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It is likely that you will waste more time worrying about your diet than you gain in productive activity. You should probably still do it, since it has long te

It is likely that you will waste more time worrying about your diet than you gain in productive activity. You should probably still do it, since it has long term health consequences, but the rules are really easy: 1. Eat something 2. Not too much 3. Mostly plants

alwaysinshade 14y ago
You could probably get away with a single rule - avoid processed foods and drinks. If a machine is used to break something down, it's invariably increases the GI of the foodstuff. Blending a banana into a smoothy will leave you with a higher GI meal than simply eating the banana. Drinking juice leaves you with little to none of the soluble fiber which would slow the release of sugar into your system. Let your body do the work of breaking down your food.
- dredmorbius 14y ago
  jaggederest is paraphrasing Michael Pollan's directive in In Defense of Food. "Eat food, not too much, mostly plants". You could expand the first clause to "Eat real, whole, unprocessed food".
  - alwaysinshade 14y ago
    You could probably keep it at that point alone - eating a lot of whole, unprocessed food is difficult because of its volume vs caloric density and is typically harder to chew/swallow because a machine hasn't partially digested it for you. Will have to check out that book though. Thanks.
  - pault 14y ago
    My rules are: don't eat anything you couldn't grow and process in a small garden, get 20+ minutes of exercise per day, don't obsess over your body mass index.
sp332 14y ago
The first rule is: Eat food.
JohnsonB 14y ago
>1. Eat something >2. Not too much >3. Mostly plants There are a lot of diets that disagree with this, diets which many people find success in. For example the Ketosis diet says: 1. Eat as much as you want 2. Mostly protein and fat 3. And vegetables
- Nux 14y ago
  It would be nice if someone did some stats on Ketosis diet users and (mostly) vegetarian diet (as per JohnsonB) users regarding general health and life span. Also very interested in the outcome of fasting: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-19112549 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-19112549 We need moar stats!
- jaggederest 14y ago
  "Diet" in this case is not something to lose weight. Diet is 'whatever you eat'. If you're 'dieting', you're doing it wrong. Instead of dieting, avoid crappy food and you're fine. Dieting shouldn't be something you 'succeed' or 'fail' at - if it involves restrictions you can 'fail' at, it's probably a terrible thing to do to yourself in the long term.
  - kahawe 14y ago
    Paleo diet with "diet" as in lifestyle change and whatever-you-should-be-eating. It seems to have its fair share of followers and they appear to be loving it and there are studies that show beneficial effects like lower blood pressure.

alwaysinshade 14y ago

You could probably get away with a single rule - avoid processed foods and drinks. If a machine is used to break something down, it's invariably increases the GI of the foodstuff. Blending a banana into a smoothy will leave you with a higher GI meal than simply eating the banana. Drinking juice leaves you with little to none of the soluble fiber which would slow the release of sugar into your system. Let your body do the work of breaking down your food.

dredmorbius 14y ago
jaggederest is paraphrasing Michael Pollan's directive in In Defense of Food. "Eat food, not too much, mostly plants". You could expand the first clause to "Eat real, whole, unprocessed food".
- alwaysinshade 14y ago
  You could probably keep it at that point alone - eating a lot of whole, unprocessed food is difficult because of its volume vs caloric density and is typically harder to chew/swallow because a machine hasn't partially digested it for you. Will have to check out that book though. Thanks.
- pault 14y ago
  My rules are: don't eat anything you couldn't grow and process in a small garden, get 20+ minutes of exercise per day, don't obsess over your body mass index.

sp332 14y ago

The first rule is: Eat food.

JohnsonB 14y ago

>1. Eat something >2. Not too much >3. Mostly plants There are a lot of diets that disagree with this, diets which many people find success in. For example the Ketosis diet says: 1. Eat as much as you want 2. Mostly protein and fat 3. And vegetables

Nux 14y ago
It would be nice if someone did some stats on Ketosis diet users and (mostly) vegetarian diet (as per JohnsonB) users regarding general health and life span. Also very interested in the outcome of fasting: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-19112549 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-19112549 We need moar stats!
jaggederest 14y ago
"Diet" in this case is not something to lose weight. Diet is 'whatever you eat'. If you're 'dieting', you're doing it wrong. Instead of dieting, avoid crappy food and you're fine. Dieting shouldn't be something you 'succeed' or 'fail' at - if it involves restrictions you can 'fail' at, it's probably a terrible thing to do to yourself in the long term.
- kahawe 14y ago
  Paleo diet with "diet" as in lifestyle change and whatever-you-should-be-eating. It seems to have its fair share of followers and they appear to be loving it and there are studies that show beneficial effects like lower blood pressure.