8 Health Foods That Are Bad For You

As you probably expected, I loved this post.

Especially the part about salads! Girls always order salads when they go on dates because they don’t want to seem like they’re some hearty, thick-ankled pig. But what they NEVER realise is that their “balsamic vinegrette” dressing is just sugary CRAP. Ooh it’s clear! must be light and healthy! It doesn’t even taste good.

I saw a commercial for the McDonalds “Asian Chicken Salad” the other day. These weird distorted cartoony women are all doing yoga, then get a craving for a wilty, untossed fast-food salad! So they all finish off their healthfest by ordering some Asian Chicken Salads. After some quick Google-ing, I discovered that the single serving packet of “asian” dressing had like 800 calories in it, and the entire rest of the salad had around 40.

What’s the deal with everyone assuming asian food is healthy? Tons of girls I know seem to believe this weird myth. Is it because asian people are skinny? Asian people eat a ton of lean fish, THAT’s why theyre all skinny! General tso’s and seshwuan (sp?) beef is NOT HEALTHY. It’s just grodie-ass meat thrown in a vat of gooey spicey syrupy shit.

EVERYONE GO EAT AN APPLE

Odwalla makes a super food bar that rocks.

If you make a Salad right, you dont even need dressing.. and it taste friggin awsome. Dont use iceburg though, their are alot of good greens out there.

On Seinfeld last night Jerry exposed Fat Free Frozen Yogurt for having fat in it. Rudy Giuliani used ending the falseness of frozen yogurt’s claims as a campaign point, and won!

There will always be something healthier to eat than what you’re eating right now, so it’s all about what level of eating fanaticism you can live with.

The two energy bars that Tynan offers as good are natural and raw, but half of their calories come from fat. Healthy fat, yes, but if you want to fuel your body optimally you won’t get that from 50% fat. You need more along the lines of 40% protein, 40% carb, 20% fat. If those bars were your only or primary source of fat for the day, then fine. But otherwise, it’s not exactly that great.

Diet Pop. Aspartaime poisoning, ever heard of it? It is a condition that causes loss of sensation in the extremities, memory loss and seizures. THAT’S what’s wrong with diet pop.
Salad. Eat too much of it and kiss your gall bladder goodbye. The gall bladder breaks down lipids (fats). Lettuce is made of little tiny squares of condensed lipid. They are not the fat that winds up as cottage cheese thighs, but the gall bladder can’t tell the difference, gets overloaded and it feels like a knife getting rammed into your stomach. I work at a large metropolitan hospital, I see it every day. Nasty Stuff.

Aimee — I think your restaurant is probably the exception. Most “balsamic vinegarettes” at restaurants seem to have a lot of sugar added. In fact I have stopped even asking for balsamic vinegar at restaurants since they usually give me their sugary “vinegarette” version. Usually now I just ask for vinegar and oil, and if they actually give me balsamic vinegar and olive oil, it’s a bonus (which actually happened the other day at a local pub).

Some examples of healthy snacks:

edamame

popcorn cooked over a stove in olive
oil, or air popped

apples (I keep a bag of them on my desk and eat at least 2-3 per day)

fat free yogurt sweetened with fruit juice is pretty good. I add a scoop of protein powder to make it even better for you

The most important thing is to develop a habit of healthy eating. I actually eat about one unhealthy meal a week, but it’s usually not too bad and is the exception to the rule. I live on salmon and vegetables, basically.

Jlaix – yeah, there are reasons to eat baked potatoes and brown rice, but if you’re not working out, you shouldn’t. There are even reasons to eat pure dextrose in some workout plans. Once I move downtown and have easy access to a gym and whole foods, I’m going to begin the most hardcore workout plan ever.

I look forward to the song… let me know when the live performance is. And, if you need a gangsta rap interlude, you know who to call…

Tynan

Salmon and Vegetables rock, but isn’t it good to get a varied diet?

