Some of the most miserable people I know are the kind who put themselves and others down for doing things that are deemed “unproductive.” Really it’s such a sad metric for placing value on your life.
I'm a baker and I've noticed that lots of people order stuff like flapjacks/Oat cookies/Granola Bars - as a "healthier" alternative to cakes.
I assume the fact that they contain oats for fibre, as well as often containing dried fruit - makes people think of them as healthier than other desserts.
But flapjacks and stuff like that often actually have *more* sugar/syrup than a cake.
Cakes contain other "Binding" ingredients to make them hold together (eggs, flour etc).
The most sugar heavy part of a cake is the icing generally (Not including drizzle cakes obviously), and some cakes don't even have that.
But stuff where the main ingredients is oats; e.g. flapjacks - are held together almost entirely by the sugar/syrup they contain.
Plus dried fruit is basically just fruit with all the healthy bits removed and the sugar left behind.
So flapjacks would *very rarely* be any healthier than a standard sponge cake.
Edit - I've been reminded that in other countries - Flapjacks is what they call pancakes
I'm talking about British flapjacks which are essentially just Granola bars. They usually contain syrup, sugar, dried fruit, oats and butter.
So yeah - definitely not as healthy as they may appear
Aren't flapjacks pancakes? Ah, I researched for the other US people:
Flapjacks are an American/ Canadian old time word for pancakes.
British flapjacks are basically granola bars.
https://www.daringgourmet.com/british-flapjacks/
I used to buy a flapjack as a "healthy" snack between meals.
Then I checked out that the 100g bar has 400+ calories in it, which is basically closer to a smaller, full meal than to an actual smallish chocolate bar, or a packet of instant oats (which are around 200)
Kellogs slim/fit/diet cereal.
My mom used to give them to me as a child because I was overweight.
When I grew up and was able to read the backside, I noticed that it's full of sugar (???) I don't know what made them add the slim woman's silhouette on the front side.
I can't get over the amount of sugar in EVERYTHING. I have a 4 year old and her teeth already aren't doing great and I'm trying to cut out sugar but it's just everywhere and so much of it
It’s in everything. Especially in the U.S. — when I travel abroad I’m always flabbergasted by how less sugar things have in them. All countries have the crappy sugary snacks, but nothing like the U.S. — I sometimes wonder if we’re being made sick for the medical insurance bigwigs to cash in on us.
Yep. Fat is very healthy for humans. It’s been demonized like you said. Even lean meats are sold for higher price because it’s was people have been conditioned to believe is healthier. All I can say is from experience, when I started adding loads of healthy fat to my diet, I became bigger, stronger and more energized than ever.
I buy the highest fat yogurt I can find because that’s what’s recommended for my toddler and it’s good for me too. Healthy fats and protein all the way, I was raised to demonize fat so it took me a while to retrain my brain
Don't insurance companies get rich when people are healthy, because customers are paying premiums but making fewer claims?
Not arguing the cartoon evil greed of insurance companies, I just don't think keeping people sick is in their best interest. That'd be the pharmaceutical industry.
I moved to the US last year, and I sadly have to agree to this. There are so many deserts that I used to eat in Europe that I can't eat here because the amount of sugar just hurts me.
The first months, I got sick, and my skin broke out. Now it isn't as intense, but that made me see how poisoned my body felt from ameeican food :/
why not make it yourself? i remember learning how to make it as a kid and from then on i was always designated cream whipper when my family had dessert nights lol. super simple
We are in the UK and it's so bad here. I really struggle because every time I look at a label the sugar is ridiculous, I don't know what to give her! Based on how bad it is here I can't even begin to imagine how awful it is over there for you guys
How about salty popcorn? Or plain popcorn with a light sprinkle of dark chocolate powders and a pinch of salt?
Crisps.
For main meals that's simpler, just batch cook something she'd enjoy. There's always going to be natural sugars in things, but they're not bad.
There's no conspiracy. Sugar stimulates the brain's reward center, so people's own biology conditions them to want it. People buy it because they associate it with a burst of pleasure. Companies design their products so people will want to buy them.
Fad diets are my #1. You're not losing weight because you stopped eating protein or whatever, you're losing weight because you paid conscious attention to your eating habits for the first time
I once had someone tell me that protein helps build muscle, and muscle weighs more than fat, so if I wanted to lose weight, I needed to limit the amount of protein I had to eat.
Now I didn't listen because I'm not a dumbass, but there are absolutely people who will preach that. I also knew one who never drank straight water because were empty calories. No amount of explaining would change her mind.
Nope - it exists, or at least some version of it. Know a gal who insists on eating carbs only (like, she’ll eat just rice and potatoes for a meal). “Oh I can’t believe you haven’t heard of it, Dr. Fleecedmymoney is so well known in the nutrition field”. Okay.
My MIL and I will never see eye to eye on this. She is always wanting to lose weight and I say any calorie deficit will achieve this and she tells me about fad diets from the 70s with stupid shit like one day you only eat potatoes and one day you eat only fruit. I tell her that anything that makes you mindful of food consumption is good but she seems to think that there is some magic formula and says I would be very surprised that the above crap works. I absolutely would be surprised.
“Detoxing”. Our bodies are equipped with efficient natural detoxification systems (kidneys, liver) so there is no need in detox teas, juices… Most of them are full of laxatives and diuretics and can be potentially harmful or ineffective. Save your money.
People rather "detox" after eating like crap for years, than actually change their diet to a healthy one. One requires work, and one simply requires MORE consumption (which is probably part of the problem in the first place)
My ex boss does “cleanses” and detoxing regularly. She works out 3x a day.
She’s famous in her neighbourhood because she makes everyone who comes over to her house have a kale smoothie that tastes like shit.
She is in incredible shape. In her 50s and she looks like she’s 30 (despite having grey hair).
That being said, I have never seen a single person be as consistently sick as her in my life. She had Covid like 4x, she gets headaches, regular bouts of depression, the flu, colds, food poisoning, you name it.
I’m convinced that at some point, taking care of your body and soul turns into hating it. Likewise, my sister in law is a “vegan”, which I only say in name because the only reason she is one is because she’s anorexic. She is GF, only organic, all natural blah blah blah. She also works out like crazy, does all the detoxing and shit and once again, consistently sick ALL the fucking time. She literally NEEDS to take a nap after she eats because her body can’t handle it. What’s the point of spending 1hr making a cauliflower purée with grilled eggplant and shit, if after two bites you need to go lay down?
To me that lifestyle has always seemed wild. Like, from their perspective they are militant about their health to the point they’re destroying their own bodies.
I think the wellbeing/self care aspect comes from the knowledge and feeling of voiding you stomach and bowels and sort of resetting your fuel tank. I dont do that shit but I deal with chronic constipation and i know i love feeling “empty” when it happens
I used to have a regular customer at a place I worked we all called Hippie Steve. He got in on the detox BS for a bit and would keep me updated on the latest “parasite” he’d shit out. I couldn’t convince him that he was basically giving himself osmotic diarrhea with the recipe he found online and that at this point the “worms” were probably part of his colon.
