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Eating junk is good for you. case in point!

Super Bee 950

Super Bee 950

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#1
My diet.
I love Mozarella Cheese sticks, sugar, pizza, high fat dairy products, red meat, and beer.

I am pushing 50 years old, so I have a good track racord of my diet. It hasnt changed since college. I eat what I want when I want.

Results of last checkup:
Resting pulse 49
EKG looks great
Blood Pressure 120/79
Good cholesterol outnumbers the bad by over 2-1
I Maxed the pushup and situp event on my last PT Test
Weight has remained the same for the last 8 years. (6-2 203 lbs)
I dont exercise that much except for a month or two prior to a PT test.
I hate running and I dont lift weights.


According to the nutrition Nazis, I should be 500 lbs or dead based on what I eat, yet I am in better shape than most of them.

I am living proof that eating junk is healthy!
 
#2
Re: Eating junk is good for you. case in point!

I got fat and short of breath by quitting smoking.

When I was smoking 2-3ppd I had better BP, could work harder longer, and slept great. Now I'm short of breath, get winded easily, and am 20lbs heavier.
Probably has to do with the fact that since my wife was diagnosed with sarcoidosis over a year ago we eat healthier too.....
 
#3
Re: Eating junk is good for you. case in point!

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: sobrbiker883</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I got fat and short of breath by quitting smoking.

When I was smoking 2-3ppd I had better BP, could work harder longer, and slept great. Now I'm short of breath, get winded easily, and am 20lbs heavier.
Probably has to do with the fact that since my wife was diagnosed with sarcoidosis over a year ago we eat healthier too.....

</div></div>

Your also older that stuff comes with age also.
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#5
Re: Eating junk is good for you. case in point!

I do not fall under that exception. I just turned 31 last month. I am 5'11" 205 lbs. I graduated HS at 165 lbs, and it all went south at 25. I was fairly active, but also a smoker. At 27 I quit smoking, went to 190. Lost 20lbs in the academy, put it back on over the course of a year and a half. Started dipping, hovered at 190 till last august. Then I had a kid. Diet went to shit, no working out, now I am 15 lbs heavier, high blood pressure and hyper-tension. Once we get some changes done at home I can work on getting myself back.
 
#7
Re: Eating junk is good for you. case in point!

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: patsim</div><div class="ubbcode-body">There's some old cliche about exceptions and rules that may apply </div></div>

Yes. And Genetics may definitely play a part in this.
 
#8
Re: Eating junk is good for you. case in point!

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Super Bee 950</div><div class="ubbcode-body">My diet.
I love Mozarella Cheese sticks, sugar, pizza, high fat dairy products, red meat, and beer.

I am pushing 50 years old, so I have a good track racord of my diet. It hasnt changed since college. I eat what I want when I want.

Results of last checkup:
Resting pulse 49
EKG looks great
Blood Pressure 120/79
Good cholesterol outnumbers the bad by over 2-1
I Maxed the pushup and situp event on my last PT Test
Weight has remained the same for the last 8 years. (6-2 203 lbs)
I dont exercise that much except for a month or two prior to a PT test.
I hate running and I dont lift weights.


According to the nutrition Nazis, I should be 500 lbs or dead based on what I eat, yet I am in better shape than most of them.

I am living proof that eating junk is healthy!

</div></div>


In the next 20 yrs. you will pay for this.
You may seem lucky now, but your the kind of guy that has 1 heart attack.
Enjoy.
 
#9
Re: Eating junk is good for you. case in point!

It was mentioned in here that genetics play a part and I have found that to be very true , some people eat right work hard and still have aboat load of problems as did their parents and grand parents.
It also has a lot to do with your heritage and how that conflicts with your current diet.

Most Asians can get away with eating alot of starchy carbs all their life with no problem in weight or diabeties yet sombody with a strong NW european background will be totaly opposite , where some people can eat alot of fatty foot , like beef and eggs , milk fat and others with no problem it would kill some people.

My wife is an OR nurse and does alot of work with one of the leading heart surgens in out region , she has seen first hand guy in their 50's with seeming good vitals and in decient health get an angiogram and come back with ALOT of blockages to find out that the cholestrol is good but still have alot of arterial plaque build up.

I look at nutrition just like blue printing a Rem 700 !! you can have a super shit bolt fit , threads out of square hell even loose barrel threads and crappy bedding and the gun may shoot great , but don't you always pay for the added insurace of knowing that everything is fitting propely just to give alot less margine for error? so if somthing does go amiss its alot easier to narrow down
 
#12
Re: Eating junk is good for you. case in point!

For one your EKG will not show anything until an event has occurred that will alter the electrical propagation through your heart. So just because your EKG is normal today does not mean you won't infarct tomorrow.

Second you must look not just at LDL and HDL cholesterol. You should have a total blood lipid test done as well as testing your A1C’s. If your HDL is greater than 60mg/dl good for you, and lucky for you if you do not exercise regularly, are not taking any statins and eat a crappy diet.

I had a patient whose family history was pathetic so as he aged he focused on living as healthy a life as possible. This included eating a very healthy diet with proper portions, and he was an avid exerciser including running marathons from his mid 20’s through his late 50’s. He stopped running and began walking since his knees were worn out and needed replaced. His surgeon chose against a pre surgery graded exercise test given his exercise and health history only to begin to infarct on the table as they began administering anesthesia. He was stabilized, sent to the cath lab where two major arteries (LAD and RCA) had 95 – 99% blockage. Do to the location of the blockages he was not a candidate for stents or a CABG (bypass surgery), but rather just has to live as long as possible until he eventually dies from a heart attack.

Although I would never suggest to anyone that they should live on a “see food diet” (if you see it eat it) and not exercise because their fate was set before they could affect anything, but rather use this to possibly explain why some people can do whatever they want and not have any negative health outcomes long term.

Some individuals I have met have smoked from the time they were teenagers until their later years of life and have never developed cancer or emphysema. This does not mean I will take those same chances.
 
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