Do you have a "balanced" diet?

My Food Technology teacher gave us like an hour on having what is referenced as a "healthy balanced diet" pointing out we ARE ALL on diets, just not necessarially one where we aim to lose weight.

http://www.wolverhamptonhealth.nhs.u...latesmall2.jpg

This is the image we were shown and went into each section in thorough detail. I for one can't say I'm anywhere near this! I don't eat many vegetables at all. However I don't eat many sweets/sugar at all out of personal taste/choice. I also don't like milk and things like that, but due to family tradition we eat rice every day :@

How about you?

God no. My diet is awful in general. Since moving to uni, I seem to eat a lot of things like pasta, noodles, potatoes and just things that are loaded with starch. I think I get through too many sugary drinks and snacks, as I tend to eat when I'm bored (which is a terrible habit). I sometimes have fruit which is usually strawberries, grapes or raspberries and if I'm feeling up to it, I try and include veg with my evening meals - not that this happens very often.

No and never will be. I've survived 11 years without eating more than one portion of fruit/veg a day (very often no more than 1 a week), I'm perfectly health (I go for medical tests often and despite them not liking my diet, they can't give me a reason to change it because I'm perfect weight, growing well, and very healthy in general).

My bread/rice/pasta portion is probably about right. My meat portion is probably double what it should be. Same with my milk & fatty things. But I'm fine. I'm not fat, I'm actually in very good health for someone with my condition, so until I have a reason to, I refuse to change it.

No, I don't have a diet :P

rice everyday?

wat

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Originally Posted by benj0

rice everyday?

wat

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That's sort of how being Chinese works for you although half the time now my parents don't bother, we just have a takeaway/chips instead (H)

Simple answer; NO.

most definitely not. but i only have two meals a day tho (lunch and dinner) and then water and/or green tea as substitute for snacks. the only fruit/veg i have is an apple at dinner everyday.

I reckon i have a pretty balanced diet, not really through 'choice', just so happens. I enjoy yoghurts, my dinners usually have vegetables in them unless its a takeaway but then generally theres a bit in there still. Meal usually has pasta or potatoes of some sort in them, if not then theres usually vege in there. Basically what im saying is i have a really balanced diet by accident. The only thing i dont do is i dont eat enough fruit, but thats because they dont really fill me up and they dont taste amazing, pretty messy too d:

Err I eat loads of crap, don't have a healthy diet but if I wanted to I could easily eat healthy. I just eat when I'm bored which means grab anything I see which tends to be unhealthy. But if someone just gave me a plate of vegetable for dinner every day for a month then I'd be happy cos I love every food imaginable mmmmm

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Originally Posted by Right-Wing

No and never will be. I've survived 11 years without eating more than one portion of fruit/veg a day (very often no more than 1 a week), I'm perfectly health (I go for medical tests often and despite them not liking my diet, they can't give me a reason to change it because I'm perfect weight, growing well, and very healthy in general).

My bread/rice/pasta portion is probably about right. My meat portion is probably double what it should be. Same with my milk & fatty things. But I'm fine. I'm not fat, I'm actually in very good health for someone with my condition, so until I have a reason to, I refuse to change it.

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you mean until it's too late you refuse to change it

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Originally Posted by Stephen!

Err I eat loads of crap, don't have a healthy diet but if I wanted to I could easily eat healthy. I just eat when I'm bored which means grab anything I see which tends to be unhealthy. But if someone just gave me a plate of vegetable for dinner every day for a month then I'd be happy cos I love every food imaginable mmmmm



you mean until it's too late you refuse to change it

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No, I mean until the Doctors have a reason. Right now they have no indication what so ever that I am in anyway at risk from any disease related to my diet. If they find that I am at risk of a heart attack or something then I will change. But I'm not, so why should I? I've been perfectly health for 11 years without eating the '5 a day' without any problems whatsoever. I say 11 years because that's when I remember first being fussy about what I eat. My mum says when I was a baby I used to enjoy stuff that I hate now. But I first remember being fussy when I was about 4 so it's about 11/12 years.