I tried a detox/cleanse that I got as part of a bundle once, because I assumed it would be some sort of “superfood supplements to supercharge liver function” or something. Like, probably unproven whatever but I had it, so why not. I started crapping my brains out and looked up how the stuff was supposed to work and realized that was the entire point. The whole cleanse was just stuff that makes you poop, so you can “cleanse” by just emptying out your colon. I wanted to hit somebody.
Detoxing is white girl code for inducing diarrhea. I learned that the hard way drinking a detox smoothie from a trendy juice shop once.
Some girls really love hot, wet, messy, sloppy poop shooting out their asshole for some reason. *Shrugs*
As someone who no longer gets to use their butthole due to my own body choosing to attack itself so throughly it was doing its own constant cleanse, those girls are fucking lunatics. I’d like to trade bodies if they enjoy a slip and slide of a GI tract.
I’m so glad somebody said it. 🤦🏻♀️ your body is more than capable of detoxing itself and if it’s not…you might just have a bigger problem that a few juice cleanses and magic pills aren’t going to fix. Like me who is here sitting pretty in stage 3 kidney failure. 💁🏻♀️
Someone once asked me if I ever did a liver cleanse or detox. For my rare liver disease (primary sclerosing cholangitis).
Hate to break it to you, well-meaning person, but it ain’t chemicals or anything I’m eating causing my immune system to attack my bile ducts.
My immune system just needs an intervention for its suicidal tendencies. And by therapy, I mean very strong infusion immunosuppressant drugs that I appear to be resistant to.
Back when the pink drink detox was super popular (I think it was called Plexus?) I had a friend’s SIL try to sell it to me telling me it would cure my kidney disease. 😐
She meant well, truly. But I was just befuddled when she said that.
Everyone (and I mean everyone) talks to themselves in their heads. People think it’s worse if you vocalize those thoughts, which honestly doesn’t make any sense.
I’m one of those ppl…I’m weirded out by myself as well. I only hear my inner voice when I’m actively typing something out or reading. Other than that, I just float around and do…things without an inner discussion. I think without a voice.
I don’t talk to myself with actual words in my head very often. I’ve come to understand that most people do though. I think in terms of pictures and feelings.
The good side of that is that I think I have a very vivid imagination and creativity. I’ve been told the things I say are very unique and blow people away.
The bad side of it is that I stumble on my words quite a bit and it takes me a while to put my thoughts into words because I have to translate it first. In other words I guess I don’t get a lot of practice speaking.
Well, for what it's worth, some people have no internal monologue.
My daughter recently informed me that she doesn't. However, it's not that she doesn't have thoughts, just that there's no words that go with them.
She's also incapable of seeing images in her head. Sne says she knows what stuff looks like but there's no associated picture. E: it's called aphantasia.
It's bizarre.
I talk to myself a lot. Especially when I’m at the grocery store, I speak to myself kind of low, asking myself questions, saying things like…
“ do I really need this? I still have some at home.”
“Ooooo this is nice- JESUS that’s expensive” (puts it back)
“ I don’t know, do I need this? Maybe I’ll use it?”
Or I’ll talk to myself when I’m cooking. 😂
Talking to yourself is a sign of intelligence.
It also helps the thought process as the information is being handled by more parts of the brain when it is spoken aloud and then heard, to be processed through the parts of the brain that handle hearing words and internalizing them vs simply thinking the thoughts and not using the brain to turn them into words and then back into thoughts.
only rarely on a car i talk and host the most interesting podcast to myself but other than that i really dont talke to myself. Why not just talk with someone else isn't it 2x times better?
Sometimes people buy actually juice where they just run fruits and vegetables through a juicer, but it doesn’t do anything special other than make it a bit easier to get a serving of fruits/vegetables
Except that the human body desperately needs the fiber that has been filtered away in this process .
Eating the whole fruit instead of the juice would be healthier due to higher fiber, lower sugar, staying fuller longer and improved bathroom elimination. Cheaper, too.
I have to get the majority of my fruit and vegetables cooked or blended but that’s only because I don’t have a large intestine and a significant amount of abdominal adhesions as well as an ileostomy.
Insoluble fibre is just a no go or in extremely low quantities.
I made a green juice that’s similar but really delicious lol some cantaloupe + spinach + cucumber (I like to freeze mine) + mint leaves, the cucumber and cantaloupe are really complimentary flavors
Forgiving people is great but the way people try to push like forgiveness for all is unhealthy. Sometimes people do not deserve your forgiveness and it’s better for you.
I heard this not long ago and loved it, "forgive and forget" we always repeat it with the wrong understanding though, it's forget the person. it's really more like forgive because there's no point in hating someone you are going to forget.
I kinda hate to say this but sometimes I just can't forgive. I know you're supposed to but I just find that often I can't. At least not really. When someone asks if I forgive them I'll say "Sure/yeah" but it's a lie. I hate lying but I know if I told them, "No." it would be ugly. They'd probably go on a rant about how you're supposed to forgive, etc. I don't want to say it if it isn't true but I have to, and I hate it.
True forgiveness needs to originate the perpetrator, not the victim. He, the perp, needs to want to be forgiven and needs to express TRUE remorse and if possible, rectify the situation or provide some means of atonement to the victim. Only then should he be forgiven. The victim did nothing wrong.
The victim may need to learn to move forward and not let hate consume them. but this is not forgiveness but dealing with and acceptance of the situation. More then likely, the perp doesn't care and will never ask for forgiveness.
The victim should not let being a victim become a definition of themselves and become an excuse for bad behavior “how dare you question what I am doing, I am a victim “
In that same vein, I think a lot of people confuse holding someone accountable with “unforgiveness” *cough Christians cough*
I was deeply scarred by a religious group and after I left, one of the best things I did was stop trying to force myself to forgive them. They’re bad people. I don’t owe them pretending they aren’t or that I forget what they’ve done. I forgive myself for being manipulated, and I hope they get their comeuppance.
Extreme fad diets and hyperfixations on minor aspects of diet. Orthorexia is incredibly socially condoned simply because the people promoting it are neither fat nor starving (though honestly, some of them *are* starving but have socially confined justifications).
IMO Jersey Mike’s has the best subs/marketing combo. Danny Devito is your spokesperson? I’ll have five.
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And their subs are actually good, unlike JJ’s which are remarkably bland.
The way I hear some couple’s say “you’re supposed to fight”.
That is probably the worst way to phrase it. You are supposed to be different people, and that sometimes leads to disagreements. You’re supposed to care about things and each other that it sometimes leads to being upset when that isn’t reciprocated.
When someone in a couple says “you’re supposed to fight” I guarantee that they’re justifying some kind of underground cage fighting levels of domestic abuse going on. You’re not supposed to do that.
I've been with my girlfriend for almost 9 years now, we've never fought or yelled at each other. We have disagreements, but you know what we do? We talk. I'll lay out the pros and cons to each of our sides and we'll figure out the best option, find a compromise that fits us both.
Our families never believes us when I say we've never fought.
It's just coping. Especially from the era where you were supposed to get married at 18 before you've had a chance to live your life, or truly get to know the other person. The regret and incompatible personalities builds up resentment, but instead of acknowledging the bad system, it's easier to just say that
I’d argue at 18, you don’t even get to know yourself.
There’s a famous economics paper by Claudia Goldin about how the introduction of the birth control pill led to increased workforce participation, later marriages, and increased career options for women because women finally had the ability to learn about their own personality, rather than going straight from high school to homemaker. Women didn’t have to choose between abstinence or a high chance of pregnancy impacting their career. Hence, they didn’t have to go for a shotgun wedding, that may lead to situations like you describe. Goldin also wrote a number of other papers regarding women in economics and won the Nobel Prize for it in October 2023 (which I just learned! I heard about her in my Labor Economics class I took in spring 2023).
https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/2624453/Goldin_PowerPill.pdf
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudia_Goldin
I always think of this government PSA from the magical 1950s when women went from high school to homemaker…and everyone urges the young couple to really wait to get married. https://youtu.be/FV2SEyszKT0?si=b7D-hAWKlpd92jbk
I don’t necessarily think having the odd fight/disagreement is a bad thing, I do think most couples will have them eventually but it shouldn’t be the norm, and saying it like this suggests that it is the norm which is not a healthy relationship. I’ve been lucky that my wife and I have had very few major disagreements on anything but I think we’re fairly lucky and that most people will have disagreements on a fairly regular basis, what really matters is how the couple handles them. If they cause a major rift with yelling and days of discomfort then no you’re not supposed to fight like that often. If there’s a disagreement but you manage to agree on a compromise or discuss it and someone realizes they are a wrong and learns from it then yes you are supposed to fight and figure things out. If you fight about the same things over and over again and nothing changes you probably aren’t meant to be together.
My parents would have full on screaming matches where they insult each other, throw/break things, and hit each other. So when I told my mum that my husband and I never fight, she made this exact argument, “you’re supposed to fight!”, and said that we mustn’t be “passionate enough” or whatever lol
If having calm civil conversations when you disagree instead of straight up abusing each other makes you “not passionate enough”, then so be it.
Granola bars or for that matter most of the highly sweetened high carbohydrate bars out there. They’re basically candy bars with fiber.
Also fruit juice. Major sugar hit with either no fiber or very little fiber.
Also dried fruit. Super concentrated sugar in an easy to overeat form.
This is true. They're saying no amount of alcohol is safe, now, and that people should definitely stop after a certain age (some age in the lower 60s, I think) because it also becomes a potent dementia risk factor.
I don't want to kill anyone's joy, but I recently tried wine (3 oz to 6 oz) for chronic pain a few different days recently, and it was a bad, bad idea in my particular situation. Rehydrating took a couple of days because I have autonomic issues. If you're chronically dehydrated, best to abstain. This is also how it exacerbates things like eczema.
Wine is horrible for my eczema and I assumed it was just an allergy I didn't know it was an actual thing! I drink it and in the night I can feel myself itchy in my sleep all night, when I wake up it looks like I've been thrown down 10 flights of stares. So bad
Yes! I’ve never seen a low-fat food actually “pumped” with sugars. *maybe* it will have 1-2 g more carbs, but the overall calories will be reduced by a huge amount from the reduction of fat. Even if you replaced every gram of fat with a gram of sugar, calories will be reduced by over 50%.
Now, taste on the other hand, is another argument… but there’s no denying that low fat alternatives are great for fat loss.
I'm with the others, I keep seeing people say this but I haven't seen it in reality. I buy low/reduced fat everything and if anything it has less sugar
100%. Drinking celery juice is good for you, unless that’s all you’re consuming and then it’s going to mess up your hormones. Cardio is good for you, unless you’re overdoing it and not listening to your body & resting & fueling properly. Meat/vegetables/fruit/carbs/fat is good for you, but if you’re only eating one of those things your body will not respond well.
Diet bars. People don't realise that usually the bar isn't a snack. It's a *meal replacement*, and they usually clock in at 200-300 calories per bar and then eat like 5 of them a day because they're 'healthy'
In our household I had to have that discussion with my husband. I had to inform him, and even have our nutritionist back me up on it, that those protein shakes were meant to *replace* a meal, not as a beverage to drink *with* the meal, or as a dessert afterward.
Demonizing any one nutrient: fat, proteins, carbs etc.
Sugar isn’t the devil. Fat isn’t the devil. Protein isn’t the devil. In moderation, all these things are needed and should be included in a balanced diet.
In general, trying to simplify health to “DO THIS ONE SIMPLE TRICK!” clickbait crap. Reducing calories to manage weight is the most important thing to focus on, but how you do that and what will work best is highly individual, and there is no one simple “one size fits all” cure to health.
Having bowel movements regularly. Realistically there isn’t a set limit on how much you should, as long as you aren’t constipated. Like anywhere from 3 times a day to 3 times a week.
Personally, I’m over here shitting up a storm on the daily
people often tell overweight people who are just starting out to get on the treadmill but that's really really bad for you. if you haven't done any cardio before and you're overweight it will do so much damage to your knees. you can walk but don't run. rather start out with cycling and then with time start running.
Obsessively trying to lose weight. And I’m saying this as a historically plus sized, currently mid sized person who went through a whole weight loss journey. The effort and stress is no help at all. When I was finally kind to myself, that’s when I started to become healthier.
I wholeheartedly agree! I spent 3 years obsessively trying to lose weight because I hated my body and it was miserable. Yo-yo dieting, triggering my ED over and over again, the constant negative self-talk, and I didn’t even lose any weight. I eventually gave on up it, learned to love myself, got my mental health back on track, and only then was able to lose a significant amount of weight (in a healthy way). Losing weight because you love and respect yourself is always going to work out better than trying to lose weight because you hate yourself.
I spent 15 years obsessively trying to lose weight and it made my life miserable. I’ll never diet again, tbh. I’m a little chubby (size 14) but I’d rather be chubby than always being on a journey to be thin. My life has gotten so much better.
as a person who's only had yoplait and other sweet yogurts, i was mortified by how "odd" greek yogurt tasted. silly me went in thinking it would be sweet, never again lol!
i do want to try it again though sometime in the future, now that i know
I'm working my ass off to lose weight and I was thinking "oh! Yogurt and Granola! That's healthy!". And then I look, and just a moderate handful can be hundreds of calories.
There was a whole thing during the return to office discussion about how remote workers are unhealthy bc they’re lonely and bent over a computer all day
That was clickbait BS drummed up because big business people were losing money on office space nobody was using.
There are plenty of studies saying it was better for people to work from home. Less traffic, less pollution, less money spent on gas, and a lot of other good things came from it.
There are actually people still out there (certainly not me) who find going to their 9-5 rewarding and it contributes somehow to their well-being, whether it's the structure, the social aspect, the stimulation, or they do something they love. But I don't think the 9-5 is good for many, if not most of us. And I also don't understand why the phrase is "9 to 5" when no one I know has that schedule. Full time work (40 hours) in America, where the phrase is often used, is usually \*8 to 5\*.
Its not the 9-5 aspect specifically that is rewarding though. It's the generally idea of a regular schedule. Provided that their pay doesn't drop, people are almost universally happier *and* more productive working fewer hours.
Also it's called a 9 to 5 because it used to be 9 to 5. Lunch break used to be considered part of your 8 hours and eas paid just the same as the other 7.
And I hate how it’s impossible to find a job that actually starts at 9am like I was expecting when I was younger. And honestly starting at 9am would be a much better fit for me and probably a lot of other people who struggle with mornings.
