Get some protein in your diet

[Bruce Wayne]

I know the fat thread was shut down, but also that many of you are looking to keep your weight down. Turns out protein is the key. That's what a study by Cambridge Uni has shown.

http://www.adigaskell.org/blog/2011/12/08/get-some-protein-in-you-to-perk-you-up/

Protein boosts levels of orexin in our brains, which in turn makes our metabolism higher, makes us feel more alert mentally, more active physically and so on. Sugar has the opposite effect and lowers levels of orexin in our brain. If you gotta get your sugar fix though, have it with some protein as the presence of the protein dampens the negative impact of the sugar.

 

[BigBlueBalls]

Did you catch the recent report on Cancer causes in the UK?
Smoking top, lack of veggies in mens diet, and for women it was being overweight.

As for Protein, some protein is very bad for you, only organic chicken can be trusted as the rest is Frankenstein stuff. Cow milk is not perfect. Farmer Salmon is packed with PCB's. Too much red meat is harmful (over 1 - 2 servings a week). Pork is farmed and full of junk. Shellfish is dangerous because of what they are (filters that absorb pollution and heavy metals).
Have been researching diet recently (athlete and boxer) and the rubbish in supposedly clean food is mindblowing.
They get 4 pieces of fruit a day, deep dwelling fish (grilled), wholegrain stuff, all the green veg you can get (for fibre).

Atkins is rollercoaster stuff, what weight you lose you pile straight back on the moment you stop that 'diet'.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

*groan* so you're disputing the findings by one of the leading universities in the world on the impact protein has on orexin levels?

 

[BigBlueBalls]

No not that, just that some protein is actually harmful. And the simplistic nature of conveying 'protein' as some wonderful fix is misleading to those capable of thinking for themselves as well as dangerous to those to thick to even consider the ramifications of smoking 20 a day, let alone their protein intake because McDonalds burgers have 'beef' in them.

Protein is not the key on its own, eating clean and regular exercise is the path toward healthy living. Sorry to rain on your parade.

Go *groan* elsewhere.

 

[icburns]

Next you'll say I can't enjoy a nice bit of cheese on toast ffs. I'll eat whatever I damn well please.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Well yeah, of course it is. It's not saying that protein is a cure all for every darn thing. What it's saying is that eating protein increases a nice brain chemical, which has many positive implications. FFS, it's hardly advocating wrapping that intake of protein with a gazillion tonnes of fat like you have with a Big Mac. It is saying it increases orexin, which is a very good thing. No more, no less. You read into it whatever you like.

 

[BigBlueBalls]

Next you'll say I can't enjoy a nice bit of cheese on toast ffs. I'll eat whatever I damn well please.

And the burden to the NHS that taxpayers pay for... yawn.... social responsibility..... yawn.... Denmark clamping down on Butter.... yawn....... the simple pleasures of simple people..... yawn........

Lead a horse to water, cannot make it drink. I'm all for Education, I appreciate it isn't for all people. I hope that doesn't make me a snob.

 

[BigBlueBalls]

Well yeah, of course it is. It's not saying that protein is a cure all for every darn thing. What it's saying is that eating protein increases a nice brain chemical, which has many positive implications. FFS, it's hardly advocating wrapping that intake of protein with a gazillion tonnes of fat like you have with a Big Mac. It is saying it increases orexin, which is a very good thing. No more, no less. You read into it whatever you like.

'whatever you like' Like a gazillion tonnes of fat ?
There was a clotting agent developed in the 40's that somehow made its way onto the blackmarket and thus when ingested increased a nice brain chemical.
Positive implications? Clean protein I am all for (No jokes please white knuckle ride afficionados) but, beef is full of hormones and antibiotics, pork is full of fat, farmed fish builds up DEADLY levels of chemicals in the brain (imagine Fish CJD). Had you clarified that you were advocating the cleaner spectrum of protein as being beneficial to brain chemistry and body then that would have cleared things up for 'the certain element in every clubs support'.
Battery Chicken is bad, only last month did some Welsh Sheep farmers get the green (no pun) light to start selling lamb again after 25 years.
One needs to be careful making broad sweeping generalisations.

 

[icburns]

And the burden to the NHS that taxpayers pay for... yawn.... social responsibility..... yawn.... Denmark clamping down on Butter.... yawn....... the simple pleasures of simple people..... yawn........

Lead a horse to water, cannot make it drink. I'm all for Education, I appreciate it isn't for all people. I hope that doesn't make me a snob.

For me, our understanding of diet and nutrition contradicts itself every few years.

Here's a decent bit from Lewis Black on the issue.
[video=google;4734288321288059868]http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4734288321288059868[/video]
And this one a bit less related.
[video=youtube;tXS5GBuk-GQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=tXS5GBuk-GQ[/video]

 

[Pblueman]

Solution is easy, find your local smallholder and get your meat from them, i sell half a pig for £100. roughly 30-35kilos in weight. And i know there isnt any rubbish in them and they arent fatty. Same with others i know that do Lamb and Beef and chicken.

 

[BigBlueBalls]

One word Ic, ''Dasani''.

 

[BigBlueBalls]

Solution is easy, find your local smallholder and get your meat from them, i sell half a pig for £100. roughly 30-35kilos in weight. And i know there isnt any rubbish in them and they arent fatty. Same with others i know that do Lamb and Beef and chicken.

When they cotton on, ''trust'' will be sold in bottles too.

 

[Pblueman]

??????????

 

[icburns]

??????????

Classic start to a Hilga from Norway thread.

One word Ic, ''Dasani''.

Bottled water does me head in.

 

[CahillsCornerFlag]

Thanks for sharing, I'm going on a bit of a health kick as of Sunday. Just gotta get the christmas meal out of the way.