r/AskReddit • u/zachoutloud123 • 21h ago
What's actually healthy despite most people thinking it's not?
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u/Infamous-Vehicle1965 20h ago
Allowing yourself to have difficult thoughts and feelings without trying to regulate them that much. You can really get in a jam trying too hard to not have private experiences.
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u/YouNeedCheeses 20h ago
This is a really good one. I feel like social media has really skewed the way we should feel about negative thoughts or even just general discomfort. Life is fucking hard and sitting with emotions, even unpleasant ones, helps us understand ourselves better.
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u/AcademicBowl5596 19h ago
Honestly, just allowing yourself to exist unapologetically. Social media has everyone policing themselves on a micro-behavioural level so they can feel like they're on the right side of something just because someone somewhere may or may not get uncomfortable.
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u/Snuffy1717 9h ago
Ehhh, it’s a fine line.
You can absolutely be on the wrong side of things and should feel bad for it… It should not matter to you that people are gay, trans, use pronouns that describe who they are, and so on… Being an asshole makes you an asshole, and that can happen when people don’t police themselves.10
u/AcademicBowl5596 5h ago edited 4h ago
I wouldn't consider that such a fine line.
If you have to police yourself to not harbour hateful ideologies, you've got something going on. Good for recognizing it, and yes, take responsibility for your problems and police yourself in that case, but that's not the default we all deal with...
If your baseline values aren't oppositional towards people and you've got common social awareness, you really don't need to worry. You might have the occasional misstep, everyone has, most people will see it for what it is and will give you the grace to recover and move on.
It's mostly on the internet where every hint of unidirectional social friction is an offense that exposes the evils inside you, and getting offended is treated like a normal response to something you didn't like or agree with.
To most people out there, getting offended is a strong response. They'll usually even make an effort to not take things personally or get offended. People generally have the social resilience to navigate a slight without it tainting their opinions. Unless you really fucked something up, offended people shouldn't really be your problem, there will be a very small number of them that you just need to navigate through until they go away.
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u/knewleefe 19h ago
For most people, definitely, but some of us overthink everything then get stuck ruminating, esp on emotional or interpersonal stuff, then sometimes spiralling.
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u/twomaybes 19h ago
I’m prone to this, but the guidance of the parent commenter is more: feel the emotion without distraction. The narrative itself is often distraction. Rumination can be a compulsion trying to “solve” a difficult feeling, and that process keeps you from actually feeling and metabolizing the feeling.
It’s very hard, though!
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u/Dry_Reputation348 19h ago
As an over thinker I had more success just letting the spiral happen and not reacting and moving on. Every response to a negative thought had a counter argument and it just keeps going.
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u/shanatard 13h ago edited 13h ago
i had the ruminating issue too. what worked for me was not ignoring the part about feeling. surrendering yourself to the feelings seems weird but it works
i read once that trauma isnt something you can overcome with thinking, even if you were the most intellectual person in the world. i think some psychologists are right that it's your body, not the mind that needs to realize things are going to be alright sometimes.
i notice i tend to spiral less often when I just let my body feel the awful feelings for a bit. yeah, it tends to last longer than an individual ruminating session. the advantage is it recurs far less often afterwards
just my take based on my experiences
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u/sunset676 19h ago
The overthinking is trying to regulate them, you're treating them as a threat to be managed and not what they are which is like internal between frequencies garbage
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u/kelllymac 18h ago
THIS. It took me a lot of work in therapy to realize that the ruminating was my brain trying to find a solution to the situation when I was caught up in the spiral. These days, a long, hot shower snaps me back into place.
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u/jeffroeq 16h ago
Meditation is a really good for this. It helps you learn to let those thoughts happen without judgement. Those thoughts are going to happen, but you can learn to let them just be, accept them for what they are, and move on.
