Cheat day..yes or no?

JstTheWayIam wrote: »

WinoGelato wrote: »

JstTheWayIam wrote: »

If you eat a hundred calories of pizza, it's going to effect you more than vegetables would.

Cico over simplifies it

Affect you in what way?

For weight loss it does come down to CICO, period. For overall health and nutrition certainly different foods have different impacts, nobone disputes that. I'm curious though what's so bad about pizza? Depending on the toppings, how would it be so vastly different or markedly worse than vegetables? I'd actually say pizza would be better than a plate of vegetables since you could have protein and fats as well as veggies on that pizza....

That's insane...

Pizza is the number one source of salt for people between 10-50yrs of age. ..

You don't honestly believe that pizza is more healthy for you than vegetables do you?

If you eat pizza twice a week and I opt for a bowl of veggies instead... Do you really think you'll out live me, or weigh less?

Yes. Because it's still about CICO. Ever see a fat vegetarian? How do herbivores get fat? Don't rely on your anecdotes to try to trump science. If you have slowed weight loss, it could be a myriad of reasons why. Less muscle mass, lower hormone secretion, etc.

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I had pizza for dinner last night and it had vegetables on it! Go figure!

JstTheWayIam wrote: »

lemurcat12 wrote: »

One would think there was no variety in pizza. And that no one could put vegetables on pizza or eat pizza with vegetables on the side. Weird! I was unaware of these rules somehow.

Are you actually going to try to argue that there's vegetables on pizza...?

Every pizza I eat has vegetables on it, yes. If you choose pizzas without vegetables, that's on you.

And I'm not talking about a homemade pizza either.

Why not? The main times I eat pizza is when I make it at home or at Italian restaurants where it's similar in ingredients to a pasta dish (which I also order with vegetables in it).

Yeah and McDonald's French fries are healthy because there vegetables!

I tend to consider potatoes more of a starch course than a vegetable course. I'm talking about non starchy veg.

On the other hand, I make potatoes at home often (might for lunch today, along with other foods, including non starchy veg), and don't consider potatoes unhealthy, so whatever. If your frame of reference is "a plate of only vegetables" or "fast food or whatever fast food pizza place you are thinking of," again, that's you, not a reason to judge how anyone else eats. It also says nothing about nutrition, which is about overall diet (and needs more than non-starchy vegetables, despite me being a huge vegetable fan).

Urg. Great... now I want pizza, but there's no way I have the calories for it today. At least, not for an amount that would satisfy me (no way I'm only eating a slice of my yummy, homemade pizza with Gorgonzola, ham, tomato sauce, onions and artichoke hearts). I guess I'll have to plan that for tomorrow.

Would that be considered cheating? If you're planing for it?

Tacklewasher wrote: »

AnvilHead wrote: »

(tomato is a vegetable last time I checked).

Nope. Fruit

The question is whether the botanical classification is the one that matters or the culinary one (I think for nutrition purposes it is typically the culinary one). We had this discussion recently about cucumbers.

Wiki says:

Botanically, a tomato is a fruit, a berry, consisting of the ovary, together with its seeds, of a flowering plant. However, the tomato has a much lower sugar content than other edible fruits, and is therefore not as sweet. Typically served as part of a salad or main course of a meal, rather than at dessert, it is considered a "culinary vegetable". One exception is that tomatoes are treated as a fruit in home canning practices: they are acidic enough to process in a water bath rather than a pressure cooker as vegetables require. Tomatoes are not the only food source with this ambiguity: bell peppers, cucumbers, green beans, eggplants, avocados, and squashes of all kinds (such as zucchini and pumpkins) are all botanically fruits, yet cooked as vegetables. This has led to legal dispute in the United States. In 1887, U.S. tariff laws that imposed a duty on vegetables, but not on fruits, caused the tomato's status to become a matter of legal importance. The U.S. Supreme Court settled this controversy on 10 May 1893, by declaring that the tomato is a vegetable, based on the popular definition that classifies vegetables by use, that they are generally served with dinner and not dessert (Nix v. Hedden (149 U.S. 304)). The holding of this case applies only to the interpretation of the Tariff Act of 3 March 1883, and the court did not purport to reclassify the tomato for botanical or other purposes.

