Meat Treat

There are a lot of natural, organic, gluten free type choices available in this country, but many of them are pricey. I doubt the working porr can afford to eat a sensible balanced diet.

I practice fasting, total abstinence from food for two days a week, sometimes more. This switches the body into repair mode by reducing the levels of ILGF, research suggests reduction in cardio-vascular, cancer, diabetes, alzheimer's and other problems Food tastes better when I do eat and I can pig out whilst maintaining a healthy weight, mid point in healthy BMI Also, I don't eat meat, only fish, vegetables, fruit and fungi all the best, urban

I've started to get more conscious about what I'm putting into my body. I've pretty much stopped eating fast food; now, it's a rare treat, like it was when I was a kid. I think that the increased incidences of autism, ADD and such are due in large part to the amount of processed crap we feed ourselves and our children.

"We" went too far a long time ago with not being sensible and are now reaping the whirlwind. As long as there is an income disparity, people will be eating what they can afford and unfortunately that is the cheap foods that are unhealthy. I've learned to stay away from the processed foodstuffs. Rarely eat beef products. I stay mainly with seafood & poultry & most of the time, I'm sitting down to just vegetables with a small portion of CHO's.

People have imbibed this belief that eating healthfully is "expensive" or "difficult." It is said that good food is not "tasty." Supposedly, actually cooking one's meals from scratch is too time-consuming. That is all, of course, a pack of lies. If eating healthfully were expensive, my boyfriend and I would not be able to do it. If it did not taste good, I would not eat it; I'm a bit of a foodie. And too time-consuming? Please... It often takes me less than half-an-hour to put together a healthy and delicious meal. Or I will toss some stuff together and let it simmer in the crock pot.

In many ways I'm glad I don't have any children as it must be a nightmare to feed them so-called 'healthier' food nowadays. The problem (I feel) is that many women my Mums age (60s) cannot be bothered cooking, so instead of the daughters learning to cook off their Mums the Mums are becoming more like them..so no-one learns how to cook..and it doesn't help that Cookery had been off the School Curriculum for years. I did do Cookery at school but only for a year, I think it was..but it was better than nothing. We also get bombarded in the media by tales of woe concerning lots of foods, not just the fatty ones. People are confused by what they can and cannot eat. In our case we very rarely eat bacon, even though we like it. It wasn't a conscious decision to leave it off the shopping list, we just find it a rip-off for what you get so rarely does it go in the shopping trolley, unless it's on offer. At least with sausages (Morrisons have their own butchers in-store making these things) I can take the skins off to make sausage rolls. They go further that way. I would say that - even if we carried on eating processed foods - the bill would be about the same, which begs the question. Why aren't more people doing what I'm doing? I shall tell you why. They haven't got the time. I can honestly say that if I was working full-time like John and getting as tired as John I wouldn't have the time or the inclination to cook.

Why would anyone want three fast food meals a day? And who would have (or give their children) fries and burgers as snacks? Is it really common? I must admit that we have lived on processed meats this week! That is mainly because I've not been shopping so I keep the odd pack of chicken burgers and fish fingers in the freezer for such times! I think it would be perfectly reasonable to go back to balanced diets. I don't know about meal planning though. I tried that once and I couldn't manage it!

it really depends on the person i guess..i myself rarely eat 3 meals a day..just don't..and have cut back severly with more no-meat days..but i can't give up bacon.i like it too much.but i do feel guilty as hell about eating it..

I feel much better when I make my meals myself at home and avoid processed and frozen foods. I try not to eat too much red meat but nearly all our meat here in the US is bad. The animals we eat are fed hormones and given chemicals in their food to make them grow bigger and faster and we eat that stuff when we eat the meat. The wheat we eat has been genetically modified to the point where it doesn't even resemble wheat on a molecular basis. A piece of bread made with that wheat will spike your blood sugar faster than a candy bar! Our food is poisoned, but fast food is even worse. I try to eat things without meat most of the time and I think that helps a bit. But everything we eat or drink now contains harmful chemicals and hormones. Even if we were to return to sensible meal planning and balanced diets we'd be doomed.

When first read the "Meat Treat" title wondered what kind of conversation this would be Anywhos...No, I don't think we are beyond repair at focusing on healthy life styles. There is certainly enough awareness out there but again it's up to the consumer when it comes to check out time. You can bring the information to the customer, but you can't make them buy it.

I decided a few years ago to start researching the food I wanted to buy. I eat organic, Trader Joe's is not that expensive a store. In good weather there are a lot of farmer's markets. I live in an area where there are farms all over the place. I don't eat much meat, mostly fish. I take vitamins and supplements (more research) that I think I need. I stay away from doctors and I haven't been sick in years. I started doing all this in my late 50's. It seems that when you're not young anymore you start worrying about your own mortality. I write articles on health and all the unhealthy foods on the market today. It's absolutely horrifying what the major food companies and the FDA are doing to the population. The medical profession, too. They're literally killing everyone. But people have babies every day so there's plenty more where we came from. They aren't worried about a people shortage.

I saw that on cnn health. Do you think they mean all meats? I didnt really pay attention to the report today.