I had a job where I started at 9 a few years back, and I was almost never late or sick, etc. In fact, I showed up 15 minutes early every morning. I've never been this punctual with any other job. Starting at 9 definitely made me a better employee.
For everyone else, this is an obsession with eating clean and/or healthy food. It is a relatively ~~easy~~ new term and isn't in anything like the DSM yet but that does not mean it should be ignored.
ANYTHING not in moderation.
Even “healthy” things like excessive running, will wear out your joints, excessive eating even if it’s “juice”. Excessive love turns into control/weird power dynamics.
I mean if you just get enough protein in and hit the gym consistently you'll get pretty built, you just won't be very "shapely".
Speaking from experience lol.
Muffins are not healthier than cupcakes. They’re about the same.
Fruit is not nutritionally on the same level as vegetables. Fruit can be high in sugar and almost as bad for diabetes as a donut is.
Giving full, immediate, and unchecked vent to your anger is not actually good for your mental health. It’s not a simple matter of “bottling it up” versus “letting it out.” Consistently blowing up and losing your temper elevates your blood pressure and teaches your brain chemistry to keep responding that way. Do express your anger, but make sure it’s a healthy and productive expression.
I'm not sure I agree with the fruit can be bad for diabetes too, maybe if your diabetes is unmanaged? Yeah veggies have more nutrition, but a month ago I started replacing all the chocolate and pastries I'd eat with oranges, little cuties and it's made a huge difference. No I find myself eating less sugar while I'm in the transition.
But then again everyones body is different and what works for one may not be so great for another.
Agree 1,000%. I hate how normalized it is. The damage it causes to relationships and families is unbelievable, but the hold it is able to get on some men (and boys) is immeasurable. It completely ruins their perception of sex, and worse, their perception of women and women's bodies.
Not to mention how addictive it is. Over time a lot of people with high porn consumption need more and more extreme kinds of imagery to get off…. Which is so damaging not only to the brains and interpersonal relationships of people who consume it, but of course to people who are making it, too. It blew my mind to learn that even oral sex was seen as taboo until as recently as the 90’s.
Had people tell me all my life up to when I was into my teens that I should suck in my stomach and that it was fine to do so. But now, because of it, I have hardened upper abs that hurt sometimes and idk what to do about it
The removal of sebaceous filaments (little dots on your nose, kinda look like strawberry seeds), it's less of skincare and more of an aesthetic thing, removing them can be harmful and will lead to dry out your skin, cause acne, and permanent scarring on the nose. Please don't remove them, they keep your skin hydrated with natural oils
Fiber One bars. Yes, they are full of fiber (especially inulin, which gives you the type of gas that puts beans to shame), but they're also high in sugar, thus really negating any good health effects they could otherwise have.
Plus, and this is a lesson you can only learn the hard way, don't eat a bunch of them at a time. One, maybe two if you're used to them, but absolutely no more than that. It'll hurt if you do
Depends on what you call low carb. The amount of carbs the average Western person eats in a day is *absolutely* ridiculous. I personally eat "low carb" (between 20-40% of my total caloric intake) due to medical reasons, and the effect it has had on my health doesn't lie. It's not strange that some of the healthiest diets/lifestyles out there, like the Mediterranean one, are based on things that, in certain circles, can be considered lower carb.
IIRC the ketogenic diet was designed for epilepsy patients. Basically to starve their brain of the energy to have seizures. It works, apparently.
Not every diet is a *weight loss* diet, and yet people jump on bandwagons so quickly. Same thing with gluten free!
As an epileptic on keto, your description isn’t right. The brain can run on ketones and what glucose it needs, the body makes via gluconeogenesis. The brain is not ‘starved’.
Yes and if you are type 1 diabetic and do not have access to good or enough insulin, a ketogenic diet can help keep you alive. (Because you use the most insulin on carbs, and keto is a diet where you don't eat carbs.)
The pros to people jumping on the gluten free diet because it's trendy is that its made loads more options available for people who actually can't digest gluten, which is definitely a good thing in my book.
being productive 24/7
Some of the most miserable people I know are the kind who put themselves and others down for doing things that are deemed “unproductive.” Really it’s such a sad metric for placing value on your life.
The key to a happy life is moderation
This. Cant stand peeps who are always on the go lol. However, i think i like too relax too much on the weekends..😅😅
I'm a baker and I've noticed that lots of people order stuff like flapjacks/Oat cookies/Granola Bars - as a "healthier" alternative to cakes. I assume the fact that they contain oats for fibre, as well as often containing dried fruit - makes people think of them as healthier than other desserts. But flapjacks and stuff like that often actually have *more* sugar/syrup than a cake. Cakes contain other "Binding" ingredients to make them hold together (eggs, flour etc). The most sugar heavy part of a cake is the icing generally (Not including drizzle cakes obviously), and some cakes don't even have that. But stuff where the main ingredients is oats; e.g. flapjacks - are held together almost entirely by the sugar/syrup they contain. Plus dried fruit is basically just fruit with all the healthy bits removed and the sugar left behind. So flapjacks would *very rarely* be any healthier than a standard sponge cake. Edit - I've been reminded that in other countries - Flapjacks is what they call pancakes I'm talking about British flapjacks which are essentially just Granola bars. They usually contain syrup, sugar, dried fruit, oats and butter. So yeah - definitely not as healthy as they may appear
Aren't flapjacks pancakes? Ah, I researched for the other US people: Flapjacks are an American/ Canadian old time word for pancakes. British flapjacks are basically granola bars. https://www.daringgourmet.com/british-flapjacks/
Yeah, I was really confused there. Thanks for that.
I was confused too like what the fuck flapjacks are you making? Mine are flour, egg, baking powder and baking soda, and milk.
I was like "who tf is buying pancakes from a bakery?"
This is gold 😭😂😭
I used to buy a flapjack as a "healthy" snack between meals. Then I checked out that the 100g bar has 400+ calories in it, which is basically closer to a smaller, full meal than to an actual smallish chocolate bar, or a packet of instant oats (which are around 200)
Kellogs slim/fit/diet cereal. My mom used to give them to me as a child because I was overweight. When I grew up and was able to read the backside, I noticed that it's full of sugar (???) I don't know what made them add the slim woman's silhouette on the front side.
I can't get over the amount of sugar in EVERYTHING. I have a 4 year old and her teeth already aren't doing great and I'm trying to cut out sugar but it's just everywhere and so much of it
It’s in everything. Especially in the U.S. — when I travel abroad I’m always flabbergasted by how less sugar things have in them. All countries have the crappy sugary snacks, but nothing like the U.S. — I sometimes wonder if we’re being made sick for the medical insurance bigwigs to cash in on us.
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Yep. Fat is very healthy for humans. It’s been demonized like you said. Even lean meats are sold for higher price because it’s was people have been conditioned to believe is healthier. All I can say is from experience, when I started adding loads of healthy fat to my diet, I became bigger, stronger and more energized than ever.
I buy the highest fat yogurt I can find because that’s what’s recommended for my toddler and it’s good for me too. Healthy fats and protein all the way, I was raised to demonize fat so it took me a while to retrain my brain
Don't insurance companies get rich when people are healthy, because customers are paying premiums but making fewer claims? Not arguing the cartoon evil greed of insurance companies, I just don't think keeping people sick is in their best interest. That'd be the pharmaceutical industry.
