Low fat milk offered in clear plastic bottles - especially chocolate milk, kids will drink more of it.

* DO not allow no-fat food to be served. Studies show that no-fat foods actually cause weight gain because it changes the way the body is processing fats and how they NOT burn fats in the body.

* Milk and dairy products should be organic that do not contain anti-biotics and pesticides like regular milk does.

* Cows feed non-organic grains have increased pesticides in milk. Cows that are injected with anti-biotics pass this into their milk. Studies show that by ingesting these by-products of anti-biotics in products is lowering the resistant to bacteria in the human body.

*All dairy products SHOULD not contain carregenan. Carregenan is used in many products as a thickening agent. Studies have shown it increases inflammation throughout body and increases arthritis and breathing disorders like asthma.


All meats should be from organic sources. Chicken should be organic, free from anti-biotic injections and range fed. Eggs should be as well.


More fresh water fish - NO FARM RAISED FISH - these fish are showing unusual strains of bacteria in the meat.


More fruits and vegetables on the menus - preferably organic to reduce pesticide ingestion * All fruits and vegetables should be carefully washed. If not organic, outside peelings like apples and other fruits should not be eaten with these peelings because of possible high pesticide contamination.

*Check to see where fruits are coming from, what country? Fruits coming from Mexico and South America where they allow the use of many pesticides BANNED in the U.S. In these countries, farmers also use human waste and sewage water for fertilizers. Do you want your children eating this?


No junk foods - demand that all junk foods be taken out of food machines.


No soft drinks - demand that all soft drinks be replaced with drinking water or 100% fruit juices.

*Juices should not be sweetened with high fructose syrup, a leading cause of your children developing diabetes.


Whole grains in bread products


NO FOODS CONTAINING HYDROGENATED OILS or MONODIGLYCERIDES


NO FOODS CONTAINING MSG - ( MONOSODIUM GLUTAMATE )


NO FOODS CONTAINING ASPARTAME


Healthy oils that should be used are; olive oil, grapeseed oil, coconut oil, safflower oil.

I don't know if I can agree with the "Organic" tagline - I've read too many articles about how it's usually a gimmick.

Everything else looks believable to me :)

what's "men's bread" ?

http://www.infobarrel.com/Bacon_Cheese_Pizza_Burger

you know i wonder how many people ever survived when they were milking their owns cows growing their own vegies and slaughtering their own meat, i mean how on earth did they survive without no fat/lowfat/organic/tofu, it boggles the mind


i don't know the colour for sarcasm

After seven years and $50 million of research, the company's 45 technicians and 14 Ph.D.s have found a high-tech way of getting a crucial set of nutrients back into our bodies — compounds that, thanks to the industrialization of agriculture over the past half century, have been thoroughly stripped from our food supply without, until recently, it being realized by anyone.

Now, an ever-growing body of research is showing that the epidemic of diseases associated with the Western diet — cancer, heart disease, depression, and much more — might be curtailed simply by restoring something we never should have removed from our diets in the first place: omega-3 fatty acids.

The great mistake
We are, it is often — and accurately — said, what we eat. Recent diet trends, from Atkins to South Beach, have put the emphasis on upping our intake of protein or cutting out carbohydrates. Meanwhile, cholesterol, saturated fats, and trans fats have been stigmatized, leading to the belief that waging a total war on fat is the best way to get a slimmer waistline and a longer life. But fats are as crucial to a healthy body as protein is; they end up holstered into the heart, protecting organs, and building the cells of the brain, an organ that is itself 60 percent fat. The key to good health lies not in ruthlessly striking fat from our diets, but in eating the best possible fats for our bodies. And a growing chorus of nutritionists agrees that those fats are omega-3s.

Certainly, you've read headlines trumpeting the ability of omega-3 fatty acids to boost brain function and protect against coronary heart disease. Hedging your bets, you may already have tweaked your diet, substituting beef or poultry for salmon or some other oily fish a few times a week. But, as a jaded observer of food trends, you may have wondered whether the new "heart-healthy" fats touted on the packaging of eggs, margarine, spaghetti, and frozen waffles are just a marketing ploy — the latest in a long line of miracle nutrients that, a few months or years hence, will prove to be nothing more than hype.

Lose the skepticism. This isn't the next oat bran.

Omega-3 molecules are a by-product of the happy meeting of sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide in the chloroplasts of terrestrial plants and marine algae. Not long ago, these fatty acids were an inescapable component of our diet. Back in the early 1900s — long before the arrival of bovine growth hormone and patented transgenic seeds — American family farms were perfect factories for producing omega-3s.