Magnus: Excellent point. Salmon is great, and can be eaten often, but a more balanced and healthy diet should include other meat/protein sources such as chicken, lean beef, soy, and whey.

How about basmati rice? (which is a staple of mine) It’s far ligher than most rices. But it does have a white appearance.

I think what people misunderstand about Asian food is that it is not only their diet that keeps them healthy, but rather their active lifestyle and ways of dealing with stress.

Even though I am Italian and was exposed to a lot of pasta, heavy cheeses and red meat growing up, I now tend to follow a cuisine that is more a mix between Asian (i.e. brown/long-grain rice, raw/fresh fish, lean pork, lotsa veggies mostly steamed) and Mediterranean (i.e. plain yogurt instead of mayo, extra virgin olive oil, grape seed oil, leafy greens, lamb, fresh fruit, etc.).

Stopped drinking soda pop three years ago and have never felt better. I stopped fast food five years ago and it was the best thing I ever did for myself.

What are your thoughts on alcohol, in moderation it is supposed to be good for you. I drink Guinness and Cabernet Sauvignon mostly.

Also, don’t drink/eat decaf or diet anything, including coffee, it is all bad for you. Often worst than the fat and caffeine themselves.

Which BoomiBar did you mean?

Dont be crazy! Rice is delicious says much of the worlds population and so is juice and so is pasta and its all much better than just chomping on carrots (and the 4 other items allowed in a raw diet) all day long. Asians are thin and healthy – ( Japanese from Japan arent more prone to diabetes -look it up) they eat white rice or some type of rice noodle every single day- twice a day at that but its usually combined with tons of varieties of vegetables and fruits that westerners are not yet familiar with (my parents grow about 50 different varieties in their back yard) and yes smaller portions of lean meat. Im asian – healthy and active as a whistle – im gorgeous – strong- great skin and hair. i climb mountains for a good time and run multiple businesses. but i didn’t need to have everything i put into my body to be good for me, just most of it. the other stuff – well it just needed to be not bad for me and well a little fat and a little sugar is ok too if it puts smiles on faces – in fact its good for your heart via a healthy happy spirit and soul. but obsessive neurotic rigid and unrealistic health criteria are probably heart attack inducing via unnecessary anxiety and stress – and by the sound of your article- hasn’t made you a very pleasant person to be around. Serve your healthy goal- let go of the anger and judgments and take life with a just a little stride.

well its late and im rambling but ill sign off with some
info on white rice provided consistant with data backed by scientist and medical groups:
The Good Grain
Rice is high in complex carbohydrates, contains almost no fat, is cholesterol free, and is low in sodium, unless you add salt to the cooking water. Generally all rice – both brown and white – is considered a good source of vitamins and minerals. Although almost all the nutrients are stripped from white rice when the bran layer is removed during milling, ninety percent of all American grown rice is enriched with thiamine, niacin and iron and in some instances riboflavin, Vitamin D and Calcium. White rice because it is enriched has more iron and thiamine than brown rice. Brown rice has five times more Vitamin E and three times more magnesium. Brown rice provides twice as much fiber as white rice, but it is not an especially rich source of fiber. On the other hand, rice bran alone is an excellent source of fiber. Rice is a fair source of protein containing all eight essential amino acids. It is low in the amino acid lysine, which is found in beans making the classic combination of rice and beans, popularly known as complimentary proteins, a particularly healthful dish. Rice is gluten free and easily digestible making it a good choice for infants and people with wheat allergies or digestive problems. A half cup of cooked white rice provides 82 calories; an equal amount of brown rice provides 89 calories.

hopefully this will work to shed some light however if not – i really dont care- i was just pissed that you said rice doesnt taste good. thats as damning as saying ice cream or watermelon taste bad. how dare you.

This is depressing. I eat what I want. Chips, pizza cookies, etc. I exercise daily and I’m not too overweight, I’m happy, I used to be anorexic, always obsessing about food. I’m much happier now.

