A rolling compendium of everything Julian eats: a guide to healthy living

Sidehatch wrote:
seems to be an ego thing in my opinion

bingo.

ggw wrote:

Julian, wrote:

ggw wrote:
I drove by Hutch's house a couple of weeks ago and the yard looked pretty good.  Our public shaming of him totally worked.

YOU'RE WELCOME!

So you're acknowledging that it was indeed you who sent hutch the porn, thus setting off the chain of events that ended with him inadvertently posting his address here and subjecting himself to public shaming?

uh, no. I just made hay out of what he posted.

ggw wrote:who sent hutch the….

this mystery still has me intrigued and I have my theories, but no smokin gun

Julian, wrote:

Relaxer wrote:
I'm 5'9 and weight 175 pounds so I guess I'm fat too.

There are certain folks (such as yourself if that photo is legit) who are clearly swole and BMI doesn't apply to. This applies to 0.0003% of all people with a >25 BMI.

a little knowledge for the fat-hating simpletons: it's actually 12% for men.  that's about 1 in 8… definitely not everyone, but more common than you state. 

here, suck on some science: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/cp/summer-of-science-2015/latest/how-often-is-bmi-misleading (a follow up to http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/cp/summer-of-science-2015/latest/bmi)

"B.M.I. is commonly used to classify people as overweight or obese because its components, height and weight, are much easier to directly measure than body fat percentage. Affordable and convenient methods of measuring body fat are inaccurate, and more precise tools like a DXA scan are expensive and inconvenient.

The consequence is that some perfectly healthy high-B.M.I. people might be unnecessarily worried about their weight or penalized by higher insurance premiums. And some normal-B.M.I. people may be fatter than they realize and facing the same health risks as the obese."

Yes, BMI is an imperfect measure. Body fat percentage is much better. Body fat percentage is also not easily measurable. People delude themselves all the time that "it's muscle" when clearly it is not. When a person's BMI matches up with what they look like, that's a pretty strong 1-2 punch.

We do not have a great epidemic in this country of healthy people unnecessarily worrying about a false high BMI number. We DO have a great epidemic of delusional hambeasts who disregard appropriate obese BMI readings because "it's an imperfect measurement, I am the one and special exception with my big bones and condishuns!"

You'll also notice that among women, the false positive rate* is 3%, which is really quite good. The people shouting down BMI and proclaiming HEALTHY AT ANY SIZE are predominately women.

EDIT: * - I am defining the false positive rate as only those who have "healthy" body fat percentages but overweight/obese BMI readings. If anything, BMI understates people's obesity.

Who else here is starting to think that Julian, at some point in his over-privileged youth, gave his whole soul and being for the love of some plus size ingenue, only to see her callously rip out his heart (and deep fry and eat it)?  It would explain a lot, really.

ggw wrote:
Who else here is starting to think that Julian, at some point in his over-privileged youth, gave his whole soul and being for the love of some plus size ingenue, only to see her callously rip out his heart (and deep fry and eat it)?  It would explain a lot, really.

I've always been firmly "no fatties," thank you very much.

And they you?  No doubt.

So, I usually pack a lunch but I left it in my fridge this morning and decided to go out to a Mexican restaurant about a half mile from my office. It always looked packed so I figured it was probably pretty good. I order a mushroom quesadilla and rice. When it comes, it looks pretty good, I start eating, quesadilla is pretty OK. Then I go for some rice and I go, "wait, what is this?" There was a chunk of potato in my rice.

I figured it fell in by mistake. No big deal. Then after a bite I realize, "hold on, there's all kinds of potato chunks in this. . . and what's that? PINEAPPLE!?" Probably 8-10 small "chunks" of each. Way too many to be accidental.

At the time, I just decided it was the oddest recipe ever but its stuck with me all afternoon. Its really the weirdest thing I've ever seen. Who puts potato and pineapple in Mexican-style rice? Why would a Mexican restaurant even have pineapple in their kitchen to begin with? Are they buying it just for the rice? Is their pineapple added to all sorts of recipes? I almost want to go back tomorrow and order random things to see what other odd additions they make to standard tex-mex fare.

Have you never heard of tacos al pastor?

ggw wrote:
Have you never heard of tacos al pastor?

I have heard of it but never ordered it as a vegetarian. A quick googling at least answers my question as to why they have pineapple to begin with, so thank you for that.

I still don't know what sorcery brought about the idea of potato and pineapple Mexican rice, however.

who makes the best crab chips?  in my opinion, it is route 11 chips out of mt, Jackson, va.  look em up.

walk,on,by wrote:
who makes the best crab chips?  in my opinion, it is route 11 chips out of mt, Jackson, va.  look em up.

Kettle Classics Chesapeake Bay Crab Chips by Utz

^ such a homer

it goes both ways on that as I know some people with deadly nut allergies and have spent time in the ER because of it.
Gluten-free is absurd levels now
but there is a real…but very small portion of the population that really should avoid the stuff

that whole shelves of stuff is being sold is just marketing to idiots
and they are eating it up (pun intended)

I also have an issue with all this fake meat stuff
If you are a vegetarian/vegan…why do you need products like tofurkey, tofudogs and Veggie bacon strips
just bonkers…plus that stuff tastes like absolute crap and really isn't that healthy for you

Vegetarians should really avoid mass produced tofu in general…unless they like manboobs
TOP TEN REASONS TO AVOID SOY
1.Soybeans contain large quantities of natural toxins or ?antinutrients?. First among them are potent enzyme inhibitors that block the action of trypsin and other enzymes needed for protein digestion.
2.These inhibitors are not deactivated during cooking & processing.  Test animals fed these inhibitors developed enlargement and pathological conditions of the pancreas, including cancer.
3.Soybeans also contain haemagglutinin, a clot-promoting substance that causes red blood cells to clump together.
4. 99% of soy is genetically modified and it among the highest contamination by pesticides of any of our foods.
5.Soybeans are high in phytic acid, a substance that blocks the uptake of the essential minerals calcium, magnesium, copper, iron and especially zinc, in the intestinal tract.
6.Soy products contain high levels of aluminum, leached from the aluminum tanks in which they are acid washed and processed at high temperatures.
7.Nitrites, which are potent carcinogens, are formed during the spray-drying of soy.
8.Soy Protein Isolates, which are shown to enlarge the pancreas and thyroid and increase fatty acid deposits in the liver.
9.Soy contains toxic isoflavones.
10.Soy foods have a high concentration of goitrogens which block production of thyroid hormones.

I concur on the "intolerance" thing. It's mostly psychosomatic or just jumping on a trend.

The soybean/tofu rant I sort of agree with and sort of don't. Tofu for every meal is not a great idea. Tofu products 2-3 times a week – you know: moderation – isn't really going to be deleterious to one's health.

(I'm not a huge user of the "fake meat" substitutes, aside from black bean veggie "burgers" but I don't have an issue with them. If one has a moral objection to meat but still wants to simulate the taste, that's fine with me. And as to vague claims of "isn't that healthy for you," again, moderation.)