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PEOPLE.com | Michael Phelps Says the Rumors About His Olympic Diet Are a 'Fabricated Lie' PEOPLE.com Though he's been known to carbo-load for the big race, Michael Phelps says the tales of his high-cal diet have been greatly exaggerated. The 28-time Olympic medalist, who has been said to consume 12,000 calories per day during the Games, got real about ... Michael Phelps reveals his 12000-calorie diet was a myth, but he still ate so much food Michael Phelps Debunks Myth Of His 12000-Calorie Diet DIVE IN TO 'SHARK WEEK' WITH BRAND NEW JAWSOME SHARK PROGRAMMING AIRING SUNDAY, JULY 23 TO ... |
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Even when you plan to eat healthy, its easy to end up at a fast food place because its the only thing around and youre hungry, dammit. But does McDonalds have anything for a vegetarian to eat? Is there anything low carb at Starbucks? This cheat sheet can help.
For example, on a Mediterranean diet, you only have a few things to eat at McDonalds: a side salad, apple slices, or a Cutie (one of those tiny oranges). But Starbucks offers five items, including two delicious-looking salad bowls. Or say you dont eat meat: Wendys only has a few sides for you, but Taco Bell offers 14 different entre items stuffed with cheese, eggs, and beans.
The full analysis is here, sponsored by NetQuote. (They want you to come for the fast-food menus and stay for insurance quotes.) The chains they looked at are Chick-Fil-A, McDonalds, Starbucks, Taco Bell, and Wendys; the diets are vegan, vegetarian, pescatarian (vegetarian plus fish), Mediterranean, and low carb.
They define low carb as fewer than 16 grams of carbs, which may not be strict enough for all low-carb dieters (especially when were looking at Taco Bell, where 16 grams per taco is going to add up fast). So make sure to double-check labelsbut this is still a great starting point when youre stuck in a food court.
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On average, women will start a new diet twice a year but it will only last four and half weeks
WOMEN go on 130 diets in a lifetime, a study has revealed.
They start one twice a year on average but it will last for just four weeks and three days.
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The most popular diet is fat-free, which is used by 21 per cent, vegetarian was named by 15 per cent, and a carb-free plan followed with 13 per cent.
Other diet plans regularly embraced by our nations women include dairy free, juicing and even wheat free.
The study was completed by hospitality firm Fourth who surveyed 1,500 women.
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When it comes to reasons why the diets are packed in, a third of the women said it was down to love of food.
Poor willpower was the second most popular answer and a further twenty per cent said they lack patience.
A tenth admitted to just being baffled by what is banned on a plan.
Of the total women asked, a massive thirty-one per cent admitted that chocolate was the single thing they missed the most and a Friday night take-away came in at second.
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Five per cent say an active social life scuppers new food regimes.
But a similar number still dine out.
Director at Fourth, Catherine Marshall, said: Eating out and enjoying food and drinks with friends should not stop anybody from continuing a healthy eating plan.
Eating out and enjoying food and drinks with friends should not stop anybody from continuing a healthy eating plan.
Adults have a tendency to panic when in a restaurant and automatically assume nothing will cater for their latest health fix, but more often than not there will be options on the menu that are suitable for any diet or lifestyle choice.
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Only six weeks have passed since Emma Straub the author of Modern Lovers, The Vacationers, Laura Lamonts Life in Pictures, and Other People We Married opened Books Are Magic, an independent bookstore in Carroll Gardens. Her eating, as a result, is slightly more erratic than usual. The big difference is that both lunch and dinner are hard now, says Straub, whos also a mother to two young children (ages 17 months and 4). Fortunately, she can always make time for pizza. Read all about it in this weeks Grub Street Diet.
Thursday, June 8My two children love cereal. They eat an organic one shaped like bunnies that turns the milk purple. Its basically Fruity Pebbles, but for people who shop at Whole Foods. On good days, like today, I have three seconds at 7 a.m. to pour myself a bowl of Cheerios and shovel a few mouthfuls in before the baby drags it away and eats it. Hes very efficient at stealing food, in part because he is very cute, but mostly because he has superhuman strength.
