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Define "healthy" food...
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JeffseekingV wrote: »
Hahaha. You said "wow, just wow". That was supposed to mean how much protein broccoli has? Come on man.
And again, no one said it would be acceptable. I CLEARLY asked you for data that proves that eating just one of the other would land you in a hospital in 1 or 2 months. You have NO problem asking for proof of other people's statements so I'm asking you for yours
I read it as "wow, just wow" to the quantity of broccoli one would need to eat to reach a sufficient minimum amount of protein...and perhaps a passing thought of the intensity of the required bathroom visits.
Personally, I suspect one would be healthier after a month of just Doritos than just broccoli...because a month without the micros broccoli provides won't be as bad as a month without any appreciable dietary fat...but it isn't like you'll find a recent study confirming/refuting this because ethics.0 -
This "science" you use just gets more and more bizzare.
ummmm I know you don't read so well but read what I said "dietary context"...there is no food in dietary...
I give up and am out.
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goddessofawesome wrote: »
You obviously haven't had kale made correctly. I have a fabulous recipe that involves bacon, bacon grease and blue cheese crumbles. I guarantee if I made it you wouldn't even know you were eating kale.
you said bacon- I might be willing to attempt consumption.
(but I'm inclined to believe that's a ruination of good bacon)0 -
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a month of broccoli?
good lord- i would hate to be the plumber for THAT house!!! OIY
so much sadness and wrongess here.
also this: kale vs ice cream?
seriously?
no questions- the kales' in the trash- it's rubbish awful food. You want to talk about 'unhealthy' anything that tastes that bad before you put int your pie hole should never be considered healthy- much less a "super food"
PS Eff you women's health for making kale a thing.
seriously. die.
So, tell us how you really feel about kale.0 -
ummm so you think dietary context is science...???? yea, its time to bail on this one...
feel free to try and play again next time..0 -
jofjltncb6 wrote: »
Personally, I suspect one would be healthier after a month of just Doritos than just broccoli...because a month without the micros broccoli provides won't be as bad as a month without any appreciable dietary fat...but it isn't like you'll find a recent study confirming/refuting this because ethics.
That's fine because you are just stating an opinion. While he was trying to state a fact.0 -
MakePeasNotWar wrote: »The fact that people don't agree on the basic definition is the problem itself. I think 99% of the arguments could be averted if we realize that we are not working from the same definition, and are not talking about the same thing. I might be wrong, but I think the two major "definitions" are:
Food that is correlated with better health outcomes for humans in general in mainstream scientific literature. (i.e. multiple large and diverse population studies that show statistically significant and clinically significant increases in lifespan and decreases in disease risk in groups that eat more or less of particular foods and food groups, especially if there is a dose-dependent effect)
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Food that serves a particular individual's nutritional or emotional needs at a particular time in the context of their current health and nutritional status.
As long as we are comparing apples and oranges, we can never reach a consensus. Both concepts are important, and are applicable in different situations. The first is a great basis for developing broad guidelines for diverse groups. The second is much more appropriate when dealing with a specific person making a single decision. Both sides are correct, using their definition.
By that I mean that when someone says some foods are clearly healthier than others, when working from the meaning that healthy means "correlated with improved health over broad and diverse populations", and when someone says that what is healthy is entirely based on context, using healthy to mean "appropriate to the health or other needs of the individual in question at a particular point in time", they are both correct.
By the way, I am not saying either definition is right, (though I usually use the phrase in the first sense unless referring to an individual), or that the people who use examples in their definitions are always using the appropriate example. My point is that all of the arguments over "healthy food" are entirely moot if we can't agree on what we are actually discussing. It's literally just semantics.
Perhaps if we stopped assuming that our definition is obvious (as I did until I started to read other members' posts and realized it was open to interpretation), and simply stated our definition rather than use the general word "healthy", we might find that we pretty much agree on most things.
Forgive my long-windedness; I am desperately trying not to say anything that will be misinterpreted.
TL;DR Food that is generally health-promoting for a population is not necessarily going to apply to all individuals in all situations.
I don't expect it to solve anything, but I think this is one of the most helpful posts and I finally grasp why some think the healthy thing is obvious and intuitive. I simply never really considered that they were using it in the first sense, but thought they were trying to distinguish between food that did good inherently vs. those that did harm inherently, which seemed clearly wrong as applied to me.0 -
Need2Exerc1se wrote: »
So, tell us how you really feel about kale.
I'd get flagged off MFP.
Seriously- I get really (uncharacteristically and excessively) ragey about it.0 -
MoiAussi93 wrote: »
Yes, I posted it in that thread. Go look it up if you are seriously interested, though I know you aren't.
Ummm actually you did not..and that thread is now locked by the mods...but feel free to post it again ...0 -
ummm so you think dietary context is science...???? yea, its time to bail on this one...
feel free to try and play again next time..