i'd love to say i do but i don't. swap meat/fish/eggs/beans with bread/rice/potatoes/pasta and you have me. i like to try lots of different foods and not have too much or too little of anything. i rarely eat sugary snacks, usually just nuts, fruit or yoghurt etc so i'm pretty good in that aspect. it's hard to eat healthily what with foods having extra salt, chemicals, sugar etc put in D: most the time i refuse to eat anything that's not organic or has a huge list of ingredients, some days i won't eat anything except a piece of fruit and homemade soup just to be safe which i don't think is particularly healthy either. i can live on just the fruit and soup most days tbqh but i know i shouldn't. irony of trying to be healthy makes me unhealthy.

I'd say it's as Balanced as i can get it (Im not one of those people who read the labels and say to myself, oh yummy iron!)

I just urm, think what i need and try to eat what my body needs, which just happens to be way over the reccomended GDA ;P

I used to but when its exam time I lose all control but hopefully I can gain control and sort out my diet again. :)

yeh I'm the same as Stefy, I'm lazy so I eat easy food but I'd be perfectly happy eating plates of spinach, carrots etc for meals.

Generally before I went to 6th form I had a fairly good diet, I ate loads of salad and not too much fatty foods, but since I've gone to college it's gone TERRIBLE. Because I have much more freedom I eat more crap cause I can just walk 2 mins to the shop and buy some crisps or some chocolate. Also idk why but since my brother's moved to uni my mum hasn't been so on the whole good meal front because she always thought he looked ill so would feed him very good food but now he's gone she doesn't realise that I WANT VEGETABLES TOOO PLEASE MOTHER.

but she is giving me fab food tonight mmmmm pakchoi

I eat fruit quite a lot but I eat too much crap

well at home I'm ok because mum cooks and she always has house stocked in fruit but I'm so bad at uni because I cba :{. It all starts of well but then when it comes to exam time, I live in the lib literally all day and I just starved myself for most of it and then got subway LMAO. So bad but wewp home now, so getting proper food again =]

I eat loads of crap - but i do quite a lot of exercise (usually swimming) so i don't bother looking after what i eat! lol :P
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I tend to have a balanced diet, but I don't eat as much fruit and veg as I should. Though I do quite a bit of exercise every so often so I supposed its balanced in a different way.

Mine most defiantly isn't although atm i am doing food and nutrition and for an assignment in need to write a food diary for an athlete to fit there needs and what they really should be eating...

The portion sizes are mad that are real... i mean the whole '5 a day' thing was just a number which the government thought people would be able to manage, we should actually eat 11 portions a day... i NEVER manage to eat 5 anyway.

Also the amount of fat everyone will eat which we aren't supposed to is shocking tbh. 1 portion of fat is the size of a teaspoon or 1 penny piece and these what people eat will be things such as mayonnaise and cooking oil. these are supposed to be ate as sparingly as possible. If you fry something you will no doubt be using more than a small teaspoon of cooking oil? you will also have more than a teaspoon of butter on your bread.

So I know i by far don't have a balanced diet but i also think people who claim they do have an almost balanced diet most probably don't?? given these facts anyway!

nah my diet is awful right now, it's pretty much 90% carbs and sugar
i'll sort it out when i get my flat sorted but right now i only have a microwave, no oven, which makes things quite difficult

Nah. I never did have a balanced diet. Fruits in once in a while. Vegetables, never.. LOL.. Meat.. YEAH! Always.. Water. love water but hate carbonated drinks. Cakes and ice cream. love them esp. Mcdonald's ice cream

I do not have a healthy diet right now... I'm on the Atkins diet (I'm not overweight) because I miss being skinny like I was in my teens.
I only eat about 20g carbohydrates a day, and hardly any sugar at all. I eat loads of veg and protein, however. When I reach my target weight I'll re-introduce carbs but not white carbs eg. pasta, white rice, white bread etc and I probably won't eat much sugar either.

Err no definitely not. I seem to be drinking too many fizzy drinks lately. :(

No. I dont have a balanced diet.

Im eating about 50% protein 30% carbs 20% fats atm

Trying to control carbs (mainly sugar and GI). Diets worked well so far feeling quite ripped got a few veins on my abs.

Three more weeks and should be rippeddddd

Very much so. I have a lot of meat (especially fish and steak), vegtables and fruit. I love potatoes, peas, beans and eggs and have a sandwich, breakfast and milk most days. I rarely eat sweets and chocolate and only have cake and such on special occasions. When I was a little kid I barely ate anything, but since then I have eaten very well. I don't have a specific diet, that's just how I like my food. I do tend to snack a lot at night though, which I don't really like doing, but my sleeping pattern is messed up and I get hungry.

When i'm at work on a weekend, i eat SOOO healthy. M&S food is just too nice. I always get loads of fruit and stuff.

My problem is during the week. I never eat breakfast, and then i'll have something packed with carbs for dinner (pasta etc) and then because i'm a really fussy eater, i basically eat nothing for my tea. My family all eat salad and all this different type of food, whereas i'll be sat there with like an empty plate as i don't like what they eat.

Then at night i just go crazy, i eat cereal and toast all the time at night. My family go to sleep incredibly earlier so i'm just downstairs until like 12/1am watching something crap on TV or eating. I'm like nocturnal or something

I'd say so. I eat a mixture of "good" and "bad" foods and I seem to be healthy so..!

Apple in the morning

PBJ and Apple for lunch

Pasta (Kraft Dinner) or other things in the evening

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That would be my typical day of eating.

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Originally Posted by Shoe

Mine most defiantly isn't although atm i am doing food and nutrition and for an assignment in need to write a food diary for an athlete to fit there needs and what they really should be eating...

The portion sizes are mad that are real... i mean the whole '5 a day' thing was just a number which the government thought people would be able to manage, we should actually eat 11 portions a day... i NEVER manage to eat 5 anyway.

Also the amount of fat everyone will eat which we aren't supposed to is shocking tbh. 1 portion of fat is the size of a teaspoon or 1 penny piece and these what people eat will be things such as mayonnaise and cooking oil. these are supposed to be ate as sparingly as possible. If you fry something you will no doubt be using more than a small teaspoon of cooking oil? you will also have more than a teaspoon of butter on your bread.

So I know i by far don't have a balanced diet but i also think people who claim they do have an almost balanced diet most probably don't?? given these facts anyway!

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You know that average fat consumption has halved since the 1970s yet the incidence of heart disease has increased? The incidence of obesity has increased? More young people get cancer now? You can go and sodomise yourself with those 11 portions.

yeah fat isn't actually that bad at all, not even the stuff (sorry idk technical words) in sweet foods, it's just what else is in the food... and the fats in MOST cooking oils are good lol

Nope simply because I am underweight anyway and I don't seem to put any weight on at all, I can sit there stuffing myself all day with fatty foods and I won't gain any weight, which is good I suppose but most people that don't know me well think I am just skinny because I don't eat, when its the complete opposite!

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Nope simply because I am underweight anyway and I don't seem to put any weight on at all, I can sit there stuffing myself all day with fatty foods and I won't gain any weight, which is good I suppose but most people that don't know me well think I am just skinny because I don't eat, when its the complete opposite!

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Log what you eat realistically for a week. I bet it isn't much.

I don't think it's particularly unbalanced, I've never been unhealthy. I'm a vegetarian so I think that helps a lot, meat/fish etc isn't a that major part of the diet and I just about make it up taking a variety of vitamins and drinking lots of milk for the protein. It's mostly starch based but there are quite a bit of vegetables in my diet as well, I'm getting an increasingly bad habit of snacking crisps though.

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Originally Posted by buttons

yeah fat isn't actually that bad at all, not even the stuff (sorry idk technical words) in sweet foods, it's just what else is in the food... and the fats in MOST cooking oils are good lol

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- Your right fat in the correct quantity is not bad for you, although in excess it obviously is.

Polyunsaturated - This is a good fat as it is natural and is found in fish, seeds and nuts.

