THE PERFECT HUMAN DIET
HeatherLynnO
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I was bored the other night and was surfing NETFLIX for something to watch and came across a documentary titled "the Perfect Human Diet"....I watched it and was very interested in some of the things they discussed. Some made perfect sense, and some made my boyfriend of 4 years roll his eyes and say, "Why are you watching this crap!"
I love knowledge, and I love hearing of other people's research on topics that interest me. Being a woman, of 35 years of age, nothing like a slowing metabolism, a desk job that makes your @ss grow at record speed, and a boyfriend you still want to look desirable to, to make you TOTALLY interested in THE HUMAN DIET.
I will be the first to tell you I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE pizza and Chinese food, and pasta, and bread, and cookies, and Mexican, chips and salsa, cheese....I love soups with a cream base, I love a good Heath Bar Blizzard ice cream treat....food, has been such a wonderful thing to experience, until it wasn't me experiencing food, so much as food experiencing me!
A few years back, stuck in an unhappy marriage, and my own parents going through a catastrophic divorce which was filled with court battles, domestic violence disputes, I gained a record amount of weight and bordered on having a nervous breakdown. What resulted from those bleak times, was me going on an "atkins-like" diet and lost 30 pounds in like 3 months! It was wonderful to no longer look at the clothes I was folding out of the dryer of mine, and thing to myself, HOLY FREAKING COW THESE KHAKIS ARE HUMONGOUS! THESE CAN"T BE MINE!!
That was then, and this is now, and here I am, once more, looking at my clothes and thinking....my butt really can't be THAT big, CAN IT?!!?
And so, with your help and support, here I go once again, to set out on a journey of "self control", the abolishing of gluttony, and the quest for smaller pants!
I don't want to feel like crap anymore. I don't want to be sluggish and foggy-minded (which as a writer, really hinders the creative juices which I need to finish my next novel)....
So join with me if you will....don't let me fail. Hold me accountable, tell me my butt looks big in those jeans....(with love and sympathy) and let 2014 be the year I stop being a victim and a hostage to food, and let the joys in my life be my family, writing, photography, lets get crazy and throw exercise out there again....
Who's with me?
Sincerely,
Tired of being "Chubby in Ohio"
Heather Lynn Osting
I love knowledge, and I love hearing of other people's research on topics that interest me. Being a woman, of 35 years of age, nothing like a slowing metabolism, a desk job that makes your @ss grow at record speed, and a boyfriend you still want to look desirable to, to make you TOTALLY interested in THE HUMAN DIET.
I will be the first to tell you I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE pizza and Chinese food, and pasta, and bread, and cookies, and Mexican, chips and salsa, cheese....I love soups with a cream base, I love a good Heath Bar Blizzard ice cream treat....food, has been such a wonderful thing to experience, until it wasn't me experiencing food, so much as food experiencing me!
A few years back, stuck in an unhappy marriage, and my own parents going through a catastrophic divorce which was filled with court battles, domestic violence disputes, I gained a record amount of weight and bordered on having a nervous breakdown. What resulted from those bleak times, was me going on an "atkins-like" diet and lost 30 pounds in like 3 months! It was wonderful to no longer look at the clothes I was folding out of the dryer of mine, and thing to myself, HOLY FREAKING COW THESE KHAKIS ARE HUMONGOUS! THESE CAN"T BE MINE!!
That was then, and this is now, and here I am, once more, looking at my clothes and thinking....my butt really can't be THAT big, CAN IT?!!?
And so, with your help and support, here I go once again, to set out on a journey of "self control", the abolishing of gluttony, and the quest for smaller pants!
I don't want to feel like crap anymore. I don't want to be sluggish and foggy-minded (which as a writer, really hinders the creative juices which I need to finish my next novel)....
So join with me if you will....don't let me fail. Hold me accountable, tell me my butt looks big in those jeans....(with love and sympathy) and let 2014 be the year I stop being a victim and a hostage to food, and let the joys in my life be my family, writing, photography, lets get crazy and throw exercise out there again....
Who's with me?