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u/teejcee 21h ago
Potatoes
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u/Twoheaven 18h ago
I eat...so many potatoes. Nearly every meal, if i go to long without a potato I start to crave them. For awhile my house was going through 50 pound bags in a month (wife, daughter and me). We are going through less essentially because im forcing myself to just eat less...but im kind of just eating more spuds and less other things. But probably still in the 30 pound range.
A friend one time made a joke that all my friends would have a cooking competition with me as the judge and it would just all be potatoes and black pepper...and that sounds like heaven.
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u/FeloniousDrunk101 18h ago
I live near a farm that has a “dig your own” day every fall. A grain sack of potatoes for $20.00. You bet we squeeze potatoes into a lot of meals until Thanksgiving.
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u/SwashAndBuckle 20h ago
Potatoes are extremely healthy. If you match their weight in butter and cheese, or deep fry it, than yeah, that particular way of serving it isn’t healthy.
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u/finches14 20h ago
Humans can survive on potatoes and milk. The British were partially responsible for perpetuating the myth that potatoes are low quality food as part of their strategy against the Irish in the 1800s. Read ‘Rot: The Imperial History of the Irish Famine’ for more.
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u/scandalous_sapphic 19h ago
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u/im2cxc4u 20h ago
Low calorie, cheap, filling, and it scores the highest in the satiability index.
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u/shakeyshake1 17h ago
I once made a package of instant four cheese mashed potatoes as a dinner. I could only eat about half of them. The entire package was 440 calories. I was pretty shocked that I felt almost sickly full from 220 calories.
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u/PrettyLittleTeasee 14h ago
Crying is a normal emotional response and can help you express feelings rather than suppress them.
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u/Starmix_23 13h ago edited 13h ago
I never understand why if someone cries, the response from others a lot of the time is "don't cry!" - I always tell people have a cry, let it out! It's got to be counterproductive to keep it in, and also weirdly makes people feel more embarrassed I think, like you're suggesting they're doing something wrong.
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u/faramaobscena 11h ago
Sociey doesn’t tolerate people crying, I’ve been accused of trying to manipulate people when the truth is I’m just very sensitive, I can’t help it. Crying is seen as shameful.
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u/Worth-Caramel-8580 8h ago
Only thing I don't like about crying is the awful headaches I get afterwards. Emotionally I'm better, physically I'm suffering
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u/deviantelf 12h ago
Kinda made me sad when my boyfriend asked me what I'd think of him if he cried, pretty early on. I said I'd think he was human and had feelings. I mean probably more of a thing cause we're older so even worse for men... but yikes, that shouldn't even be a question. But I'm glad he was willing to ask it as he obviously thought of it.
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u/Virtual-Constant1669 4h ago
Crying is good for you physiologically as well, tears contain adrenaline and cortisol so you're basically flushing stress hormones out of your body. That's why after a good proper cry you can feel very at ease and less anxious etc. It's literally healthy for us :)
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u/Initial_Hedgehog_631 10h ago
Potatoes. They're actually rich in fiber and quite a few nutrients.
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u/fattzilla 10h ago
Yeah the problem is people like to either fry them, coat them in butter and oil for roasting, or if making mash with equal parts cream and potato. Those are the unhealthy part of the potato.
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u/SpiderRadio 10h ago
Some of us poors just boil a can of whole potatoes and call that breakfast
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u/Hour_Option_2439 8h ago
Lol your potatoes come in cans?
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u/Cheetodude625 19h ago
MSG.
As a half-Asian American living in Texas, the amount of times I have to educate people on this is higher than it needs to be.
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u/vshawk2 15h ago
Man. This is almost a religion. People that are convinced that MSG is evil will not listen to reason. I don't even bring the topic up anymore.
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u/cutelyaware 13h ago
They'll swear it gives them an instant headache. It doesn't, but as much as I want to dose them to prove it, I just can't.
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u/Kraden_McFillion 2h ago
"It gives you a headache, huh? Man, that sucks! Tomatoes are in everything..."
"I dont have a tomato problem."