The baby had a special gym class, in which he was awarded a participation medal, so Im slower getting to the bookstore than usual. But it means that I get to walk by Bien Cuit, so I duck in and get two slices of something called breakfast Sicilian, or something, which is basically room-temperature pizza. One for me and one for my husband, plus as large an iced tea as theyve got.
My mother texts to see whats going on at the store, and offers to bring lunch from Hancos. Thank god Ive been in a three-hour meeting with a sales rep from Random House, and my eyes are crossed and I am dying of starvation. I make an enormous tofu bnh m vanish in about two minutes, and then run out the door to school pickup. My older son lets me eat a tiny, tiny bite of his chocolate-chip cookie. Another large iced tea, this time from the Iris Caf.
At 5:30 p.m., I eat some macaroni and cheese off the table as Im cleaning up after kiddo dinner. Okay, fine, I also eat some off the floor.
My friends Jennifer Romolini and Rumaan Alam did a terrific event at the store, and afterward, my husband and I have enough bandwidth to eat some pizza before going home. Honestly, sitting at the counter at Sals Pizzeria, our backs to a clear, warm night on Court Street, it almost feels like a date.
We stop at the grocery store on our way home, buy a thing of chocolate-covered raisins, and nearly polish them off. Romance!
Friday, June 9 We have run out of the bunny cereal, so my husband makes pancakes in order to staunch the bleeding. The baby (obviously) wants the pancakes that are on my plate. I manage to eat one or two while hes not looking.
My older son likes to pretend to be allergic to things chicken, eggs, asparagus, the list goes on and on and right now, bananas seem to be included. I eat his banana on the walk to school.
On Fridays, our babysitter leaves early, and I have to hustle home from the bookstore. I stop at Union Market to pick up lunch a fairly sad-looking salad with goat cheese and the worlds most perfect appetizer, a chocolate doughnut from Dough. The salad what joy to write these words exceeds my expectations, and the sherry-vinegar salad dressing is well above average, at least to someone who has been starved for salads. There are also some candied walnuts that I avoid, because who needs them?
I make a giant vat of iced tea, my first of the summer! Easy breezy. It also occurs to me that there is no good audience for this food diary the people who love food are going to think Im a snooze, and the people who love me are going to worry that Im only living off sugar and cheese and iced tea, because I am.
I steal some fresh mozzarella while making pizza for the kiddos. We are good at making pizza, though tonights was ruined by the Instacart shopper who bought the whole-wheat dough instead of regular. What kind of monster makes pizza with whole-wheat dough?
I am somewhat embarrassed to admit that my husband and I get boxed meals from Plated. It has actually been wonderful for us we both like to cook, but have no time to plan meals, and most of the time, the meals are good. But lately, weve been so busy with the bookstore that we havent had time to select the meals they send. We end up with things like pizza tostadas. Whenever I ask my husband what Plated is coming, he says that its pizza tostadas. Tonight, its actually a chickpea-Greek-salad kind of thing, which we could very easily have made without Plated, but so it goes. At least its a salad. I do worry that were going to get the plague, or gangrene, or whatever you contract when you stop eating food that is actually good for you.
Saturday, June 10 The big kid is happily reunited with his bunny cereal, and the little one has three courses: scrambled eggs, cereal, and a banana. I manage to fry myself two eggs and make an English muffin. Julia Turshens wonderful new book, Small Victories, taught me how to fry eggs perfectly, after 37 years of doing it badly.
At a 4-year-olds birthday party, the baby and I eat a lot of cantaloupe and watermelon. The parents order really good pizza not just birthday-party pizza from Sottocasa. The four of us eat about a hundred slices. I swear, I dont only eat pizza, even though it seems like it. A friend of mine (not a doctor, but trustworthy nonetheless) told me that it didnt matter if I drank while on antibiotics. I decide to believe her.
I eat six chocolate-covered raisins while no one is looking. I eat six because there are only six left, not because Im on a Barack Obama seven almonds diet.
The children are having broccoli-rabe ravioli for dinner, and I eat one, too, because they are covered in butter and irresistible.
