Fast Food As Health Food?

Tampa Tribune ^ | January 26, 2004 | SUSAN H. THOMPSON shthompson@tampatrib.com

[BSunday]

To me, the equation is simple

Eat only when you are truly hungry
STOP when you are full (not OVER-full)
Don't sit at the computer all day - get some exercise

Pass the potato salad, please.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Don't sit at the computer all day - get some exercise

Bump!

[grimalkin]

Well, it's definitely a common allergen. Whether it's dangerous to people without soy allergies is open to debate.

Here's an article on it:
The Other Side of Soy

I'm sure you can do a Google or Google News search on soy and read various other articles, then you can make up your own mind. Personally, I have no opinion one way or the other unless they come out with some more conclusive research. I don't eat soy, anyway... I just don't care for it.

[Aquinasfan]

The jeans she carried to Blimpie symbolized triumph over a lifelong weight problem.

Clearly, this must be stopped.

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[Aquinasfan]

I'm sure tempted to try this diet, even against Doctor's advice.

Been doing Atkins for a year. Cholesterol went from 200/50 to 150/75. I'm down 10 lbs. too. I'm in the "fit" range for body fat. I'm in my 40s.

[Lil'freeper]

In large amounts it is. Can interfere with mineral absorbtion and thyroid function. The high levels of estrogen are not helpful to the majority of the population either.

[BSunday]

LOL Poor me - it's what I do for a living. No wonder I keep gaining weight. (that plus I have a hard time saying NO to certain foods - potato salad and biscuits & gravy come to mind)

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Ha! Do some tummy suck-in reps and you'll feel less guilty.

[turbojugend]

Pfffff... This biatch eating her bacon cheesburgers every day may have lost 70 pounds, but she'll soon die of congestive heart failure and it will serve her right. Same goes for the rest of these lazy Atkins devotees, clogging up their arteries and their intestines and smelling of urea.

You know what, people? I eat carbs. Tons of carbs. Nearly 70% of my daily intake is made up of that bugaboo of pseudo-healthy conformity: carbohydrates. Why can I eat so many carbs? Nay, why *must* I eat so many carbs? Because I excercise. And carbs are enegry. The only time that this energy makes you fat is when you're too lazy to work the calories off. I take breaks and walk at work. And after my job, I get off of my bum and run. Excercising the body, doing what it has evolved to do: aka moving around and sweating, engaging in aeorobic activity, and living an active life keeps you healthy. Eating a fast food burger wrapped in lettuce? Now, that's not healthy; that's just frelling stupid and lazy.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Good for you.

[Dane]

Thank you both for your comments. I started a high protein, reletively low fat and low carb diet a couple of weeks ago and have been recently using soy nuts as a snack.

I don't think I have an allergy to soy, but I am going to do some more research. I may change to almonds as a snack now.

[adam_az]

"I dropped 60 pounds last yearon Atkins, but with my shoulder injury, I was unable to exercise at all, and one armed after surgery. I gained back 45 pounds. Going to school for two classes doesnt help the schedulem neither does the 1 hour drive! Lunch is spent doing homework! "

To be fair, go off ANY diet and that will happen. The Atkins book does explain how to go off the weight loss phase and maintain the loss.

[Wolfie]

Not gonna make any money with that. No books, no aftermarket food products. ;)

[Lil'freeper]

Don't rule out macadamias- I think they're divine.

[adam_az]

"And carbs are enegry. The only time that this energy makes you fat is when you're too lazy to work the calories off. I take breaks and walk at work. And after my job, I get off of my bum and run."

Nice that you lead such a life of leisure, not all of us do. After work, I go to school and then do homework. Other people go to work and then care for their kids, and don't have the hours in the day to go running for an hour daily.

Is your advice intended to ensure that people who have less spare time than you remain fat?

"Why can I eat so many carbs? Nay, why *must* I eat so many carbs? Because I excercise. And carbs are enegry."

Ketones are also energy, they are produced when the body burns fat. If you had one iota of intellectual curiosity instead of just three iotas of mendacity, you'd know that the body has two metabolic paths: one for glucose, one for ketones. In fact, the people for whom dietary ketosis works the best are the very people for whom a diet of 70% carbohydrate will wreck their insulin system.

Besides that, I have a hard time beleiving that eating a diet consisting of 70% bread and pasta can possibly be healthy. It's about as unnatural a diet as I cam imagine.

[Xenalyte]

Radio disc jockeys eat Blimpie low-carb subs on the air and invite listeners to call in to win the training sessions.

That'd be a show I'd turn off. I cannot stand eating sounds.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

LOL

[adam_az]

You can follow Banzhaf's loonyness at

Banzhaf Watch

Keeping an eye on the man who wants to sue America.

http://www.banzhafwatch.com/sightings.html

[adam_az]

Hey, this Banzhaf, he sounds like your kinda guy!

"On June 18, JB sent certified letters to the CEOs of all six fast food gianst demanding that they display warning notices about the alleged addictive nature of fatty foods. He admitted to sending the letters as a necessary first step toward filing a lawsuit against the fast-food giants within six to nine months." http://www.banzhafwatch.com/mcdonald.html

Good going, file a lawsuit whose main allegation has not been proven to be factual. Sound familiar? Shades of Darl Mcbride!

[BSunday]

Well ya never know....for instance, there's always Weigh Down. Same principle. Maybe I can rehash it and call it something different.