"But you just said msg gives you a headache. Tomatoes, carrots, aged cheeses, and mushrooms are all naturally high in MSG. No Italian food for you, huh?"
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u/chaotic_normal 4h ago
“You want to know what causes Chinese Restaurant Syndrome? Racism.” - Anthony Bourdain.
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u/deviantelf 12h ago
Aside from the wonky person who started the whole hate MSG thing, I think it kept going cause TONS of stuff have MSG and "natural" or artificial" flavors.
I knew the whole MSG thing was bs. I'd get a horrible migraine like head ache once or twice a year but never looked into why... but the whole, light and sound hurts, I wanted just curl up and die. Just to set the scene.
Met my late husband, and I was having them once a month or more when he cooked. He wasn't having it and all he could see was everything that was in common with what he made was spice mixes with MSG. I said MSG being a thing was bs, I ate TONS of things with MSG and loved them. So I look at the labels... they all had that "artificial or natural flavors".
He conceded, stopped using any of those spice blends in anything he made and I didn't have a OMG kill me headache in a decade and a half with him (also didn't eat others food if I didn't know what was in it).
But I can still see how people think it's the MSG if that's the only clearly labeled ingredient. I still don't know what the random "natural or artificial flavor" that lays me out, but I know it's in those spice blends cause it stopped after not ingesting them. I can tell you what it isn't, but that's a short list of individual spices I use.
I loathe "natural or artificial flavor" anything from horse piss to wood chips would qualify. ;/ Makes it impossible to find out what you've got an issue with.
Again tho I can see how even way past the MSG crazy thing, people think it's the issue as it's the only thing listed in common. But I knew better and was like "nope, I eat..." all these things with MSG just fine almost every day and that's fine so that's not it, that's a myth.
And ya I got up on my soap box! cause it's ridiculous to blame MSG.
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u/fromtheether 11h ago
MSG: Makes Shit Good!
It's like my favorite secret ingredient as a mayo-white dude living in the south. You can add it into just about anything to give a dish a little extra oomph as long as you don't overdo it.
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u/sine-wave 9h ago
I wouldn’t say “healthy”, as it only really affects flavor and doesn’t provide any health or nutritional benefit. But, it is not the poison many seem to think it is.
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u/PantheraAuroris 17h ago edited 17h ago
Fats. Bruh, you guys need fat. Fats of various kinds keep your skin, hair, and nails from drying out. You need cholesterol to make sex hormones. Many vitamins are fat-soluble, not water-soluble. Fat makes you feel more satiated, so you don't just snack all the time. Eat some damn fat sometimes.
Honestly most things that people freak out about are not bad for you, just bad in excess. You need sugar for short term energy boost, and your entire body runs on glucose anyway. Fat does a whole ton of stuff. And in small amounts, eat some dang cake, it makes you feel good, and feeling good is important. You're allowed to enjoy your life. Stress will kill you, too. Eat some pizza on game night. Treat yourself.
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u/Shadow_Integration 16h ago
Conflict. When done right, it can actually help clear the air and bring you closer together. Unfortunately, most us have only had it modelled as a screaming match followed by walking on eggshells only to sweep the issue under the rug till next time.
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u/aki-kinmokusei 4h ago edited 4h ago
People treat processed foods as if they're all the same when they're not. There's different levels to processing from minimally processed to ultra processed, yet people treat them as if they're all the same. Frozen or canned fruits and vegetables, fermented foods such as Korean kimchi, tofu (regularly consumed in East and Southeast Asian countries), plant-based milk such as oat, soy, and almond milk, cheese, plain unsweetened yogurt, bread, peanut butter, etc. fall under the category of processed foods because none of them occur naturally and you can't tell me that they're in the same breath as potato chips, carbonated soda, sugary sweets, prepackaged meals, etc.
According to these standards, virtually all foods sold in the supermarket would be classified as “processed” to some degree. Because food begins to deteriorate and loses nutrients as soon as it is harvested, even the apples in the produce aisle undergo four or more processing steps before being sold to the consumer.
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u/WetAndLoose 1h ago
Because “processed” is a buzzword, but there’s nothing inherently evil about “processing,” and what counts as “processing” is entirely dependent on who you talk to.
All safe milk is “processed” for example.
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u/lakimens 1h ago
Beyond Meat is healthier than regular meat. Really that's all you need to know to understand that more processed isn't always worse for health.
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u/4N0NYM0US_GUY 3h ago
Are people considering frozen and canned fruits and vegetables as processed foods? I know that’s not what I’m thinking about when I hear “processed foods”.
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u/whinypoopypants 2h ago
I was once told tofu isn't that healthy because it's processed soybeans. But like, so is beef by that principle.
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u/aki-kinmokusei 2h ago
By definition, freezing and canning food makes it processed
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) defines a processed food as one that has undergone any changes to its natural state—that is, any raw agricultural commodity subjected to washing, cleaning, milling, cutting, chopping, heating, pasteurizing, blanching, cooking, canning, freezing, drying, dehydrating, mixing, packaging, or other procedures that alter the food from its natural state.
And here's info from Food Standards Australia New Zealand for anyone skeptic about info from a US-based source given the current political climate
Food can be processed for lots of reasons including; safety (like pasteurisation of milk), to extend the shelf life, increase the nutrient content (added vitamins and minerals), or to enhance the flavour profile, texture or appearance (sweeteners, salt, colours or other additives).
Basic ways to process food include:
freezing
canning
drying
preserving
fermentation
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u/WetAndLoose 1h ago
Literally everything you consume is “processed,” including water, pretty much unless you picked it off the plant yourself
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u/40Falak 11h ago
Frozen fruits and vegetables. The modern flash-freeze technique preserves almost all of the nutrients and they are always picked when they are in season, so they are as nutritious as their fresh in-season counterparts, and more nutritious if it is not the season.
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u/uncleduddly 21h ago
Minding your own business
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u/gridrunner42 19h ago
Reminds me of an old joke I always appreciated:
"My grandpa lived to be 100 years old"
"And he ate red meat?"
"No, he minded his own business."
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u/Necht0n 19h ago
I mean kinda? At the same time 'minding your business' of the past meant hearing the neighbor beat his wife/ parents abuse their children and not doing anything because its 'not your business.' As with all things, gotta find the right balance still.
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u/iwearringsnow22 3h ago
I have been thinking about this a lot. I think when you see something that is not bothering you/causing harm to someone or something (the level of harm is subjective), you should leave it alone.
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u/AviRavinash12 21h ago
Eggs. People are still side eyeing the yolk over that cholesterol thing from like 30 years ago and they're one of the cheapest healthiest foods you can actually eat.
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u/Hotsauce4ever 15h ago
1000%
Eggs are brain food and the bajillion ways you can make them are delicious.
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u/Ultimate_Emergencyy 21h ago
Fat
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u/pale_and_soft 21h ago
People really spent decades treating all fat like it was poison
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u/AP_professional 21h ago
Blame the food pyramid.
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u/Ichi-Guren 20h ago
And companies that sought to profit off trends. At least the current one of protein is in the right direction. Let's hope next is fiber so I can actually afford metamucil!
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u/Raider4- 21h ago
Even to this day you’ll see people go on “Low fat diets” to lose weight whilst still eating over their calorie expenditure.
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u/GoldenRamoth 20h ago
The big trap is that low fat foods, often replace the flavor of fat with sugar.
Which is even worse.
Just eat the full calories if you want the flavor, and moderate it a bit.
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u/Arachnesloom 17h ago
This is just me, but when i want to lose weight in a hurry i give up most carbs and sugar while eating a lot of fats - avocadoes, salmon, nuts, whole yogurt, that kind of thing. Still get my nutrients.
