Not really controversial, but nutrition/cooking classes should be mandatory at schools. People should learn basic cooking skills, where their food comes from, how different cultures use all of the animal (“nose to tail”), what different cultures eat in general, etc.
We should also learn how food interacts with our bodies and how it can influence how we feel (i.e. difficiencies in folate can correlate with depression, what foods support energy, contribute to brain health, etc)
Might not be too controversial, but I personally think that stressing your body through ínstense cuts or bulks can actually be detrimental against your health- and eating for purely aesthetic reasons can be really counter intuitive to your health as a whole if you don’t do it right, which is hard and takes time to do healthily.
Another thing is that homemade food is 9/10 times healthier than store or restaurant food- even if the homemade dish is technically “unhealthier”.
This is controversial for your average person, not people here (hopefully not at least). But metabolism doesn’t mean what you think it means. You aren’t skinny bc you have a ‘fast’ metabolism and you aren’t fat bc you have a ‘slow’ metabolism. In fact, if you gained a 100lbs your BMR would absolutely go up right along with your weight.
Your average person seems to think that our metabolism is some magical burning process that ‘burns’ calories quicker with skinny people as opposed to overweight people. Thus the food (calories) add up a lot more in overweight people causing weight gain. But with skinny people their metabolism ‘burns’ food so quickly that by the time you eat again, those other calories are gone. That’s not even close to how it works and it’s caused so much misinformation
What we think we know now will be different again in 10 years, just as what we thought we knew 10 years ago seems obsolete now.
I suspect we will learn more lessons about the gut biome that will drive some big changes.
You don’t lose weight on keto because of carbs, you lose weight because of a calorie deficit. You can’t eat 3,000 calories of “keto” foods and lose weight. You might lose water weight, but actual fat loss comes from a calorie deficit.
I feel like we’re not making enough use of the benefits of liquid food and it would solve a bunch of environmental and health issues.
Low carb, extremely nutritious smoothies at brunchtime are great for a weekday / work day. Stocked up on all kinds of fun things at Costco (leafy greens, frozen berries, protein powder, fiber powder, almond butter, chia, hemp hearts etc etc.
Super easy to throw everything in and whip it up, it’s a tasty vegan superfood explosion where all you need to do is sip it, and it gives you sustained energy and nutrition throughout the day without an afternoon slump. I usually make enough for two big glasses and have the second in the afternoon.
By the time dinner rolls around, you’ve ticked so many boxes for nutrition already with usually very low caloric intake, and you generally have much more room in your macros and emotional budget for whatever fun stuff you want to eat for dinner.
I can’t help but wonder how many problems doing this would solve for people who struggle with food related health issues.
Sugar will be re-marketed as a health food product sometime in the next 15-50 years. The science will be mixed but not completely overwhelming in either direction.
Either way, most experts now say it won’t kill you. Go ahead and add some extra sugar into your next lemonade
150 year old Dr. Eric Berg chimes in, here’s the thing, the particular sugar in this study came from a very specific island in the Indian Ocean.. and here’s what was interesting…
Maybe not controversial but people that advocate for all meat diets need to grow up.
Those people conflate losing weight with balance and nutrition, while also tending to spew nonsense about how fiber doesn’t do anything for you and is actually detrimental. Grow up and eat your veggies. You’ve had since your childhood to get over yourself.
Nobody knows shit but every educated guess may as well be true all at once. Not everything is bioavailable in a food item to begin with. Your body does not absorb efficiently all you eat. Modern life with modern food means modern transportation: you’ve heard of out of season produce. Get ready for few-years-old produce with reduced bioavailability being the modern food. But guess what, this isnt too new (few decades) and people are fine somewhat. ¯_(ツ)_/¯ life is weird and humans are adaptive
Glutamine consumption is necessary when you are lifting weights, exercising or using your body for something physical. It’s also great for the digestive system and I recommend it every morning before you eat.
Take care of your stomach and digestive health is my biggest advice. The microbiome, your digestive system strongly affects your mood. Eat healthy and eat smart. Be disciplined.
Consume a minimum of 60 oz of water daily. I aim for 100 oz and 150 when training. You will feel better if you drink it daily and allow your body to work properly.
Take vitamins daily. A multivitamin is great but there’s a lot of important factors in doing so. You’re also protecting your mental health by doing so. I don’t care how good you eat. Life is busy, and you need to supply your body with nutrients in order to reach your full potential. You’ll never eat enough to get everything you truly need.
Hot take: if you want to live and feel like a god or just be healthy and feel better: Every day get a little sunshine and get outside.
take a daily multivitamin make sure you are consuming the proper level of things like vitamin D3/zinc/vitamin c/b vitamins are natural energy/selenium is also good for your immune system and for men it’s good for your prostate.
Eat a healthy breakfast every morning.
Don’t skip meals and don’t eat late and night.
Give your body 12 hours to digest or at least 8 hours.
Make it a habit to workout and develop a routine and track it with a notebook.
Develop Self-discipline.
I’m from the U.S. and we should honestly fast more over here. We eat too much and too often. A majority of us follow outdated nutrition “facts” from the 50’s. 3 big meals a day is way too much. Maybe back then when jobs and lifestyles were more physical. But now days one big solid meal a day with some healthy snacks is about all ya need (with exceptions for those with a need for special diets). I’ve been intermittent fasting for almost 3 years and it’s changed everything for me health wise.
I think poor nutrition in pregnant mothers causes babies to grow bigger than they should in utero, and it is contributing to the high rates of instrumental deliveries and emergency c sections in the west.
