Are you a healthy eater?

[Lamp]

According to the NHS, the following foods are both good for your heart and excellent at helping to beat cancer

- Porridge oats with sliced fruit - every day for breakfast
- Oily fish (salmon, tuna, sardines) - at least twice a week
- Wholegrain bread & wholegrain pasta (as opposed to the white varieties)
- Tomatoes - a superfood
- Olive oil
- Green leafy vegetables
- Nuts (almonds, walnuts) as a snack - not salted peanuts !
- Berries - a superfood - particularly raspberries
- Soy
- Red Wine - one glass a day & no more
- Plenty of fresh fruit & veg - at least 5 portions every day
- Sprouting seeds
- Increase the proportion of fish in your diet and decrease the amount of red meat
- Broccoli - a superfood
- Garlic - eat half a raw clove every day
- Chillies
- Grapes
- Shiitake mushrooms
- Sea vegeatables (wakame, kombu, kelp) - very good for you
- Green Tea

Score yourself 1 point for each item if you incorporate it regularly into your diet and mark yourself out of 20

 

[old.Tohtori]

- Oily fish (salmon, tuna, sardines) - at least twice a week (sometimes when i feel like it)
- Olive oil (for cooking ofc)
- Nuts (almonds, walnuts) as a snack - not salted peanuts ! (sometimes again)
- Berries - a superfood - particularly raspberries (often as i get my hands on some)
- Garlic - eat half a raw clove every day (when the food calls for it)
- Chillies (when the food calls for it)
- Grapes (randomly, not very often)
- Green Tea (very rarely)

So, 0 points?

Screw studies, i eat what i want, when i want and veggies are murder

 

[Everz]

Currently?

zero.

 

[gohan]

lol 6 xD


love garlic and tomatoes

 

[Fafnir]

- Green Tea

Read a recent study on Green Tea, 9 out of 10 contains pesticides that are either banned or heavily regulated by the EU. One of the toxins found is Azinphos-methyl - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. But none was higher than the threshold value.

 

[Vasconcelos]

- Porridge oats with sliced fruit - every day for breakfast: if krispies count, then check
- Oily fish (salmon, tuna, sardines) - at least twice a week: double check. I love canned tuna fish and a sardines sandwich with sliced tomato is just yummy
- Wholegrain bread & wholegrain pasta (as opposed to the white varieties): check. Half check. Wholegrain bread yes, but i eat regular pasta tho.
- Tomatoes - a superfood: Triple or Cuadro check. Goes into every sandwich and salad I make.
- Olive oil: Check. Spain you know...
- Green leafy vegetables: Check. Lettuce and green beans a lot
- Nuts (almonds, walnuts) as a snack - not salted peanuts: hhmm I eat a lot of salted sunflower seeds. Half check I guess
- Berries - a superfood - particularly raspberries: not this one
- Soy: check. Goes into my salads too. And I eat a lot of sushi so I guess soy sauce counts too.
- Red Wine - one glass a day & no more: not a fan of wine. So no.
- Plenty of fresh fruit & veg - at least 5 portions every day. Check. Royal Gala Red Apples, Kiwis and Pears ae my favourite.
- Sprouting seeds. Check. Green peas a lot. Twice a week at least.
- Increase the proportion of fish in your diet and decrease the amount of red meat: Check. Dont use to eat red meat except a burguer every 10 days or so. Chickend, ham and tuna fish are my main source of animal proteins.
- Broccoli - a superfood. Bleeeergh!!!
- Garlic - eat half a raw clove every day. Bleeergh!! Besides my stomach cant cope garlic or fresh onions. If i consume them, I spend the next two days having them for breakfast in my stomach/mouth
- Chillies: Tabasco sauce counts? Then check
- Grapes: not my kind of fruit. No.
- Shiitake mushrooms. Nop- Sea vegeatables (wakame, kombu, kelp) - very good for you. Nop
- Green Tea. Not a fan of tea. No.

I guess Im a healthy one

 

[Lamp]

you can't have a point for salted sunflower seeds. Too much salt

 

[Vasconcelos]

you can't have a point for salted sunflower seeds. Too much salt

Damnit!!