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u/Mitoria 21h ago
Honestly most things people try to tell you aren’t healthy are totally fine for you — it’s just how much you personally ingest that’s the issue. A gram of sugar is perfectly healthy, but a thousand grams is anything but. An apple is healthy! Until you eat 10 in one sitting and then your stomach feels like it’s been turned inside out. Fat is totally healthy in small to moderate amounts but if you ate an entire container of butter in one day your cholesterol might not be looking so good.
If an influencer is telling you to avoid a food because it’s unhealthy and you’re being influenced just turn them off — talk to a registered dietitian (not nutritionist) or your doctor to find out what really is and isn’t “healthy” for you specifically.
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u/medelmottig 13h ago
We have free fruit at work. They call me The Horse for my apple eating habits.
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u/mwmandorla 18h ago
I came to say fat, specifically. Brains love fat. We need fat in our diets. We don't need to be eating pork belly three times a day, but the effect various diet fads have had such that people treat fat categorically like it's poison or sin and avoid it at all costs is in fact not good for our health.
All of this also applies to salt - the messaging again is supposed to be against excessive salt, but people take it as all or nothing. (Salt especially stands out to me because I have POTS, which is a medical condition that means you need exponentially more salt than normal people, and probably monthly someone shows up in r/POTS terrified that the salt they need to treat their condition is going to vaporize them on the spot. People are literally afraid of it!)
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u/thunderplacefires 20h ago
For a lot of people, it’s much easier to abstain from something than to try to do something in moderation.
People are really good at making excuses.
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u/cheesaremorgia 8h ago
It’s way easier long term to learn portion control, than it is to cut out whole food groups. You’re way less likely to binge if you’re giving yourself what you love, just in smaller doses.
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u/Zanian19 12h ago
Popcorn. Low in calories, high in fiber and antioxidants. Healthy tasty treat.
Just don't slather them in butter.
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u/D-Rez 21h ago
obviously not every day and not all of them, but a burger can be healthy. there are far worse options that would serve as better symbols for junk foods
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u/LePontif11 20h ago
Just skipping on the fries and soda or replacing them with something else goes a long long way without taking anything away feom the burger itself. Beyond that you can make the beef leaner and the sauce yogurt based to take it further. Then the toppings can be a bit healthier too, i like adding a good amount of sauerkraut to mine and i'm perfectly fine making that a weeknight meal.
With pain in my soul i'd nominate pizza as a junk food symbol. I find it much harder to make that something i'd eat all the time without worrying about health without making it completely soulless or effectively a whole other dish.
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u/Pufflefoot 18h ago
Pizza isn’t that bad either. I think you hit the nail on the head earlier in the comment, fries and soda should be the junk food symbol not the burger.
Those are both objectively bad for you and provide very little in terms of nutritional value
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u/DT_Grey 16h ago
Home made fries from scratch & baked in the oven are insanely easy, cheap, a great source of potassium, delicious, and a lot better for you than a bag of those store bought frozen things. So you may not even need to skip the fries at all, depending on the type. :)
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u/TokyoBayRay 15h ago
My kid's school serves fries most days, and I was a bit annoyed about this (apparently they signed up to a healthy eating charter) so asked what gives. Turns out they were exactly what you outline - fresh potatoes, skin on, cut into wedges, baked in the oven. And they always come with another vegetable as a "deal". I'm happy with that.
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u/Boone137 15h ago
It's possible to make pizza dough out of whole wheat or sourdough, use homemade tomato sauce or homemade pesto sauce and use only fresh mozzarella. You can also lower the salt and use other spices like garlic, onion, basil, red pepper and loads of other healthy ingredients.
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u/Long_Repair_8779 19h ago
Same as that nutritionist who said that pizza is generally healthier than most breakfast cereals (gram for gram)
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u/Magical_Crabical 9h ago
Not always feeling the need to put a positive spin on things, and allowing yourself to sit with negative emotions like sadness and anger.