I moved to the US last year, and I sadly have to agree to this. There are so many deserts that I used to eat in Europe that I can't eat here because the amount of sugar just hurts me. The first months, I got sick, and my skin broke out. Now it isn't as intense, but that made me see how poisoned my body felt from ameeican food :/
I (an American) dream about the totally unsweetened whipped cream I had in Germany. The rest of the dessert is sweet enough! I enjoy the contrast.
why not make it yourself? i remember learning how to make it as a kid and from then on i was always designated cream whipper when my family had dessert nights lol. super simple
Takes less than 5 minutes to make a huge bowl from scratch.
We are in the UK and it's so bad here. I really struggle because every time I look at a label the sugar is ridiculous, I don't know what to give her! Based on how bad it is here I can't even begin to imagine how awful it is over there for you guys
How about salty popcorn? Or plain popcorn with a light sprinkle of dark chocolate powders and a pinch of salt? Crisps. For main meals that's simpler, just batch cook something she'd enjoy. There's always going to be natural sugars in things, but they're not bad.
There's no conspiracy. Sugar stimulates the brain's reward center, so people's own biology conditions them to want it. People buy it because they associate it with a burst of pleasure. Companies design their products so people will want to buy them.
Not sure if you’re in the US but my god here in states the nutrition regulations are truly failing us Sugar in everything in crazy amounts too
Sugar is a preservative. If you stay away from processed, shelf-stable foods it gets easier to avoid.
Greed
Fad diets are my #1. You're not losing weight because you stopped eating protein or whatever, you're losing weight because you paid conscious attention to your eating habits for the first time
An anti-protein diet is wild
I've never heard of an anti-protein diet, I think they were just exaggerating.
I once had someone tell me that protein helps build muscle, and muscle weighs more than fat, so if I wanted to lose weight, I needed to limit the amount of protein I had to eat. Now I didn't listen because I'm not a dumbass, but there are absolutely people who will preach that. I also knew one who never drank straight water because were empty calories. No amount of explaining would change her mind.
Nope - it exists, or at least some version of it. Know a gal who insists on eating carbs only (like, she’ll eat just rice and potatoes for a meal). “Oh I can’t believe you haven’t heard of it, Dr. Fleecedmymoney is so well known in the nutrition field”. Okay.
Gonna go ahead and start saying “Dr fleecedmymoney”
My MIL and I will never see eye to eye on this. She is always wanting to lose weight and I say any calorie deficit will achieve this and she tells me about fad diets from the 70s with stupid shit like one day you only eat potatoes and one day you eat only fruit. I tell her that anything that makes you mindful of food consumption is good but she seems to think that there is some magic formula and says I would be very surprised that the above crap works. I absolutely would be surprised.
“Detoxing”. Our bodies are equipped with efficient natural detoxification systems (kidneys, liver) so there is no need in detox teas, juices… Most of them are full of laxatives and diuretics and can be potentially harmful or ineffective. Save your money.
People rather "detox" after eating like crap for years, than actually change their diet to a healthy one. One requires work, and one simply requires MORE consumption (which is probably part of the problem in the first place)
My ex boss does “cleanses” and detoxing regularly. She works out 3x a day. She’s famous in her neighbourhood because she makes everyone who comes over to her house have a kale smoothie that tastes like shit. She is in incredible shape. In her 50s and she looks like she’s 30 (despite having grey hair). That being said, I have never seen a single person be as consistently sick as her in my life. She had Covid like 4x, she gets headaches, regular bouts of depression, the flu, colds, food poisoning, you name it. I’m convinced that at some point, taking care of your body and soul turns into hating it. Likewise, my sister in law is a “vegan”, which I only say in name because the only reason she is one is because she’s anorexic. She is GF, only organic, all natural blah blah blah. She also works out like crazy, does all the detoxing and shit and once again, consistently sick ALL the fucking time. She literally NEEDS to take a nap after she eats because her body can’t handle it. What’s the point of spending 1hr making a cauliflower purée with grilled eggplant and shit, if after two bites you need to go lay down? To me that lifestyle has always seemed wild. Like, from their perspective they are militant about their health to the point they’re destroying their own bodies.
3 times a day? Good lord. Who has time for that? 😄
I think the wellbeing/self care aspect comes from the knowledge and feeling of voiding you stomach and bowels and sort of resetting your fuel tank. I dont do that shit but I deal with chronic constipation and i know i love feeling “empty” when it happens
That weekly prune juice, yo. Three hours of gassy splatter voiding is so worth it.
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I used to have a regular customer at a place I worked we all called Hippie Steve. He got in on the detox BS for a bit and would keep me updated on the latest “parasite” he’d shit out. I couldn’t convince him that he was basically giving himself osmotic diarrhea with the recipe he found online and that at this point the “worms” were probably part of his colon.
I tried a detox/cleanse that I got as part of a bundle once, because I assumed it would be some sort of “superfood supplements to supercharge liver function” or something. Like, probably unproven whatever but I had it, so why not. I started crapping my brains out and looked up how the stuff was supposed to work and realized that was the entire point. The whole cleanse was just stuff that makes you poop, so you can “cleanse” by just emptying out your colon. I wanted to hit somebody.
Detoxing is white girl code for inducing diarrhea. I learned that the hard way drinking a detox smoothie from a trendy juice shop once. Some girls really love hot, wet, messy, sloppy poop shooting out their asshole for some reason. *Shrugs*
As someone who no longer gets to use their butthole due to my own body choosing to attack itself so throughly it was doing its own constant cleanse, those girls are fucking lunatics. I’d like to trade bodies if they enjoy a slip and slide of a GI tract.
I had a friend pay to get a detox enema then “release” it into a toilet with a clear tube so they could see their own release as it flowed away.
I mean, drinking coffee does pretty much the same thing to me and tastes a helluva lot better!
I’m so glad somebody said it. 🤦🏻♀️ your body is more than capable of detoxing itself and if it’s not…you might just have a bigger problem that a few juice cleanses and magic pills aren’t going to fix. Like me who is here sitting pretty in stage 3 kidney failure. 💁🏻♀️
Someone once asked me if I ever did a liver cleanse or detox. For my rare liver disease (primary sclerosing cholangitis). Hate to break it to you, well-meaning person, but it ain’t chemicals or anything I’m eating causing my immune system to attack my bile ducts. My immune system just needs an intervention for its suicidal tendencies. And by therapy, I mean very strong infusion immunosuppressant drugs that I appear to be resistant to.
Back when the pink drink detox was super popular (I think it was called Plexus?) I had a friend’s SIL try to sell it to me telling me it would cure my kidney disease. 😐 She meant well, truly. But I was just befuddled when she said that.
the laxatives are just the illusion of them being so fast active as well.
Not talking to yourself, self talk is a key coping mechanism right?
Yes. It’s a natural behavior that is stigmatized now.
Yay!
Everyone (and I mean everyone) talks to themselves in their heads. People think it’s worse if you vocalize those thoughts, which honestly doesn’t make any sense.