Bucolic, sun-drenched pastures supported a complex array of grasses, and cattle used their sensitive tongues to pick and choose the ripest patches of clover, millet, and sweet grass; their rumens then turned the cellulose that humans can't digest into foods that we can: milk, butter, cheese, and, eventually, beef, all of them rich in omega-3s. Cattle used to spend four to five carefree years grazing on grass, but now they are fattened on grain in feedlots and reach slaughter weight in about a year, all the while pumped full of antibiotics to fight off the diseases caused by the close quarters of factory farms.

Likewise, a few generations ago, chickens roamed those same farms, foraging on grasses, purslane, and grubs, providing humans with drumsticks, breasts, and eggs that were rich in grass-derived omega-3s. Today, most American chickens are now a single hybrid breed — the Cornish — and are raised in cages, treated with antibiotics, and stuffed full of corn.

Our animal fats were once derived from leafy greens, and now our livestock are fattened with corn, soybeans, and other seed oils. (Even the majority of the salmon, catfish, and shrimp in our supermarkets are raised on farms and fattened with soy-enriched pellets.) So not only have good fats been stricken from our diets, but these cheap, widely available seed oils are the source of another, far less healthy family of fatty acids called omega-6s, which compete with omega-3s for space in our cell membranes. Omega-6s are essentially more rigid fatty acids that give our cells structure, while omega-3s are more fluid and help our bodies fight inflammation. Our ancestors ate a ratio of dietary omega-6s to omega-3s of approximately 1:1. The Western diet (the modern American and European eating pattern characterized by high intakes of red meat, sugar, and refined carbohydrates) has a ratio of about 20:1.

I eat so damn much MSG it's crazy.....

I can't really find any evidence that it's bad for you.....

might cause depression and possibly weight gain.....that's about all I've read.

I eat so damn much MSG it's crazy.....

I can't really find any evidence that it's bad for you.....

might cause depression and possibly weight gain.....that's about all I've read.

And shit, coke counteracts that!

Exactly!

I'll never give up jalapeno cheetos and Zatarain's!

They make bud light lime in a can now... shit taste awesome. You guys should give that a try.

I eat so damn much MSG it's crazy.....

I can't really find any evidence that it's bad for you.....

might cause depression and possibly weight gain.....that's about all I've read.

it's not that it's bad for EVERYONE - it's just that a good number of people think they're sensitive to glutamate.. but I'm not even sure research has solidly backed that up

I eat whatever I want.

Can't gain weight either...

I bet you could if you tried.

Can't gain weight either...

if u eat as much as me and the sorta foods, u'll gain weight.

U'll know that u've eaten as much as me when your shit is as long as ur entire arm.........

well let's review urs and his eating habits and diets?

I bet you could if you tried.

Actually no, can't seem to if I try either. What's the deal with that? Been going to the gym for about a month now (3-4 times per week) and haven't really gained any weight.

what's your weight now? stick with the basics: squat, bench, pushdown, curl, military, chins, and barball row (not all the same day), and work up to a heavier weight where you can only do 6-8 reps (you really have to push yourself, just allow more rest between workouts), then up your lean protein intake...results will come, slowly

I'm just over 160 (seem to be stuck in the 162-163 range). I do chest, back, arms and shoulders at the gym (fuck doing legs). Haven't done squats though...

well let's review urs and his eating habits and diets?

Breakfast: Skip it. Can't stand the thought of food in the morning.

Lunch: Sandwich (usally ham and cheese), an apple, 3-4 clementines.

Dinner: Tends to vary. If I go out for say, chicken wings, I'll eat about 40. If I make dinner I tend to make fairly large portions (chicken, veal, steak, pork with a side of some sort).

Snack: Maybe a Nestle Drumstick.

ewww Drumsticks

Are you crazy?

http://daveibsen.typepad.com/5_blogs_before_lunch/images/nestle_drumstick.gif

These things are awesome!

the only thing worse is Choco Tacos :puke:

Never heard of those actually.

http://www.tacojohns.com/images/food/desserts/3ChocoTaco.jpg

:|

I'm not sure if I am repulsed or intrigued by that.

there's your problem, if you're serious about gaining lean body weight, you have to cut the processed/junk/high sugar foods....that stuff is poison, in terms of gaining muscle

and don't forget legs, even if they're slow to respond like mine, it's the biggest muscle in your body, and a great cardio workout, as well as keeping you in proportion (stick legs = bad)

Yeah, I could probably do without them (have about 1 every other day). I suppose I should do legs, I just hate the couple of days that follow when you first start. Might as well call me a cripple at that point.