When someone tells me about a bad experience, I find it more helpful to just say I’m sorry that happened and acknowledge that it must have been a tough time for them rather than using ‘cheer them up’, ‘look on the bright side’, or ‘it could have been worse’ type phrases that (imo) minimise their pain.
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u/_MuffinBot_ 19h ago
Not training so hard that you have to limp out of the gym at the end of a workout. Just because you don't feel soreness after a workout doesn't mean you didn't train effectively. People think you have to go nuts every time you lift and while you do have to put in effort, good form, consistency, and upping the weight a little when you're ready to progress is far more important than how gassed out you feel after the gym.
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u/fount-of-youth 21h ago
Pizza.
A good pizza is just bread, tomatoes, and cheese for the most part, and maybe a protein if you’re frisky. It’s a fine meal.
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u/-davros 21h ago
Yea, I was gonna say burgers. Full of salad and a little protein!
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u/diablo1128 18h ago
I feel it's only healthy if you make all the components like the dough and tomato sauce at home. Buying a pizza from a place like Domino's or a frozen supermarket pizza is not really healthy at all.
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u/SlagathorTheProctor 17h ago
When I worked at Domino's we made the dough in-store from scratch the same way a person at home would make it. Same with the sauce, it contained crushed tomatoes, tomato paste and mixed spices.
The worst part of any pizza is the cheese and preserved meats.
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u/come-on-now-please 18h ago
A frozen pizza is fine. You just have to accept that you're not supposed to eat the whole damn thing yourself and have only 1 or 2 slices and accompany it with a side dish like a salad or some wings.
In that note, I'd say wings can be healthy for you, its like the potato problem described above. In and of themselves chicken wings aren't the worst thing for you, its the fact that they could have been deep fried and slathered in a suger sauce, compared to oven cooked and lightly tossed in a sauce.
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u/Furt_III 20h ago
It's so easy to just eat 3000 calories with a single sitting of pizza though.
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u/MartinTheOrderly 14h ago
GMOs. Literally everything you eat is a GMO. Do you think cows just naturally evolved that fat and full of meat with straight backs so that their bodies could be easily butchered and stored?
I'm not going to say there aren't things you should keep an eye on, but the GMO obsession is ridiculous on a fundamental level.
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u/Barraco_Barmer 12h ago
I don't get the fear. A GM tomato is still a tomato. It doesn't know it's been modified and neither does your body. There's this irrational fear of any human intervention
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u/AnsibleAnswers 11h ago
Genetic modification is different from artificial selection. GM crops are safe to eat, but it's an entirely different process in which novel traits are engineered into a genome instead of selecting for traits that are already present in populations.
You don't need to counter misinformation with misinformation. There are still plenty of reasons to question the use of GM crops. They are historically bad for crop diversity (bad for food security), they are primarily used to sell and use a lot of herbicide that is bad for farm workers and the environment, and there are already herbicide resistant strains of GM crops that have become feral in non-native regions that are difficult to eradicate.
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u/Fortestingporpoises 3h ago
Eating grains, bread, carbs.
Low carb and no carb diets for humans can be effective ways to lose weight, but are one of the worst diets for overall and heart health. Having carbs in your diet is actually a major part of a balanced diet.
This is also true regarding grains for dogs. Those grain free diets are associated with tons and tons of heart failure related death in dogs but because they're just dogs and people don't pay attention to that stuff people don't know it.
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u/WheyoftheWorld 2h ago
This is a good one. I’ve seen so many people switch to ultra low/carnivore diets, drop 8lbs of water, crash out and think it’s their fault.
Carbs are the best thing to turn up/down to control weight, but you still need them, and should get them from whole grain/ healthy sources.
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u/Fortestingporpoises 2h ago
Whenever I post about this people get mad at me and are like prove it and so I show them studies and they never like my sources. Eat what you want, yall but sometimes you can admit it’s about aesthetics more than health.
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u/just_as_I_predicted 3h ago
Tap water. It's perfectly drinkable in most locations in America.