I agree! I talk to myself and I rehearse my phone calls to customer service and I'm not ashamed!
Good. Because you shouldn’t be.
Thank you Emersonspenis, i'd shake your hand but well you know.
Not everyone has an internal monologue and that fact weirds me to hell out.
I’m one of those ppl…I’m weirded out by myself as well. I only hear my inner voice when I’m actively typing something out or reading. Other than that, I just float around and do…things without an inner discussion. I think without a voice.
This is not how my brain works. I never have a voice in my head.
Not everyone. 0 internal monologue. Also aphantasia.
I don’t talk to myself with actual words in my head very often. I’ve come to understand that most people do though. I think in terms of pictures and feelings. The good side of that is that I think I have a very vivid imagination and creativity. I’ve been told the things I say are very unique and blow people away. The bad side of it is that I stumble on my words quite a bit and it takes me a while to put my thoughts into words because I have to translate it first. In other words I guess I don’t get a lot of practice speaking.
My therapist used to say “talking to yourself is fine, it’s when you hear someone talk back that it’s worth worrying about”
I rarely talk audibly to myself but I kinda talk to myself mentally only. I wonder if thay difference means anything.
Well, for what it's worth, some people have no internal monologue. My daughter recently informed me that she doesn't. However, it's not that she doesn't have thoughts, just that there's no words that go with them. She's also incapable of seeing images in her head. Sne says she knows what stuff looks like but there's no associated picture. E: it's called aphantasia. It's bizarre.
I talk to myself a lot. Especially when I’m at the grocery store, I speak to myself kind of low, asking myself questions, saying things like… “ do I really need this? I still have some at home.” “Ooooo this is nice- JESUS that’s expensive” (puts it back) “ I don’t know, do I need this? Maybe I’ll use it?” Or I’ll talk to myself when I’m cooking. 😂
It's how I organize my thoughts, so when people are like, "You're so crazy," I tell them yes.
Talking to yourself is a sign of intelligence. It also helps the thought process as the information is being handled by more parts of the brain when it is spoken aloud and then heard, to be processed through the parts of the brain that handle hearing words and internalizing them vs simply thinking the thoughts and not using the brain to turn them into words and then back into thoughts.
I talk to myself all the time, and im a wreck! Am i not doing it right? /s I 100% agree with your comment
only rarely on a car i talk and host the most interesting podcast to myself but other than that i really dont talke to myself. Why not just talk with someone else isn't it 2x times better?
Juice cleanses! They're like the diet version of a magic potion
Juice is general isn’t really healthy. It’s just flavored sugar water.
Sometimes people buy actually juice where they just run fruits and vegetables through a juicer, but it doesn’t do anything special other than make it a bit easier to get a serving of fruits/vegetables
Except that the human body desperately needs the fiber that has been filtered away in this process . Eating the whole fruit instead of the juice would be healthier due to higher fiber, lower sugar, staying fuller longer and improved bathroom elimination. Cheaper, too.
I have to get the majority of my fruit and vegetables cooked or blended but that’s only because I don’t have a large intestine and a significant amount of abdominal adhesions as well as an ileostomy. Insoluble fibre is just a no go or in extremely low quantities.
If you put fruit in a blender and turn it into a smoothie, the fiber is still there. Just don't run it through a sieve.
I make fresh cucumber spinach juice and chug a glass every morning.
I made a green juice that’s similar but really delicious lol some cantaloupe + spinach + cucumber (I like to freeze mine) + mint leaves, the cucumber and cantaloupe are really complimentary flavors
Forgiving people is great but the way people try to push like forgiveness for all is unhealthy. Sometimes people do not deserve your forgiveness and it’s better for you.
I heard this not long ago and loved it, "forgive and forget" we always repeat it with the wrong understanding though, it's forget the person. it's really more like forgive because there's no point in hating someone you are going to forget.
I like that too. Seems like "forget and forgive" is the better way to say it.
I kinda hate to say this but sometimes I just can't forgive. I know you're supposed to but I just find that often I can't. At least not really. When someone asks if I forgive them I'll say "Sure/yeah" but it's a lie. I hate lying but I know if I told them, "No." it would be ugly. They'd probably go on a rant about how you're supposed to forgive, etc. I don't want to say it if it isn't true but I have to, and I hate it.
I just say No but it took years for me to build up to that. After being walked in so many times I had enough.
True forgiveness needs to originate the perpetrator, not the victim. He, the perp, needs to want to be forgiven and needs to express TRUE remorse and if possible, rectify the situation or provide some means of atonement to the victim. Only then should he be forgiven. The victim did nothing wrong. The victim may need to learn to move forward and not let hate consume them. but this is not forgiveness but dealing with and acceptance of the situation. More then likely, the perp doesn't care and will never ask for forgiveness. The victim should not let being a victim become a definition of themselves and become an excuse for bad behavior “how dare you question what I am doing, I am a victim “
In that same vein, I think a lot of people confuse holding someone accountable with “unforgiveness” *cough Christians cough* I was deeply scarred by a religious group and after I left, one of the best things I did was stop trying to force myself to forgive them. They’re bad people. I don’t owe them pretending they aren’t or that I forget what they’ve done. I forgive myself for being manipulated, and I hope they get their comeuppance.
When my therapist told me that it can still be healthy to move on without forgiveness, I felt a huge weight off my shoulders.
Extreme fad diets and hyperfixations on minor aspects of diet. Orthorexia is incredibly socially condoned simply because the people promoting it are neither fat nor starving (though honestly, some of them *are* starving but have socially confined justifications).
Subway
Walking is more healthy but it takes too much time!
Sugar bread swimming in mayo
Ngl that sounds pretty tasty
Jared started and ended his career with them the same way. Trying to get into smaller pants.
But they killed Quiznos!
I feel like using dead rodents as spokesmen might have had something to do with that.
To be fair, the opposition used a pedo.
Damn, fair point. Yeah, now I miss the dead hamsters. I think I'll just congratulate Jimmy John's on their marketing. "It's fast."
IMO Jersey Mike’s has the best subs/marketing combo. Danny Devito is your spokesperson? I’ll have five. > And their subs are actually good, unlike JJ’s which are remarkably bland.
The way I hear some couple’s say “you’re supposed to fight”. That is probably the worst way to phrase it. You are supposed to be different people, and that sometimes leads to disagreements. You’re supposed to care about things and each other that it sometimes leads to being upset when that isn’t reciprocated. When someone in a couple says “you’re supposed to fight” I guarantee that they’re justifying some kind of underground cage fighting levels of domestic abuse going on. You’re not supposed to do that.
I've been with my girlfriend for almost 9 years now, we've never fought or yelled at each other. We have disagreements, but you know what we do? We talk. I'll lay out the pros and cons to each of our sides and we'll figure out the best option, find a compromise that fits us both. Our families never believes us when I say we've never fought.