We have another thing from Plated, but its another pizza-tostada-type situation, so we opt for Pok Pok instead. We live close enough that we can call after the kids are in bed, and then run over in our pajamas. I have the catfish, the chaca, which is always perfect and delicious, and add some extra peanuts, because you only live once, accompanied by a Sixpoint Crisp, same reason.
Sunday, June 11 The children both eat, but somehow, I dont. We go on a family adventure to Target and Prospect Park, and stop at Joyce Bakeshop on the way. The big kid and I each eat a chocolate croissant the size of our heads, and it makes me realize that most croissants are pathetic and butterless. This one is sublime fluffy as a hotel pillow.
The baby is sleeping, and the big kid and my husband are drawing with chalk. I make us grown-ups some breakfast burritos because I am starving and want to eat everything in the fridge. My husband laughs at me for using Greek yogurt as a sour-cream substitute, but I think Im a genius.
We decide to be ambitious and go to our friends restaurant for dinner, the Meat Hook at Threes Brewing. Because I am an idiot and forget that it is the weekend, I assume that it will be empty at 5:30 p.m. We all pile into the car the four of us plus my parents and Threes is jumping. I drink a glass of rosato very quickly, because if I dont move quickly, the baby will knock it over. We get an order of asparagus with an extremely decadent sauce that tastes like cream, but my friend Ben (owner of the Meat Hook) says its something called an aquafaba, which sounds like swim class for babies. Its apparently a sort of vegan mayo made out of cooking liquid from beans, which sounds not even a tenth as delicious as it actually is.
We get an order of French fries and a cheese plate for the big kid, who is in an almost exclusive cheese period. Then a lot of roasted pork and sausage and potatoes appear, plus a truly stupendous wedge salad with the kind of dressing that tastes like it has six raw eggs in it. I want to marry the wedge salad, especially if we can be polyamorous with the sausage. The baby eats a lot of French fries and throws a lot of asparagus. I have no idea if anyone else eats anything, because I am too busy being an octopus and rescuing glasses of water and flying knives, and fishing crayons out of the babys mouth.
I really want the Mister Softee truck to drive by. It doesnt. Once, a very long time ago, I got Doug Quint and his Big Gay Ice Cream truck to make a special stop at my parents house. I would give $1 million to have that happen right at this second.
Monday, June 12 Cheerios. The baby pulls my bowl next to his and allows me every other bite, the generous boy.
Last-day-of-preschool party. I eat a blondie cut into pieces small enough for 3-year-olds to eat without going insane. My kiddo has two. There are also strawberries. I dont know what kind of bribe it would take to get my child to eat a strawberry at this particular moment in time.
Stinky is half a block away from Books Are Magic, thank god. Weve only been open for six weeks, and its still hard to find time to eat during the day there is so much to do. But Stinky is close and fast and perfect, so my husband and I eat their turkey, Gruyre, and arugula sandwiches several times a week. Sometimes, I also get a brownie, because I like to support local small businesses. I dont even like brownies.
Kiddo dinner at 5:45 p.m. I try to steal a piece of a quesadilla but am rebuffed. They both eat all of their broccoli. This is now a national holiday.
Today, I was struck by a sudden, urgent need to see Wonder Woman. We go to the Alamo Drafthouse, because that way we can eat dinner and watch the movie, instead of just doing one. I have reached the point in my life where I understand dinner theater, like in Soapdish. Man, I would love that. Do you think they serve dinner at Dear Evan Hansen?
Anyway, here is the mortifying truth: I have more pizza. I know! Its too much pizza. But heres why: At Alamo, you have to eat in the dark, and I think most things are too messy to eat in the dark, while sitting in a movie theater. Once, I ordered the burger, and it was a super-drippy mess. So now I stick to the pizzas, which they call flatbreads, because they are flat ovals. Whatever you need to tell yourself, Alamo. My husband has tacos. I have two glasses of ros. I wish theyd shown what the Amazons eat I bet they eat perfectly grilled fish and vegetables, like what I had at Threes Brewing, only maybe with less dressing, and definitely with no cheese. I dont think the Amazons eat cheese, which is maybe the biggest difference between me and Wonder Woman. If there were Raisinets, I would eat them.