I'm still waiting for your micronutrient value in the context of this thread. You might also want to state if the micros/macros are already met in the context of your first post0 -
chivalryder wrote: »
How much riboflavin did you consume yesterday?
lulz. Considering I had 4 cups of milk, 4oz of buratta, some green veggies in my Thai food, I am pretty sure I hit the RDA. In fact, the milk alone gave me 104% of the RDA.
How much did you?0 -
a month of broccoli?
good lord- i would hate to be the plumber for THAT house!!! OIY
so much sadness and wrongess here.
also this: kale vs ice cream?
seriously?
no questions- the kales' in the trash- it's rubbish awful food. You want to talk about 'unhealthy' anything that tastes that bad before you put int your pie hole should never be considered healthy- much less a "super food"
PS Eff you women's health for making kale a thing.
seriously. die.
me thinks you are a closet kale lover...0 -
me thinks you are a closet kale lover...
I've had it like 2-3 times and I cannot.even.
between the fact it tastes so awful and the huge "OMGHERD kale" reaction people get all ga-ga for in health food circles- it makes me stabby.0 -
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Not a fan of kale, broccoli, spinach etc... but I do recognize the micronutrient values. Taste doesn't determine nutrient values. But this is why I bought a Vitamix. I blend in the blah tasting foods into something I can drink and tastes good.0
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Are we there yet?0
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Your choices, my choices, some other guy's choices will be different, based on our health, desires and abilities. But all the thinking we all do - even whether we think the same things! - will have no effect on the food itself.
The food doesn't change.
"Food is different based on context"...It's just a bizarre concept.
But the problem is that "healthiness"--at least in the way that I am using it, as in "is beneficial to eat" is not an inherent property of food but depends on the circumstances. If you need to gain weight, almost anything edible might be healthy. If you've eaten nothing but broccoli for a week, broccoli is not healthy. In particular, there is no food that is so beneficial that you would want to say that it could make up an entire diet. Whether a food benefits your health or not depends on the overall diet. Oatmeal is quite healthy, IMO, but getting 90% of your diet from oatmeal is not ideal, IMO. Bananas are fabulous, but the banana only diet seems idiotic to me.
But thanks to another poster I now get how you are using the term and it makes more sense to me, although I don't really think of food so much that way, but in connection with an overall diet. (This is because I think the desire to rank foods and all that is really bizarre and impossible. How on earth do you even start to compare chicken and zucchini or some such. And why?)
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Just spent a good bit of time getting caught up on all the posts since I was last at my computer.
Regarding the response to me about fat: Not necessarily my own decision to specifically buy part skim mozzarella cheese. But in reality, I'm already eating plenty of fat anyway in my diet (sometimes up to 35%), so I don't think I need that cheese being full fat.
To spell it out what I mean about the differences in nutritional value in the pizza crust, here is the ingredient list for Dominoes hand tossed crust. You can probably pick any other commercial pizza brand and would find other ingredients that are not needed in the pizza making process.Enriched Flour (Wheat Flour, Iron, Thiamine Mononitrate, Niacin, Riboflavin, Folic Acid) Water, Vegetable Oil (Soybean), Sugar, Salt, Yeast, Vital Wheat Gluten, Less than 1% Dough Conditioners [Sodium Stearoyl Lactylate, Whey, Enzyme (with Wheat Starch), Ascorbic Acid, L-cysteine, and Silicon Dioxide added as processing aid], Corn Meal (used in preparation).
The ingredients I bolded are not even close to being ingredients "naturally" used in making pizza. Also, the flour used in my pizza has the nutrients already in, meaning they're naturally in the flour instead of being stripped away and then put back in. If that list of ingredients in the flour encompasses all the ingredients put back in the flour, then I'm pretty certain the flour I use has a much higher micronutrient content. As a result, my pizza can help me meet my micronutrient goals a lot easier, plus there is less added stuff that doesn't need to be in the food.
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This thread was great entertainment with lots of ups and downs.0
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You really need me to explain to you that wow just wow was in response to you believing broccoli is an high or even acceptable source of protein. Lol. Derp derp derp. Now you ask why I say eating alunch broccoli for a month or 2 would land you in the hospital? Oh please, your trolling skills are so sad. Yes, everybody thinks I though broccoli had zero protein. Lol.
Why? I just asked you exactly what you meant.
You are just backpedaling even more. Yeah I asked you for proof that eating it for 1-2 months would land you in the hospital? Why? Simply because you said it would. Now where is this proof? Hell where is your the explanation of your statement? You won't even offer it.0 -
550 comments or so. I will never catch up.
So my opinion...