It's just coping. Especially from the era where you were supposed to get married at 18 before you've had a chance to live your life, or truly get to know the other person. The regret and incompatible personalities builds up resentment, but instead of acknowledging the bad system, it's easier to just say that
I’d argue at 18, you don’t even get to know yourself. There’s a famous economics paper by Claudia Goldin about how the introduction of the birth control pill led to increased workforce participation, later marriages, and increased career options for women because women finally had the ability to learn about their own personality, rather than going straight from high school to homemaker. Women didn’t have to choose between abstinence or a high chance of pregnancy impacting their career. Hence, they didn’t have to go for a shotgun wedding, that may lead to situations like you describe. Goldin also wrote a number of other papers regarding women in economics and won the Nobel Prize for it in October 2023 (which I just learned! I heard about her in my Labor Economics class I took in spring 2023). https://dash.harvard.edu/bitstream/handle/1/2624453/Goldin_PowerPill.pdf https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudia_Goldin
I always think of this government PSA from the magical 1950s when women went from high school to homemaker…and everyone urges the young couple to really wait to get married. https://youtu.be/FV2SEyszKT0?si=b7D-hAWKlpd92jbk
McGraw-Hill is still spewing nonsense via textbooks. As a teacher, I hate that company.
I don’t necessarily think having the odd fight/disagreement is a bad thing, I do think most couples will have them eventually but it shouldn’t be the norm, and saying it like this suggests that it is the norm which is not a healthy relationship. I’ve been lucky that my wife and I have had very few major disagreements on anything but I think we’re fairly lucky and that most people will have disagreements on a fairly regular basis, what really matters is how the couple handles them. If they cause a major rift with yelling and days of discomfort then no you’re not supposed to fight like that often. If there’s a disagreement but you manage to agree on a compromise or discuss it and someone realizes they are a wrong and learns from it then yes you are supposed to fight and figure things out. If you fight about the same things over and over again and nothing changes you probably aren’t meant to be together.
I never use the term "fight" we have spats/arguments/disagreements. Cause ya couples aren't supposed to out right fight!
My parents would have full on screaming matches where they insult each other, throw/break things, and hit each other. So when I told my mum that my husband and I never fight, she made this exact argument, “you’re supposed to fight!”, and said that we mustn’t be “passionate enough” or whatever lol If having calm civil conversations when you disagree instead of straight up abusing each other makes you “not passionate enough”, then so be it.
Conflict is healthy, not fighting.
Granola bars or for that matter most of the highly sweetened high carbohydrate bars out there. They’re basically candy bars with fiber. Also fruit juice. Major sugar hit with either no fiber or very little fiber. Also dried fruit. Super concentrated sugar in an easy to overeat form.
The whole point of a granola bar is to pack a whoooooole lot of calories while also being easy to eat and lug around while hiking or whatever.
Working too much. Never taking any time decompress.
Wine People used to say it's good for your heart but more and more studies are coming out
This is true. They're saying no amount of alcohol is safe, now, and that people should definitely stop after a certain age (some age in the lower 60s, I think) because it also becomes a potent dementia risk factor. I don't want to kill anyone's joy, but I recently tried wine (3 oz to 6 oz) for chronic pain a few different days recently, and it was a bad, bad idea in my particular situation. Rehydrating took a couple of days because I have autonomic issues. If you're chronically dehydrated, best to abstain. This is also how it exacerbates things like eczema.
Wine is horrible for my eczema and I assumed it was just an allergy I didn't know it was an actual thing! I drink it and in the night I can feel myself itchy in my sleep all night, when I wake up it looks like I've been thrown down 10 flights of stares. So bad
Wine is actually a high histamine food. It has its own allergens that your body just gets to add to the rest.
It's for clicks, that's it. Every week there's a new story: wine/chocolate is good/bad for you. Repeat.
Even if it was good for your heart, the increased cancer risk makes it never worth it.
“low fat” foods. if something is advertised as low fat, the sugar is usually juiced way up to make it taste good.
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It's true for yoplait flavored yogurts and pretty much nothing else. Imagine if reduced fat milk had extra sugar. That would be very weird
Yes! I’ve never seen a low-fat food actually “pumped” with sugars. *maybe* it will have 1-2 g more carbs, but the overall calories will be reduced by a huge amount from the reduction of fat. Even if you replaced every gram of fat with a gram of sugar, calories will be reduced by over 50%. Now, taste on the other hand, is another argument… but there’s no denying that low fat alternatives are great for fat loss.
I'm with the others, I keep seeing people say this but I haven't seen it in reality. I buy low/reduced fat everything and if anything it has less sugar
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Anything you eat,drink or do without moderation.
100%. Drinking celery juice is good for you, unless that’s all you’re consuming and then it’s going to mess up your hormones. Cardio is good for you, unless you’re overdoing it and not listening to your body & resting & fueling properly. Meat/vegetables/fruit/carbs/fat is good for you, but if you’re only eating one of those things your body will not respond well.
Diet bars. People don't realise that usually the bar isn't a snack. It's a *meal replacement*, and they usually clock in at 200-300 calories per bar and then eat like 5 of them a day because they're 'healthy'
In our household I had to have that discussion with my husband. I had to inform him, and even have our nutritionist back me up on it, that those protein shakes were meant to *replace* a meal, not as a beverage to drink *with* the meal, or as a dessert afterward.
Having a tan
Demonizing any one nutrient: fat, proteins, carbs etc. Sugar isn’t the devil. Fat isn’t the devil. Protein isn’t the devil. In moderation, all these things are needed and should be included in a balanced diet. In general, trying to simplify health to “DO THIS ONE SIMPLE TRICK!” clickbait crap. Reducing calories to manage weight is the most important thing to focus on, but how you do that and what will work best is highly individual, and there is no one simple “one size fits all” cure to health.
Having bowel movements regularly. Realistically there isn’t a set limit on how much you should, as long as you aren’t constipated. Like anywhere from 3 times a day to 3 times a week. Personally, I’m over here shitting up a storm on the daily
Once or twice a day when I'm doing well, and once or twice an hour when my Crohn's is flaring (which has thankfully been a *very* long time)
people often tell overweight people who are just starting out to get on the treadmill but that's really really bad for you. if you haven't done any cardio before and you're overweight it will do so much damage to your knees. you can walk but don't run. rather start out with cycling and then with time start running.
Man I hate treadmills. If I can’t run/jog outdoors, give me any indoor exercise option other than treadmills.
Try the elliptical instead
Obsessively trying to lose weight. And I’m saying this as a historically plus sized, currently mid sized person who went through a whole weight loss journey. The effort and stress is no help at all. When I was finally kind to myself, that’s when I started to become healthier.
I wholeheartedly agree! I spent 3 years obsessively trying to lose weight because I hated my body and it was miserable. Yo-yo dieting, triggering my ED over and over again, the constant negative self-talk, and I didn’t even lose any weight. I eventually gave on up it, learned to love myself, got my mental health back on track, and only then was able to lose a significant amount of weight (in a healthy way). Losing weight because you love and respect yourself is always going to work out better than trying to lose weight because you hate yourself.
I spent 15 years obsessively trying to lose weight and it made my life miserable. I’ll never diet again, tbh. I’m a little chubby (size 14) but I’d rather be chubby than always being on a journey to be thin. My life has gotten so much better.
Flavored yogurts
It's shocking how sweet yoplait is after eating greek yogurt for several years.
as a person who's only had yoplait and other sweet yogurts, i was mortified by how "odd" greek yogurt tasted. silly me went in thinking it would be sweet, never again lol! i do want to try it again though sometime in the future, now that i know
Try blending up fruit and adding it in! It’s more sugar than just eating it plain, but it’s at least natural sugar as opposed to added sugar.