Friends… this article is ABSURD. It is based purely on OPINION and nothing else. (and you know, opinions are like a**, everyone has one). There are scientific or statistical evidence to contradict most of the things mentioned…. thouhg in other sense, you mention absolutely any food item and you can find something BAD in it…. Raw carrot… well, bad.. bad… no matter how much you clean them, there are dirt, bacteria, bugs poop remaining on them… point is, just because you can find one thing bad in any food does not mean they are bad for health….
the prime example mentioned above is RICE — not only it is absurd opinion above about whether its healthy or not, Tynan went ahead to mention that ” I seriously don’t understand why people eat rice. It doesn’t even taste good”…. it shows he/she’s like a frog in a pond for whom the pond is the world… the above sentence is not only offensive, it takes away whatever little credibility anyone can associate with this article….
so, readers, read this article as any other opinion and just don’t make it change your healthy lifestyle for a bad one….

Just because you don’t understand rice in it’s various forms does not mean that many healthy people with balanced diets do not. Rice is a staple in many parts of the world and it’s been working out all right for them.

Here is my stance on some of these positions.

1. This is true, the excess use of diary products on potatoes is high in fat and cholestrol, which really ruins the nutritional value of the potato.

3. Brown rice is good for you though. Brown rice is a neutrul substance with no negative qualities and thus it is often used as a source of protein. These simple harmony or neutrality makes it a staple in healthy diets such as the macrobiotic diet. Cancer patients often eat brown rice.

6. Indeed, yogurt does have a lot of sugar and it is a diary product with some cholestrol. It is much better then ice cream though, especially since it is mixed with healthy foods like raisins and nuts. Healthy people often eat yogurt simply because it tastes good and you can mix healthy foods in with it.

7. Lettuce has absolutely no negative qualities and it is a rich source of vitamin A and C which are both essential parts of the dietary guidelines for reducing risks of cancer. They are both great antioxidants. Lettuce also has a lot of Vitiman K, Thiamin, Riboflavin, Vitamin B6, Folate, Iron, Potassium and Manganese.

Salad dressing? Salad dressings are often low in fat, and rather high in sodium. There are some bad dressings though such as mayonnaise, which has saturated fat and cholestrol.

8. It is often true that energy bars aren’t made well, some are better though. Energy bars use oats which are whole grains. Whole grains are very good for you. You can potentially make a very healthy energy bar or oatmeal cookie, just insert some oats and some raisins and cook them for an hour and you will have a healthy and vegan cookie or energy bar.

Check out Rebar!

It’s a 100% all fruit and vegetable bar that gives you a few servings of each in each bar. Granted, it’s not as good as eating raw veggies but if you flying or on a long car trip where the food options are fat laden meat and sugary starches it’s a great alternative. They kind of taste like Kagome juices made into a chewy bar, kind of tart and earthy with a bit of sweetness, from raisins if I remember correctly.

I wouldn’t be so sure about all these claims, especially the potatoes, rice and salad.

Nutritional advice is best left to people who really depend on it, like athletes strength coaches and the like.

Butch

Do you know what would be a good website to go to to find a list of good Healthy foods, posibly vegan.

I’m going ot try the vegan for 1 month thing.

http://www.whfoods.com/genpage.php?tname=foodspice&dbid=48

White rice is pretty bad for you but I can’t cut it out completely. There are some foods that just go with rice, like hotdogs and ketchup. Idk, maybe it’s a cultural thing.

I hate half of that food anyways(i’m a super picky eater). But i LOVE rice to me it has a falvor. Also salad dressings just gross.
I’m a vegetarian and I am no hippy, my dad would probably kill me if i was.
Energy bars are made out of that? never liked ‘em never will just wish i would of invented them.

Some nice points, but I have two comments: 1. baked potato sans anything else added makes for a great snack and a lot of good calories especially if you’re trying to gain weight. 2. White rice is good if combined with a protein like chicken or fish – this is why Asians are so lean. I prefer to mix brown and white rice together.

