Would it be to only eat greens (vegetables and fruits)? Like as in: no dairy, poultry, grains, starches, meat, etc. Justs fruit and vegetables (and drink only water), along with exercising on a daily basis (like running for 45 minutes or so)... Are there any severe things that could go wrong with that? Like hospitalization etc?...
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Hmm, how dangerous...
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Only greens? You'll need to eat "colorful" vegetables also to have even a prayer of maintaining a balanced diet. No tofu? How would you get enough protein?I met someone who's a strict vegan (i.e., no animal products at all), and she gets periodic B vitamin injections. You really have to know what you're doing to maintain a healthy intake of nutrients, vitamins, and minerals. It takes some effort.You ought to Google for information on vegan diet and vegetarian diet.
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That is what your supposed to eat. Otherwise you do get the right nuitrients you need to sustain your body. Go here: http://www.mypyramid.gov/
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Well, it's not a hard and fast rule; there are other ways to get the nutrients you need, but it takes some effort to put together a good, balanced vegetarian diet. I have a cousin in her 80's who's a vegetarian (although not a strict one; she eats fish), and she's healthy.There's a big debate on how healthy dairy products are for humans.I think it's just easier to eat a wide variety of foods...everything in moderation. But I can understand why people want to be vegetarian.
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I haaaaaaaate dairy products. Im not lactose intolerant, but the thought of drinking milk disturbs me. I wanna know who went up to a cow and said Ill pull this and what ever comes out ill drink lol. I was a vegetarian for a very long time and i took B pills, Calicium pills and C pills And some other minor vitamines. Its much easier just to follow the pyramid. I dont eat read meat. i sub. With fish most ofthe time, and it seems to be perfectly healthy. shrug Wow I really began to ramble there, Sorry.
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Your diet sounds fine to me. I was having a discussion last night with a friend who insists that dairy products should not be consumed. There's some evidence supporting him, and there's some evidence that dairy is a good thing. The scientists will have to hash it out. Personally, I don't eat that much dairy, but it's just a personal preference.
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Only greens? You'll need to eat "colorful" vegetables also to have even a prayer of maintaining a balanced diet
No no, I meant greens as in a term for vegetables... not their actual color. Sorry lol.
And I've been a vegetarian since I was 7 (now 16), and never had a problem with protein and the likes. But I was never like hardcore into doing the vegetables at every meal thing. Most nights I'll eat some kind of pasta, which isn't all that healthy. And I don't really exercise all that much, maybe once a week as it is. So basically I'm not in the best shape: 5'8" 155lbs. Which despite what it says on BMI calculators and the likes... I think that's overweight by like 20lbs, so that's why I need a relatively quick and easy way of getting into shape.
I don't take vitamins.... And I eat dairy quite a bit, like cheese, milk, yogurt, and such.
Yah, I dunno if there was even a point to this thread seeing as how I'm never going to balance out my meals perfectly...
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So basically I'm not in the best shape: 5'8" 155lbs. Which despite what it says on BMI calculators and the likes... I think that's overweight by like 20lbs, so that's why I need a relatively quick and easy way of getting into shape.
Wow, you don't sound overweight at all. If you got into shape (i.e., gained a reasonable amount of muscle mass), you would definitely not be overweight.
I think 135 lbs is way inderweight for someone who's 5'8", with an average build. You'd look skeletal. I don't think there's a health reason for you to weigh any less than you do now.
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i've been a vegetarian my whole life and have never had any problems, i've also never taken any extra vitamins etci think since my body has always been used to a vegetarian diet, its adapted to it and doesnt expect any different
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Are you a strict vegetarian? How do you know that you don't have any specific deficiency? Have you had a blood test?
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Obviously it's not a health thing... It's a personal appearance thing.
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At your height, I can't imagine you'd look good at all at that weight, unless you're seriously into the Goth thing, or you want to be a female runway model. If you have much muscle, it definitely does not make much sense.One problem about being underweight is that, if you get really sick, you're kind of screwed. Losing even more weight beyond that would not be good. You'd be better off staying at the same weight, but working out and building some muscle. It would look good, and there are health benefits, for what it's worth.
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yeh i had a blood test quite recently, because i thought there was the possibility that i might be aneamic, but nothing came upi wouldnt say in necessarily a 'srict'- really because im not really a vegetarian thats into the whole animal rights side of the spectrum, so you wont have me looking at every single label when i go shopping but yes, i dont, in general eat meat of any kind
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Two possible deficiencies in a vegetarian diet are iron and vitamin B12. Both can lead to anaemia. Iron is available in green-leafed vegetables, but you need to eat quite a lot of them - especially women, who lose some iron through their period. The story that spinach has ten times more iron than other vegetables ultimately derives from a paper 100 years ago in which a misprint put a decimal point in the wrong place - it isn't true.
Vitamin B12 is a big problem for vegan diets, because it's only found in animals. An exception is some mushrooms (I suspect they may be ones raised on animal manure). Some vegans get their entire B12 intake from mouse and rat droppings that happen to have contaminated their food. You normally keep a store of some year's worth of B12, so a deficient diet may have no effect until that's used up.
It's possible to do without grains, but it's not really necessary or desirable. If you subsist only on low-calorie vegetables, you're likely to eat more of them and get a bloated-stomach effect.
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Two possible deficiencies in a vegetarian diet are iron and vitamin B12.Yes! The strict vegetarian that I met periodically (every couple of months or so, I think) got B12 shots. I don't know if she was taking an iron supplement...I suppose she should have been.
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Well, mother always said I looked anaemic... should get that checked out one day.Anyway,To everyone: Okay, point taken, I won't lose 25 pounds... I'll make it 15 and add some muscle. That sound good enough?And for the record, I have a friend who's 5'8" 135lbs, and his body is absolutely stunning, like pure muscle.
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mother always said I looked anaemic... should get that checked out one dayAre you very pale? Are your fingernail beds and gums whiter than other peoples'?> And for the record, I have a friend who's 5'8" 135lbs, and his body is absolutely stunning, like pure muscle.I guess it's a matter of taste, but my father, who had a very athletic build, was about that height. He looked OK at around 160, but he looked terrible when dropped into the low 140's.I think boys are being infected with the same media brainwashing as girls. Now boys want to be built like girls. If you're going to exchange muscle for fat, you don't need to lose weight. But it's your body...do what you think looks good.
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"I think boys are being infected with the same media brainwashing as girls. Now boys want to be built like girls."I completely agree with Steve. This morning, on the way into work, I was driving past all these young guys running up Riverside, all with their shirts off. They looked just gross. The poor twiggy little things. They look like you could snap them in half over your knee. I just see nothing attractive about the concentration camp look. The handful of people that survived those camps didn't want to look like that, they were starved...and now thats the fashion, sick. Your a man for gods sake, look like it. Mass, muscle, tone, pecs all that crap. And for the women, curves are what make a women...go with it. Tonned tight curves are what is hot. Nobody wants to hump a peice of cardboard and its a hell of a painful turn off when your having sex and you get bruises from her pelvic bone.There, end of my rant.
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Is Iggy Pop really sexy? You can't even see him if he's standing sideways.
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Lol, it's so true. I'm fairly thin and I want to put on muscle to get a little bigger. I don't understand the mentality of people who aren't overweight wanting to get really thin.