5 ms·

Works for food too. Even if you completely avoid any obviously unhealthful food (cake, ice cream, candy), it's quite easy to get overweight eating large portion

• pavs 16y ago
  Running with the food example. Earlier this year I started cooking food instead of eating out every single say, I saved some money and I am much more conscious about my eating habit. (self-plug) http://blogriot.com/maintaining-a-food-budget/ http://blogriot.com/maintaining-a-food-budget/
• swombat 16y ago
  To a point. It's a whole lot easier to get overweight eating lots of calorie-laced, nutritionally poor junk food, like pizza, junk burgers, sodas, fries, and the like, than to do so eating large quantities of freshly cooked vegetables.
  • eru 16y ago
    I just started eating more and more food. I usually try to go healthy, but in a pinch I'll get a Mars bar from our vending machine. (I even trained myself to drink milk and eat bananas. Things that I did not like before.) Since I started weightlifting, I need the extra energy to keep my weight, and perhaps even gain some.
• ellyagg 16y ago
  That's only because people don't realize all the obviously unhealthful foods and mistakenly believe many healthy foods are bad for you because they contain dietary fat. A baked potato is practically as bad for you as cake, weight-wise. On the other hand, it would be extremely difficult for most people to get fat eating large portions of pure meat because any sort of meat has such a low glycemic index. Any time my brother wants to lose weight, he goes to an all-bacon explosion diet[1] and the weight just melts off. Several people at my work went on the so-called paleo diet together and immediately started losing significant weight. If you look at most popular diets, they generally have the core effect of deemphasizing high glycemic foods from one's diet, usually by shifting calories to meat and/or vegetables. Personally, I prefer to shift the calories to meat because it's easier to build strength and muscle, when paired with an appropriate physical regimen. In my view, physical strength is an underappreciated and core component of modern fitness. [1] Slight exaggeration.
  • jmulho 16y ago
    For those who didn't catch ellyagg's point, I summarize. good: dietary fat, large portions of pure meat, any sort of meat, all-bacon explosion diet, so-called paleo diet, most popular diets bad: all the obviously unhealthful foods people don't realize, baked potato (as compared to cake, weight-wise), high glycemic foods underappreciated and core component of modern fitness: physical strength
  • DaniFong 16y ago
    FWIW, "The China Project," documented in the eponymous book, appears to show a dangerously strong correlation between meat intake/animal protein intake and cardiovascular problems, cancer, and dementia. This is possibly not true when the protein is going to work building flesh, but most americans consume vastly more protein in the diet than necessary.
  • Psyonic 16y ago
    I realize most people aren't terribly fit, but in what sense do you think physical strength is underappreciated? I think most people are well aware of the benefits, they just don't care enough to bother.
    • xom 16y ago
      What are all the benefits?
      • Psyonic 16y ago
        In this day and age, primarily looking good (to a point). But being strong helps maintain better posture, and helps to prevent RSI and other injuries.
• megablast 16y ago
  I am pretty sure you would have to do no exercise at all for that to be true. One of the benefits of exercising is that once you start doing it regularly, you start to miss it when you stop it. If I don't go for a run every day, I feel it, despite the fact that I hate running.