No one food is healthy or unhealthy. A complete diet can be healthy or unhealthy, but not one food. If you think otherwise, you are just plain wrong.0 -
I've had it like 2-3 times and I cannot.even.
between the fact it tastes so awful and the huge "OMGHERD kale" reaction people get all ga-ga for in health food circles- it makes me stabby.
all right calm down ...go do some squats or something to get all the aggression out
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I've had it like 2-3 times and I cannot.even.
between the fact it tastes so awful and the huge "OMGHERD kale" reaction people get all ga-ga for in health food circles- it makes me stabby.
More than one person has told me that seasoned kale chips were a tasty alternative to potato chips. I guess I am naive, because I went out, bought some kale, rubbed it with oil, added my seasonings, etc., baked it for however long the recipe said (I don't remember), and you know what? It didn't taste like potato chips. It tasted like %$#^ kale!
I don't know if I can ever learn to trust again.0 -
lemurcat12 wrote: »
But the problem is that "healthiness"--at least in the way that I am using it, as in "is beneficial to eat" is not an inherent property of food but depends on the circumstances. If you need to gain weight, almost anything edible might be healthy. If you've eaten nothing but broccoli for a week, broccoli is not healthy. In particular, there is no food that is so beneficial that you would want to say that it could make up an entire diet. Whether a food benefits your health or not depends on the overall diet. Oatmeal is quite healthy, IMO, but getting 90% of your diet from oatmeal is not ideal, IMO. Bananas are fabulous, but the banana only diet seems idiotic to me.
But thanks to another poster I now get how you are using the term and it makes more sense to me, although I don't really think of food so much that way, but in connection with an overall diet. (This is because I think the desire to rank foods and all that is really bizarre and impossible. How on earth do you even start to compare chicken and zucchini or some such. And why?)
you are wasting your time with snoop froggy frog ...0 -
squirrelzzrule22 wrote: »It is absolutely ludicrous to suggest that some foods are not healthier than others.
It would be similarly ludicrous to suggest that someone cannot be HEALTHY and eat UNHEALTHY foods sometimes.
However, a person cannot be HEALTHY and eat ONLY EXCLUSIVELY UNHEALTHY foods. (capitals for emphasis, not sass.)
Here is my simplified example:
Op said something along the lines of "I've hit my macros/micros for the day, why can't I have a donut?" No one is saying you can't. Go right ahead. Enjoy.
But if donuts were ALL you ate, you'd get pretty sick pretty quickly even if you ate them within a calorie limit. Now, in the context of WEIGHT LOSS, you would still lose weight eating 1000 calories of donuts per day and nothing else. But you would also be hungry, iron deficient, calcium deficient, protein deficient, etc.
If you eat a relatively balanced diet there is absolutely no reason you can't indulge in unhealthy treats. But suggesting that in the abstract a can of coke is as healthy as a bowl of raw kale is downright silly. I think most of the people suggesting this are trying to use semantics to make a controversial argument and fluff some feathers.
Someone a while back brought up the recommend diet for women during pregnancy, and it was dismissed as "well that's one of the only times it is reasonable to consider those things." I understand pregnant women need a greater amount of certain nutrients, like folic acid, etc, but I don't understand the logic of dismissing the implications of eating a better diet during pregnancy. Think about it this way- if you wouldn't want it going into the body of your growing child, why would you want it going into your own body? My personal answer? I don't, but I'm still going to have treats occasionally when I want to.
Also, and this is an aside to the main point, given that this is a weight loss website I think it is important to note that it is MUCH easier to overeat on UNHEALTHY foods for most people. Most (not all, but most) people to not become obese by eating a diet comprised solely of HEALTHY foods. That is something that I think deserves consideration in this debate.
This whole debate is a little like saying the following: Is smoking healthy? NO. Can a smoker BE a healthy person? YES. What determines whether or not that individual ends up dying at a young age of cancer? Who knows, it is a toss up. Some smokers will live to be 100. But many of us feel like we'd rather not take the risk.
How are you going to hit your macros/micros by eating only donuts?
For that matter, you would have a pretty hard to explain how you do that by eating apples all day.
No-one is suggesting that a can of coke is as healthy as a bowl of raw kale.0 -
550 comments or so. I will never catch up.
So my opinion...
No one food is healthy or unhealthy. A complete diet can be healthy or unhealthy, but not one food. If you think otherwise, you are just plain wrong.
Yes but, more importantly, would you rather eat only broccoli for one month or only Doritos?0 -
MakePeasNotWar wrote: »
More than one person has told me that seasoned kale chips were a tasty alternative to potato chips. I guess I am naive, because I went out, bought some kale, rubbed it with oil, added my seasonings, etc., baked it for however long the recipe said (I don't remember), and you know what? It didn't taste like potato chips. It tasted like %$#^ kale!
I don't know if I can ever learn to trust again.
Anyone who compares kale to potato chips needs to GTFO. And I like kale. But they ain't no chip.0
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