Nutrition is SIMPLE. Agree or No?

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  • angiechimpanzee
    angiechimpanzee Posts: 536 Member
    It really is simple. People jump through all these hoops to overcomplicate it because they refuse to believe it can be that simple.

    Yup. It's one of the reasons I've never understood Weight Watchers. Why take an extremely simple concept and attempt to oversimplify it and make it more confusing? And then people pay for this luxury? How much simpler do you need than "calories in < calories out"

    Calories in < calories out is a recipe for weight loss. It does not guarantee proper nutrition.
    This. Also, it's unrealistic to expect the average person to count calories for the rest of their lives. I think it's important to learn nutritional principles that aren't based on calorie counts.
  • capnrus789
    capnrus789 Posts: 2,736 Member
    It really is simple. People jump through all these hoops to overcomplicate it because they refuse to believe it can be that simple.

    Yup. It's one of the reasons I've never understood Weight Watchers. Why take an extremely simple concept and attempt to oversimplify it and make it more confusing? And then people pay for this luxury? How much simpler do you need than "calories in < calories out"

    There you go bring math into it. 3rd grade math is hard. You've got like a 40-40 chance of getting it right!
  • MrsC160
    MrsC160 Posts: 85 Member
    You just need the four main food groups: candy, candy canes, candy corns, and syrup.

    :heart:

    +5 for the amazing Elf quote
  • BarbellApprentice
    BarbellApprentice Posts: 486 Member
    Some peeps have made the distinction that "NUTRITION" is not so simple. This is getting down to semantics, but I would agree. Obviously, there is an entire scientific community devoted to nutrition, so it can't be boiled down to a tag line. However, in our day to day lives, I think getting proper nutrition, losing fat, etc, is not rocket science.
  • BarbellApprentice
    BarbellApprentice Posts: 486 Member
    A year ago I would have agreed. But knowing what I know now, I have to say that I feel LOST. I realize now that I've been under-eating significantly for quite some time based on my activity levels. I thought I had done the math and was doing everything right. I now find myself "skinny fat" and lost in terms of how to shed body fat. The more people I talk to the more they make it sound like it is some exact science that you have to figure out; intake + macro's + type of workout, etc. What I used to think came down to garbage in, garbage out now looks like rocket science.

    I hear you, MyBodyMyMachine. In days gone by, I have gotten lost in all the information as well. Stay the course. Keep tweaking things. And log your food religiously.
  • spdleeuw
    spdleeuw Posts: 10 Member
    Nutrition is not so simple when no-one seems to be able to agree. Here are 2 quotes from the livestrong website:
    "Neither grapes, lemon nor lime contain protein, says the FDA".

    but from another page from the very same website
    "A 1-cup serving of grapefruit sections supplies 1.45 g, and one small peeled lime provides 0.47 g of protein. The best citrus fruit source of protein is the lemon. A 1 cup serving of lemon sections supplies 2.33 g of protein."

    In the last fifteen years we have been told that there is no better breakfast than a boiled egg every day, then never to eat more than two eggs a week because of the danger of cholesterol, and now it appears that eggs are OK after all as eating cholesterol-rich foods doesn't necessarily have an influence on our own.

    I don't believe a word anyone tells me any more, 63 years old and getting as stubborn as a mule...!
  • TheDevastator
    TheDevastator Posts: 1,626 Member
    Nutrition is not so simple when no-one seems to be able to agree. Here are 2 quotes from the livestrong website:
    "Neither grapes, lemon nor lime contain protein, says the FDA".

    but from another page from the very same website
    "A 1-cup serving of grapefruit sections supplies 1.45 g, and one small peeled lime provides 0.47 g of protein. The best citrus fruit source of protein is the lemon. A 1 cup serving of lemon sections supplies 2.33 g of protein."
    They were going by this chart:

    http://www.fda.gov/downloads/Food/LabelingNutrition/FoodLabelingGuidanceRegulatoryInformation/InformationforRestaurantsRetailEstablishments/UCM169225.pdf

    So 1 lemon or lime would have less than 1/2 a gram of protein so it would be rounded down to zero on this FDA chart.
    It's stupid to have a chart and then round stuff that actually exists to zero.
  • ahamm002
    ahamm002 Posts: 1,690 Member
    Some peeps have made the distinction that "NUTRITION" is not so simple. This is getting down to semantics, but I would agree. Obviously, there is an entire scientific community devoted to nutrition, so it can't be boiled down to a tag line. However, in our day to day lives, I think getting proper nutrition, losing fat, etc, is not rocket science.

    Well while it's true things are often overly complicated, the reality is that just counting calories alone often doesn't work for people. If CICO was so simple and easy, where did this obesity epidemic come from?

    If you rely completley on just counting calories instead of changing the way you eat and exercising, you're setting yourself up for long term failure. Eventually motivation will wane and you'll count the calories less and less, and the pounds will come back on. Except this time you'll be worse off then you were before b/c the weight you lost will be partially LBM while the weight you put back on will be all fat.

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