1. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Sat, Jun 24, 2006, 9:57 pm PDT

I checked out this chicks picture- she probably can sit around and seperate her whites... or pay a restaurant to do it. I imagine it must be so much easier to eat healthy when you have money- restaurants make delicious low fat fare- you dont have to prep it. Organic foods can be provided and prepared by your chef, and the mess by the maid. how lovely. This is my experience: You CAN'T eat healthy without being wealthy. It should be a jingle. Have you seen the pricetags on whole foods and hand nurtured cabbage? I could eat five cheeseburgers for one bottle-fed head of lettuce. WHY? If whole foods take less prep, why are they so expensive? Are the processed animal byproduct burgers the manna of the po'? Not to be a conspiracy theorist, but this heavily advertised "enriched and preserved" food is cheap and readily available. You have to be affluent to eat quality foods, because the less priviliged dont have time to grow their own, nor the funds for the gourmet grocer. They trying to kill off the working folk yet again.......hear the cries of the carrots........

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2. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Sat, Jun 24, 2006, 11:18 pm PDT

It's mostly common--or UNcommon--sense. Naturally occuring sugars, like fruit sugars, fructose, are fine and really do satisfy your sweet tooth if you give them a chance. Remember, your body is a temple. Treat it right. Instead of junk you can eat whole grains and produce which really doesn't need to be expensive. Shop the peripheral of the supermarkets where less processed foods are. Once you have tasted oranges that are as sweet and delicious as candy you will start to make better choices. You are worth it!

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3. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Sun, Jun 25, 2006, 1:38 am PDT

have been reading a lot of nonsense here, you can buy a tv dinner for one to three dollars depending on brand. also for ten or twelve dollars you can buy packages of food, a head of lettuce, bag of carrotts cucumbers and the rest needed to make several meals. it does cost more with the initial purchase, but it does so much more it is not expensive. as some would like you to beleive.

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4. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Sun, Jun 25, 2006, 10:35 am PDT

health wise Im okay, but I watch what I eat also the sugars very important to me as I come from a diabets family.

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5. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Sun, Jun 25, 2006, 1:48 pm PDT

about 7 years before loosing the wife, she had to be rushed to the emergancy room, at that time we found out she was a diabetic. before that time we didn't have a clue. we always had what we wanted to eat it was hard to adjust to a diffirent meal planning program. however the doctor and nutritionist, spent about an hour with us before she went home explaining what she should and should not have. we had a several page guide, and since I did most of the cooking any way started looking closely at what was purchased, as well as how it was prepared, since it was all explained the fact sheet the called it, I called it a book it took so many pages. changed my shopping habits, as well as the way it was prepared. neither liked a lot of what was in it, yes I did join her out of respect, many thing we both liked were no longer prepared, there were no two meals prepared. only one we had the same foods. i said if this is what she has to have this is also what I will have. now that I am a widower still eat that same way most of the time. the diffrerence is I now fix some of the old food that I liked but do know that I shuldn't so don't do it too often. as for lonestartnow never heard of it until this blog.

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6. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Sun, Jun 25, 2006, 3:21 pm PDT

I've been doing Weight Watchers for about 6 months now and I used to think it was too expensive to "eat right". But I can get 2 large salads out of a prepared bag of mixed greens ($2.50) I make lean ground Turkey burgers and tacos instead of ground beef (same cost as ground beef), and I snack on carrots, bell peppers, celery, grapes, apples, etc (also, same price as a bag of chips, microwave meal, or snack cake). I drink green tea and water mostly, but MUST have my cup (or two) of coffee every morning. I actually spend less on food now and make it a point to prepare larger meals then put half of it away for the next day's meal. It's all about moderation. Weight Watchers is GREAT because you can eat whatever you want, you just count it. When you only get 22-30 points per day depending on height and age (its a calculation based on calories, fat, and fiber or found in one of the free books when you start up) and a candy bar is 5-6 points but a chicken sandwich (made at home), salad, and fruit costs the same number of points, you start to make different choices.

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7. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Sun, Jun 25, 2006, 6:25 pm PDT

stormi, #10, Bill Clinton just got carried away should have made sure interns were on his to have list, rather than his no no list.

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8. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Mon, Jun 26, 2006, 3:36 am PDT

