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10/10 I'm in my 30s and I'm finding that I'm unable to eat In & Out
burgers & soda & frys & shakes without feeling really really
lousy within an hour or two. Has anyone noticed your ability to
digest unhealthy comfort food decrease as you age? -30s man
\_ I think it's a good thing. Your body is telling you that
you no longer need these extra fat/sugars. The wise thing to do
is to listen to it. Having a small appetite is not that big of a
deal. The alternative is that you are forcing these food down
your throat. you would feel sick a little bit, but the worse part
is that these food you consumed will be end up on your belly.
and eventually you will need to take high-blood pressure pills
which has side effect of impotency. So, it's your choice.
\- I can no longer eat 1lb of bacon at a time. --psb
\_ http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/09/science/09tier.html
\_ It's a common complaint. I can't each to much sugar without getting
a headache now.
\_ Isn't it a good thing? Now you won't eat junk food.
\_ Isn't it a good thing? Now you won't eat junk food anymore.
\_ No, because I hang out with super hot mid-20 year old
girlfriends all the time and I hate to show signs of aging.
\_ Join their purge circle, and you won't have this problem.
\_ If you want to date the young hotties you are either going
to have to get rich or start hitting the gym.
\_ Or accept that you aren't mid-20s and pay for good food.
Take them on a date and spend some money you cheapskate.
\_ This is a good advice. I'm assuming you are at a
point in your life where you can afford more than a
meal for two at In-n-Out. Maybe you'll even get to
impress some gold-digger if it's a nice enough place.
\_ If they keep eating junk food they won't be hot for long
anyway. Find some super hot girls who don't eat that crap.
\_ I miss eating KFC. Seriously. It makes me feel good to eat it
but it makes me feel lousy afterwards. Getting old.
\_ I can only eat two platefuls at Todai.
\_ Speaking of which, I used to be able to eat 3 platefuls
but now I can barely eat 2. Maybe my matabolism is slowing
down or something, but it's no longer worthwhile going to
all you can eat restaurants anymore.
\- is Todai worth trying? I'm not a sushi snob, but I've
also heard some of the stuff there is disgusting/inedible.
\_ Todai is tolerable if you don't care and terrible if you
do care. However, it's less expensive than Isobune or
any of the other sushi-boat places and comparable in
quality. If you just want to eat a bunch of fish meat,
go to Todai on your birthday. --erikred
\_ Has anyone eaten at Coach (formerly MR Sushi)? Had
a great meal there the other night. Nomihoudai for
$3.50... Friendliest host/staff ever...
\_ That nomihoudai sake is hard to beat, even if it's
not good sake. The sushi was so-so, but you're
right, their staff is excellent. --erikred
\_ You're not talking about Mr. Sushi on Grand Ave
by Lake Merritt, are you? This place taught me
never to go to a restaurant named Mr. <food type>
without some trustworthy recommendations.
\_ The birthday comment is for a free meal, but requires
you to be accompanied by at least one paying adult.
As for quality, it really depends from location to
location. I rate Daly City one as poor. San Jose one
(don't know if there's more than one) a lot of people
(Todai fans) rave about it, but I found it subpar
(meaning quality did not meet pricing.) In bay area,
only Todai I would be willing to pay is the one in
Pleasanton. I've also been told that SoCal ones are
overall better than bay area ones. If the one SoCal
experience I had was a good representation, I would
agree. But if you want similar style buffet, I think
Moonstar Buffet (across street from Orpheum Theater)
is a better value. I haven't tried their new
location in Daly City. But I generally try to avoid
buffets except in vegas. Wynn's buffet is amazing.
\_ The one in Pleasanton is good? It's the only one
I've been to, and I wasn't all that impressed.
\_ Heh, the motd aging... next up will be serious questions about ED.
\_ Speaking of which I'm having the opposite problem as I
am getting older -- the um "volume" and "distance" are
getting ridiculous.
\_ Get her some goggles. - grumpy not getting laid guy
\_ Him |
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| www.nytimes.com/2007/10/09/science/09tier.html JOHN TIERNEY Published: October 9, 2007 In 1988, the surgeon general, C Everett Koop, proclaimed ice cream to a be public-health menace right up there with cigarettes. That was a ludicrous statement, as Gary Taubes demonstrates in his new book meticulously debunking diet myths, Good Calories, Bad Calories (Knopf, 2007). The notion that fatty foods shorten your life began as a hypothesis based on dubious assumptions and data; when scientists tried to confirm it they failed repeatedly. The evidence against Hagen-Dazs was nothing like the evidence against Marlboros. It may seem bizarre that a surgeon general could go so wrong. After all, wasnt it his job to express the scientific consensus? He, like the architects of the federal food pyramid telling Americans what to eat, went wrong by listening to everyone else. We like to think that people improve their judgment by putting their minds together, and sometimes they do. The studio audience at Who Wants to Be a Millionaire usually votes for the right answer. But suppose, instead of the audience members voting silently in unison, they voted out loud one after another. If the second person isnt sure of the answer, hes liable to go along with the first persons guess. By then, even if the third person suspects another answer is right, shes more liable to go along just because she assumes the first two together know more than she does. Thus begins an informational cascade as one person after another assumes that the rest cant all be wrong. Because of this effect, groups are surprisingly prone to reach mistaken conclusions even when most of the people started out knowing better, according to the economists Sushil Bikhchandani, David Hirshleifer and Ivo Welch. If, say, 60 percent of a groups members have been given information pointing them to the right answer (while the rest have information pointing to the wrong answer), there is still about a one-in-three chance that the group will cascade to a mistaken consensus. Cascades are especially common in medicine as doctors take their cues from others, leading them to overdiagnose some faddish ailments (called bandwagon diseases) and overprescribe certain treatments (like the tonsillectomies once popular for children). Unable to keep up with the volume of research, doctors look for guidance from an expert or at least someone who sounds confident. In the case of fatty foods, that confident voice belonged to Ancel Keys, a prominent diet researcher a half-century ago (the K-rations in World War II were said to be named after him). He became convinced in the 1950s that Americans were suffering from a new epidemic of heart disease because they were eating more fat than their ancestors. There were two glaring problems with this theory, as Mr Taubes, a correspondent for Science magazine, explains in his book. First, it wasnt clear that traditional diets were especially lean. Nineteenth-century Americans consumed huge amounts of meat; the percentage of fat in the diet of ancient hunter-gatherers, according to the best estimate today, was as high or higher than the ratio in the modern Western diet. Second, there wasnt really a new epidemic of heart disease. Yes, more cases were being reported, but not because people were in worse health. It was mainly because they were living longer and were more likely to see a doctor who diagnosed the symptoms. Keys in 1953 compared diets and heart disease rates in the United States, Japan and four other countries. Sure enough, more fat correlated with more disease (America topped the list). Keys had analyzed all 22 countries for which data were available, he would not have found a correlation. Tips To find reference information about the words used in this article, double-click on any word, phrase or name. A new window will open with a dictionary definition or encyclopedia entry. |