Sincerely,
Tired of being "Chubby in Ohio"
Heather Lynn Osting
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Hi I saw that last night I also saw that and I have 40 to 50 lbs to lose it is basically a paleo diet I know it has been awhile since you posted this but are you willing to try it I am thinking about it myself and I need support are you interested
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agrees with herrspoons.0
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Totally there with you on wanting to lose some weight - sick of my weight right now. :-(
I'm a big believer in 'the perfect diet FOR YOU' rather than the perfect human diet. Mostly because, looking at all the science on this I can find and archaeological evidence, there really isn't a perfect human diet. Like, at all. Paleo and primal diet are really, really off on that, philosophically - and I say this as someone who basically eats paleo because that seems to be what MY body needs.
This was a great example:
"You want to know what the ideal human diet consists of? Everything. Humans can and will eat everything, and we are remarkably successful not in spite of this fact, but because of it. Our adaptability is the hallmark of the human species. We’re not called omnivores for nothing." ~Hoyes, a paleoethnobotanist who specializes in reconstructing prehistoric subsistence
http://hells-ditch.com/2012/08/archaeologists-officially-declare-collective-sigh-over-paleo-diet/
That said, for a diet that keeps us feeling our best, and at peak condition, I truly believe it is a very individual thing. Great example - if you look at the gut bacteria of Japanese living in Japan, you find a bacteria in their guts that breaks down seaweed more than the gut could do on its own, and makes more nutrients available as a result. We don't have this here in the USA or the UK. You won't find that in our guts. So for folks in Japan, seaweed may be a great part of the diet, while elsewhere, you won't get as many nutrients out of it.
There all sorts of things like that, everything from how well our body breaks down something to what enzymes we make more of, to what climates we live in (like requiring a good staple of vitamin D in the diet if you live in the far north, whereas that's not necessary for those living around the equator.).
So...good luck on finding your perfect diet. Hope you do well. :-)0 -
herrspoons wrote: »There isn't a perfect diet, only a diet that is perfect for you - one that you can maintain for the rest of your life.
^ this.
Finally free of the yoyo because I've found a way sustainable for me.0 -
Lol why did we bump this post? It's from over a year ago.0
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a good diet though is one that doesnt have any crap in it( even if it fits your macros)0
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a good diet though is one that doesnt have any crap in it( even if it fits your macros)
I guess you've never heard of Eric Helms?
So, if I eat only apples, I'll have a good diet? Apples are good, right? Or just whatever you deem "not crap" in any amount I want, ignoring nutrients?
You can eat however you want, but someone who abstains from foods you deem bad are no better then someone who still eats those foods and meets their bodies nutrient requirements. It's kind of science.
No one food determines health. It's overall diet.0 -
This thread is from 2014... January 2014
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Soylent.0
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Goat meat.0
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Goats fed soylent, and then deep fried.0
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I was kind of hoping this would be like "To Serve Man...a cookbook"
Bummer.0 -
Perfect diet = breakfast tacos. Period.0
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herrspoons wrote: »
You know, the last few days, every time someone said something like this I looked at their diary. And wouldn't you know it, almost everyone saying that drinks like 3 protein shakes every day but keeps on harping about only eating natural stuff and not eating chemikillz or whatever.0 -
a good diet though is one that doesnt have any crap in it( even if it fits your macros)
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The Perfect Human Diet (2012) by C.J. Hunt. There's not much about C. J. Hunt on the internet. He's a journalist who had a heart attack at age 24.0
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Lol0
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This gif always scares mePhoenix_Down wrote: »
Have you seen the movies? I actually played Silent Hill 1 through 4. The first movie was okay. I could appreciate them all in a sense on the fact that the creatures from them are terrifying. Maybe she's coming to bring you a fresh continental breakfast?0 -
I'm gonna start a band called Ebil Chemikillz0
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There's no such thing as the "perfect human diet." Science is still working on what is the healthiest for us to eat -- witness the recent changes in recommendations related to fat. Find a trusted source of information and go from there. For me, that source is Harvard School of Public Health's Nutritionsource
They- continually adjust their recommendations to reflect the best science on the topic,
- give good, readable explanations,
- and have clear graphics like the Healthy Eating Plate to make it easy.
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