Mayo Clinic similarly says: http://www.mayoclinic.org/healthy-lifestyle/nutrition-and-healthy-eating/expert-blog/fruit-vegetable-difference/bgp-20056141

"According to botanists (those who study plants) a fruit is the part of the plant that develops from a flower. It's also the section of the plant that contains the seeds. The other parts of plants are considered vegetables. These include the stems, leaves and roots — and even the flower bud.

The following are technically fruits: avocado, beans, peapods, corn kernels, cucumbers, grains, nuts, olives peppers, pumpkin, squash, sunflower seeds and tomatoes. Vegetables include celery (stem), lettuce (leaves), cauliflower and broccoli (buds), and beets, carrots and potatoes (roots).

From a culinary standpoint, vegetables are less sweet — or more savory — and served as part of the main dish. Fruits are more sweet and tart and are most often served as a dessert or snack. Both fruits and vegetables can be made into juice for a refreshing beverage. Some fruits are "grains" or "nuts" or "seeds" — and are served accordingly.

Nutritionally speaking, fruits and vegetables are similar. Compared with animal products, they're generally lower in calories and fat, but higher in fiber. Fruits and vegetables also contain health-enhancing plant compounds such as antioxidants. And they're loaded with vitamins and minerals.

One serving (half a cup) of most fruits has a bit more calories than one serving of vegetables. Exceptions would be dense, starchy vegetables such as potatoes or beets...."

Here's a lighthearted look at the question: http://theplate.nationalgeographic.com/2015/02/09/fruit-or-vegetable/

"Everybody knows the difference between a fruit and a vegetable, right? Fruits are tempting and scrumptious. Adam and Eve, unable to resist one, were booted from the blissful Garden of Eden; a fruit kicked off the Trojan War; and a fruit so seduced kidnapped Persephone in the Underworld that she simply couldn’t help taking a bite, thus landing the rest of us forevermore with the chilly season of winter. Vegetables don’t pack this kind of punch. Vegetables, traditionally, are the stuff kids push around on their plates and hide under their mashed potatoes.

So what’s the real difference between fruits and vegetables? Which is which?

To a botanist, a fruit is an entity that develops from the fertilized ovary of a flower. This means that tomatoes, squash, pumpkins, cucumbers, peppers, eggplants, corn kernels, and bean and pea pods are all fruits; so are apples, pears, peaches, apricots, melons and mangos. A vegetable, botanically, is any edible part of a plant that doesn’t happen to be a fruit, as in leaves (spinach, lettuce, cabbage), roots (carrots, beets, turnips), stems (asparagus), tubers (potatoes), bulbs (onions), and flowers (cauliflower and broccoli).

Politically and culinarily, however, it’s a whole different ball game....

“Botanically speaking,” said [former SC] Justice Gray, “tomatoes are the fruit of the vine, just as are cucumbers, squashes, beans and peas. But in the common language of the people…all these vegetables…are usually served at dinner in, with, or after the soup, fish, or meat, which constitute the principal part of the repast, and not, like fruits, generally as dessert.”

This was neither the first nor the last time that the Supreme Court was forced to struggle with botanical definitions of food. In 1886, Justice Joseph Bradley in Robertson v. Salomon ruled that beans were vegetables. (The lawyer for the protesting importer, arguing that beans were seeds, pointed to garden catalogs; the defense countered with a dinner recipe for baked beans.) “The Supreme Court has just decided that beans are vegetables,” commented a gleeful Iowa newspaper. “This is rough on Boston. That cultured city can no longer push them on to a suffering world as fruit.”..."

Anyway, back to pizza, probably the least "healthy" pizza I eat is a Chicago style deep-dish, and normally I eat it with spinach, mushrooms, and green peppers, so it has vegetables (spinach) whether one counts the tomatoes and peppers or not. I also agree with the poster who adds artichoke hearts, as those are delicious on pizza (a chain I like okay does those and spinach on a tomato-sauce-less pizza), and I also think broccoli and asparagus are often tasty on pizza. ;-)

Heh!

(I need to see that one, I've heard it's really fun.)