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Post by dahfizz »

gdebel wrote: post #51

I'm French (and incidentally a doctor,and my post is not judgemental in any way, this is not the point). Everytime I travel to the USA, I'm puzzled by how difficult it is to "eat normally" (= by my own standards). You can find really good junk food everywhere, or pay a really high price to eat in high-level Italian restaurants for example, but it is very difficult to eat standard meat-with-vegetable-without-sugar-add…

You can get a burger, or salad (usually with an option to add chicken) at any "American" restaurant. Does that fulfill your standard meal?

Re: Biohacking Lite

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Post by LegitShady »

gdebel wrote: post #51

I'm French (and incidentally a doctor,and my post is not judgemental in any way, this is not the point). Everytime I travel to the USA, I'm puzzled by how difficult it is to "eat normally" (= by my own standards). You can find really good junk food everywhere, or pay a really high price to eat in high-level Italian restaurants for example, but it is very difficult to eat standard meat-with-vegetable-without-sugar-add…

My recommendation, if you're staying at a hotel, is to ask if they have a BBQ for guest use. Most do, and then you can stop at the grocery store and buy some chicken/fish, some vegetables (also a roll of aluminum foil), and cook it on the bbq.

I travel quite a bit for work (at least, when there's no pandemic) and even though my per diem would cover restaurants, I have almost completely switched over to hotel BBQs and eat better for way less money.

Re: Biohacking Lite

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Post by centimeter »

No mention of ketosis, which uses vastly different metabolic pathways. It transmits energy without using glucose - instead using ketone bodies like acetone. It's very likely that this was a frequent (perhaps the most frequent) state occupied by our megafauna-hunting ancestors.

Re: Biohacking Lite

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Post by cschneid »

JamesBarney wrote: post #89
scythe wrote: post #50

I've studied nutrition out of my own curiosity for more than ten years now. When I opened this article, one of the first things I did was ctrl+F "potassium" -- the most underrated nutrient. Average potassium intake is below recommended levels and resolving this may lead to significant reductions in mortality[1]. Potassium may also reduce the severity of osteoporosis[2], although I (male) don't need to worry about tha…

Any websites for healthy lazy cooking options?

Sheet pan roasted stuff is a great lazy meal that the grandparent comment was discussing.

Our personal favorite sheet pan meal is: chopped red onion, chopped bell peppers, cherry tomatoes, box of dry gnocchi. Toss it all with a bit of oil and salt and pepper, and whatever seasoning you may want, spread on baking sheet and bake for a while until veggies look tasty.

Serve with a few shreds of parm or other hard cheese.

5 minutes to prep, 20-30 min to cook. A bowl to wash, and it's mostly veggies and the components sub out really easily for anything you have in your fridge.

Re: Biohacking Lite

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Post by gdebel »

eatbitseveryday wrote: post #64
gdebel wrote: post #51

I'm French (and incidentally a doctor,and my post is not judgemental in any way, this is not the point). Everytime I travel to the USA, I'm puzzled by how difficult it is to "eat normally" (= by my own standards). You can find really good junk food everywhere, or pay a really high price to eat in high-level Italian restaurants for example, but it is very difficult to eat standard meat-with-vegetable-without-sugar-add…

> you don't easily find, for example, yogurt without sugar added I have a difficult time finding these, as well. The culture here (spoken as an American) is to avoid fats, which is why most products advertise "no fat" (yoghurt with no fat seems like a strange contradiction to me). > in Asian restaurants (and even there, food is often sweetened) This is also true from my experiences. Chinese restaurants add sugar due…

Exactly! No-fat is a strange concept. Fat is not inherently bad, too much added fat is. But I'm pretty sure you can eat 500mg of natural good yogurt a day without being sick. Well, I never tried.

