I personally have chosen to eat a healthy well balanced diet with the occasional multi-vitamin. My diet is full of fresh whole fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, chicken, fish, steak. Everything whole. I haven't had a single fast food meal in over a year; except for the occasional sub. I seriously don't think I could feel any healthier right now in my life. I suggest you guys give it a try right too.
As long as I know, you shouldn't eat more than two fruits per day, it has a lot of sugar.
Nuts, OK, again, not too much, it has a lot of fat.
Steak - - but the B12 and... err one more thing I don't remember it's not too healthy you know, it has a lot of BAAAAD fat and as far as I know, a good diet means the only meat should be a quarter a chicken twice a week or something like that. (Not speaking of fish, which is good).
Thanks for the links.
Yours
~Infernity
Hi Inf,
Regarding Fruit;
It doesn't contain a detrimental amount of sugar, you'll be fine if you have a well balanced clean diet and exercise regularly. The nutritional and antioxidal benefits outway the sugar aspect, at least for me. For some, eating fruit can be a double edge sword depending on how the rest of your diet and lifestyle is managed. It's debatable but, IMO, all the options weigh in favor of fruit because A) it's pretty low on the GI index mostly due to it containing fructose (sugar found in fruit) and since fructose is broken down in the liver instead of passing right through it like other sugars (glucose), it doesn't have much of an effect on blood sugar levels. And B) fructose (or fruit sugar), is absorbed into the liver cells without the aid of insulin. There is also glucose in fruits which do actually need insulin, but the insulin response is relatively low since not all the sugar in fruit is glucose. Being low on the GI and producing a low insulin response, IMO, makes this an attractive food choice.
Then there is the common arguement that eating fruit, because it contains fructose, will make you fat since fructose is easily converted to fat and then released back into the bloodstream to be stored as fat tissue. The response for this arguement is best described by Lyle McDonald in this question and answer interview:
"Q: How bad is it to consume fruit when you're trying to lose bodyfat. I was told that if I eat too much it will get turned to fat. Is this true?
A: The issue with fruit has to do with the sugar fructose. In excess of about 50 grams/day or so, fructose will be converted to triglycerides (fats) in the liver. While it's unlikely that this will 'make you fat' while on a diet, it has the potential to slow fat loss. However, it takes quite a bit of fruit to reach 50 grams/day, an average piece of fruit may have 7 grams of fructose or so (in addition to other sugars), you'd have to eat a lot of fruit per day for it to matter.
Another, perhaps more important issue, with regards to fructose is that the conversion of fructose to glucose in the liver requires energy (in the form of ATP), on a diet, this conversion can deplete liver ATP. This is important because liver ATP levels determine how well T4 (inactive thyroid) is converted to T3 (active thyroid hormone). It's possible that fruit could slow fat loss through this mechanism.
To be honest, except for very lean individuals, I don't see fruit as the problem on a diet. Eaten in moderation, it's an excellent source of vitamins, minerals and fiber. Just don't go crazy with it."
Inf, that is the short answer, the long answer would be best described in Lyle McDonalds report here -
http://www.hypertrop...f=12;t=65;st=20 1 point for fruit, yeah [tung]
LongeCity
