WTF is "Eating Right"?

it's putting food in your mouth, chewing it and swallowing it. If you're putting food anywhere else, you're doing it wrong.




serious answer: your body needs protein (including all the essential amino acids), fat (including all the essential fatty acids), carbohydrates, all the various vitamins and minerals, plus fibre and water. If you're getting all of those while staying within your calorie goal and you're not getting way too much of any of them (some nutrients can be toxic in excess, e.g. vitamin A) then that's a balanced diet and eating right. Ignore anyone who makes things more complicated than that. (vegan and vegetarian diets are about ethics rather than health, nothing wrong with them, but no need to give up meat if you don't have moral objections to eating it)

it's putting food in your mouth, chewing it and swallowing it. If you're putting food anywhere else, you're doing it wrong.

Such a simple question, that has an infinitely complex answer.

Personally I try to compose the vast majority of my diet with fruits, veggies, eggs, meat, fish, chicken, nuts & seeds. I have dairy in the form of yogurt, cheese & butter, and the odd glass of milk. Oils to cook with, potatoes & rice on occasion, and the odd pasta dish. I'm not a fan of bread so I dont go out of my way to eat it, but don't avoid it either. The rest is whatever it ends up being. I rarely to never drink pop, eat fast food, frozen dinners, or processed junk food.

I eat this way because it gives me the most energy and the least amount of digestive stress. I never feel deprived, I'm all about making some awesome meals, they just tend to all come from whole ingredients.

If you are getting your nutrients...vitamins and minerals and meeting your protein and fat requisites, you are eating right. The way people choose to go about that is completely up to them...in that RE, there is no "right"

ETA: I'm a foodie...therefore I eat...really good, high quality food that kicks *kitten*.

^ Dat up dare

If you are getting your nutrients...vitamins and minerals and meeting your protein and fat requisites, you are eating right. The way people choose to go about that is completely up to them...in that RE, there is no "right"

Hard to argue with this...

For my fellow MFP'ers, why do you eat what you eat?

I follow healthy eating guidelines based on science. Even if the science is inconclusive, I tend to limit foods that have a repeated association with higher risk of disease. I've never been much of gambler, so I like the odds in my favor.

This is my favorite source for nutrtion information: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/
It seems the most reasonable to me and, having followed the general advice on there for a couple of decades, I've remained healthy. Maybe it's the diet, maybe it's good genes, maybe it's dumb luck, but as I said, I'm not a gambler. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

A variety of vegetables, a little fruit, whole grains, nuts, beans, lean meats, olive oil, wine. Most meals are home-prepared. Of "diets" that I've seen, the Mediterranean diet most closely resembles what I eat most of the time. But I still eat a little junk food (by my own definition).

Edit: oops, I left out the link

because, BACON

If you're putting the food in your mouth instead of in other places I'd consider that "right."

Such a simple question, that has an infinitely complex answer.

Personally I try to compose the vast majority of my diet with fruits, veggies, eggs, meat, fish, chicken, nuts & seeds. I have dairy in the form of yogurt, cheese & butter, and the odd glass of milk. Oils to cook with, potatoes & rice on occasion, and the odd pasta dish. I'm not a fan of bread so I dont go out of my way to eat it, but don't avoid it either. The rest is whatever it ends up being. I rarely to never drink pop, eat fast food, frozen dinners, or processed junk food.

I eat this way because it gives me the most energy and the least amount of digestive stress. I never feel deprived, I'm all about making some awesome meals, they just tend to all come from whole ingredients.

This. Except rice every day and no red meat.