Re: Biohacking Lite

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Post by nugget »

gdebel wrote: post #51

I'm French (and incidentally a doctor,and my post is not judgemental in any way, this is not the point). Everytime I travel to the USA, I'm puzzled by how difficult it is to "eat normally" (= by my own standards). You can find really good junk food everywhere, or pay a really high price to eat in high-level Italian restaurants for example, but it is very difficult to eat standard meat-with-vegetable-without-sugar-add…

Remember that (almost) everything in America is a business. Sugar is cheap and addictive. I had an "aha" moment when digging into Starbucks' nutritional labels. I realized that, with certain types of drinks, Starbucks had essentially legitimized drinking a milkshake for breakfast. I'm not sure how much that contributed to their success but it must surely have been a component.

Re: Biohacking Lite

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Post by dnhz »

yutopia wrote: post #30

After years of experimentation, lately I’ve decided that eating like my grandparents (i.e., eating like a traditional Japanese) is the easiest way to keep myself lean and healthy. Traditional Japanese meals follow a standard format [1]: a bowl of rice, several small sides (which can change by the day), and an optional cup of miso soup. Sticking to this format every day can be boring, but it keeps my diet reasonably b…

The funny thing is that eating rice isn't even that old of a tradition, and neither is eating it in polished, white form. White rice only became ubiquitous when milling technology improved, and spoilage of the oils in brown rice became a concern for storage.

> Despite its long history in Japan rice was, for a long time, a food reserved for the warriors and the nobility. It was consumed by the majority of the population only from the seventeenth century onwards, not becoming the basis of Japanese food until the early twentieth century

https://www.japan-experience.com/to-know/chopsticks-at-the-r...

> A disproportionate share of the rice crop was therefore consumed in the cities and by the political and economic elite, while the diet of much of the rural population continued to depend on the availability of a range of other grains – wheat, millet, barley, etc. – together with vegetables, fruit, pulses and occasional fish or game, grown at home or collected in the locality.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0955580070133003...

Re: Biohacking Lite

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Post by andai »

shawxe wrote: post #95
jfim wrote: post #90

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> There is nothing inherently wrong with "processed" food There's a distinction between processed and ultra-processed (or highly processed). For example, canned fish is processed (added salt and oil), while a frozen TV dinner is ultra-processed (many ingredients added, some of which you probably don't have in your kitchen). Processed food is fine assuming you're aware of what's in it, how it's processed, and make sur…

> There's a distinction between processed and ultra-processed (or highly processed). For example, canned fish is processed (added salt and oil), while a frozen TV dinner is ultra-processed (many ingredients added, some of which you probably don't have in your kitchen). Sure, but OP said ban all processed food. That's what I'm responding to, not "ban all ultra-processed food." That said, I do find your categorization…

So, this mean that McDonalds is as healthy as the burgers I make at home? I was under the impression that their food is loaded with sugar and strange additives.

Re: Biohacking Lite

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Post by [deleted] »

GuiA wrote: post #106
mettamage wrote: post #80

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Ah, the Americans... ;-) As a Dutch person living in Amsterdam, I completely agree. I noticed when I visited SF a few times (and California in general) that: - Vegetables are more expensive - Bread is sweetened (there goes my breakdfast) - Bread sucks (yep, I said it, basic bread should be thrown into the thrash can) - Basic cheese in the US is a new species, and I am afraid of it I went around these 2 issues by buyi…

San Francisco is an anomaly as far as food in the US is concerned. I'm French and have been living in SF for close to a decade (and Louisiana before that, so I've been spoiled when it comes to "american food" that doesn't suck), and there are very few things I cannot find here - people are into food, and if you take the time to look for specialty stores you will find them. Of course there's the cost difference, but t…

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Re: Biohacking Lite

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Post by novok »

gdebel wrote: post #51

I'm French (and incidentally a doctor,and my post is not judgemental in any way, this is not the point). Everytime I travel to the USA, I'm puzzled by how difficult it is to "eat normally" (= by my own standards). You can find really good junk food everywhere, or pay a really high price to eat in high-level Italian restaurants for example, but it is very difficult to eat standard meat-with-vegetable-without-sugar-add…

Yup I agree. I call it the food gravity problem of america. Trying to eat healthy here is like trying to beat gravity:

This youtube video goes into more detail about the US problem compared to japan: "Why is it so Easy to be Thin in Japan?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lr4MmmWQtZM

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