I dont eat diverse quality food, often let myself get a kebab, 1-2 slices of pizza daily, chocolate bar or 1-2 ice cream balls
Theres one thing I eat everyday multiple times a day - 4 slices of dark bread with olive oil, quality peanut butter a banana and drink coffee with lactose free milk and 1.5 teaspoon of honey.
I dont know what to think about it because Im progressing massively, altho everyone says that junk food is hampering growth
Im down on sweets a lot from my teenage years when I used to eat 2 chocolates or above 200g of sugar total, never been overweight, rather underweight for 2 years
When you’re older, it becomes a lot more sensitive.
You did not describe a bad diet for someone active. Ice cream is high in sugar. The rest is honestly fine.
Bad diets usually come from Takis and soda, not cheese and 4 slices of bread for a guy running 10 miles that day.
As you go through your 30's diet will become more and more important.
Absolutely this. I think a lot of us (/distance runners) pretty much ate what we wanted. My pre-race meal used to be pizza.
Once you work at a desk and reduce your running, over time diet becomes the MOST important thing to affect your body. I started noticing subtle differences in late 20s.
Now at 42, I’m still very lean and fit/same size as in college, but cholesterol shot up in the last 2 years. Diet is important.
Absolutely this. I think a lot of us (/distance runners) pretty much ate what we wanted. My pre-race meal used to be pizza.
Once you work at a desk and reduce your running, over time diet becomes the MOST important thing to affect your body. I started noticing subtle differences in late 20s.
Now at 42, I’m still very lean and fit/same size as in college, but cholesterol shot up in the last 2 years. Diet is important.
Not that you asked, but I agree with everything you said, except for the thing about cholesterol I'm questioning; I've lost about 17 pds the last 2-3 months following a low-carb diet (nutritionist Autumn Bates on youtube, I've linked her several times before on LRC), in the process I've done a deep dive into recommended nutrition by huge organizations like the American Heart Association, et.all. One MD or PhD (can't remember which) called the AHA "the most corrupt organization on the planet." I believe the AHA *still* recommends a "low fat diet," which doesn't work for most people; fats are replaced with carbs, and carbs make people gain weight: you know what they feed ducks, for duck pate (fatty liver)? CARBS!
I digress, you should do a deep dive into cholesterol b/c there's more to it than just what's on the surface - follow the money!! That's all I'm saying. Lipitor has annual sales of $12 billion.
I like Zoe Harcombe's website in the UK, though I don't subscribe to it, or anything (it's like 49 euros/year). Myths & Facts
recently retired MD here. When I started to work in hospital I believed everything I had been taught. But just a few years in I realised that some things just don´t fit. During my 5 Months on cardiology I observed that cholesterol levels of heart attack patients were all over the place. Some high, some average, some really low. I think that was my first lightbulb moment about 30 years ago that there was something terrible wrong about medicine and what we are taught at universities. The last three years before retirement I worked on the C-department and than it was obvious to me that our system is not about health. It is a mix of profit and politics.
Let me ask you this: What's more important?, The car's engine, the car's transmission, or the fuel you put in the tank?
When it comes to running there are about 50 links in that chain that could cause the beginning of the chain to come separated from the end of the chain.
Diet is extremely important as you age. I'm 63 & eat nothing but a 100% organic whole foods diet. And I quit drinking 25 yrs ago. Aging is no fun but diet helps out a lot.