Lets talk diet and obesity.

[LordShiva]

Originally posted by Traianvs
I have only met one overweight vegetarian in my life. What else can I say but: Everyone needs to become vegetarian! It solves a lot of health related problems and it's incredibly more ecological too

Most of teh overweight Indians I know are vegetarians.

[Arrian]

I've moved in the direction of eating more "whole" foods. More fruit, too. Veggies... yeah, but I could stand to increase that some more. I do love meat, though, and that's not going away.

The main thing I'm trying to do is cut out what I'd describe as "complete crap." Stuff that has no value whatsoever (some might argue alcohol qualifies, but I reject your reality and insert my own) has been phased out and replaced by fruit and alternative snacks that are less awful. Baby steps.

-Arrian

[Arrian]

As for the rest... well, I'm not the religious sort.

-Arrian

[Provost Harrison]

Originally posted by Blake
"The Vegetarian food tastes like crap"

Vegetables taste like crap.
Beans taste like crap.
Nuts, they really taste like crap.
Mushrooms, OMG, utter crap.
Fruit, pure crap.
Bread, tastes like crap.
Cereal, yep, tastes like crap.

That's not what I said, I like fruit and veg, I'm a sod for nuts, I'd rather eat them than chocolate and I had a mushroom stir fry tonight for dinner. But I am not going to discount dairy products or a damn good bit of steak either. All in balance because, quite frankly, they're bloody tasty

[Provost Harrison]

To expand a bit more, I think one of the problem with trying to get kids to eat healthy food because it appallingly presented. Some boiled mush? Never helped me either.

Take Indian cuisine for example, they've had god only knows how long to get vegetarian food right, and they're damn good at it...if all vegetarian food was like that I wouldn't mind so much

[Solly]

Originally posted by LordShiva


Most of teh overweight Indians I know are vegetarians.

It's all that ghee and orange juice