Assessing the quality of one's diet

Assessing the quality of one's diet

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CommanderJameson

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22,096 posts

241 months

Wednesday 19th March 2008
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Now, I think that me and Mrs CJ eat a pretty good diet - lots of fresh things, very little processed food, not much fat, keep a very close eye on the old sugar and salt - but I'm no nutritionist; I just know what I like to eat.

What resources are there out there for working out whether what I've got is a balanced diet, especially in terms of vitamin this and mineral that?

Elan159

14,200 posts

232 months

Wednesday 19th March 2008
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Floaters = good; runny, sinks to the bottom = bad, IIRC....

evenflow

8,823 posts

297 months

Wednesday 19th March 2008
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I thought floaters = bad, because fat floats?

Elan159

14,200 posts

232 months

Wednesday 19th March 2008
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According to Wikipedia:

The seven types of stool are:

Type 1: Separate hard lumps, like nuts (hard to pass)
Type 2: Sausage-shaped, but lumpy
Type 3: Like a sausage but with cracks on its surface
Type 4: Like a sausage or snake, smooth and soft
Type 5: Soft blobs with clear cut edges (passed easily)
Type 6: Fluffy pieces with ragged edges, a mushy stool
Type 7: Watery, no solid pieces (entirely liquid)

Types 1 and 2 indicate constipation, with 3 and 4 being the "ideal stools" especially the latter, as they are the easiest to pass. 5-7 being further tending towards diarrhea

Nothing about floating so I may be wrong - any experts around?

jimothy

5,151 posts

252 months

Wednesday 19th March 2008
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If you enjoy the food you eat and you're not dead yet, then it sounds ok to me!

evenflow

8,823 posts

297 months

Wednesday 19th March 2008
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Elan159 said:
According to Wikipedia:

The seven types of stool are:

Type 1: Separate hard lumps, like nuts (hard to pass)
Type 2: Sausage-shaped, but lumpy
Type 3: Like a sausage but with cracks on its surface
Type 4: Like a sausage or snake, smooth and soft
Type 5: Soft blobs with clear cut edges (passed easily)
Type 6: Fluffy pieces with ragged edges, a mushy stool
Type 7: Watery, no solid pieces (entirely liquid)

Types 1 and 2 indicate constipation, with 3 and 4 being the "ideal stools" especially the latter, as they are the easiest to pass. 5-7 being further tending towards diarrhea

Nothing about floating so I may be wrong - any experts around?
You are Gillian McKeith AICMFP.

jimothy

5,151 posts

252 months

Wednesday 19th March 2008
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swerni said:
evenflow said:
I thought floaters = bad, because fat floats?
so do ducks

HTH
Burn her!

T40ORA

5,177 posts

234 months

Sunday 23rd March 2008
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CommanderJameson said:
Now, I think that me and Mrs CJ eat a pretty good diet - lots of fresh things, very little processed food, not much fat, keep a very close eye on the old sugar and salt - but I'm no nutritionist; I just know what I like to eat.

What resources are there out there for working out whether what I've got is a balanced diet, especially in terms of vitamin this and mineral that?
Look up a guy called Patrick Holford. He does a questionairre thing I believe.

Scraggles

7,619 posts

239 months

Tuesday 25th March 2008
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m8 reckons when he goes for a dump, he pops out granite lumps, apparently it tears him inside and red stuff comes out, drinks maybe litre of water per day on plastering job....

one day he might learn, but not soon I guess

tend to eat a lot of fibre, but not suspect the chillis and the garlic were the reason for the bowl getting sprayed mostly brown in about 3-4 seconds

PulseTurbo

670 posts

216 months

Tuesday 25th March 2008
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Elan159 said:
According to Wikipedia:

The seven types of stool are:

Type 1: Separate hard lumps, like nuts (hard to pass)
Type 2: Sausage-shaped, but lumpy
Type 3: Like a sausage but with cracks on its surface
Type 4: Like a sausage or snake, smooth and soft
Type 5: Soft blobs with clear cut edges (passed easily)
Type 6: Fluffy pieces with ragged edges, a mushy stool
Type 7: Watery, no solid pieces (entirely liquid)

Types 1 and 2 indicate constipation, with 3 and 4 being the "ideal stools" especially the latter, as they are the easiest to pass. 5-7 being further tending towards diarrhea

Nothing about floating so I may be wrong - any experts around?
Why did I read this at lunchtime?!

LordGrover

33,907 posts

227 months

Tuesday 25th March 2008
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T40ORA said:
CommanderJameson said:
Now, I think that me and Mrs CJ eat a pretty good diet - lots of fresh things, very little processed food, not much fat, keep a very close eye on the old sugar and salt - but I'm no nutritionist; I just know what I like to eat.

What resources are there out there for working out whether what I've got is a balanced diet, especially in terms of vitamin this and mineral that?
Look up a guy called Patrick Holford. He does a questionairre thing I believe.
Holford is knowledgeable, but IMO his primary aim is to sell you his preferred range of supplements - that's not to say some or most of his information is inaccurate.