We can talk about metabolism til we're blue in the face. The "average" reasonably healthy person so have no problems with a diet or reduction of content, however I always stress there is no one way and everyone should consult a physician to make sure they can safely do a diet. That, out of the way, I don't think there's a need for direct sugar content at all! In direct is another story, I like coffee creamer and that has some sugar in it. Milk just doesn't do it for me in coffee. I got sugar out 35 years ago! While there is no direct proof, I know from personal experience that over doing sugar wrecks the esophogus and stomach lining. Sugar burns cells without insulin and direct sugar on the stomach cells will burn, even with insulin content entering the cells. The "normal" diet is a sugar diet, so we get far too much indirect sugar already. I'm not a fan of fad diets, including South Beach and Atkins, I do, however, see value in Weight Watchers and and few other plans. There is no such thing as healthy eating, healtheir, maybe, but nothing you eat will combat the ills now know to come from the Gemone system and a lot of "health" experts have had heart attacks or died from cancer. There is no sure-fire way and no on can fully explain why the French and Italians with their butter and cream and ultra "rich" or "fattening" foods seem to have lower coronary problems than we do. Maybe it is the wine and health experts say don't drink much! A diet is something you do forever. You eat less and exercise a little. That Army diet is a great example and it's basically a TV dinner. People like to overindulge and that's all it amounts to! I used to eat big fast food lunchs (and you can diet and lose weight eating fast foods, just learn what to eliminate, like skins and french fries and sodas). Like the "Beef Bowl" combo with chicken and beef. It's like 24 ounces weigh in at over 1800 calories with a soda. Now I get a small (regular) chicken bowl -- skinless and drink water or coffee. That's only about 600-800 calories. I've learned (trained myself) to eat less all the time. And for a while I got sugar totally out of my diet. I mean "added" sugar. Recently I got addicated to Ice Tea and now my stomach is churning again and I have to take Rolaids every day. So I have to break this new addiction and in six months my stomach will go back to behaving. On my old diet, I had to eat hanfulls of Rolaids and was at the point where I was eating Bicarb with a little water to keep my stomach down and taking things like Pesid AC in the morning. Once I got sugar out of my diet my stomach became fine in six months. It took, however, 50 years of eating bad to get my stomach to this bad point. No extra sugar is good. LEarn to eat grapefruit without it. Learn to drink coffee without it. Stay away from all artificial treats (cakes, cookies, candy). Learn to eat more natural teats (fruits -- natures sugar). Learn what to try and purge from a diet (fried foods, chicken with skins) and learn to balance a diet. You need enough sugar to stay alert and exercise. Those who diet and go to the gym HAVE to sugar up or you will pass out. Over excerising is not healthy on a weight loss, low calorie diet, especially if it's low carbs. You'll black out at the gym without those cabs! So it's a Catch 22! Eat less, remove as much sugar and do light exercise daily. You don't need exotic foods or special meals. A diet can be a Mc D Double Burger with water and a light dinner. It will work, it will feed you.

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9. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Mon, Jun 26, 2006, 4:14 am PDT

You are wrong. If you don't have money, do not eat hamburgers. Eat rice, oats, lettuce, soya sprouts, raisins, eggs, low fat yogurt and a little bit of chicken or fish (the cheapest you manage to find), as well as soya sauce and some olive oil - the cheapest brand too. But you've got to cook it yourself. Forget about organic things - not worth it. If you can go to a market place -it will come cheaper. From time to time indulge yourself with a chocolate bar or an ice cream or a bottle of beer. Drink plain mineral water. That's it. You eat healthy and do not spend a lot of money. I know, I did it and still am doing it. I do not wanna say I am poor - it does not sound well, but materially speaking - I am. So I know what I'm talking about.

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10. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Mon, Jun 26, 2006, 11:16 am PDT

I go to the gym, and Dance an hour fifteen minutes at a stretch. Breakfast is beans and eggs, or eggwhite omelette with spinach. I do drink tea, green, white , red, black, or white with stevia. I don't pass out but on the days I do pilates and dance I'm in the gym from 9 till 12:30. My stomack is growling for mexican food by then, but I eat an apple before lunch. I guzzle water all morning but more tea with lunch!

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11. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Mon, Jun 26, 2006, 4:15 pm PDT

Bill didn't stick to south beach he went on and off it with binging!

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12. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Wed, Jun 28, 2006, 2:01 pm PDT

you're demented. Did you fail chemistry 101. Why would fructose be OK in fresh fruit but not in syrup and dried fruit. Why would sucrose be so metabolically different from lactose? NONE of it is good for you in large amounts. Replacing sucrose with other sugars isn't going to make anyone much slimmer. Sugar calories are sugar calories. Suggest lower-sugar and starch fruits and vegetables, not bananas and carrots! Suggest more protein.

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13. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Wed, Jun 28, 2006, 2:02 pm PDT

In response to the person that insists you have to be "wealthy" to eat "healthy" I went through the same argument with my sister that has to feed a family of 4. She says she can't afford "health" food. But even when I go the the "Health Food Store" I spend less than she does in groceries because items she buys from the pharmacy (antacids, pain releivers, cold medicines, etc.) more than makes up the difference in "savings" on cheap food; and by switching to a healthy diet many years ago I have all but eliminated the need for these things. (You are what you eat!)

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14. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Wed, Jun 28, 2006, 2:09 pm PDT

You wouldn't believe what sugar does to you. I can email you a list of what it can do. Email me if you are interested. IF you'd like to get more fruits and vegetables into your diet in an easy, inexpensive and way, not to mention all the research behind it, contact me: nancy@nancygethealthy.com.

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15. Posted by A Yahoo! Health User on Wed, Jun 28, 2006, 2:09 pm PDT

I disagree with the poster that says you can't eat healthy without being wealthy. Fresh vegetables (carrots, celery, radish, lettuce , broccoli, etc) are all very cheap and taste great as well as fruits like apples, strawberries, blueberries etc.. Not expensive at all.. For dinners why not have some chicken, or beef, with a side of green vegetables, or a sweet potato , or corn. All healthy, and all inexpensive.. I cook everyday just about. and for lunches i eat healthy, chicken breast sandwiches, veggies with dip, fruits, and water.. breakfast i'll have a yogurt, some OJ, and either whole wheat toasts with natural PB, or a light egg omelette...

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