Do you have a "balanced" diet?

[Wig44.]

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!

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.

[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

[kuzkasate]

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!

[Wig44.]

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!

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

[Jordy]

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.

[Shoe]

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

- 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.

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.

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.

[Soy]

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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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[Shoe]

strong broscience

What's Broscience ??

[Abbie.]

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

[Wig44.]

- 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.

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.