Tuesday, June 13 Cereal. The baby is on my husbands lap, so I get to eat the whole bowl. Large iced tea.
Listen, I wake up early, and school pickup is at 11:15 today, so I have to eat a bagel with chicken salad at this ungodly hour, 10:45 a.m. I am hungry, and it is delicious.
We plan to have a picnic with some of my sons classmates in the park after school, so I bring a giant box of pink and green pretzel-shaped cookies from Caputos, one of the Italian bakeries in our neighborhood. Because its a hundred degrees outside, and the park has not an inch of shade, we scrap lunch pretty early and go into the fountain, which means that the kiddo and I eat most of the cookies ourselves. I also eat a lot of the grapes I brought for the picnic, because I am an adult.
Back at the bookstore, where I am not, Hetty McKinnon hand-delivers some beautiful salads from her new book, Neighborhood. My husband sends a photo, and I am jealous.
I suddenly find myself alone in the house and have a chips-and-salsa party. The party goes on too long, and then I have a giant stomachache.
I have to go back to the bookstore after bedtime, so I eat with the boys fusilli and pesto and more asparagus. The baby and I trade bowls repeatedly. The big kid and I share several open cans of LaCroix, because we are sophisticated.
We have a great event at the store tonight empress Elin Hilderbrand, resplendent in a pink dress that reminds me of Andies prom dress from Pretty in Pink, only much, much cuter, and Katherine Heiny, who is as hilarious as Maria Semple and is my new personal crush. Katherine is kind enough to let me babble at her with a glass of Champagne in my hand, and gently tells me that my children would not always be so young. She doesnt know about the food diary, but she might as well have said something like, Emma, someday you will again eat meals. Someday you will go to restaurants with your children, and they wont throw things and wave their arms like deranged baboons.
Afterward, my husband and I walk a few doors down, to Uncle Louie Gs, and get ice cream. Soft serve is really all it takes to make me happy. I am a woman of simple pleasures. Sugar, dairy, carbohydrates. Dont @ me, as I think people say. Maybe they dont say that anymore. As you now know, I dont have time to learn slang. Im too busy eating pizza.
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Men's Health | Michael Phelps Reveals His Mythic 12000-Calorie Diet "Is Not Real" Men's Health Swimmer Michael Phelps is a 23-time gold medalist who has set the standard for Olympic achievement and crushed countless records in his path to athletic immortality. Given his titanic successes, it's been thought for some time that he had a diet to match. |
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It seems like everyone you meet is eating a special diet right now, and its easy to mix them up.
I cant tell you how many times someone has suggested the gluten free or paleo optionwhen I ask about whats vegan on a menu, for example. Special diets can overlap, which, I think, is where the confusion comes in. Ifthe only vegan youve ever met is also gluten free, you might think that vegans dont eat gluten. But many of us do, with glee!
Here are some of the most common special diets and what theyre about.
You can sort of break down the why behind common special diets into two broad categories:
The ethical reasons forchoosing a special diet areusually about animal rights, human rights, or the environment. Maybe youre eating veganor plant-based, because you want to reduce your carbon footprint or fight climate changeor protect animals, for example.
Health is an even more broad category when it comes to why people choose special diets. Some folks are looking to lose weight or maintain weight loss.
Theres also evidence that some special diets can prevent or even cure chronic disease. Sometimes, a special diet is not a choice, and a gluten free diet isa great example. Going gluten free is very hip right now, but forsomeone withceliac disease, its a life or death decision.
There are dozens ofnuanced special diets out there, and thisglossary is meant to address theones that you are most likely to encounter. It doesnt include short-term weight loss diets, and it leaves out some special diets that are less popular.
These are some of the most common special diets that youll encounter, arranged alphabetically.
DASH is aspecial diet aimed at controlling high blood pressure. It is a low-sodium diet that focuses on whole grains, fruits, and veggies. You can eat small amounts oflow fat dairy, lean meats, fish, nuts, and seeds on the DASH diet.
This is a somewhat broad special diet, and how flexible a flexitarian is depends on why he or she chose to eat this way. A flexitarian avoids meat (and sometimes all animal products)but will sometimes still eat meat or dairy.
