Eating healthy on a budget

[Gandalf]

I think that's what they do with fruit I buy online. It's much cheaper than the markets, but an apple might have a bruise or what have you, but it's only superficial damage. It's cheap and at the end of the day, it will give your body the same goodness.

Greenbeanz, why are you against potatoes and rice? Aren't these just regular staples? I can understand potatoes being bad deep fried, but surely simple boiled potatoes are fine and won't do much harm. Also, rice? I can understand it doesn't have a whole lot of nutrition, but half the world eats it as their main staple. I find I need a bit of rice, bread, or potatoes in my diet otherwise I would feel permanently empty. I wouldn't know what I would do without them now I am eating less meat. Fruit and veggies give the body a lot nutritionally, but you can feel hungry. A lot of mass and chewing, but you would have to eat like a cow to get full!

[Beanz]

I think that's what they do with fruit I buy online. It's much cheaper than the markets, but an apple might have a bruise or what have you, but it's only superficial damage. It's cheap and at the end of the day, it will give your body the same goodness.

Greenbeanz, why are you against potatoes and rice? Aren't these just regular staples? I can understand potatoes being bad deep fried, but surely simple boiled potatoes are fine and won't do much harm. Also, rice? I can understand it doesn't have a whole lot of nutrition, but half the world eats it as their main staple. I find I need a bit of rice, bread, or potatoes in my diet otherwise I would feel permanently empty. I wouldn't know what I would do without them now I am eating less meat. Fruit and veggies give the body a lot nutritionally, but you can feel hungry. A lot of mass and chewing, but you would have to eat like a cow to get full!

I am not against Potaotoes and Rice, and of course if you are very poor and hungry there are worse things to eat. They can taste lovely and nearly everybody includes them as staple in their diet but the reality is that nutritionally they don't do a lot for you. They contain very little fibre and contain relatively short chains of sugar molecules so your body takes very little time to convert them and you end up with an insulin spike. Your blood sugar rises and you are not going to be as healthy as someone consuming more complex carbs and fibre where the sugars will be released at a more consistent level throughout the day rather than in massive peaks and troughs. Changing white for brown rice and using wholewheat pasta is a good start but reducing your simple carb portions and increasing you complex carbs is even better. So two and not five spuds and MORE GREENBEANZ

[Gandalf]

Yep, sounds good. A bit scientific for me, but sounds like common sense. Sugar is a right complex little bugger and is misunderstood by too many including me. Peaks and troughs are my common ground, but they have to be demolished! War on those sugar molecules!

[Andre]

Yep, sounds good. A bit scientific for me, but sounds like common sense. Sugar is a right complex little bugger and is misunderstood by too many including me. Peaks and troughs are my common ground, but they have to be demolished! War on those sugar molecules!

When you have sugars even fruitose ones like in 90% of orange juice from on shelves (fridge ones with no added sugar or fresh squeezed are sort of ok).

Your body gets the glucose rush,insulin spike;your mind gets the correct enzymes happening and you feel full and very satisfied=addiction to sugars=diabetes running rife in society.

Because we are mammals and part of nature this triggers our system into believing it is summer. A long easy summer. You body starts to store the wrong fats thinking rightly so that winter is coming= fat cunts waddling around everywhere starving and eating themselves to death malnourished.

If you ate seasonal and local,biggest meal in the morning and eat when your hungry during the day light meal at night, you would kick ass.

Like boxing its balance.