Who Loves Nutrtion like me?

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anyone love nutrition, thinking of a career as a dietetic, cant stop talking about the nutrient contents of food? Please talk to me and than we can share our knowledge.

First topic health benefits of green tea.

I love vanilar green tea flavoured with 2 artificial sweetners, each tea bag contains 50 g of antioxidants!
It contains 0 calories and its cathein free isent it delightful?

I know there are a lot of people like that. but i am not one of them... i HATE discussing food. i HATE eating food.

Im sorry to here that. well to me i like discussing food more than eating it. I have always been like that i mean i have a really massive memory when it comes to food facts but when it comes to maths i cant even add at an average level. I guess it proves what we love captures our memory

This isn't 100% nutritional related, but I read an interesting article that touches on many subjects: Aging, anti-oxidants, caloric restriction, and the evolutionary "reason" for these. Read it here:

http://www.economist.com/science/displa ... d=10423439

Good stuff Viska, it is very insightful. Ultimate nutrtional power which is 100 percent natural, i believe is the best preventative messure against premature ageing. I mean think about it : Most hospital admisions are for Dietery related conditions arnt they?

One thing im passionate about is the anti smoking campain. The governments dont want to ban it completely because its a multi billion dollar industry, people die younger so less money is spent on the age pension. But think how much better off we would all be without cigarettes no passive smoke, less mini breaks at work to sneak off and light a cigarette.

I'm on a see-food diet. I see food, I eat it.

LB, do you know anything about HFCS? High Fructose Corn Syrup

Yes, im a nutrition-obsessive on & off.

Recently ive focussed more on avoiding the bad stuff, rather than expanding to include new stuff. Ive pretty much eliminated processed free-glutamate/MSG (tricky one - the stuff is hidden everywhere!) all artificial sweeteners and flavourings and no longer use teflon-coated cookware. Ive stopped using tea & blueberries to reduce my overall fluoride levels - but ill review this at some point to see if reducing 'natural' fluorides is really necessary.

It took me three times to realise that was a joke but im glad i realised i needed a good laugh that was so funny

Guess what i ate for lunch, i dont know why i did it but..

I had a meatpie with oyster sauce all over it and no im not a pregnant women

its good you cut out the MSG and the artificial sweeters (i cant reduce sweetners cause i dont want real calories)
But the tea really is a healthy drink! unless your worried about the tanids from black tea affecting your bodys abilitie to absorb iron. Tea has been proven as a bowel cancer preventative drink and its so good for your skin! it makes you glow why are you giving it up?

I used to make a habit of reading all the nutrition facts of everything I ate when I was younger after learning about it in school. I never really took it seriously, though, because I didn't know what most of it meant. All I knew was cholestorol+saturated fat=bad.

I like reading about nutrition. It's not an obsession for me, though.

Yer its terrible isent it, all the things with saturated fats taste so good but its bad for our health so we are not allowd to have it

But on the bright side healthy things can taste just as good if you know the secrets of the trade Like useing herbs and spices to flavour foods and useing healther cookery methods like baking potatoes instead of frying them in oil.

Im sure tea has some amazingly healthy things in, but unfortunately the plant (same problem as cannabis) has an unusually high capacity for absorbing toxins - like aluminium and flouride - so they get highly concentrated in the leaves. Green tea, although containing less caffiene apparently has more fluoride than black tea.

The problem with a lot of nutrition research is they often focus on the benefits of the beneficial compounds, overlooking the overall effect of consuming the whole food. (milk is a great example - fantasticly convienient protein/carb/fat/calcium profile, but other things lurk in there that you should probably avoid unless your a calf)

I did miss my teas at first a bit, but quickly realised that the lower caffiene intake would allowed me to consume a lot more chocolate!

Actually, ill have to check whether toxins get accumulated in cannabis seeds (they actually planted hemp around the site of the chernobyl nuclear disaster, so it would suck the pollution out the soil) - if so, ill just eat golden flax instead, which ive grown to love.

I guess eat everything in moderation and you will be fine. No one food contains everything our bodies need in the right amounts not even multivitamin pills such as centrum.

I dont think saturated fats are bad per se. , but they do need to be kept in balance with the other fats. I think i read years ago that if you consume too much of a certain 'healthy' fat (probably omega-3) you had a higher risk of heart lesions, but that saturated fats have a protective effect against heart lesions.

atm im having 2 eggs a day, to get some saturated fat in my system as its the only land-based animal product i really eat these days.