You say only the unhealthy things about everything. Like there are probiotics in yogurt, there is whole wheat in crackers, rice cinatins wheat which is still good for you,ebergy bars are supposed to have sugar and stuff because you eat them usually before a sport or physical activity where you are going to burn it off,and even though I don’t like vegetables salad is obviously good for you because you are supposed to have 5-10 servings a day and you can’t just go on saying “oh, lettuce is bad for”. Like, if you were to have 5 servings of it a day, that would be your vegetables for the day.

Vegeterian food is healthier because meat usually has additives or chemicals in it.

Who is one their high horse? …who I ask you? Eat something that isn’t processed and you will be fine. Yes, raw fruits and vegies, real meat, and excersize with reduced stress will make you live longer. But.. Eating whole foods regardless if it is a baked potato or brown rice will provide nutrients. But you are probably to busy preaching that people are balls out all the time to realize that you fetish with what you believe is best may not work for everyone.

so, after spending a month in Europe (where they don’t use salad dressing) I now cannot stand to have salad dressing. It messes up with the goodness of the salad — if your salad has veggies and such on it instead of just lettuce. Also, I love to have spinach leaves and mixed greens for the base of my salads — I hate iceburg lettuce.

The reason I’m even here is because I just got back from getting a stir fry (which I know isn’t exactly healthy, buti load it with veggies). Anywho, I had the option of noodles, brown rice and white rice. I knew that white rice is def. out, so i was between brown rice and noodles. I went with the brown rice, but was curious about which was really healthier (and i don’t make it a habit of having a stir-fry).

Anyway, I hope everyone has a wonderful and healthy day!

Do you want to know why there are so many conflicting statements on this post? The answer is simple. Tell me what type of diet you want to go on and I will find evidence (if you call non-scientific internet info evidence) that supports your diet. Want to be healthy, its simple. Exercise and a well balanced diet is where its at. Depriving your body of useful foods because one negative aspect of the food is bad. Meat alternatives such as tofu have been popular for years. Recent studies are questioning the safety of those foods. Stick with the basics. Balanced diets consist of foods that can be found at any local grocery store. Whole foods and other stores are not concerned with your health(sorry if you have hurt feeling). These stores are interested in one thing, emptying your pockets. Shop and eat smart. It works. Ask my 90 year old Grandmother. She has no clue was the Whole Foods market is!

potatoes and rice are extremely healthy for you. the skin of a potato has, by weight, way more vitamin c than an orange. potatoes also have more potassium than a banana. and of course rice, esp. brown rice, is super healthy as well. with unpolished brown rice your getting a completely whole grain food. and rice are packed full of amino acids, and guess what? if you eat rice and beans in the same meal ( i love red beans and rice, as well as black bean rice burrito) you get all the amino acids to have a complete protien! you should really research what is actually healthy and what isnt.

You’re all a bunch of idiots. Juice IS god for you. You just need to get natural juice, which isn’t that difficult. And Salad IS nutritional, as well as rice (some varieties). Get your heads out of the clouds. Look around you. Go to a supermarket. There are energy bars that are GOOD for you too. Cliff bars, for example. Natural and organic foods all around you, though sometimes more expensive.

Some things you said are true (diet soda, energy bars, WHITE crackers, etc) . But some things youre saying are really getting my goat.
Baked potatoes ARE good for you. They contain potassium, vitamin C, Folic Acid, Magnesium, Zinc & Copper, with the skins containing a very large amount of fiber! Also, potato is only high – GI eaten plain, eating it with something like low fat cottage cheese, or even a drizzle of olive oil reduces the GI. If you let it cool down, potatoes are also a great source of resistant starch (i.e. like fiber, part of it doesn’t actually get absorbed by the body). Potatoes are super-nutritious, as long as you don’t mutilate them by turning them into french fries. Sweet & blue potatoes also contain various antioxidants which give them their colour.