1.) Carbs are awesome. They’re not bad at all. That’s a myth. The problem isn’t carbs, it’s: overeating, eating at the wrong time, not knowing how many you should be consuming.
I love carbs. They add weight but if you exercise and condition your body and track them you’re golden. Carbs are a secret for bodybuilding and packing on muscle.
2.) Plant based diets are overrated.
3.) There is a connection between your brain and your stomach. Your stomach is your second brain. If you want to feel great, take care of your gut health. A poor diet can create things like anxiety depression etc etc.
4.) Bread is trash.If you like to eat a little bit of bread or you like to have toast try to cut it down to one piece switch to gluten free but don’t eat lots of bread. Stick to in the morning.
Bread is full of sugar and starch and will make you feel like shit and it also makes you fat.
Unlimited chicken breast, ground turkey, veggies, and olive oil.
One or two fruits a day.
Beans every once in a while if you can tolerate them.
This will have you eating healthier than 99% of people and you can really stop here.
Also exercise is more important than nutrition. If you don’t exercise 200 minutes a week, your nutrition will never make up for that in terms of longevity.
Ignoring your hunger cues does more damage than going slightly above your self imposed calorie limit.
And breaking our calorie goals into daily limits can be a helpful tool, but it’s ultimately not how our bodies operate. Overeating every single meal because you’re stuffing your whole day’s worth of calories into one meal will cause your body to store the excess calories as fat, although you may end up burning the fat when you fast between your next huge meal.
Men need dietary cholesterol and there is almost no such thing as too much of it. If you had the rare gene where dietary cholesterol effects blood cholesterol, generally you’d know, or have a suspicion based on family history which you can verify.
Same goes for salt. If you eat too much salt, you just pee it out. It will temporarily cause you to hold water, which will temporarily increase your blood pressure. But then you just pee it out and it’s fine.
Ayurveda is the most complete nutrition tool. Vata, pitta and kapha body types helps in suggesting the most accurate nutrition requirement for each individual. Ayurveda is the home for bio-individuality
So many important ones: saturated fat is the healthiest, sugar in moderation isn’t bad for you and doesn’t cause insulin resistance, soluble fibre is not great, cholesterol and salt shouldn’t be avoided, the micro biome is not a more is always better situation, sugars>starches
Alcohol is not as bad as people make it out to be. It can be horrible, but works fine in moderation. Any other macro can be bad for health in excess. Diabetes for carbs, kidney problems with protein, fatty liver with fats… Alcohol is no different, but it can just be a energy source in moderation
Calorie counting is old news. It’s all about eating a whole food diet with foods that have no ingredient lists. This becomes an anti-inflammatory diet. WITHIN reason, it doesn’t matter the amount of calories you eat, just eat till your full. You’ll become very lean with a great microbiome.
No food is inherently bad for your health as long as it is in moderation. The worst thing for us is being overweight, which can be a consequence of certain ingredient pairings making foods easy to over consume. All of the negative health effects attributed to ingredients like sugar are really just consequences of having too much adipose tissue.
If you’re not waiting 5-10 min after chopping raw garlic and 15-30 min after chopping raw broccoli before cooking with them or mixing the garlic with an acid (including your stomach), you ALMOST might as well throw it in the compost.
100% of the people talking about the benefits of certain diets are wrong. How your body responds to what foods you eat will be dependent on a plethora of unique factors such as genetics, age, physical activity level, body composition, health status, medications, allergies, etc. Therefore, without knowing all of these, no one can even begin to approximate what would make a good diet for you. Considering we don’t fully know all the unique gene-metabolism interactions, this is, for now, impossible. You’re going to have to figure out your diet on your own through trial and error.
Fruit isn’t “good for you” it’s just less bad than grocery store garbage. Any nutrients you can get from fruit you can get from vegetables, with less sugar. There’s no reason you need to strive to get fruit in your diet if you’re already eating a variety of vegetables.
Foods should not be classified as “a carb” or “a protein”. Most foods have a mixture of carbs fats and proteins and it’s useful to identify which one their highest in or if they are very low in the other two but to put them in these broad categorizations is so imprecise as to be useless for actual dietary guideline.
The thresholds that a product needs to meet to be labeled a good source of a nutrient need to be way higher than they are. If you need to eat 10 servings or something to get to your RDI that’s just not a good source that’s just completely mediocre source. And something’s an excellent source in a nutrient that should mean it like is at least 50% RDI per serving. Also serving should be defined as what a person is likely to actually eat at a time and not just completely arbitrary values. I most notoriously saw a product which labeled a serving size as one half of a pot pie, which is a food that in absolutely no way can you divide in half. There’s just no way to do that and so it shouldn’t be allowed that that’s the serving size. Also, and this is just more ranting than it is nutritionally related, but they should not be able to have the serving size be like ounces it should be available volumetrically because most people have measuring cups at home but not most people have a scale at home. This is for the US specifically.
People seem to be living their life by a checklist. Vitamins A-E, minerals and that’s that. So they keep looking for these quick fixes through supplementation and foods highest in this and highest in that and it doesn’t work that way. Vitamins and minerals are not the whole picture.
And what kind of quality of life are we talking about if you’re only focusing on eating enough quinoa, blueberries and eggs or whatever. As much as it is keeping track of nutrients, it’s incredibly important to not stress about it. If you’re constantly checking for nutrients in food and looking for the next superfood, you’re missing the point and it’s not good for you mentally. Food is supposed to be yummy and fun, not something you read off a chart.