If you don't get enough rest and manage stress, you're going to fail to reap the benefits of exercise, particularly as you age. Combine poor sleep and stress with a poor diet and there no amount of exercise that will insulate you from heart disease and any number of other debilitating conditions.

Most of you eat LOL worthy diets. Eating a 'sammich' loaded with heavily processed frankenmeat 'deli slices' and Sargento cheese is not eating clean or healthy. The wilted lettuce in your chipotle burrito is not one serving of 'veggies.' I'm describing this because everyone is in denial about their eating in this country -- look around, people are fucking fat. Many of you reading this are 20+ lbs overweight.

Nothing has a greater cumulative impact on how you look, feel, and your longevity than diet. Start taking it seriously if you don't. Highly processed food is poison and should be regarded as carrying the same health consequences as alcohol. The average American would probably drop 15-20 lbs. in a few months if they could put down processed food for the whole period.

And please don't think that lifting + cheap ground beef is the fountain of youth. Best case scenario for that approach is you look like a shaved, inflamed ape like Rogan. Your diet needs to be 80%+ whole foods with a heavy emphasis on minimally processed vegetables if you want optimal health. Very few people are genetically predisposed not to benefit from this.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5418665&forum_id=2#46880206)

Whole foods should be emphasized and maximized. Olive oil is processed food but fine for most people. Everyone understands what heavy processing is and is being disingenuous if they act like it's opaque.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5418665&forum_id=2#46880367)

This issue is discussed ad nauseum all over the internet. Perform your own research if you have issues.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5418665&forum_id=2#46880404)

I will let you keep straining for your subthread but you are going to have to be a big boy and do a little reading.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5418665&forum_id=2#46880464)

It's absurdly easy to consume 2000+ calories of heavily processed food in a single sitting and find yourself hungry again in a few hours. It's brutal to take in that many calories with whole foods and often between fiber and superior nutrient profiles, you are not hungry again for substantially longer. Simply eating more fiber and less food overall would be a massive benefit to the average person.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5418665&forum_id=2#46880434)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5418665&forum_id=2#46880245)

Three cups of steamed kale is like 15g of protein. I ate that yesterday with some sardines and almonds and was at like 40g of protein for the meal. If you are actually eating 12-15 serving of vegetables daily it adds up. We are culturally obsessed with protein at the moment, don't let GC clown world media control your brain.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5418665&forum_id=2#46880571)

breh

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5418665&forum_id=2#46880298)

there is a big difference between some processing of food and "heavily" processed which OP doesn't bother to explain. but it is correct that people are retards when they spit and sputter about impossibility of avoiding processed. not wanting to or not being willing is the issue, not access, unless you live in some ghetto hellhole.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5418665&forum_id=2#46880344)

1) Go to grocery store every day

2) Buy something perishable and not shelf stable

3) Eat it

CR?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5418665&forum_id=2#46880373)

Let's narrow the issue:

How many grams of protein to you eat per day and where does it come from?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5418665&forum_id=2#46880428)

so eating a lot of that stuff which seems unhealthy to carb conscious, anti-processed food westerners often results in being thin with good gut health

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5418665&forum_id=2#46880654)

also japanese longevity is not static across the whole population. everyone jacks off over that blue zone stuff and the author of that cites people in okinawa eating diets full of vegetables and purple sweet potato along with having strong social support networks and staying active into old age.

tokyo salaryman working 14 hours a day and chain smoking does not necessarily have awesome health prospects but he's probably not obese which is half the battle.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5418665&forum_id=2#46880683)

wanted to point out that their crap food isnt as nearly crap as it seems though. shouldnt be surprising considering their average longevity of course

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5418665&forum_id=2#46880715)

XO hates the idea that healthy eating does anything because it deemphasizes reliance on systematic 'hacks'. Aspies love this shit. Tim Ferriss and his ilk are popular because they reduce nutrition to formulas rather than emphasize what many people don't want to do, which is just eat a lot of natural healthy food and cook more.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5418665&forum_id=2#46880482)

if OP was thoughtful, could point out that it's virtually impossible to find an obese person who eats primarily whole foods and vegetables in quantity.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5418665&forum_id=2#46880617)

I don't mean breakfast at mcDonalds, take out for dinner, then drink a shake of Raw Fit, but more like trying to eat decent, but having a serving or 2 of these daily to get your vegetables?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5418665&forum_id=2#46881595)

But there is opportunity cost in eating less whole vegetables and fruits and nuts etc. The nutrient and fiber content of just eating whole plants is hard to beat for health benefits but that's obviously controversial here so I'll say no more. Unlikely the meal replacements are going to drive heart disease harder than the diet I recommend but again, I don't know anything about them.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5418665&forum_id=2#46882038)

I do think sleep > diet however. without sufficient quality sleep you will lack the mental energy to carry out the other things on this list.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5418665&forum_id=2#46883448)