27-07-2003 11:33									#1
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Since I was able to eat solid food, my daily diet has been made up of almost nothing but cereal, plain bologna sandwiches (white bread with bologna on it), peanut butter sandwiches (sometimes jelly), hotdogs (with white bread), vienna sausages, hot pockets, mcdonalds' cheeseburgers but also other fast food from pizza or chinese take-out, ramon noodles... and thats about it.

will 17 or so years of this (and more for the next several years) have any real effect on my health or are the health nuts bullshiting and i shouldn't worry?

	27-07-2003 11:34									#2
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I have to admit I eat pretty shitty stuff too. But as long as you take time out before every meal to hope for the best you should be okay.

In all honesty, it is probably a good idea to change our junk-eating ways to eating more vegetables, canned pears, and so on.

	27-07-2003 11:35									#3
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When you get older you should consider changing your diet. I eat more healthy things now.. well I always have... I am pretty much on a mediterranean diet.

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Um, I would certainly suggest eating more wheat bread - has more nutrients. Try to get more fresh fruit and vegetables, and for God's sake cut down on the fast food diet.

For sandwich meat, I would suggest buying it from the deli section, rather than the pre-packaged stuff. Vienna sausages and hot pockets can't be that great for you, either, but I can't see them as being that harmful.

My biggest two suggestions would be to eat fast food not more than once a week, max, and get as much fresh fruit and vegetables (not canned, fresh) as you can.

	27-07-2003 11:36									#5
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Do you like hummus Fez? It's more of a middle-eastern food, but it is considered mediterranean in some circles.

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you'll be lucky to reach age 45

	27-07-2003 11:37									#7
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quote: Originally posted by monkspider Do you like hummus Fez? It's more of a middle-eastern food, but it is considered mediterranean in some circles.

I eat a lot of middle eastern food too... all sorts of it.. I love it...

	27-07-2003 11:37									#8
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	27-07-2003 11:37									#9
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I used to eat tons of ice cream - I'd go through half a gallon a day, sometimes. I cut that out, though. It wasn't making me gain any weight, as I have a very high metabolism, but I knew it wasn't healthy.

I try to eat fresh fruit every day, and often times I'll get a salad along with dinner at whichever restaurant I go to. Caesar salads are good stuff, especially w/ chicken

Of course, this healthy eating is more than made up for by vast amounts of beef, pizza, and beer

	27-07-2003 11:38									#10
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Oh, one other eating quirk that I have is that I WILL NOT add salt to anything. Nothing. I don't even use it to cook. I always grew up using salt substitutes, and that's stuck with me for some reason.

	27-07-2003 11:39									#11
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Good call Fez, there's a great little place here in Wichita called Cafe Istanbul, it's one of my favorite spots, great food. Just last week Kurt Russel and Harrison Ford were even sighted there.

	27-07-2003 11:39									#12
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canned pears... lol

yo ever have mandarin oranges in a can? **** tastes nice...

	27-07-2003 11:40									#13
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quote: Originally posted by monkspider Good call Fez, there's a great little place here in Wichita called Cafe Istanbul, it's one of my favorite spots, great food. Just last week Kurt Russel and Harrison Ford were even sighted there.

My favorite middle eastern food is from Morocco or Lebanon... there was this Moroccan restaurant I went to in Spain that was fantastic... so many exotic spices and everything.

	27-07-2003 11:40									#14
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I'm on an ultra low carbohydrate diet right now. Normally though I don't eat much meat and I avoid the fatty varieties. The hardest part about doing atkins is not eating fruit. I used to love to just hang out in front of the tube and snack on oranges or grapes.

	27-07-2003 11:41									#15
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Canned fruit is OK, but again, fresh fruit is much better for you. Next time you go to the store, try buying enough apples, or pears, or whatever, to have one every day.

Mandarin oranges are pretty good, though.

	27-07-2003 11:41									#16
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Alb- Yeah, Mandarin oranges are the ****. I'm all about that ****.

Fez-Cool, I have had Morrocan food, and I liked it quite a bit. But I like anything spicy.

	27-07-2003 11:42									#17
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quote: My biggest two suggestions would be to eat fast food not more than once a week, max

the problem with this is like i said before, i work at a mcdonalds and my biggest meal of the day is on my break when i get their extra value meal... and thats just about every day...

but arent the costs of 'healthy' eating prohibitive? i mean deli sliced meats?! wheat bread... aint this **** going to run me up so crazy bills?

	27-07-2003 11:43									#18
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Dave- My problem with fresh fruit is that I would always buy it but by the time I remembered to eat it, it had already gone rotten. So I just gave up and get some canned pears and so forth.

	27-07-2003 11:43									#19
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Spicy food is the ****. I love it. My mom got me some specially-ordered package of Tabasco sauce - lots of different flavors. Original, Habanero, etc. That's great stuff

	27-07-2003 11:44									#20
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i should note that i'm a bit underweight... shouldn't i be obese eating all this unhealthy food?

	27-07-2003 11:44									#21
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quote: Originally posted by monkspider Fez-Cool, I have had Morrocan food, and I liked it quite a bit. But I like anything spicy.

Hehehe... you know I am moroccan descended?

	27-07-2003 11:44									#22
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quote: Originally posted by David Floyd Oh, one other eating quirk that I have is that I WILL NOT add salt to anything. Nothing. I don't even use it to cook. I always grew up using salt substitutes, and that's stuck with me for some reason.

today I oversalted some egg... ate it nonetheless, now I feel sick

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quote: Originally posted by Albert Speer i should note that i'm a bit underweight... shouldn't i be obese eating all this unhealthy food?

Depends on your metabolism. For me I have a very high metabolism and I eat like crazy.

	27-07-2003 11:45									#24
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quote: the problem with this is like i said before, i work at a mcdonalds and my biggest meal of the day is on my break when i get their extra value meal... and thats just about every day...

You can't bring your own food, or leave and go eat somewhere else? You're guaranteed a 30 minute lunch, minimum, right? I usually can make it to a restaurant and back in ~30 minutes.

quote: but arent the costs of 'healthy' eating prohibitive? i mean deli sliced meats?! wheat bread... aint this **** going to run me up so crazy bills?

Hmmm....well possibly. I was just making suggestions based on my philosophy of eating (that is, get what you need/want, don't worry about money). I realize not everyone can do that, but certainly it should be possible to try and get at least a couple of healthy things every week, right?

	27-07-2003 11:45									#25
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you can get cheap-ass-healthy-**** to eat if your are able and willing to spend time preparing your food

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	27-07-2003 11:45									#26
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Fez, first you were Argentine, then US American, then Italian, then Spanish, then US American again, then assured us of ever being Spanish, and now Moroccan?

	27-07-2003 11:45									#27
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monk,

See, I love fresh fruit - there's no way I'd let that stuff go bad

	27-07-2003 11:46									#28
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Fez- Yeah, you have mentioned it. Plus your name Fez is a great reference to Morocco.

	27-07-2003 11:46									#29
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Packaged+cooked food costs more than real groceries.

Buy real groceries. Cheaper, healthier, tastes better.

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Something else I love is steamed rice. Dunno the health value, but it IS cheap, and you can make a lot of it easily.