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u/stealthradek 2h ago
Always amazes me when people are buying mineral water in Scotland where tap water is generally top notch. And included in council tax bill so even when you want to drink 2 gallons a day it won't coat an extra penny.
I get that there are places where this may not be true but at least get some local opinion or give it a go yourself before flooding landfills with additional plastic bottles.
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u/No_Region_4719 8h ago
Basically any treat, so long as you are getting a balanced diet overall. If you are getting adequate fat and protein, which almost all of us are, keeping your overall calories reasonable, and having plenty of fibre/veg, then having that chocolate/cake/crisps is doing essentially nothing unhealthy to you.
The problems with unhealthy foods come from you consuming them in excess, and not getting a balanced diet. Using sugar for a stir fry sauce for example is not the same as adding the same amount of sugar onto an already highly processed and sugary bowl of cereal.
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u/clemiclooo 7h ago
agreed!! as someone who was previously orthorexic, i think this mindset is so important
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u/niagaragagarafalls 21h ago
MSG I'm not saying it's a health food, just that it's not bad for you......unless you actually have a real sensitivity or allergy to it. Which is pretty rare.
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u/thoawaydatrash 20h ago
I love MSG. The only thing I'll say about it is it can trick you into thinking you're having a heartier meal than you're having. It tells your brain "I'm eating something that has some real protein in it" even if what you're eating is basically just carbs. Doesn't make it unhealthy at all though as long as you're actually eating healthy stuff with it.
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u/noobwithboobs 20h ago
I don't understand how people can have an allergy or sensitivity to it. I understand they might get some kind of feelings after consuming it, but it's not scientifically possible to be allergic to it.
If you break it down: Monosodium Glutamate. The molecule is made of one sodium atom (monosodium), and one glutamate molecule.
Sodium. Like in table salt. Like what makes up about 0.2% of our body by weight. It's part of you.
Glutamate. One of the 20 standard amino acids that build the proteins in your body. Your body can even make glutamate itself if you don't get enough in your diet.
Both parts of MSG are already inside you. You cannot be allergic to them.
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u/Balancemantis 21h ago
Like other people said carbs, fats, sugars ect. I truly think the problem a lot of people have is overeating too much and not using it. During the day I'll snack on nuts, seeds and fruits a lot but I have zero issue eating a big plate of pasta with bread and olive oil. Just make sure to include in vegetables and stuff and get all the stuff you need. If you cover all your bases I don't even see a problem eating a fat burger or breakfast burrito from time to time.
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u/mailslot 21h ago
People digest foods differently. Some groups of people with ancestry that subsisted on starchy foods produce more amylase and can break them down easier. Cultures without dairy commonly stop producing lactase in adulthood. Etc.
Because you can eat bread & pasta and be fine doesn’t mean it’s healthy for other body compositions, just as you might have trouble with foods other people are fine with. Diabetes still happens to people with normal body weights. Obesity just makes you 15x more likely.
Some modern foods have outpaced evolution.
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u/Balancemantis 21h ago
You're absolutely right. My family is genetically almost completely Germanic and grains, wheat, milk and cheeses and such have never been an issue for me personally, but I know a Japanese woman who is rather sensitive to milk products.
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u/3-DMan 3h ago
Failing. It's the only way to grow!
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u/Talk-O-Boy 1h ago
“Sucking at something is the first step towards being sorta good at something.”
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u/ndundu14 11h ago
Carbs.
People shit on it because of they thought it causes diabetes, your sedentary lifestyle causes diabetes
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u/Larvaontheroad 6h ago
You absolutely need carbs to fuel workout. Can’t finish a lot sport activities without loading carbs
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u/OldGodsAndNew 4h ago
Endurance athletes these days are up to about 120 grams of carbs per hour during marathons/triathlon - for reference, a bagel is about 50 grams
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u/thatcouchiscozy 9h ago edited 2h ago
People who chronic diet think they are bad too because it “makes them gain weight”.
