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Bananas are as good a choice as cookies!

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  • kristenlees122
    kristenlees122 Posts: 242
    i like bananas :)
  • Trechechus
    Trechechus Posts: 2,819 Member
    Devil.jpg

    LOL
  • adamsilva
    adamsilva Posts: 261 Member
    this add talks about sugar crashes and uses glycemic index. Did you get this off a diabetes website? in a diabetics case then i would say take your pick. OR Does your meals consists of large high carb and high sugars that you crash often?

    if not then i'd say thats ****ing stupid. looks like an attention seeking, substance-less undergrad study. macronutrient intake is what counts. but seriously promoting this garbage Bananas = cookies = french fries is precarious for people wanting to practice healthy living.
  • Vi0l33t
    Vi0l33t Posts: 117 Member
    Nothing like a cookie in anything except the sugar profile. Even in that the insulinemic response is lower from fruit sugars because of the fiber that comes with them. They're packed with good nutrients. Not to mention they don't have any of the processed additives that your typical cookie would have.

    Banana Ingredients:
    Banana.

    Nestle Chocolate Chip Cookie Ingredients:
    Chocolate Semisweet [Sugar, Chocolate, Cocoa Butter, Milk Fat, Soy Lecithin, Vanillin An Artificial Flavor, Flavor(s) Natural]), Sugar, Flour Bleached Enriched (Wheat Flour, Niacin, Iron Reduced, Thiamine Mononitrate (Vitamin B1), Riboflavin (Vitamin B2), Folic Acid (Vitamin aB)), Margarine (Soybean(s) Oil Partially Hydrogenated and Cottonseed Oil Partially Hydrogenated, Water, Salt, Whey, Vegetable(s) Mono and Diglycerides, Soy Lecithin, Flavor(s) Artificial, Beta Carotene color(s), Vitamin A Palmitate added), Nestle Semi-Sweet Chocolate Chunks (Chocolate Semisweet [Sugar, Chocolate, Cocoa Butter, Milk Fat, Soy Lecithin, Vanillin An Artificial Flavor, Flavor(s) Natural]), Water, Nestle Toll House Morsels (Milk Chocolate [Sugar, Chocolate, Cocoa Butter, Milk Non-Fat, Milk Fat, Soy Lecithin, Vanillin An Artificial Flavor, Flavor(s) Natural]), Egg(s), Oat(s) Rolled, Corn Syrup Solids, Molasses, Baking Soda, Salt, Corn Starch, Sodium Aluminum Phosphate, Vanilla Extract, Vanillin An Artificial Flavor

    I really like that answer :p

    This blog post resumes very well my thoughts on that :
    http://evidencebasedfitness.blogspot.ca/2010/05/death-by-sand-when-do-fine-details.html

    In my mind, if you are worrying about bananas, you are either :
    a) an athlete trying to drop from 9% to 7% body fat for the upcoming competition.
    b) diabetic
    c) a tool.

    There are no other choices really...


    Bwahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
  • michellekicks
    michellekicks Posts: 3,624 Member
    I would take a banana covered in peanut butter over any cookie in the world :bigsmile:

    All. The. Time.
  • Vi0l33t
    Vi0l33t Posts: 117 Member
    I'll give up the cookies, but I won't give up bananas just because someone said it was bad when compared to an obviously bad choice.
  • adamsilva
    adamsilva Posts: 261 Member
    I'll give up the cookies, but I won't give up bananas just because someone said it was bad when compared to an obviously bad choice.

    It makes me happy when people use common sense.
  • TeachTheGirl
    TeachTheGirl Posts: 2,091 Member
    In regards to cookie ingredients, if you make your own at home, it's likely they won't have as many additives. I still make oatmeal raisin cookies for my son, but I'd first reach for a banana than I would for a cookie!
  • AFluffyNyamma
    AFluffyNyamma Posts: 99 Member

    In my mind, if you are worrying about bananas, you are either :
    a) an athlete trying to drop from 9% to 7% body fat for the upcoming competition.
    b) diabetic
    c) a tool.

    There are no other choices really...

    HOMG I loled reading this hahahaha
  • sleepytexan
    sleepytexan Posts: 3,138 Member
    Everyone knows bananas can kill you.
  • amsparky
    amsparky Posts: 825 Member
    So true. I mean, how many fat monkeys do you see walking around???
  • GrnEydGrl86
    GrnEydGrl86 Posts: 154
    Dont fear the banana
  • Captain_Tightpants
    Captain_Tightpants Posts: 2,215 Member
    Also, carbs are ESSENTIAL to cellular respiration. Unless you don't like ATP, don't worry about carbs!!

    Gonna preface this by saying I'm not a low carber, and I'm sure you and I are in complete agreement on most things, but in the sole interest of correcting misinformation - got to speak up here...

    Carbs are not essential. They're the only one of the macronutrients that is not needed for survival (unlike fat and protein). In absense of carbs, the body will utilize ketones and will survive quite adequately. You'll feel like crap, but you'll live.
  • waldo56
    waldo56 Posts: 1,861 Member
    The next time I have a "sugar crash" will be the first

    This
  • Suziq2you
    Suziq2you Posts: 396 Member
    Put the bananas in the cookies. DOUBLE WIN.

    And walnuts!

    Perfect!
  • waldo56
    waldo56 Posts: 1,861 Member
    Bananas are high in carbohydrates which means our bodies can process extra sugars from bananas into fat and store it in our bodies. Cookies are high in fat and carbohydrates therefore making it a lot easier to gain weight. Bananas are great for the nutrients they provide we just need to make sure not to eat too many or pair them to other high carb items. :)

    This is actually specifically one thing our bodies don't do.

    There is a metabolic pathway to convert carbs to fat, but it is an emergency measure only used in extreme cases of carb binging where the blood sugar level approaches poisonous (think 4000+ calories in a sitting). Other than that carbs are stored as glycogen and fat as fat. The crossover between the two is negligible. However the ratio of glycogen to fat will affect the burn rate, have more glycogen and the body will burn more glycogen and less fat, thus dietary fat will be stored easier because you are burning less of it. However since you should have a fixed calorie intake this is a wash, eating more carbs at a given amount of calories means you are eating less fat, thus there is less fat to store, incidentally the amount of fat stored or burned will be exactly what your net calorie surplus or deficit says it should be no matter what your macronutrient breakdown.
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