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Re:Exploring aisles 9-13 at my local supermarket by Radle on Tuesday August 20, 2013 @12:25AM (#6241761)
I totally disagree with the author, I am in living an a generation that has good chances to become more than one hundred years old, living is as healthy as never.

Thought I need to agree food is not.

Anyways two or three cokes a week won't hurt.

Drinking Daily coffee won't hurt.

Eating at McDonalds or BurgerKing twice a week won't hurt.

If you do sports twice a week. (And eat some Vitamins, but that is usually no problem I believe.)

Re:Exploring aisles 9-13 at my local supermarket by batiudrami on Tuesday August 20, 2013 @12:45AM (#6241859)
Honestly I do think 2-3 cokes and Maccas twice a week probably does more damage than you'd hope. Eating those instead of water/a home cooked meal probably runs you an extra 4-5,000kJ a week in fat and sugar which, if consistent will see weight gain.

But obviously it depends on how active you are, plus I don't think it's up to the supermarket to ensure that people eat healthily.

Re:Exploring aisles 9-13 at my local supermarket by cocoflunchy on Tuesday August 20, 2013 @12:43AM (#6241843)
> (And eat some Vitamins, but that is usually no problem I believe.)

As a european living in the US, I am appalled at the sheer quantity of vitamins/pseudo health products that my roommates consume. Do you really need this? I don't know a single person in France who takes vitamins on regular basis.

Re:Exploring aisles 9-13 at my local supermarket by Radle on Tuesday August 20, 2013 @01:13AM (#6241946)
I am talking about some fruits, especially for us Pc "nerds".

If you sit on your pc in your office or at home, and have bowl of fruits next to you, you'll eat one or 2 per day and then you got ALL vitamins you need.

Re:Exploring aisles 9-13 at my local supermarket by thekiwi99 on Tuesday August 20, 2013 @03:05PM (#6245858)
The exception being vitamin D, which you need to get either through ~15 minutes of direct sunlight, or a vitamin.
Re:Exploring aisles 9-13 at my local supermarket by marban on Tuesday August 20, 2013 @12:33AM (#6241801)
"If you do sports twice a week."

I would argue that 6 x 30mins is the minimum and mcdonalds should be once a month, not twice a week.

And skip the vitamins.

Re:Exploring aisles 9-13 at my local supermarket by aaron695 on Tuesday August 20, 2013 @12:33AM (#6241799)
> And eat some Vitamins

The fact you think in any shape or form vitamins have a relevance to you shows you have a total miss understanding of food science and how it relates to you.

Unless you are starving because of drought in a poor country or are living on the streets with an addiction, then fair enough.

Re:Exploring aisles 9-13 at my local supermarket by Radle on Tuesday August 20, 2013 @01:19AM (#6241961)
Please do not think that I am totally retarded :)

The problem I see is that there are two terms of "healthy" food that people tend to confuse.

1) Food that makes you Overweight 2) Food that does not have specific oils/ Vitamins.

Apologys for not writing clearly there, I tried to make the point that you usually don't need to care about Vitamins.