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Post BB Housemate Antics - Part 3

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Bluefin said:
I agree too. Cool to be cool (or fool). You make a very good point about it distorting perceptions of what a good, healthy, balanced diet is. We only have to look at the obesity problem to know that healthy eating is a very real issue.
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What do you think the best diet is for losing weight? Serverly restricting bad fats and bad sugars? Along with eating in moderation?

Also, I wonder when Tahan started her paelo diet?
 
Sweetgeek said:
moderation is my answer to healthy eating. Though some do have dietary needs and for those a special diet would need to be put in place. Unfortunately society has become whatever is quick, easy and already accessible, in terms of how food is consumed. So processed foods are a sure thing. Mix that with a much less active lifestyle, and like you said, there is an obesity problem.

Wanna hear something funny? My sister in law is convinced fruit will give people diabetes (roll your eyes if you want, I did). Apparently her uncle used to eat fruit everyday from his garden, at least 7 different kind a day and then he was told he had diabetes, so now she tells people that fruit was the reason for this because even though its not real sugar its still a natural sugar type of food. So now she wont eat certain fruits and hardly at all... though it doesn't stop her from having the sugar free soft drinks
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Ha ha, that's the first time I've hear that fruit is bad for you. I get exactly what you are saying. Hearing it in all seriousness in that context, would irritate the shite out of me. It's really made me wonder about the level of misinformation that exists.
 
what gets annoying is when these paleo assholes go out for dinner and expect to rewrite the menu right there at their table to accommodate their kooky fad diet, then try to justify it as catering to 'food allergies'. the gluten pricks have been doing this for nearly 15 years already, now its the paleos :mad:
 
One of my colleagues claimed they were gluten intolerant. They threw a tantrum every time someone bought in a plate for sharing that wasn't compliant with their diet. Then the other day, they ate a massive piece of gluten containing cake. Not so intolerant after all
 
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Did every fucking ex BB contestant get a free trip to Bali?
 
I know the Paleolithic diet is supposed to be based on something. But I'm not sure what. I know here in the northeast the paleo Indians ate lots of nuts, even acorns, berries and greens. They have found huge long pits where harvested nuts were slowly roasted. They even cultivated wild onions and used them for flavor. The paleo Indians here in New York caught fish, preserved it by smoking and traded with other groups.

There is a very cool thing where they can analyze the remains in pots or shards of pots found at archeological sites and specifically identify the type of plants and grains. Plants create these microscopic things called phytoliths which are specific to the species of plants, and they last for centuries.

My point is that early people ate a varied diet and it has been proven scientifically. I don't know about the paleo diet, but the actual diet of these people were not primarily meat, at least here in New York. Nomadic people can't create and carry large amounts of food.
 
delcan said:
One of my colleagues claimed they were gluten intolerant. They threw a tantrum every time someone bought in a plate for sharing that wasn't compliant with their diet. Then the other day, they ate a massive piece of gluten containing cake. Not so intolerant after all
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Yeah, I've seen that kind of behaviour too. It's far from admirable to say the least.
 
Rose711 said:
I know the Paleolithic diet is supposed to be based on something. But I'm not sure what. I know here in the northeast the paleo Indians ate lots of nuts, even acorns, berries and greens. They have found huge long pits where harvested nuts were slowly roasted. They even cultivated wild onions and used them for flavor. The paleo Indians here in New York caught fish, preserved it by smoking and traded with other groups.

There is a very cool thing where they can analyze the remains in pots or shards of pots found at archeological sites and specifically identify the type of plants and grains. Plants create these microscopic things called phytoliths which are specific to the species of plants, and they last for centuries.

My point is that early people ate a varied diet and it has been proven scientifically. I don't know about the paleo diet, but the actual diet of these people were not primarily meat, at least here in New York. Nomadic people can't create and carry large amounts of food.
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its also called 'the caveman diet', and it basically tries to emulate the diet of paleolithic cavemen that lived before 'manufacturing' processes like churning butter or milling flour.
 
pawlini said:
Did every fucking ex BB contestant get a free trip to Bali?
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It seems the tourism industry there is desperate for some publicity. If you are going to the W upscale, boutique hotel for the rich and pampered, why should you bother about anything serious in life?

I completely understand a hard working nurse like Gemma taking her vacation. Even if she ends up with some freebies, she is in a different situation.