Someone who is gluten free avoids all food with gluten. This includes foods you mayalready know about, like conventional breads and pastas, butgluten hides in all kinds of other products, like soy sauce and even makeup. Depending on why someone is gluten free, eating gluten can potentiall cause serious health problems.
A locavore is someone who focuses on eating food grown locally. This can include or exclude animal products. Like a raw diet, notevery locavore eats 100 percent local, but they will choose local options whenever possible.
Macrobiotic diets have come a long way since the 70s and 80s when they were even more popular. Back then, they were very restrictive, but people have reimagined the macrobiotic diet since then. In a nutshell, itcan describe a vegetarian or pescatarian diet with afocus on whole foods andmindful eating.
A paleo diet is supposed to mimic the way people ate during paleolithic times. It focuses on meat,eggs, fruits, nuts and seeds, and unsaturated oils.There are paleo vegans, as well, who follow a paleo diet, minus the meat and eggs.
A pescatarian diet is a vegetarian diet, plus seafood. Pesca is Latin for fish.
A plant-based is another way to refer to a vegan diet. Someone who is plant-based usually eatsthis wayfor health reasons, so theydont necessarily live a vegan lifestyle.Theres also a Whole Food Plant-Based Diet movement, which describesa plant-based diet thats free from processed foods, refined sugars, refined oils, and alcohol.
Raw food is a dish that hasnt been heated above117F (48C). The idea is thatcooking food destroys some of the nutrients in it. People on a raw diet may or may not eat 100 percent raw, and they can eat animal products, as long as those are also raw.
A raw vegan follows a raw diet without any animal products.
Vegan diets, like plant-based diets, are free from all animal products: meat, poultry, fish, dairy, eggs, honey,gelatin, etc. Unlike someone eating plant-based, though,veganism is mainly about ethics, not health. Though, of course, some people do choose a plant-based diet for ethical reasons. Veganism just takes that further in some ways and is less discriminatingin others. Vegans can eat refined foods, drink alcohol (as long as its not processed with animal products), eat gluten, and eat sugar. If a food doesnt come from an animal, its vegan whether its healthy or not.
A vegetarian diet is a vegan diet, plus eggs and dairy.Before veganism became popular, early vegans sometimes described themselves as strict vegetarians. Here are the sub-categories of a vegetarian diet:
A pescatarian diet is not a type of vegetarian diet, because fish are not plants. For a definition of pescatarian, see the section on that diet above.
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USA Sports Therapys has been treating community members, professional, and Olympic athletes in South Florida since 2005.
Treating community members andprofessional and Olympic athletes in South Florida since 2005, USA Sports Therapys Dr. Matthew Cooper and Dr. Hal Krenkel are now offering their world-class services at The Spa at Williams Island.Their treatments will include Physical Therapy, Chiropractic, Contemporary Acupuncture, and the EnzymeDr.Anti-Aging Program.
With our experience in the field of sports rehabilitation, we feel we can give the residents of Williams Island the best chance of recovering from an injury or remain healthy and injury free as they strive to stay physically fit, all without leaving the island, says Cooper, whose facility is widely recognized as the best in South Florida.
In addition to treating Williams Island residents andmembers,USA Sports Therapywill share their expertise and knowledge through monthly lectures with personal trainers, Pilates instructors, bi-monthly health and fitness lectures and seminars. The experts at USA Sports Therapy will work directly with trainers on how to exercise safely yet effectively and discuss specific injuries like herniated discs, meniscus injuries in the knee, and various other ailments in individualized body part lectures.
For members, lectures will focus more on these same topics but will also include seminars on injury prevention for all sports, tennis-specific assessments and exercises, diet, weight loss, enzyme therapy and age management, stretching, and acupuncture.
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Since its 2005 inception in Aventura by Dr. Cooper, USA Sports Therapy now treats more than 125 professional and Olympic athletes yearly throughout South Florida.Members of their staff include the USA Olympic Sailing Team Chiropractors and Physical Therapists for the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, Chiropractor for 2016 Rio Olympic games for Track and Field, Doctor to FIU Sports (including football and basketball), St Thomas Aquinas High School and Northwestern High School, as well as physician at the 2009 and 2013 Track and Field World Championships.