Whats better than a cold beer, a bowl of salted sunflower seeds and a Champions League match??

 

[mooSe_]

9/20

 

[Raven]

You need some salt to be healthy...

 

[mooSe_]

You need some salt to be healthy...

but you get salt in lots of things anyway, so adding extra salt is often unnecessary

 

[Fafnir]

According to the NHS, the following foods are both good for your heart and excellent at helping to beat cancer

- Porridge oats with sliced fruit - every day for breakfast
- Oily fish (salmon, tuna, sardines) - at least twice a week
- Wholegrain bread & wholegrain pasta (as opposed to the white varieties)
- Tomatoes - a superfood
- Olive oil
- Green leafy vegetables
- Nuts (almonds, walnuts) as a snack - not salted peanuts !
- Berries - a superfood - particularly raspberries
- Soy
- Red Wine - one glass a day & no more
- Plenty of fresh fruit & veg - at least 5 portions every day
- Sprouting seeds
- Increase the proportion of fish in your diet and decrease the amount of red meat
- Broccoli - a superfood
- Garlic - eat half a raw clove every day
- Chillies
- Grapes
- Shiitake mushrooms
- Sea vegeatables (wakame, kombu, kelp) - very good for you
- Green Tea

Score yourself 1 point for each item if you incorporate it regularly into your diet and mark yourself out of 20

Can add rape seed oil to this list aswell, is also healthy for you.

 

[Cerb]

Can add rape seed oil to this list aswell, is also healthy for you.

insert joke about me knowing rape was good for you here im too lazt

 

[Thadius]

Crock of shit imo.

Our grandparents wre drinking, smoking and eating crap, fatty food for years and they all lived to ripe old ages.

Its only in modern times, with all the additives and other shit they put in food that are making people unhealthy.

Looking at that list, it appears to be all the food listed is quite pricey, compared to things like fish fingers, chips and burgers.

This healthy living bollocks is designed for the middle classes methinks....

 

[Madmaxx]

Zero

 

[Gorbachioo]

Crock of shit imo.

Our grandparents wre drinking, smoking and eating crap, fatty food for years and they all lived to ripe old ages.

Its only in modern times, with all the additives and other shit they put in food that are making people unhealthy.

Looking at that list, it appears to be all the food listed is quite pricey, compared to things like fish fingers, chips and burgers.

This healthy living bollocks is designed for the middle classes methinks....

Life expectancy has been rising steadily over the years. Its just ignorant to think that better food has nothing to do with it.

 

[Thadius]

But the food isnt any better, in fact, its getting worse.

 

[Lamp]

Crock of shit imo.
blah blah blah

They interviewed a bloke not so long ago - English fella - think he was something like 104. They asked him the usual question - whats your secret of long life - he said he drank a glass of whisky every night and smoked every day. He'd been a smoker for something like 90 years. But people like him don't prove anything.

If you go back 50 years, they never had the amount of junk food shops on the high street there are now.

I don't think eating healthily is a crock of shit.

I don't know whether you've ever been to a shop and purchased a piece of fruit...but fruit and veg are NOT expensive.

Eating fatty junk tastes better & is more fun & is of course more convenient, easy, and cheaper than buying a load of groceries that will feed the family healthily for a week. But in the long run, a diet consisting of take-aways, junk food, sugar & salt is going to clog your arteries.

 

[Thadius]

My point is, my grandparents did not live on takeaways, yet they did not have fresh fruit and veg every day etc.

A bag of chips from the chippy a few times a week was the mealtime thing.

Anyway, back to the point.

They say buy fish, but how many people will go to a fishmongers for it?

Im guessing not a lot, the stuff they sell in supermarkets is a bag of shite, ie has no taste to it, full of water(to make it way more) and just generally shite. But the supermarket bigwigs know the NHS is on a big healthy eating campaign atm, so they will sell any old shite because they know people with buy it.

I only buy fish from the fish mongers, might be slightly more expensive, but I know im getting a good piece of fish.

