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Just to clarify, I wasn't thinking that you were attacking my opinion, I just wanted to put up a little safety barrier as some of my comments in other threads have been quite quickly growled at :cool:
BTW where is our hiding smilie??
ETA thank you for posting that article and showing me another reason that I shouldn't make sweeping generalisations!
From someone who has personally suffered "bonking" (yes that is the technical term folks) half way through a triathlon from not consuming enough carbs for dinner the night before I totally agree!:
I am not a fan of low carb diets personally as I find them too restrictive being a vegetarian, however I am all in favour of balance - particularly a balance for the amount of exercise output vs food intake.
At this point in my life I am being driven by my body and it wants carbs - if I don't eat a high carb dinner at night I am waking at 4am with a rumbling tummy and have to get up and eat to stop from feeling nauseous and headachy. This baby must be doing all night gymnastics in there it's going through that much energy :rolleyes:
I found when pregnant I craved white toast with vegemite. Don't know what it was that my body wanted, but that combo seemed to help, especially with morning sickness.:
I do find with myself though I am more satisfied not having the white carbs in my diet. Take a 1/4 chicken and chips for example. If I eat just the chicken I feel more satisfied hunger wise than when I eat the chips as well. I feel stuffed, but still hungry and am looking for more food sooner, even though I have eaten more calories than the 1/4 chicken on its own.
Mmm white toast with vegemite, hot chips *licks lips* - stop teasing the pregnant woman!
Chips have a high GI factor which means they cause a large and very quick increase in your blood glucose levels which releases large amounts of insulin into your body to regulate your those levels. This happens quite quickly so your left feeling hungry again really soon.:
I'd be interested to know the GI of Nutragrain. Even though it's advertised as "ironman" food, I have a bowl and i'm hungry again about an hour later...off to check the net ;)
oh man anything like Nutragrain with that much sugar and salt can't be good for you... :P
Wouldn't you know it, the Nutrigrain website has all this nutritional information but no mention of it's Glycemic Index...Hmmmmmm
Found this article which I thought might be relevent for this thread. Push to ban 'dangerous' trans fats | NEWS.com.au Apparently they're already banned in America.
That doesn't surprise me about transfats... I think they are banned in many European countries as well. Typical... we are so slow on the uptake here in Australia... what a great dumping ground we must make :(
my uni lecturer said to us during class one day (for "food as medicine") that we should try to eat 20 different foods every day and that the fresher the food the better because it kept a lot more of the vitality in the foods
With regards to Nutrigrain I always used to think to myself "Ironmen?? More like constipated men!" Very little fibre in them.
By "Iron men" they are actually referring to what comes out of them - Stools of Steel :cryinglaugh:
LOL Nai!!! I was just perusing our mail and found a brochure for "Foods that Harm, Foods that Heal" and one of the side things says "BACON: Less salt than cornflakes?" OMG.... Is it???? That would be hilarious, and yet seriously wrong.
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:o No way!!!
Just had a quick look at Calorie King:
100g lean uncooked bacon - 1500mg sodium
100g cornflakes - 720mg sodium
30g (1 cup) corn flakes - 215mg sodium
Smoke cured bacon is very different, much lower salt levels - also worth bearing in mind that much of the salt leaches out of the bacon as it cooks, so it's possible that the statement could be true.
Jeezus thats scary! Is it true that anything over 500mg should be a no-no?
Thanks Bear! I was wondering how they could possible get that statement to be true. In fact when I cooked my soup today I cooked the bacon before putting it in the pot, then I put a bone in for the flavour. I hope that lessens the salt content!
What an interesting thread. Great discussion/debate! :)
I like Punkin's suggestion of trying to eat 20 different foods per day. That might ensure a balanced diet if you were healthy? That would be a hard thing to do consistently I think, or maybe it just sounds hard? So far today I think I would only have 7 or 8 different foods & even with dinner still to go I don't think I'll make it.