USA Sports Therapy has been instrumental in my success to date, says Brianna Rollins, American Track and Field athlete. I fractured my spine in college and was told I may never be able to compete again. After rehabbing with them, I went on to break the NCAA record, the U.S. record andwon a Gold Medal in the 2016 Rio Olympic Gamesfor the 100 meter hurdles.
USA Sports Therapy boasts a number of tools to treat more conditions and atypical injuries than other groups in South Florida, due to numerous unique physical medicine certifications, including but not limited:
This will be USA Sports Therapys seventh office. Current locations include: Aventura, The Miami Beach JCC, Fisher Island, The Faena Hotel, Anatomy at 1220, The JCC in Aventura, and now Williams Island.
For summer hours of operation and other information, visit USASportsTherapy.com. Call 305-935-9599 for an appointment.
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Milk. Its an essential part of a childs growing diet (according to the many commercials and got milk? posters we can remember from our youth.) But in 2017, nationwide consumption of it is lower than ever.
According to NPR, the average American now drinks 18 gallons of dairy milk per year, compared to the 30 gallons per year we were all putting away in the 1970s. (Not that the 1970s should necessarily be our bar for nutrition.) And the biggest reason for the drop doesnt come from growing dairy prices or supply shortages, but from the number of parents who are now choosing what they view as healthier milk alternativessoy, almond, etcover traditional cows milk when shopping for their households.
But all those milk alternatives may be having an unintended consequence.
GrubStreet reports that a new study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that for children, a diet rich in milk might actually make them taller than their classmates who drink other milk alternatives. The study examined the diet habits of 5,000 kids and found that those who drank three cups of non-dairy milk every day were, on average, 0.6 inches shorter than children drinking the same amount of cows milk. Whats more, the study found that the more non-dairy milk children consumed, the greater the disparity in height tended to be.
To get an idea of why this might be, The Feast spoke with nutritionist Jenn Menzer, the owner of WellFit Concierge in Phoenix, to learn more. My initial reaction is that Im not surprised, Jenn tells us. 2 percent cow milk has over eight times as much protein and twice the amount of fat than many soy/nut milksand dairy protein is especially beneficial for height growth. She also noted that cows milk has essential nutrients for bone growth and remodeling that other soy and nut milks lack, including Vitamin D, C, and A.
So should parents take any drastic steps? Not so fast, says Menzer. Moderation is key with any food source, she explains. For children that can safely assimilate dairy, continue your normal regimen. For kids that cant due to intolerance, allergies, or other circumstances, just ensure your kids are also eating plenty of foods rich in Vitamins D, A, and C.
Their future basketball careers might depend on it.
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I recently read a charming news report about a love story, in which a famous, artistic man has been manicured into healthfulness by love (dont worry, beard remains). Or more precisely, the love of a good woman. As you know, theres no greater bonding factor than a macrobiotic diet. The couple who suffers bland food together, stays together, a metaphor so resounding it makes me consciously cover my ears, before consciously uncovering them. Indeed, is there a greater turn-on than ahis-and-hers sheershasana? Because the couple that works out together also stays together, as John and Bipasha once told us.
But mohabbat brand mung sprouts and pyaar bhara pranayam apart, nothing keeps a couple together better than tradition. And there is a long tradition of the idea of a jangli man who is made into an insaan, sorted out, by the touch of a good woman. It is areverse Taming of The Shrew story, titled (Insert Name) Ban Gaya Gentleman.
Food is often a part of this kind of Health and Rehabilitation (henceforth HR) love story. We have grown up being told that the way to a mans heart is through his stomach. Many take this to be an idea that emphasises womens place in the kitchen, but Ive always considered it a bit of a metaphor in sensuality, temptations of the flesh, pleasure and equality also entered the exchange.
HR love stories are really arepudiation of this idea, exemplified in all those advertisements for sunflower oil and morning cereal. It is the control of the appetites, which will prune us into immortality and purity. Shedding his oily desi masaledar lack of control, the man will be remade by his kurti- or athleisurewearing wife serving his their progress in the world.