Your concern about tha fast food expanding in our daily means acctually provoke a deep conbsideration about why the fast food industries can take place, even based on our knowledge that these kind of food deprive our health. Talking about the under-qualified fast food, there is an exposure recently on KFC. The spotlight is the chicken processed in a special way, which definately ruins our health, but hidden and welcomed for a long time. In commonsense, such kind of exploding news may have awaken those addicted fast food takers, but what confused me was that there were still many seats occupied. So what kind of magic of KFC make people risk their health. and HAVE WE GONE TOO FAR TO RETURN TO SENSIBLE MEAL PLANNING AND BALANCED DIETS? I have considered two factors including convenience and price. I think it is not impossible for the traditional food industry inporting the idea of convenience. I can boldly imagine that the style characterized by different food under the same operation mode may be ok. Of course whether the traditional food industry can adpat to the mode also remains to be explored. As for the price, can the merchants from traditional food industry make profits with lower price but good quality? It is also challenge that we need to be faced. Though the difficulties are in the way, but there is still a piece of chance, I believe, that will totally change the current situation and lead our food industry on the right path.

that is so true what we eat can and will over time cause us harm guess it is time to go on a water diet for me

I don't think we've gone too far, but it takes an concentrated effort to eat right any more. I think it's because fast food and "convenience" food is so common. You have to look for real food in the grocery store and sometimes you can't find it. We need to work toward getting rid of GMOs and we need to be cautious about eating food that's been raised on chemicals.

I've made a major change in the way I eat over the past five years or so. It doesn't take a lot of intelligence to see the articles and specials on TV about our health; they're everywhere! Anyone who cares at all about their health is making changes. I know that willpower has a lot to do with changing extremely bad habits but there is help everywhere you turn these days. I don't know why more people do not take advantage of it. Maybe they think they have more time or they just don't care about themselves. All of the fast food chains have begun offering healthy alternatives to all the fatty, grease- and salt-filled foods (although their versions of "healthy" foods are still not nearly as healthy as you can prepare yourself). They all offer at least a couple versions of green salads, apple slices in place of french fries/chips, fish and chicken in place of beef or pork, grilled instead of breaded and fried. These are healthier but still not healthy enough. It didn't take much curiosity on my part to do the small amount of investigating that I did to find out that these "healthy" alternatives are not as healthy as they try to make them seem. I cannot understand why people refuse to make themselves breakfast and lunch to take with them if they are in a hurry. It would seem to me that it would take less time, less money and be MUCH healthier to make meals at home and bring them to work with you as opposed to going out to a fast food place, ordering your food, waiting in line, bringing it back to work and eating it, then, of course, having all that packaging to throw away, adding to even more problems. We, as a society, may just have gone too long and too far to make the necessary changes, although it is always possible. I'd love to see far less obesity in our society. It's so very sad to see a fat mother and father toting a bunch of fat kids along with them, especially when seen in these fast food places. I just want to slap those burgers out of their hands and hand them a salad with fat free dressing. But, I can't do that, naturally, so I have to be content to eat my healthy foods and drinks and know that I'm not the one who has to have all the medications, special equipment and many more trips to the doctors because of weight-related health issues.

We grew up in our grandfather's farm in Uruguay South America there was not fast food to be had but that our mother cooked every thing was grown in the farm we even baked our own bread! I was introduced to hot dog at age 9 when visiting the big city and did not like it at all! today I Am 67 and seldom eat take away food I do still stick to the basics and my children are the same also they grew up in a different environment they still go for home made they all know how to cook! my son has his first baby and his wife and him cook home meals for their child.

Three fast food meals a day? Wow. I hardly ever eat fast foods because of where I live. Though I eat a lot of hamburger, does that matter it is not fast food hamburger? I don't know. But I eat hamburger almost every meal because its what is cheap typically. I eat veggies in it or rice, potatoes... there are a variety of ways we prepare the meal. I have a pretty balanced diet compared to 3 meals of complete fast food a day. I have no ideas about the rest of the world but I at least haven't gone too far to stay away from fast food myself. For them it will be harder with busy lifestyles and just habit. Perhaps the world is too far off to return.

Its never too late. You know i used to have the same routine. Eating meat filled pizza and zinger meals were a part of my life. So you know what happened I went from 55 kg to 95 kg in a year. Astounding right? And now its been more than two years and my weight is at 88 kg still. Its very difficult to keep away from junk. But now i feel guilty when i eat junk or if i eat something that I haven't cooked or if i eat something whose calorie count i am unaware of. But I didn't start big. I did time to time changes. Like first of all I started drinking 8 cups of water daily. Now If i drink less than 8 my body automatically asks for it. Being filled with water helped me cutting out soda from my life. 3 cans per day went down to 1 can per week which now I take occasionally. After that I started cooking for myself. After that I started taking raw veggies and ate very less meat. After that I introduced my body to the gym. I feel bad now if i miss gym. That's how my lifestyle is now. It took me two years to come to this stage but I made it and I am really happy about it. You only have to take a start and then you will see that you won't like junk anymore just like you don't like healthy food now.... Good luck

it is hard to maintain a balanced diets, especially you have a good budget and prefer to buy meats. im a teenager but for me sometimes I get to stay away from meats because there is a time that I eat a bunch of meat and on the next days I feel unexplainable pain on my nape, so I recall what im doing on fast few days and I remember that I eat a bunch of meat on my nephew's birthday. your right it is not recommended to eat more meat on a single day or else.