Every meal at Taco Bell

last night take trash out

yeah squats take awhile to work up to, they are really hard work, but worth the effort

I wish more women did them :)

Yeah, I have the unfortunate ability to gain muscle very easily (especially in my legs), lean muscle, but muscle nonetheless. So, when I'm doing squats, I'm using only my body weight for resistance. No weights for me. The strength comes in handy when I'm kicking people during training though. :bigthumb:

Training for what?

Training for what?

Muay Thai. I've been getting into mixed martial arts...

Muay Thai. I've been getting into mixed martial arts...

hmmm... and here I'd always thought that that was some kind of food...

Muay Thai. I've been getting into mixed martial arts...

You should try Kung Fu if you can get a reputable school in your area. TOOOOOOOTTTTTAAAAAALY cool and there is so much more involved than just breaking bones (your own included!).

interesting

Interesting? lol I dunno if that's a good or a bad thing. So, do you focus mainly on weight lifting, or do you kind of balance yourself out?

But getting back on track to nutrition, incorporating raw soybeans into a diet also gives you a high amount of complete protein without the animal fats. They make a great quick little snack between workouts and whatnot. Kinda fill you up as well...

And increase estrogen...

Really now? I know a few guys who could benefit from that...damn 'roid heads.

Really now? I know a few guys who could benefit from that...damn 'roid heads.

Mark, oh Mark... Where are ya bud??? Are your ears burning where ever you are?

bodybuilding and stretching, that's balanced enough :)

AH-hahahahahahahahahahahaha!!!!!!!

"Body building" and stretching does not equal "Balance" ya smarty...

I just laughed at you Mark, go ahead, rage at me. Rage Mark, rage...

oh I know, the oft-parroted "cardio" bs


Any and all health/fitness credibility you might have had just went out the window with that one... I can't do anything but laugh in response :lmfao:

Whatever.

Bill Pearl is over 70, and still gets up at 4 AM to do sqauts with 225. Let's see Richard Simmons of any of these fag cardio geeks do THAT. Fast tempo lifting maintains a high level of cardio fitness, period. I was once challenged to a two mile run by a guy who ran all the time, and thought I'd be "out of shape" because I lift only. Guess what? I stayed with him no problem, 14 minutes.

Eat it, punk.

2 miles, That's it??? Waking up early (because old people don't really sleep anyway) doesn't mean all that much.

What do *you* consider the pinnacle of fitness? Myself, I consider the (really) hardcore Special Forces guys to be the pinnacle of fitness.

Guess how many of them powerlift?

Now guess how many cardio the living shit out of themselves.

Btw, Levi, you need to post a pic, let's see the trash talking chump behind the veil.

I've posted pictures before. I'll happily post more for you, if you ask me politely. Only thing is... I won't post until after you've posted, since you're the one who wants to call everybody out.

Wow... this is one of the lamest e-fights in history. Why do you fags care who is in "better shape", there's no fucking award for "most in shape person" on TFL. You're both in better shape than I am... and I don't give a single drop of piss.

Shut the fuck up faggots.

Wow... this is one of the lamest e-fights in history. Why do you fags care who is in "better shape", there's no fucking award for "most in shape person" on TFL. You're both in better shape than I am... and I don't give a single drop of piss.

Shut the fuck up faggots.

I don't know about all that.. I just think it's funny/pathetic that mark is all about bragging how strong he is, how much he can lift, how he can out run runners, etc., when he's got such a skewed view of what physical fitness really is.

Wow, mark doesn't like me... I'm absolutely crushed.

The other night I got roped into helping move bales of hay for horses... redneck work outs... get some!

Dude, honest work like that is the best!!!

Apparently religion isn't the only topic which you're ignorantly close-minded about. I guess I'll come back to ask your opinion if I'm ever interested in popping some veins in a vain attempt to bulk up in order to compensate for an excessive sense of inadequacy.

I read this Article and came to know whats the scenario today. We are not getting even a single food item in its natural form. How can we save our children and our self? Its a big question arises in front of us. Maximum How many precautions could we take. God knows.

ITT, Lots of Fenda talking to himself ;p