Purity is at the heart of HR love stories. I once ran into a former colleague who told me he had recently got engaged. Congratulations I said, following up with the usual questions. I learned from him that his fiance was somehow very pure, you know and that she had really taught him to control his mind through, well, mindfulness. As he narrated the tale, his face took on the lofty glow of someone who has overcome base desires and laziness to bloom into a dewy flowerself. Pure, transcending human weakness, born again.
From Saffola to Spirituality, these are stories in which men see themselves and are also seen by the women in the story, perhaps as little boys indulged and disciplined not by overwhelming mother goddesses exuding female power, but girlish girls, indulgent and feminine, a sort of Gwyneth Paltrow girl, sweet and saatvik. Love is an Eden, an Om Sweet Om, in which the only apples are safely to be found on devices.
Interestingly, we all ooh and coo at these stories whereas we would be suitably annoyed if we heard a man say he has made his female lover lose weight and get in shape. We would find it sexist because womens bodies are always being subjected to scrutiny and judged against fixed standards of suitability. Its not the same for men. But perhaps the thing about gendered roles in love more than anywhere else, is that one shapes the other suitable boys for suitable girls and vice versa.
Well, we are all lost, and looking for someone to find us, to make us as good as new, without the scars and stupidities of the past. Some submit to gurus, and some to a kind of cleansing in which love is seen as a spiritual thing, made of spinach and oxygen.
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Posted: June 16, 2017 at 3:45 am
If youre sleeping then youre not eating.
Thats the idea behind a worrying new trend in which anorexics abuse sedatives in the hope of losing more weight.
Dubbed the Sleeping Beauty Diet, it has caused concern among experts.
Instead of eating food, women are instead knocking themselves out with the help of sleeping pills, snoozing through meal times.
Those following the dangerous trend severely restrict their calorie intake, sleeping for up to 20 hours a day in extreme cases.
Perhaps even more worrying, the trend, also dubbed narcorexia, is proving popular on pro-anorexia websites.
One user wrote: This diet is perfect for the end of the school semester, or just for people who have a lot of extra time on their hands.
Less extreme advice advocates a better nights sleep each night and a healthy eating and exercise plan.
The Sleep Doctors Diet Plan by Michael Breus suggests people exercise no less than four hours before bed and get at least seven hours of shuteye per night.
But it has been taken to the extreme as people seek ways to skip meals.
The Suns nutritionist Amanda Ursell said the new trend was shocking and is not to be dismissed lightly.
Most of us need three meals a day just to sustain us from an energy point of view. If you skip breakfast, your ability to concentrate and focus in the morning and your mood are going to be not as good as if you did have breakfast. And if you skip lunch, the same thing will happen in the afternoon, she said.
Eating disorders are really big issues and they profoundly affect your physical health and your mental well-being. This is not to be dismissed lightly, this trend towards sleeping diets, because they are deeply, deeply worrying, she added.
More than 725,000 men and women in the UK are affected by eating disorders, according to the UKs eating disorder charity Beat.
Ursell added that recent data from the National Diet and Nutrition Survey suggests that many women already struggle to pack enough nutrients into their diets and as a result often suffer deficiencies in iron, calcium and other nutrients.
If you are cutting out food, you are going to be malnourished. If you are then starving yourself through sleeping, youre just going to exacerbate it, so you will feel shocking when you do wake up. Sleep itself wont sustain you. It is almost inconceivable that someone has put this out there, she said.
Eating a healthy, balanced diet is important for maintaining good health.
The NHS recommends eating at least five portions of fruit and vegetables a day, basing meals on starchy foods like rice or pasta, eating lean proteins like fish and legumes and drinking plenty of water.
Eating disorders are serious mental illnesses with complex causes. The messages and methods of losing weight promoted by the diet industry are unlikely to be the sole and direct cause of an eating disorder, but they may exacerbate the problem or be a contributing factor for someone who is vulnerable to developing one or is already ill, a spokesperson for Beat said.
If someone has become obsessive about what theyre eating or appears to be going to extremes in order to lose weight, it could be a sign that they are developing or have developed an eating disorder. The important thing is not to delay, as the sooner someone is treated, the better their chance of full recovery, she added.
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