant" to eat - the logic of eating things that were nonexistent through much of evolution varies. I watched a goose in the park the other day eat a cigarette butt. There are boneheads at the beach that feed seagulls french fries. I think we can agree that just because a person/animal can eat something doesn't necessarily mean that he/she/it should eat it.

    Just an add on. The agricultural revolution was 10,000 years ago, so around 8,000 BC. But even before the agricultural revolution humans were eating grains as part of hunting and gathering. Domestication of animals ( and milk and blood consumption) came before that currently proof as far back as 12,000 years ago. The theory is that hunter gathers domesticated animals and lived a nomadic lifestyle moving with their herds before settling down and adding agriculture to the mix. Don't forget too that while humans have evolved over millions of years as recently as 30,000 years ago there were multiple different subspecies of humans running around the planet. In addition evolution doesn't stop, it is continuous. Just because we didn't eat something 30,000 years ago doesn't mean we're not evolved to eat it now.

    So... paleo diet is bunk?
  • Macy9336
    Macy9336 Posts: 694 Member

    Also that you can't lose weight because you are on x medication, or you have y disability, etc. I take a significant amount of medications to prevent seizures, 2 of which cause weight gain. I also have knee problems. Yet here I am working, not having seizures, going back to school, AND losing weight. I have no patience for *kittens* and their pity parties.

    I agree completely! I also take anti seizure medications that cause weight gain and suffer from physical disabilities but these are obstacles to overcome not fate. I am on 1200 calories a day to maintain weight... it's just my reality with my ability level for activity being so low and the medications. I've never let myself go and never gotten overweight. I similarly have no patience for people's excuses as to staying overweight and giving up trying to be a healthy weight.
  • Macy9336
    Macy9336 Posts: 694 Member
    - i don't like dogs. i don't hate them, i just seriously don't give a damn about them. and i have only contempt for corporations that let people bring their dogs to work as if everyone just automatically thinks that that's wonderful. that would be great if they'd let me stay home on that day.

    Yes! Me too. I'm actually allergic to them too. There's a movement of nurses trying to get "therapy dogs" allowed into hospitals such that each ward would have a resident dog or two. I'm really disgusted and against this.
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