 

[Raven]

I eat most of that list over the course of a week. I use olive oil if a recipe requires it and if I do something in a saucepan I always use olive oil, goose fat for roast potatoes though. I cook quite a lot of Mexican and Italian food so get plenty of tomato, garlic and fresh chillies (I grow my own) I only use wholegrain bread, I can't eat white bread. I also have porridge most mornings, with honey.

Things that should also be on the list that I eat

Honey (good natural sugars and vitamins)
Red Meat (high in iron and protein)
White Meat (High in protein)
Milk (High in calcium, low in fat)

Stick exclusively to that list and you will end up as a malnourished waif with a green complexion like Gillian McKeith.

Everything in moderation.

 

[megadave]

At uni i get barely any of that but at home a decent amount.


I'm sure recent studies revealed the glass of red wine a day thing was bullshit

 

[Lamp]

Some people just don't know how to drink in moderation. They see "Glass of wine" and read "a bottle"

 

[TdC]

- Porridge oats with sliced fruit - I tried but they exploded
- Oily fish (salmon, tuna, sardines) - sometimes I have tuna salad
- Wholegrain bread & wholegrain pasta - always
- Tomatoes - a superfood - yes, I like them
- Olive oil - always, I love it
- Green leafy vegetables - meh, sometimes :/
- Nuts (almonds, walnuts) as a snack - I thought nuts made you fat?
- Berries - a superfood - particularly raspberries - almost never....unless you count jam
- Soy - soy sauce
- Red Wine - one glass a day & no more - I think I should average a glass every three days or so
- Plenty of fresh fruit & veg - uh...maybe three or four times a week
- Sprouting seeds - what? like tau-gé? yeah sometimes.
- Increase the proportion of fish in your diet and decrease the amount of red meat - NO WAY BRO
- Broccoli - a superfood - yup, love it
- Garlic - eat half a raw clove every day - I'd say I eat about two cooked cloves a day average
- Chillies - tonnes
- Grapes - only when I'm in the mood tbh
- Shiitake mushrooms - love em
- Sea vegeatables (wakame, kombu, kelp) - very good for you - maybe in my twice yearly sushi fest
- Green Tea - green tea features very low on the list of things tdc likes :/

I think I am moderately healthy.

 

[TdC]

Everything in moderation.

what he said tbh!

 

[Lamp]

although a daily shake of raspberries, tomatoes, raw garlic, broccoli, sea weed, olive oil, kiwi fruit, blue-berries and sardine oil can't do you any harm

(wonder what that would taste like all blended up)

 

[Raven]

Have two and it wouldn't be too bad.

Fruit in one and the rest in another. Main and pudding! You could even attempt some sort of pesto with the veg and oils.

 

[Ezteq]

I got like 15-16 lol my diet is varied but mostly I eat 2 portions of fruit or veg with each meal

brekkie:
porridge with raisins and nuts & a pint of cranberry juice
or w/wheat toast with the juice & a banananana or! sometimes I do a grilled 'fry up' and have x2 tomatoes, mushrooms and a huge glass of OJ which is 4 of my 5 a day right off the bat!

lunch:
if I'm working I take brown rice with 2 tomatoes chopped up & some cayenne pepper and mackerel. Or if I'm at home I'll have something involving veg & w/wheat pasta or fresh veg soup. Always use extra virgin olive oil for cooking or as dressing tbh.

Then I usually have an apple and a banana or grapes for a snack at tea break, so thats 6 portions of fruit/veg a day so at supper I generally have a sandwich but occasionally I'll go for pizza or something lol, I think well I was good all day I can be evil at supper!

 

[mooSe_]

I think I've been eating more healthily since I've come to uni. I don't bother buying crisps very often any more because I know that I will just eat them all in 1 or 2 days no matter how many I buy making them a waste of money.
I've started buying more vegetables and cooking up large amounts of soup. I'm currently eating pumpkin and butter-nut squash soup.

 

[Lamp]

soup 4tw

thick winter soups with barley

 

[mooSe_]

yessssssss I've always been a hardcore fan of soup in in winter