She isn't trying to act like the style mavens of coolness the other housemates are. Justifying your free, luxury treats as helping the impoverished people of Bali, like Tully did, is distasteful to me. It's gross even outside the political situation. To claim your luxury vacation is a great help to the poor is disgusting.
 
marsha brady said:
its also called 'the caveman diet', and it basically tries to emulate the diet of paleolithic cavemen that lived before 'manufacturing' processes like churning butter or milling flour.
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Yes I get that. But early people's had plenty of grains and ate them frequently. They cultivated plants long before they became sedentary agriculturalists.
Basically the whole diet sounds made up.
 
Yes, we do have bulrush, and that shoots a hole in no gluten. I had a quick look at Wiki out of curiosity.

- Paleolithic era lasted 2.5m years up to 10,000 years ago.
- Followers believe 19-35% of calories came from proteins, moderate to high fat (avoiding omega 3 & trans), non-starchy veg 35-40%, and high fibre intake via fruit and veg (not grains).
- cavemen supposedly didn't eat: dairy products, grains (e.g wheat, rye, canary seed, and barley), legumes (beans, peanuts), processed oils, refined sugar, salt. No alcohol or coffee.

Sounds like some creative use of science going on one way or another!
 
reepbot said:
What do you think the best diet is for losing weight? Serverly restricting bad fats and bad sugars? Along with eating in moderation?

Also, I wonder when Tahan started her paelo diet?
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I've just lost 15 kilos and have a bit more I would like to lose. I've achieved this by working with a great nutritionist and to be honest, I think this is the most beneficial way of approaching weight control. It's been a bit of an education, a lot of what I was eating before appeared healthy, but was high on the glycemic index. The changes I made were more long term lifestyle changes rather than a 'diet'. Changing to a low GI diet has worked wonders for my own situation.

A note on fruit, it was recommended that I eat more veggies than fruit. Fruit does have natural sugars, and these do contribute to blood sugar levels (as sad as that is, being that my father in law is a cherry and raspberry farmer!). Also, I'm only allowed juice (which I love) on a very restricted basis. Juice servings can have around six serves of fruit in it, so blows the daily allowance pretty much by double :redface:.

There was an article recently, I think in The Age, which rated the efficacy of diets which were fads in 2014. The Paleo diet scored really badly, both for its effectiveness, as well as ease of implementation into current lifestyles. Even a particular brand of diet shake was scored much more highly than the paleo diet. Wish I could remember who conducted the study!
 
twist said:
I've just lost 15 kilos and have a bit more I would like to lose. I've achieved this by working with a great nutritionist and to be honest, I think this is the most beneficial way of approaching weight control. It's been a bit of an education, a lot of what I was eating before appeared healthy, but was high on the glycemic index. The changes I made were more long term lifestyle changes rather than a 'diet'. Changing to a low GI diet has worked wonders for my own situation.

A note on fruit, it was recommended that I eat more veggies than fruit. Fruit does have natural sugars, and these do contribute to blood sugar levels (as sad as that is, being that my father in law is a cherry and raspberry farmer!). Also, I'm only allowed juice (which I love) on a very restricted basis. Juice servings can have around six serves of fruit in it, so blows the daily allowance pretty much by double :redface:.

There was an article recently, I think in The Age, which rated the efficacy of diets which were fads in 2014. The Paleo diet scored really badly, both for its effectiveness, as well as ease of implementation into current lifestyles. Even a particular brand of diet shake was scored much more highly than the paleo diet. Wish I could remember who conducted the study!
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Well done on losing that weight. Amazing effort. I have heard of low gi stuff. Don't low gi foods make you feel fuller for longer so you are not always feelingy hungry all the time?

In regards to the effective diets study, I think it may have been the CSIRO who conducted that one? Although I am not surprised to see that the paelo diet did poorly.
 
twist said:
I've just lost 15 kilos and have a bit more I would like to lose. I've achieved this by working with a great nutritionist and to be honest, I think this is the most beneficial way of approaching weight control. It's been a bit of an education, a lot of what I was eating before appeared healthy, but was high on the glycemic index. The changes I made were more long term lifestyle changes rather than a 'diet'. Changing to a low GI diet has worked wonders for my own situation.

A note on fruit, it was recommended that I eat more veggies than fruit. Fruit does have natural sugars, and these do contribute to blood sugar levels (as sad as that is, being that my father in law is a cherry and raspberry farmer!). Also, I'm only allowed juice (which I love) on a very restricted basis. Juice servings can have around six serves of fruit in it, so blows the daily allowance pretty much by double :redface:.

There was an article recently, I think in The Age, which rated the efficacy of diets which were fads in 2014. The Paleo diet scored really badly, both for its effectiveness, as well as ease of implementation into current lifestyles. Even a particular brand of diet shake was scored much more highly than the paleo diet. Wish I could remember who conducted the study!
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Well done on the weight loss!
 
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