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mahakali wrote:

Isn't caffeine diuretic?

dvpierce wrote:

Nutritioanlly speaking, it's like swallowing air, or gnawing on wood - and since caffiene is a diuretic, you actually end up getting dehyrdrated.

I know my spelling isn't all that great, but I thought it was still at least recognizable as english.

dvpierce wrote:

mahakali wrote:

Isn't caffeine diuretic?

dvpierce wrote:

Nutritioanlly speaking, it's like swallowing air, or gnawing on wood - and since caffiene is a diuretic, you actually end up getting dehyrdrated.

I know my spelling isn't all that great, but I thought it was still at least recognizable as english.

But your previous post was too short I could barely notice it!

"Caffeine has many metabolic effects. For example;
It stimulates the central nervous system.
It releases free fatty acids from adipose (fatty) tissue.
It affects the kidneys, increasing urination, which can lead to dehydration.

http://www.americanheart.org/presenter. … ifier=4445

wellfleation wrote:

I had a Boston Market frozen dinner for lunch today (chicken, mash potatoes, and veggies. 1,900 and something mgs of salt!

That's roughly 19/20 (95%) of the RDA for sodium.

The 2400 mg RDA (I could have sworn it was 2000 mg the last time I heard) is standard maximum for people w/o special dietary concerns. In the UK the RNI (Recommended Nutritional Intake) for sodium is 1600 mg.

Edit based on my earlier 25 mg per 8 oz soda figure:
8 oz = ~0.01041667% (~1/96) of RDA
12 oz = ~0.015625% (~1/64) of RDA
16 oz = ~0.02083333% (~1/48) of RDA

They round the percentages. How they round depends on the company.
If 24-47 mg = 1% & 49-71 mg = 2% they round down
If 12-35 mg = 1% & 36-59 mg = 2% they round correctly
If 25-47 mg = 2% & 49-71 mg = 3% they round up

wellfleation wrote:

There isn't any cholesterol in 95% of chips, nor trans-fats (the worst type of fat for peoples health found in meat and cheeses). Also, the new trend is to use "sunflower" oil which is much better for you.

There is more miss-information in this thread than is the norm in Mac-Addict. Do you guys not read the labels, or simply don't believe them?

Trans-fats are certainly the worst type of fat but they are a man-made type of fat created by chemical altering unsaturated fat so that it more closely resembles the structure of saturated fat (which is actually what's found in meats and cheeses). It's almost invariably converted to VLDL cholesterol or at least acts as if it were VLDL cholesterol. And while it is accepted that excess saturated fat and the associated LDL cholesterol are bad for you there is a school of thought that limiting saturated fats too much is bad as well because it forces your body to manufacture it's own saturated fats & LDL cholesterol from unsaturated fats and it theorized that humans are particularly inefficient at doing so often creating increased amounts of VLDL cholesterol as well as making LDL cholesterol.

All I know is that I was told by my doctor to eat 8+ eggs a week to lower my cholesterol. The choice of eating more eggs or tablets...

So I have 3 eggs 3 times a week at breakfast. (+ whatever else is used in cooking) Not only is my cholestrol now really, really low (it was dangerously high before), but I am more enegetic and am loosing weight. I'm not eating any different, other than eating a few more eggs. My cholesterol turned around in a week. It was off the scale at the bottom end after 3 weeks.

Calories, shmalories, a well rounded diet negates most of this thread so far.

It might be worthy of mentioning that I drink (on average) about 10L of milk, 2L of beer, eat quite a lot of red meat and hardly ever touch rice. I don't have coke often, fish n' chips once or twice a week. Rarely any processed food at all. I also ride my bike about 15 minutes a day to and from Uni.

thume wrote:

A calorie is enough energy to heat 1Litre of water 1 degree Cel.

Beer is my favorite source of calories. Yumm.

No, that's a kilocalorie.  A calorie is the amount of energy it takes to heat one millilitre of water 1 degree C.