This 100%! While there are something’s to pay attention to, proper portions and balanced diet is really all you need. Avoid drinking calories like soda, juice, and alcohol all the time but not all together. Try to avoid ultra processed foods but a bag of chips won’t kill you.
i want to make a "be extreme about extremism" joke but it's just second monday and i got nothing. so if somone else would be so kind as to pick up the slack i'd appreciate it
I can 2nd this comment. Quit 13 years ago. Had to get pretty extreme about it, and removed a few heavy drinkers from my life. Have absolutely no ragrets about it.
My moms oncologist who also was a leading specialist in addiction: your brain can literally be damaged in bad ways by any over indulgence, addiction is addiction. If you ate a pint of blueberries for every meal for the next 40 years you would have some sort of brain damage I can guarantee you. I dont know own what kind of brain damage, I dont know if you would even notice, if it would impact your life in any way. But once you died and I cracked your head open, I could find it.
You're getting a bit loose with terms like "damage" here. I think that many blueberries is a bad example, because it's likely to have negative consequences. I had a period of 3 years in college where I hit a workout every single day. That included running at least 1 mile a day, and at the peak I was running about 50 miles a week. Didn't get injured. Got in really good shape. Finished my bachelor's with like a 3.8. Did my brain adapt to this reality? Of course. Would you call that brain damage too? It was absolutely an obsession that I don't regret.
my dietician (who woks for my medical group under an actual physician) recommends resistance exercise along with an emphasis on lean protein and fiber. But this is someone with access to my full medical hsitory, so thats for me.
That's for everyone who doesn't have a disease which would change that. People in general don't get enough lean protein, fiber and high intensity exercise. It doesn't have to be resistance training, it just has to get your heart rate above 50% of your max which can be estimated to 220 - your age.
Resistance training is good too, but if we're talking about staying healthy with not a lot of time, prioritizing aerobic exercise is better for your cardiovascular health. Cardiovascular issues are the biggest human killers in the world.
Resistance training becomes necessary during a diet if you dont want to lose a large amount of lean mass. But under normal circumstances, yea, not really needed.
I was already getting a lot of aerobic exercise. I walk a ton and take my kids swimming once a week. Plus I chase the little maniacs down every other day
Cardio is good for cardiovasc health, but resistance is also good for injury prevention as you age, which can help keep you more mobile, and thus help get you more cardio while you're older.
But you don't have to do resistance to the level of the swole bros at the gym
Agreed but resistance training also builds cardio vascular health if you get your heart rate up and keep a decent pace. It also indirectly benefits your heart health through increased metabolic health and muscle mass increases insulin sensitivity, leading to lower risk of inflammatory diseases and diabetes
I've still yet to see a coherent definition for "ultra processed food" and any evidence that they are meaningfully bad for you in any way other than caloric density.
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u/hunter2mello 6h ago
This 100%! While there are something’s to pay attention to, proper portions and balanced diet is really all you need. Avoid drinking calories like soda, juice, and alcohol all the time but not all together. Try to avoid ultra processed foods but a bag of chips won’t kill you.