Fast Food

[Androme]

Ok ok, I know, I've been really into health recently but I trust some people here more than the various sites that most of the time, have half saying one thing, another saying something else.

So those health-conscious knowing people like Zar, djbass, apply

Is fast food acceptable as part of a diet? Obviously I'm keeping healthy otherwise but is it ok to have it once a week? Obviously I'm going to hear not at all but I couldn't live with not at all.

Same goes for restaurants - ie: Indian, Chinese etc. ?

[Phang]

Originally Posted by Androme2

Ok ok, I know, I've been really into health recently but I trust some people here more than the various sites that most of the time, have half saying one thing, another saying something else.

So those health-conscious knowing people like Zar, djbass, apply

Is fast food acceptable as part of a diet? Obviously I'm keeping healthy otherwise but is it ok to have it once a week? Obviously I'm going to hear not at all but I couldn't live with not at all.

Same goes for restaurants - ie: Indian, Chinese etc. ?

my interpretation had always been that most fast food (certainly burgers and pizza) were reasonably healthy, just very high in salt. Confrim/deny someone?

[LHC]

Yes it is safe.

[Mr. Ed]

Well if you're on a diet, id say that once a week is probably a little too often.

[JonnyBGood]

Fast food tastes like shit. Why would you eat it?

[Madina]

Fast food is over priced and doesnt fill you (well me) up. Go buy a sandwich instead

[demiGOD]

eat, drink and be merry for sex, drugs and rock and roll.. you only live once so live it up! if you die of a heart attack, at least you lived your life eating what you wanted to eat.. fast food is safe to eat as long as you smoke 2 cigarettes right after you eat.. also chinese food is good specially in those chinese buffets where you can eat as much pork fried rice as you want, then smoke 2 cigarettes right away then go straight to sleep with a stuffed belly.. when you wake up in the morning, eat 7 strips of bacon, 4 fried eggs, 3 buttered toasts, 4 cups of coffee and 3 shots of tequila to start your day.. smoke 3 cigarettes driving to work then sit in a cubicle for 8 hours -

honestly though.. no bullshit.. you can eat whatever you want as long as you exercise

[Rids]

Back when I was dieting I lost 4 stone by dieting six days a week and treating myself to fast food every friday.

Its ok in moderation of course.

[Nodrog]

It depends what you mean by 'trying to be healthy'. If you're trying to lose weight then no, but if you're just trying to eat in a semi-healthy manner then going for a Mcdonalds once a week isnt going to have any real effect (although having said that, the Jews running the company probably inject some form of morphine into the big macs to keep you coming back etc etc)

[Nodrog]

Originally Posted by Phang

my interpretation had always been that most fast food (certainly burgers and pizza) were reasonably healthy, just very high in salt. Confrim/deny someone?

denied. Pizza is a lot healthier than burgers, but most stuff from mcdonalds etc is almost entirely saturated fat.

[JonnyBGood]

Hay nod a while ago you said that taking your vitamins in tablet form is no different to taking them through food. It isn't.

[Blastoderm]

Nothing wrong with fast food once every fortnight if you want to remain healthy.

[Androme]

Originally Posted by Rids

Back when I was dieting I lost 4 stone by dieting six days a week and treating myself to fast food every friday.

Its ok in moderation of course.

Yeah this is what I hope to achieve - I still eat a few bits of crap each day but it's not so bad ;D

I don't mean a proper diet - I'm still taking high carb intake because carbohydrates feed the brain and muscles - rather than having 3 large meals, I'm taking several smaller meals (like diabetics do) which gives me a constant supply of energy all day and a more efficient absorption - read this in a guide.

I will be excercising though :-)

[Yahwe]

Originally Posted by Androme2

I don't mean a proper diet - I'm still taking high carb intake because carbohydrates feed the brain and muscles - rather than having 3 large meals, I'm taking several smaller meals (like diabetics do)

this is also how you become one.

[LHC]

Get to the gym and do chest and arms.

[Androme]

Originally Posted by Yahwe

this is also how you become one.

Why is that?

[Nodrog]

Originally Posted by Androme2

I don't mean a proper diet - I'm still taking high carb intake because carbohydrates feed the brain and muscles - rather than having 3 large meals, I'm taking several smaller meals (like diabetics do) which gives me a constant supply of energy all day and a more efficient absorption - read this in a guide.
)

There's nothing wrong with a high carb intake (even on a 'proper diet', whatever you mean by that) - its normally best to ignore whatever crap the media is reporting about current health fads. And yeah, splitting your meals up is generally considered a good idea.

Originally Posted by JonnyBGood

Hay nod a while ago you said that taking your vitamins in tablet form is no different to taking them through food. It isn't.

Do you have some kind of source that settles this definitively? I've been unable to find one - I was relying mainly on common sense, and the fact I've made that claim numerous times and noone has ever managed to show me convincing evidence that it is incorrect.

[JonnyBGood]

Originally Posted by Nodrog

Do you have some kind of source that settles this definitively? I've been unable to find one - I was relying mainly on common sense, and the fact I've made that claim numerous times and noone has ever managed to show me convincing evidence that it is incorrect.

I asked my mother who's an expert in the field.





Seriously she's a nurse and one of her main areas of expertise is diet. Apparently there's problems with absorption (except in the case of vitamin C tablets) and a lack of certain minerals which are prohibitively expensive to manufacture. I imagine if you read some medical journals you'd find detailed information there but frankly I'd rather kill myself than read those appalling tomes (hay I used tome in a sentence )

[Nodrog]

Hay nod a while ago you said that taking your vitamins in tablet form is no different to taking them through food. It isn't.

Learn basic grammar and fix your double negative plz, are you agreeing with me or not?

On a sidenote, I never claimed that multivitamins were a replacement for vegetables in the sense that they both contained the same things, simply that taking mineral X in a pill was no different from taking it in a lump of brocolli. As far as I know, the absorption thing only relates to iron.

[CrashTester]

Can you ask your mum if it is bad for gays to take all that protein straight in the ass? Or should that be ingested orally with water or something?