1g of carb holds 3-4g of water, so yes if you eat more carbs one day you may temporarily weigh more on the scale the next morning, but it’s just water weight not fat.
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u/OldMotherGrumble 10h ago
If what you say is true, why is it that so many type 2 diabetics can reduce not just their weight but also their need for medication when they reduce or cut out starchy carbs?
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u/useitsevr 9h ago
More muscle mass means more insulin resistance. People low muscle mass are benefited by cutting out carbs
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u/glossycoast 4h ago
More muscle mass increases insulin sensitivity which is a good thing.
You don't want to be insulin resistant.
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u/KamahlYrgybly 9h ago
Because eating less carbs reduces the amount of sugar entering your bloodstream. So you need less medication to manage that.
But the problem with blood sugar management is caused by the diabetes, not by the carbs themselves. Those without diabetes can handle inordinate amounts of carbs without blood sugar becoming elevated.
Diabetes (type 2) is not directly caused by eating a lot of carbs. It is largely by eating too much in general, carbs or otherwise, and in part inadequate exercise.
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u/flippantsycamore 2h ago
Exposure to germs…living in highly sanitized environments makes us vulnerable
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u/naraefaithyu 6h ago
knowing that you were wrong after having a conversation/thing and apologizing for it afterwards. a lot of people have lost humility and gained arrogance in return. sometimes it’s better to put your ego aside for things.
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u/Ilovebadjokes 21h ago
“Healthy” and “good for you” are overused, oversimplified attributes to assign to nearly everything. The vast majority of foods, actions, and exposures are not dichotomously “good” or “bad” for you. There are exceptions, certainly. It gets tiresome hearing people describe things so one-dimensionally.
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u/dummary1234 17h ago edited 17h ago
Transgenic food like corn and GMO rice. People think it might give you super cancer or high blood sugar but a honey bun would wreck your system much harder than the most mutated stalk of corn ever could, and they're usually manipulated for better blight and drought resistance instead of "because the shady government wants to do something scummy".
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u/TrickPlum6496 12h ago
Eggs are a great example. For years people avoided them because of cholesterol concerns, but now we know dietary cholesterol has minimal impact on blood cholesterol for most people. They're one of the most nutrient-dense foods you can eat.
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u/ooa3603 19h ago
Pretty much any food.
What's important is dosage and lifestyle not the food it self.
The only food substances that are unhealthy at any dose and lifestyle is trans-fats and alcohol. And even those your body can recover to pristine form if it's rare (only a few times a month).
For example, simple sugars.
They are perfectly fine to eat regularly WITH nutritious foods life veggies, fruits etc IF* you have an active lifestyle where you're constantly on the move or an athlete. Why? Because your body will quickly use it for energy. The best time to eat them is right before or after movement because that's when they will be quickly used or efficiently absorbed safely into your muscles. But this isn't something to obsess over as long as you're active and not binging.
If you're an office worker who barely moves? Yeah you're going to have a bad time.
It's the lifestyle and then the amounts you eat that's unhealthy, not the food itself.
You have to have fiber, nutrients, protein and some fats for health, that doesn't mean you have to get neurotic about foods that don't have these things. Just understand that they are lower priority.
That's what healthy eating is. Knowing how to prioritize what you eat, not getting anal about specific food types. (Unless you have an allergy or something)
Understanding this is what allows you to eat whatever you want because you'll understand when, why and how much you should eat something at any given time.
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u/Rabauke84 11h ago
Coffee
as long as you have no problems with your stomach.
Coffee benefits your brain activity and is healty for your gut.
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u/Raider4- 21h ago edited 21h ago
In diet or behavior?
Frozen vegetables, just as nutrient dense as its fresh counterpart, and oftentimes can be even moreso. The “frozen” tag itself has a bad connotation in general.
A day of doing nothing. No productivity, no responsibilities, but still amounts to progress in the form of mentally resetting and recovery.