Stopped giving a s*** about nutrition because it stresses me out

YMMV wrote:

Harambe wrote:

Eat a variety of foods. Exercise. Keep your weight down.

This will get you 98% of the way unless you have genetic problems requiring specific intervention.

This sounds great until you begin to experience a snowballing set of symptoms linked to metabolic disease, despite being under 10% bodyfat and training consistently while eating what are promoted as "whole" foods. The fact is, when I shopped at a Whole Foods or CoOp, my health would take a downturn. Now I know why.

Sage is heading for a sober reckoning in this area. It may take years, but I have seen it over and over.

I don't really get it. If you find yourself sensitive (can't think of a better term) to high-glycemic index foods, eat less of them. For most people they don't need to stress about diet besides ensuring variety and appropriate quantity.

Not only that, but Sage hasn't been to China in a while.

EZ10Miler wrote:

This is a very long read but it has some great information in it about food science (and the lack of it.) Many of the assumptions we have about food and calories is bases on some very old science.

Again, it's a long read but worth the time, especially given how many threads on LR are about nutrition and diet.

Good article. I think it's pretty clear now that eating a lower glycemic index diet can help a lot of people lose weight because you avoid calorie dense foods (so you get to eat a lot of volume which can help you feel full) and insulin spikes (which can cause other appetite and blood sugar issues).

Still, a lot of people probably lose weight switching to a LCHF diet simply because they are eating less calories. Cutting out the densest calories almost always means you eat less.

Article feels unfair to modern nutritional science. It's really hard to run studies in human nutrition. Doing a big controlled feeding study is probably as expensive as a clinical trial without the profit motive.

There is no one diet to rule them all. There are outlying people that will thrive on a vegan diet or strict carnivore diet but the vast majority will land between the two extremes.

The one constant is eat real food. If you can't find it in nature and your ancestors couldn't eat it 100 years ago you probably shouldn't either. That means minimizing processed food, food in boxes, and sugar. The old adage if shopping the perimeter holds true.

Don't confuse performance with health. A 20 year old that eats like crap but runs fast times is likely just delaying health problems. Treat health like the long game. What you out in your body in your 20s will impact your health in your 60s.

Don't use genetic outliers to justify poor choices. Yes, your great aunt smoked and lived to 95. That is not normal and shouldn't be used as evidence that smoking won't harm you. Same goes for nutrition. Mt great grandma lived to 102, and a healthy 102 all things considered, eating terribly but I'm not using that to eat a jelly doughnut for breakfast and processed food all day.

There are lots of books and opinions out there but as you read more and more if them you will find a lot of common ground. The most relevant is eat real food and move every day.

Nutrition is important for me for 2 reasons:

1. If I eat a lot of sugar, then I will feel hungover and struggle to get out of bed the morning after.

2. I'm 32 and it is a lot easier now to gain fat on my stomach. I am still an ectomorph (5'10, 145 lbs) but when I gain fat it goes straight on the middle and it looks awful.

At the ripe old age of 59, I'm pretty much done with running due to chronic injuries including some serious tendon ruptures and now OA (28 yrs of running). So, it's back to bodybuilding, which I competed in for 10 years after college before transitioning to distance running.

I'm student of the Silver Era Bodybuilders (1940s to early 50s), and the incredible Silver Era Diet. It was clean and natural; everything organic:

"Whole, natural foods."

"Fruits, vegetables, meat, fish, butters, milk, grains, potatoes."

"CLEAN eating."

The problem now is there are so many crazy diets with all this keto, low-carb, no-carb, sometimes carbs, Vegan, etc. type diets. And the quality of our food is terrible if you don't go 100% organic on everything. And people don't have any sense of portion control - it's full throttle and stuff yourself until eternity. And people don't understand what are a carb, fat or protein is. And hardly anyone excercises regularly anymore - with a commitment to both cardio & strength training. This is why we're so fat and unhealthy in today's age.

The silver era nutritional program will work for all sports.

It's CLEAN eating with a wide variety of food groups.

Everybody does that till reality hits, and you are left in awe looking at yourself in the mirror! Some people will definitely not be intrigued by such a view but for those who do the hard part is to lose the weight be it due to age, poor metabolism or even diseases some times.I had the same situation a one point where I said I will not bother looking at myself in the mirror but then my doctor did, and he wasn't that happy. Likewise, my body was not too, and I had to get useful advice from in order to bounce back to normal as fast as possible.

https://health-and-wellness.net/

Hey there, thanks for the reference as it was a great read. I never knew apple cider had so many benefits and effects.

Giving a damn about anything can stress you out.

AndrewS29 wrote:

I can say that you did bad. You should always follow what products are you consuming. Of your alimentation depends a lot. You will start feeling better if you will have an equilibrium in the food product list. I wasn’t aware of some products and how do they affect my body. I found a great website where are written a lot of products and their benefits and also side-effects. I can leave you here the link so you may check them too.

https://druggenius.com/nutrition/apple-cider-vinegar-gummies-uses-benefits-and-side-effects/

these gummies are amazing

konrad1198 wrote:

RANT INCOMING:

Anybody else feel like there is so much conflicting information about nutrition that it becomes debilitating to oneself? Yeah, I know health is important and eating McDonald's every meal is a surefire way to disaster, but when it comes to the point where I'm avoiding eating a chicken breast because I don't know exactly how many calories are in it unless I weigh it before with the bone and then weigh the bone after, oh and then the oil it was cooked in was it 1 tsp or 2, then it becomes unhealthy and interferes with my training.

I think I know enough to differentiate between what's good for me and what isn't, and I don't need an app or a website to tell me when external factors such as my mood/physical appearance/mental well-being are better indicators. Anybody else feel like this?

My standard (and yes, I think it's a good and defensible one): Weight is reasonable? Blood work analyzed by a competent primary care physician comes back fine? Blood pressure fine? You don't indulge TOO much in foods that have a long track record of being impugned by science? (and given the track record of "nutrition science," I could even flex on this one!)

Uh....maybe I'm missing a metric or two above, but if these check out, your diet is probably fine.

Seriously.