Yoplait is basically pudding hiding under the guise of health food.
I highly recommend 2good yogurt. High protein and only 2 grams of sugar. It's surprisingly tasty.
Higher fat plain yogurt tastes better! I have it because my baby needs to eat fatty dairy, but at least good fat is healthier than sugar 🤷🏻♀️
My morning breakfast is usually Greek yogurt with honey or a bit of fruit or fruit preserves. Berries and bananas in particular work really well.
A “healthy” tan - the sun is dangerous, put on sunblock
Living. It has a 100% fatality rate. :(
Keeping close with family when they are assholes or fucked up,
Canned tuna isn’t if you are eating it every day. It contains mercury and eating too much can cause health issues.
Granola
I'm working my ass off to lose weight and I was thinking "oh! Yogurt and Granola! That's healthy!". And then I look, and just a moderate handful can be hundreds of calories.
Working a 9-5
Who even claims that 9-5s are healthy...
There was a whole thing during the return to office discussion about how remote workers are unhealthy bc they’re lonely and bent over a computer all day
That was clickbait BS drummed up because big business people were losing money on office space nobody was using. There are plenty of studies saying it was better for people to work from home. Less traffic, less pollution, less money spent on gas, and a lot of other good things came from it.
There are actually people still out there (certainly not me) who find going to their 9-5 rewarding and it contributes somehow to their well-being, whether it's the structure, the social aspect, the stimulation, or they do something they love. But I don't think the 9-5 is good for many, if not most of us. And I also don't understand why the phrase is "9 to 5" when no one I know has that schedule. Full time work (40 hours) in America, where the phrase is often used, is usually \*8 to 5\*.
Its not the 9-5 aspect specifically that is rewarding though. It's the generally idea of a regular schedule. Provided that their pay doesn't drop, people are almost universally happier *and* more productive working fewer hours. Also it's called a 9 to 5 because it used to be 9 to 5. Lunch break used to be considered part of your 8 hours and eas paid just the same as the other 7.
\*8 to 5\*. Most people I know work 8 to 5, not 9 to 5. With an hour off for lunch, that is a 40-hour "full time" work week in the U.S.
And I hate how it’s impossible to find a job that actually starts at 9am like I was expecting when I was younger. And honestly starting at 9am would be a much better fit for me and probably a lot of other people who struggle with mornings.
I had a job where I started at 9 a few years back, and I was almost never late or sick, etc. In fact, I showed up 15 minutes early every morning. I've never been this punctual with any other job. Starting at 9 definitely made me a better employee.
8 is unbearable. 9 is doable and would be so much better in every way.
Healthier than being homeless though
Milk
Nutella. Nothing more than hazelnut/chocolate flavored sugar. Their commercials promoting it as part of a healthy breakfast should be illegal.
Orthorexia.
For everyone else, this is an obsession with eating clean and/or healthy food. It is a relatively ~~easy~~ new term and isn't in anything like the DSM yet but that does not mean it should be ignored.
ANYTHING not in moderation. Even “healthy” things like excessive running, will wear out your joints, excessive eating even if it’s “juice”. Excessive love turns into control/weird power dynamics.
Not caring about your diet and then going to the gym , like it all negates the effects of bad food.
I mean if you just get enough protein in and hit the gym consistently you'll get pretty built, you just won't be very "shapely". Speaking from experience lol.
My moms line was always ‘you can’t outrun your mouth’
Granola
Most low fat foods. And most cereals.
Dieting
Muffins are not healthier than cupcakes. They’re about the same. Fruit is not nutritionally on the same level as vegetables. Fruit can be high in sugar and almost as bad for diabetes as a donut is. Giving full, immediate, and unchecked vent to your anger is not actually good for your mental health. It’s not a simple matter of “bottling it up” versus “letting it out.” Consistently blowing up and losing your temper elevates your blood pressure and teaches your brain chemistry to keep responding that way. Do express your anger, but make sure it’s a healthy and productive expression.
I'm not sure I agree with the fruit can be bad for diabetes too, maybe if your diabetes is unmanaged? Yeah veggies have more nutrition, but a month ago I started replacing all the chocolate and pastries I'd eat with oranges, little cuties and it's made a huge difference. No I find myself eating less sugar while I'm in the transition. But then again everyones body is different and what works for one may not be so great for another.
Suprised noone said porn? I guess I am on reddit..
Agree 1,000%. I hate how normalized it is. The damage it causes to relationships and families is unbelievable, but the hold it is able to get on some men (and boys) is immeasurable. It completely ruins their perception of sex, and worse, their perception of women and women's bodies.
Not to mention how addictive it is. Over time a lot of people with high porn consumption need more and more extreme kinds of imagery to get off…. Which is so damaging not only to the brains and interpersonal relationships of people who consume it, but of course to people who are making it, too. It blew my mind to learn that even oral sex was seen as taboo until as recently as the 90’s.
Peanut butter…not “unhealthy” per say but much higher in fat and sugar than most realize
Drinking excessive water.
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Any food labeled as "diet" anything.
Had people tell me all my life up to when I was into my teens that I should suck in my stomach and that it was fine to do so. But now, because of it, I have hardened upper abs that hurt sometimes and idk what to do about it
The removal of sebaceous filaments (little dots on your nose, kinda look like strawberry seeds), it's less of skincare and more of an aesthetic thing, removing them can be harmful and will lead to dry out your skin, cause acne, and permanent scarring on the nose. Please don't remove them, they keep your skin hydrated with natural oils
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Fiber One bars. Yes, they are full of fiber (especially inulin, which gives you the type of gas that puts beans to shame), but they're also high in sugar, thus really negating any good health effects they could otherwise have. Plus, and this is a lesson you can only learn the hard way, don't eat a bunch of them at a time. One, maybe two if you're used to them, but absolutely no more than that. It'll hurt if you do
in my house we call them poop bars. great for constipation, especially after surgeries when all the meds can cause issues
Too skinny
Fruit juice
Diet Trends like "keto" and "low carb"
Depends on what you call low carb. The amount of carbs the average Western person eats in a day is *absolutely* ridiculous. I personally eat "low carb" (between 20-40% of my total caloric intake) due to medical reasons, and the effect it has had on my health doesn't lie. It's not strange that some of the healthiest diets/lifestyles out there, like the Mediterranean one, are based on things that, in certain circles, can be considered lower carb.
IIRC the ketogenic diet was designed for epilepsy patients. Basically to starve their brain of the energy to have seizures. It works, apparently. Not every diet is a *weight loss* diet, and yet people jump on bandwagons so quickly. Same thing with gluten free!
As an epileptic on keto, your description isn’t right. The brain can run on ketones and what glucose it needs, the body makes via gluconeogenesis. The brain is not ‘starved’.
Yes and if you are type 1 diabetic and do not have access to good or enough insulin, a ketogenic diet can help keep you alive. (Because you use the most insulin on carbs, and keto is a diet where you don't eat carbs.)
The pros to people jumping on the gluten free diet because it's trendy is that its made loads more options available for people who actually can't digest gluten, which is definitely a good thing in my book.
Drinking too much water