Rice is very good for you; it has niacin, B vitamins, and other nutrients, just do the research you were supposed to do before misleading people with this post of yours. True, white rice has less fiber, but for some people who have delicate digestion and can’t handle much fiber, white rice is actually a better alternative; it does have less nutrients, but theyre still there.

As for crackers, white crackers are no good. But wholegrain crackers are a great alternative if you must have crackers. Fruit is the best snack, but for those who can’t limit their snacks to fruit, wholegrain crackers are great.

As for pasturisation – do NOT drink unpasturised milk! Is the high risk of contracting gastroenteritis really worth it? The reason that outbreaks are relatively rare is because we try to keep everything as germ free as possible! Goodness! As for juice, its safer to drink unpasturised, but then again youd be better off just eating the fruit. On that you are right.

But in general, you need to do research before posting stuff like this.

So what this article and everyone else is saing is…you pretty much can’t eat anything because SOMETHING in everything causes some sort of medical condition. Just eat decent and don’t eat fast food…I eat salads and I’m fine, I drink diet soda and I’m fine…if I had to stop eating everything that caused cancer, I think I’d live off almost nothing.

It must be nice to be able to eat healthy and afford it. I live on $664 a month. Tell me how I’m supposed to buy fresh stuff all the time and buy cheap things that aren’t sugary. Please. I’d love your input.

to be honest i was overweight and eating the foods you mentioned help me drop 48pnds!! within the last 6 months.my opinion i DONT agree but hey to each there own.i excersize daily aswell.i portion my foods.i drink no pop or juice my choice.and i gave up snacks like cookies and such my choice.eat what you want just portion and excersize daily you’ll be fine.my mom is 47 125lbs excersizes daily and eats everything!!! but by moderation!

Personally, I enjoyed the article. I disagree with the comment “Eating healthy is all about making the less detrimental choice as most of the time you don’t have the best options layed in front of you.” In my opinion, eating healthy is about avoiding foods that are unhealthy and eating foods that are healthy. You can still choose the lesser of two evils and be unhealthy. Just because you are less unhealthy doesn’t qualify you as healthy. However, I do believe choosing the lesser of two evils is a good option if there isn’t another option. Lol…Once again, just voicing my opinion. Please don’t take it offensively.

Um….potato’s are high in all kinds of nutrients. Vitamin C, B6, Copper, Potasium, Manganese, and fiber. I think the point is more what you put on the potato is what is bad (butter, bacon sour cream, etc.). However they are nutritious, cheap and easy to make and still delicious with a little flax oil and liquid aminos or filled with vegetarian chili (especially on a cold day)

Oh and for the commenter that mentioned eating canned foods; frozen is far better than canned. I avoid canned goods and choose frozen because it is the best-known way to retain the nutritional value of our food. I’ve heard it is even better than fresh produce since fresh deteriorates as fast as we put it in the fridge (although I still prefer fresh).

There’s no healthy soil anymore. There must be at least a couple of dozens plants contribute to healthy soil, different sort of trees dropping their leaves etc to produce healthy soil.

It’s all disappeared, destroyed. Our food is just a joke, a way to make money. It doesn’t really matter what you eat, it’s all a bad joke. Enjoy soda pop and ice cream, at least it has some taste to it.

Welcome to the world that was created to produce money.

Wow so basically we should all eat twigs, leaves, and berrys? But wait! There is probally something bad about that too. U should know that all foods are okay to eat. Some are better than others but you shouldn’t label something as horrible and bad for you. Everything is okay in moderation. U should like me when I was in my eating disorder. Everything was bad to me. Now I’m learning more about food and understanding nutrition. Maybe you should too

**sound not should

Honestly… well, first some context. I too am a lifestyle entrepenreur – make enough money in less than 10 hours a week to travel, socialise and enjoy life.

Your 8 points on nutrition… honeslty, you just sound like a whiney contraryist here. “I don’t like it, and it’s not so healthy, so fuck that food”. I’d leave these posts to people who actually know what they’re talking about, rather than taking another opportunity to prove how “off-beat” you are.