Monounsaturated - This is another fat which is good for you found in red meat and milk, although is also found with saturated fat which is what you should avoid at all costs.

Saturated - Made up of triglycerides which are all different fatty acids. Saturated fats are found in animal fats, so cheese, milk, cream and butter as well as some fatty meats.

So it is impossible to avoid them and we do need them we just do not need to add too much extra to our diets if we can help it. In cooking it is recommended you use olive oil rather than vegetable oil or sunflower oil as it contains less saturated fat and more unsaturated.

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Originally Posted by Wig44.

You know that average fat consumption has halved since the 1970s yet the incidence of heart disease has increased? The incidence of obesity has increased? More young people get cancer now? You can go and sodomise yourself with those 11 portions.

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This was a bit out of order for a reply don't you think I was only saying what I have been taught and thought people might be interested, I know that pretty much no person would eat that amount of fruit and vegetables in a day or even a week in my case. All of what you have said above yes the fat consumption may have halved but i'm sure the amount of 'bad' fats people are eating is more than in the 1970's exercise also has a part to play in it and if exercise is done then people are more likely to become fat. People in the 1970's were most defiantly a lot more active than people are today. As for the cancer comment that has no relevance to this what so ever.

strong broscience

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Originally Posted by shoe

Also the amount of fat everyone will eat which we aren't supposed to is shocking tbh. 1 portion of fat is the size of a teaspoon or 1 penny piece and these what people eat will be things such as mayonnaise and cooking oil. these are supposed to be ate as sparingly as possible. If you fry something you will no doubt be using more than a small teaspoon of cooking oil? you will also have more than a teaspoon of butter on your bread.

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Originally Posted by Soy

strong broscience

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What's Broscience ??

yea i dooo, ive started to eat fruit and stuff instead of chocolate/crisps

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Originally Posted by Shoe

- Your right fat in the correct quantity is not bad for you, although in excess it obviously is.

Polyunsaturated - This is a good fat as it is natural and is found in fish, seeds and nuts.

Monounsaturated - This is another fat which is good for you found in red meat and milk, although is also found with saturated fat which is what you should avoid at all costs.

Saturated - Made up of triglycerides which are all different fatty acids. Saturated fats are found in animal fats, so cheese, milk, cream and butter as well as some fatty meats.

So it is impossible to avoid them and we do need them we just do not need to add too much extra to our diets if we can help it. In cooking it is recommended you use olive oil rather than vegetable oil or sunflower oil as it contains less saturated fat and more unsaturated.




This was a bit out of order for a reply don't you think I was only saying what I have been taught and thought people might be interested, I know that pretty much no person would eat that amount of fruit and vegetables in a day or even a week in my case. All of what you have said above yes the fat consumption may have halved but i'm sure the amount of 'bad' fats people are eating is more than in the 1970's exercise also has a part to play in it and if exercise is done then people are more likely to become fat. People in the 1970's were most defiantly a lot more active than people are today. As for the cancer comment that has no relevance to this what so ever.

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You clearly have no real idea what you are talking about! Where were you taught this? Food technology? PE? Your post implies that it is only saturated fat that is composed of triglycerides - wrong. It isn't even right to say that fat is 'made up' of triglycerides. Triglycerides are made up of fatty acids. You can get mono and polyunsaturated triglycerides.

Exercise burns very little calories and in some cases increases appetite to the point that people gain weight from exercising. Exercise is important but the type of exercise promoted today (lots of medium intensity cardio; jogging/endurance running) is likely to increase chance of heart disease; http://www.archevore.com/panu-weblog...t-disease.html

Saturated fat has never been proven to be damaging to your health in any study that can stand up to scrutiny. My favourite part of your post is your reason for polyunsaturates being healthy. So you're suggesting saturated fat is unnatural? Lastly, not only is less fat eaten now, but more polyunsaturated fat is eaten now -compared to any point in the history of humankind - whereas the amount of saturated fat being consumed now is far lower. Your teachers at school/college/god forbid university are quite literally just spouting the curriculum regardless of whether they agree with it or not.