Sep
15
am i eating healthy?
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i drink ALOT of water. and i take my multi-vitamin(Centrum)=]
for breakfast- shredded wheat and low fat soy milk.
midmorning snack- a banana and a shot of mona vie
lunch- spinach salad with some flax seeds, and some strawberries, and a low fat yogurt
midday snack-whole grain toast ,burnt is and a tbsp. peanut butter
for dinner- when im going out to eat which is often i usually go to a sushi place and just get a miso soup and a salad without dressing …..if fast food-subway—there i get a veggie mini sub and skim milk with apples. when im home i eat a pretty balanced meal though….i make myself some brown rice, broccoli or peas, 5 oz. firm tofu cooked in water, and a glass of low fat soy milk.
if i get a craving cuz of my sweet tooth(chocoholic here) i can’t stop myself to atleast a few small blocks of dark chocolate.
too much, too less??? i think im pretty good but can’t be too sure…
as you can see im a vegetarian so also take my intake of certain things into consideration…also…im a 14 year old female if that helps in any weird way….lol.
and sorry but i just have to add that im also NOT FAT. =] thank you.
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seems pretty healthy to me.
That’s healthy. I’m a 14 year old vegetarian, too.
wow yep u r healthy i wish i was that healthy!
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From the sound of it, your not finding any joy in your eating. Take a step back rediscover your joy of cooking. Find the joy of real fresh ingredients, artfull use of spices and home grown herbs. Bring other people into your eating experiences and share your eating joys.
AND GUESS WHAT … You will find the junk falling out of your diet. You will find yourself looking at that twinkie not in lust, but asking yourself why eat those 3 bites when I can go home and make a totally orgasmic meal for less fat and calories.
ALSO … Don’t think about diet intake, think about physical output. Don’t think about what you can’t have, think about searching for what you can have. AND GUESS WHAT … when you really find what you can and want have, you wont think about the things you can’t have anymore !!!!
THEN GUESS WHAT … YOU HAVE WON !!!
Sorry to disagree with you Tay Tay M, but this diet is not too good at all, especially for a 14 year old who is still growing. Instead of providing your body with nourishment, you are starving it of crucial vitamins, enzymes and minerals, and hitting it with bad things that will do you no good for your future health.
Let’s look over your menu.
The good things I noticed were the water, vitamins, banana, acai juice, greens seeds strawberries , the sushi, miso soup salad, apples, brown rice, broccoli and peas.
The bad things that jumped off the page were the low fat products, and especially the evil soy items, which of course includes the tofu.
Your menu is so low in fat (mainly obtained from the tbsp of peanut butter and some chocolate – both of which are usually loaded with sugar) that your diet could be stressful for anyone, but even moreso for you since your body is still trying to build itself.
Your body needs a certain amount of fat, and also practically every cell needs cholesterol to stiffen cell walls and make them water(blood)-proof. If you do not eat enough cholesterol-rich food, then your body is forced to MAKE cholesterol out of carbohydrates. This is made mainly by your liver and across the blood-brain barrier, by your brain itself. Recent research has shown that our brains are made up of a significant amount of cholesterol, and it helps the brain to function. Cholesterol also gets converted by the body into various other substances that help us deal with stress, and also it is a building block required to make sex hormones – and this is the time of your life when these hormones are incredibly important for your development into a healthy adult.
Although the media and corporations and many people with financial interests in selling you medicines will say saturated fats are bad for you, they cannot deny that many essential vitamins, like vitamin A, E, D, and K are fat soluble. If you starve yourself of fat, you are limiting the ability for them to be transported around and absorbed by your body. Vitamin A is also a vital ingredient in converting cholesterol into those other substances I mentioned, and guess what – you get hardly any from vegetables as our bodies don’t convert carotenes from vegetable sources all that well (you’d have to pig out on more carrots than you could possibly want to get what the body needs). Not to mention that there are no vegetable sources of vitamin D, or B12.
As for soy, the only fairly safe forms of it are fermented – such as in certain Asian foods like miso, tempeh and natto. Unfermented soya bean products are not food – they are an unpalatable WASTE PRODUCT dressed up with lots of sugar and flavourings to earn profits from something that would once upon a time have been thrown away. Soy does not nourish, and in fact has harmful chemicals like a plant-equivalent of female hormones. Soy-fed babies have yielded little boys with deformed testicles, and little girls that start growing breasts far too early, between the ages of 3 and 8. Recently (New York Times; May 21 2007) a vegetarian couple were charged with murder, involuntary manslaughter and cruelty, after killing their 6-week old baby on a diet of nothing but soy milk and apple juice. Despite the glossy cartons, soy does not nourish: it harms those who drink it, and it makes obscene and immoral profits for those who sell it.
Suggestions for you:
* give up being a vegetarian, at least until after you are over 18 and well past your growth spurt. Naturally, humans are omnivores, not herbivores, and animal products contain vital minerals, vitamins and enzymes that our bodies need. If you feel just to squeamish to eat meat, then at the very least get rid of the soy milk and drink real, raw, unpasteurised cow’s milk, raw butter and cream, and eat eggs regularly.
* if you need a snack, nuts and seeds can be a valuable source of protein and other substances. Usually roasted nuts are best as this deactivates anti-nutrients. Some salt in the diet is necessary too, but some brands of nuts have far too much – avoid the ones that are oversalted. Peanuts (arginine source!), cashews, walnuts (omega 3 source!), brazil nuts (selenium source!) and tasty macadamias are good varieties.
* cod-liver oil. Yes a little fishy, I know, but packed with super vitamin A D. You can stir it into your juice or tip a spoonful on your salad to tone down the taste, but don’t heat it, as it is a very fragile oil. Keep it in the fridge always. Also, be sure to buy it in a metal or a dark brown glass bottle – it can be damaged by exposure to heat and light.
* regard low-fat products with extreme caution: they will often contain health-damaging artificial sweeteners like aspartame (Nutrasweet) and/or sucralose (Splenda) and Acesulfame K (also in NutraSweet). They cause harm while at the same time denying your body useful fat. Not good products at all. For your yoghurt, look for a traditional Greek style without sugar – you can add your own honey or maple syrup or molasses to sweeten it a little (the less processed the better – avoid nutritionally empty white sugar). Alternatively you can get some raw milk and make yoghurt or something similar called kefir from it – look around on the web for how to do it. Not only will you eat well, but you’ll have fun and have the satisfaction of knowing you made it yourself!
* Keep up the green vegies like the peas broccoli, but add more variety – eat a diverse mix of colours for dinner! Add red and yellow vegetables too, and don’t forget the fruits for dessert!
Hope the above gives you some helpful ideas. Here are some websites with useful information too: