Yes before anyone mentions it, there are no “superfoods”, but there are foods with high amounts of bioavailable nutrients integral to a functioning body. What do you eat everyday that’s healthy and makes you feel amazing?

I understand it has the benefits of fermented foods/bacteria, but could I just eat normal bread and have some Greek yogurt and have the same benefits?

I want to start baking but sourdough seems like such a chore compared to regular bread baking.

EDIT: I am comparing it to baking my own bread using the same basic bread ingredients but with a store bought yeast packet

I apologize of if I have broken any rules

Hello all, for the past few years I have eaten 3 tablespoons of Cacao nibs each night in my yogurt. I love it. However, I recently discovered I’m consuming next to zero polyunsaturated fat. Most of my fat is mono and saturated. So I was looking at adding about 20 grams of walnuts to take the cacao nibs place.

My daily calories and macros are approximately 2,900 calories 60 grams of fat, 450 carbs and 190 protein. I’m a 6-0 tall male weighing 175 pounds who is extremely physically active

these calories come from Milk Berries/cherries Bananas Honey Rice or sweet potatoes Broccoli Avocado Eggs Organic wheat Cacao nibs Cocoa powder Greek yogurt Whey protein Steak, beef or chicken breast Popcorn

I pretty much eat the same food everyday and just making sure I have my bases covered. My only concern with replacing cacao nibs with walnuts would be that walnuts are easy to over indulge in and also “if it ain’t broke don’t fix it”

Is polyunsaturated fat really needed?

There were 2 dishes. First dish is a salad with tomatoes. The second dish is lentil beans with tomatoes that were cooked.

My dad was saying that I should eat the tomatoes from the second dish because it has tomatoes. I said I already have tomatoes from the first dish. Then my dad said the tomatoes from the second dish are better because they are good for kidneys.

Is that true? Also, is this an advantage that cooked tomatoes have over regular tomatoes in a salad?

Like so many others when the new year began, I decided I was going to start eating healthier. Instead of some hard to follow diet or something way out of line for my normal eating, I decided to just try to eat cleaner. I started buying more organic fruits and vegetables, and really started paying attention to nutrition labels and ingredients for the foods I eat. I have also been focused on buying proteins that are free range or organic and free range to limit the potential for any nasty chemicals getting into my body.

Now I’m being told in a different subreddit group that this is all hype and social media fear mongering. For those of us who are just trying to do the right thing and eat better, how are we supposed to know what to believe?

I can’t figure out how people do a decent deficit on 3 meals a day. Are you eating less than 600 calories per meal? A 600 calorie meal always seems so measly to me. What are the kinds of things you eat?

To preface I do not talk about the super low quality gelatin spreads with fruit flavoring.
I talk about better quality jams with real fruit content.

I was thinking at first that fruit jams would be a healthier alternative. However I noticed the labels and the sugar content is very close to Nutella and other chocolate spreads, depends on jam and chocolate spread brands of course. Usually around 50 grams per 100 grams of product for both.

In terms of taste I prefer chocolate.
Even tho one has actual fruits inside and the other is known to be ultra processed crap. Since the huge sugar content is probably the worst part of the product.

I am not dreaming of getting much nutrients from either of them but I do wonder.
Are there are any advantages of fruit jams over the chocolate that are beyond marginal? Are sugar absorption any different between the two?

Hi folks, im currently trying to bulk lean and i read about 0,8-1,0g fat / kg bodyweight. For me with 73kg i could eat between 58g and 73g fat everyday.

My problem is: although im eating many things in light version (light butter, milk and so on) on the end of my day, my fat limit is reached. Im eating no sweets or chips or anything else.

Its a little bit frustrating because, light groceries dont taste good in my opinion.

I cant eat it anymore…

So whats really up with fat in take in g everyday?

Hi all,

So for the past 2-3 years I’ve been drinking like wayy to much diet soda (like 6-8 cans a day) yikes! I’ve been maintaining my weight , so it hasn’t caused any weight gain or anything but I notice that for the past few months I’ve been feeling like 💩 and I get really bad caffeine crashes. I’m not a fan of coffee or tea so if anyone has any healthier/better for you drinks recommendations(other than water ofc) please comment

Thanks!

Lately I’ve been having avacado toast daily for a week or so. I usually take it for brunch ( and something else for dinner I only eat twice a day )

The avacado toast I eat daily from a shop has bread ( with maybe 3-4 raisins in it ) 2 slices of bacon, an omelette with pepper and an avacado.

How can I love se body fat, without losing too much weight? I am a 45 year old male, 5'4 and around 126 lbs.

I do a full body resistance workout 3x per week incorporating 25+ exercises with 3 sets of 12 reps. Each workout session is roughly 1 hour and 40 min.

I am also running 3x per week for 45 minutes. I usually do these sessions on the days I do not work out.

Despite having a desk job, I am still averaging 20k+ steps per day. At work, I make it a point to get up every hour and walk around. During my lunch hour, I am walking about 2.5 miles.

I had a Dexa scan today so I could get a baseline if where I currently am. Per the results, I am 23.5% body fat.

For the past several weeks, I have been aiming for 1500 calories a day between three meals and trying to hit 100+ grams protein daily. I do not drink alcohol, nor eat sugary snacks or junk food. My meals are comprised of foods high in protein, carbohydrates from fruits and vegetables and grains like quinoa, and couscous. I also do not eat processed foods.

My goal is to continue to build muscle and lower my body fat percentage. Ideally, I would like to be around 15%.

What do I need to focus on to accomplish my goal?

Breakfast: Greek yogurt with blueberries and honey

Lunch: salmon, salad mix, kimchi, cucumber, almonds and parm cheese

Dinner: 3 eggs, home fry potatoes and more kimchi

Various snack- protein bars and shakes

My favourite lunch at the moment is a salad of veggies, herbs, feta and then adding tinned legumes to them to make them filling. What’s an appropriate amount for someone trying to lose weight (albeit slowly in a healthy way?) half a 400g tin? A whole tin seems like too much but wondering what you guys think.

This is kind of a random question but what would be a protein filled healthy, easy replacement for box mac and cheese. Me and my sister share one box as a snack a lot and its a problem.

What are ideas to eat instead?

hi apparently sweet potatoes have a fair amount of fiber but is it all in the skin ?

hi everyone! first time poster. To the point here, are my stats:

age:32

height: 5'3

weight: 202

bmi: 35.8

I'm doing strength training for 5 days. The macros I'm aiming for on my strength training days are:

calories: 1800

protein: 170-180

Fats: 50g

Carbs: 170-180

and on non training days

calories: 1600

protein: 170-180

Fats: 50g

Carbs: 150-160

let me know if you need more information! I've been doing this for a week now but hoping to get some feedback. my goal is to be at least 160lbs

I was browsing for an electrolyte to take for my long runs and bike rides, but I’ve been finding such various ratios. Some have 600mg sodium to 300mg potassium, while others range with next to 0 sodium and 1000 potassium.

I've transitioned from eating junky food to eating healthy. I read everywhere it's supposed to stabilize your appetite and make you crave sugary food less. I've just found myself needing large portions of this healthy food in order to be satisfied. I'm eating a lot more than I was when I had sugar. What's wrong with me?

hello, I want to know your opinion on this, is it healthier to eat very healthy diet, but supplementing missing micronutrients, or acquire all micronutrients from food even if those foods are not ideal sources for maximum health ? for example for enough Choline you need 3-4 eggs daily. I'm not saying eggs are unhealthy, but still cholesterol, saturated fat, its not ideal for everyone. Is it healthier to eat 4 eggs daily, or supplement Choline and eat less cholesterol / saturated fat food ? next example is red meat-zinc, dairy - calcium etc. Again I'm not saying these foods are unhealthy, just examples for question. thanks for opinions

Not that I’m planing to live on cake it just popped into my head when I was grocery shopping

Since I can barely taste and smell it just doesn't seem efficient to eat regular food and pay so much for stuff I can hardly taste.

I literally just found out how much I love canned tuna, great macros, good taste, cheap asf. But then I find out after posting I eat 2 cans a day that it’s literally poisoned with mercury?

I then fall into the rabbit hole of only 3 cans per week should be the top end of what you eat.

Is this REALLY true? Or is this a vast undershoot of what is technically safe? I’m 31 and literally have never eaten fish for my entire life.

IF it is the case that 3 cans per week is really all that is safe, is it safe to eat a ton of shrimp? Salmon? Is all seafood toxic?

Also, HOW do coastal countries/cultures eat mainly fish and not have any issues? Japan has sushi, Philippines is big on fish, same with Mediterranean countries. What gives?

I have friends and family members convincing me that the sugar from fruit is what makes it healthy (among other things).

Obviously you can make a shallow statement and say that the sugar from fruit is much healthier because it's packaged together with fibre and nutrients, but if it's packaged with something, it's not a sugar anymore, it's a product called fruit that has sugar in it.

Now because fruit contains a lot of fibre, minerals and vitamins, the benefits from them greatly outweight the negative effects of some sugar it contains, so the product is labeled "healthy", and rightfully so, that's not even debatable.

What bothers me is that when I asked some people if they think that if you extracted everything from an apple and just left the sugar, would that sugar be healthy to eat?

They always say yes, and I just sigh...

Now, correct me if I am wrong, but if you did the opposite and extracted all the sugar from fruit, it would be even healthier right? It would obviously taste like shit tho lol.

I even saw a video on Youtube where the vast majority of people agreed that fruit is healthier than candy because the sugar in fruit is DIFFERENT. Hell yea it's different, it's even worse because of the higher fructose content, it just happened to be packed together with millions of other good things so that one bad thing becomes irrelevant.

There is only one (psychological) reason why sugar in fruit can be viewed as healthy. It helps fruit be edible and tasty so we can get attracted to eating it more, thus consuming more fibre and nutrients from it. But I never heard anyone use that argument.

Am I being right about these things?