Eating a Balanced Meal is not Healthy!

[Bethany22]

Eating only healthy foods isn't enough to ensure you eat healthy. While most doctors and dieticians swear by eating balanced meals as part of a healthy diet, you need to ensure that the combinations of food that you eat at the same time does not cancel each other out. Here are habits to avoid:

Balanced Meal

• Eating calcium-rich foods at the same time as you eat iron-rich foods. Habits like eating broccoli (rich in calcium) with your meat (rich with iron) will cancel out the nutrients in both foods. Therefore, it's best to eat another green, such as spinach, with your meat instead, as that is a green that is also rich in iron. Eat your calcium-rich vegetables at another meal session of the day, at least two hours later.
• Drinking coffee or tea along with nutritious foods. While caffeine without adding any sugar, milk or cream has lots of antioxidants in it that help destroy all of the sugars you eat, remember not to eat calcium-dense yogurt along with your morning drink, as then the nutrients of both foods will cancel each other out. Likewise, for people hoping to boost their iron in-take by eating meat or baked beans for breakfast (or lunch), be mindful that you have your iron-rich foods a couple of hours before or after you drink your coffee.
• For women, eating dark meat while on your period. While you should ensure that you increase your iron in-take during this time, lean towards lighter meat like chicken, or beans and fish. This is because dark meat tends to slow the menstrual process down.
• No fear carrots and pumpkin! Luckily, (apart from coffee and tea sessions), foods rich in beta-carotin are encouraged to be eaten at each of your three meals a day, as they generally don't interfere with any of the other nutrients. And, you can never get too much of it! Even pumpkin pie, with all of it's sugar, is a good source of this nutrient. Plus, it makes your skin have a healthier color!

[Talea]

" eating broccoli (rich in calcium) with your meat (rich with iron) will cancel out the nutrients in both foods"

Where the hell did you hear that? That' not how nutrients and the human body work at all!

[Bethany22]

My nurse told me that.

[Talea]

Well she is way off, plus broccoli is not that rich in calcium, you would need to eat around 2kg of broccoli to meet daily requirements.

[Bethany22]

Interesting 👍

[Talea]

I really like how you're not just getting your back up when people don't agree with you, but you actually listen with respect. Unusual to find online in this day and age, much respect to you.

[YourFutureEx]

"Studies on human subjects have shown that calcium (Ca) can inhibit iron (Fe) absorption, regardless of whether it is given as Ca salts or in dairy products. This has caused concern as increased Ca intake commonly is recommended for children and women, the same populations that are at risk of Fe deficiency."

pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/.../

[loveslongnails]

Talea is correct. Three large heads of broccoli provide roughly 50 mg of calcium. The minimum daily recommendation for adults is 1,000 mg !! That would be 60 heads of broccoli lol. The small amount of calcium present in broccoli will have zero effect on your body's ability to absorb iron when consumed in the same meal. Your nurse is incorrect.

[Anonymous]

I think you need to do some fact checking, your claims do no seem to be supported by 5 minutes of poking around on the internet.

It does seem that calicum can reduce the amount of iron absorbed by the body but this isn't infact considered to be a problem, perhaps it is relevant for people who have an iron deficiancy but it seems to be of no value as general advise and certainly doesn't 'cancel out both nutrients'.

Antioxidants destroy sugar?

It would seem that this whole take antioxidants and you can eat all the awful sugary crap you want idea is just nonsense. Eating refined sugars is bad for you and there is no magic pill. It turns out that you just have to avoid eating all the delicious yum yums that are so appealing.

I didn't research beyond this, after you were wrong about the first 2 claims that was sufficient for me to conclude that you are simply not a reliable source of information. That doesn't mean I am saying your other 2 claims are also false, just that you and anyone else interested in this subject should go and do their own research.

Regarding chicken Im fairly sure there is a huge difference between a nice corn fed organic chicken and an inexpensive factory farmed chicken in terms of nutrients etc so you might want to look into that.

[Bethany22]

Thanks for the feedback back! I'm always looking to learn more about nutrition 🙂

[YourFutureEx]

Don't you think you took the points to the extreme?

[Opinion Owner]

@YourFutureEx Wtf are you talking about?

The claims made are not supported by evidence, its that simple.

[YourFutureEx]

Everyone recommends taking calcium and iron supplements separately. That's why you never find calcium in your multivitamin.

For a normal person, these things may not matter, but for normal people, most of the things don't really matter to be honest and they can comfortably eat whatever (in moderation). But for people with deficiencies, these details can make a difference.

Caffeine helps with weight loss. Although I'm not sure if it does so by breaking down the blood glucose, but it slightly helps and that supports the OP's point. She never encouraged anyone to eat as much sugar as you want if you're consuming tea. You made that up.

[Opinion Owner]

@YourFutureEx Here are 2 perfectly reasonably choices for you to choose from.

A: Read and understand my original post in its entirely, then appologise to me.

B: Shut up and fuck off out of my face for the rest of your life.

[YourFutureEx]

It's so unfortunate that you have lived over forty years and these are your manners. I feel sorry for the people that meet you.

[Opinion Owner]

@YourFutureEx 27 is more than old enough to have learned that how you treat people will affect how they treat you.

Now fuck off.

[YourFutureEx]

I was only having a discussion which is this site is all about. Just because someone doesn't agree with your opinion, it doesn't give you excuse to be rude and offensive. I don't know the reason your dad was unable to teach you this. Had he fulfilled his duty, I'd not have needed to take his place.

[Opinion Owner]

@YourFutureEx It is amazing to me that you think I am the one being rude here when you didn't even bother to read what i said.

[GoodGuyBreakingBad]

Thank you for sharing your MyTake it was well written and educational.

[Bethany22]

Thanks for the feedback :)

[GoodGuyBreakingBad]

@Bethany22 You are welcome :)

[TonightYouu]

All I eat is sweet potatoes broccoli and grapefruits

[MysteriousDarkness]

@tonightyouu
So you're saying you only eat those three things? If you are why do you

[TonightYouu]

@MysteriousDarkness when I said ONLY I meant I don’t eat bread

[MysteriousDarkness]

@tonightyouu
You said "all I eat." You made it seem like you only eat those three things and nothing else and now your saying you meant the only thing you don't eat is bread. You contradicted yourself.

[TonightYouu]

@MysteriousDarkness well we’re talking about a balanced diet and I get all my carbs from vegetables and fruit actually the ones I named are just my favorites

[Bethany22]

You get carbs from vegetables and fruits?

[TonightYouu]

Yep all of em

[midnightmoon05]

Thank you…your title is deceiving.
whatever you shared can help many who don’t eat right. They have been trained to eat yucky food.

[Guy13]

Let's see, my multivitamin has both iron and calcium in them?

[Pleaznhim4me]

Portions people. Portions people. Also depends on whether someone has celiac or diabetes.

[Anonymous]

I watch dr berg on YouTube. Its called eating foods as a medicine. This dude has people in his comments that has survived cancer because of him.

[Stevefiveo]

Thanks for the tips. Are you a nutritionist?

[Bethany22]

No, thought of becoming one, so I researched a lot of articles on food.

[Stevefiveo]

Oh ok, good luck.

[MysteriousDarkness]

Prove it with evidence that these nutrients cancel each other out as you claim.

[Andres77]

I love that you’re such a rebel

[Joker_]

yeah that's why I only eat mcdonald's

[moneyplantia]

I was not aware of that ! thanks