I'm about to eat my vegan, gluten free, soy free, antibiotics free, raw, GMO free, organic, fat free, low carb dinner. Are you, too???

2015-09-14T11:36:28-04:00

How many of you read the labels on the foods you buy? Do you pay attention to those signs in fast food restaurants or the hand-held menus in others that dispense all this nutritional information about what your are about to eat? Is this all a little silly or is the federal government and the food industry REALLY interested in your health???

Response by SCPO David Lockwood made Sep 14 at 2015 11:42 AM

2015-09-14T11:42:33-04:00

That's about what it equates to! LOL!

Response by MSG Private RallyPoint Member made Sep 14 at 2015 11:42 AM

2015-09-14T11:42:36-04:00

Salt, pepper, and a little cheese and should be good to go.

Response by Capt Seid Waddell made Sep 14 at 2015 11:43 AM

2015-09-14T11:43:51-04:00

I think that this is government engaging in silliness when they are incapable of dealing with serious issues.

Response by SSG Private RallyPoint Member made Sep 14 at 2015 11:48 AM

2015-09-14T11:48:13-04:00

Oh, you forgot taste free as well! LOL

Response by MCPO Roger Collins made Sep 14 at 2015 12:14 PM

2015-09-14T12:14:28-04:00

If it don't eat me, I will eat it, if on the menu. It isn't what you eat its how much you eat, which can be offset with sufficient exercise. Calories in = calories out, good stuff.

Response by SSG Private RallyPoint Member made Sep 14 at 2015 12:24 PM

2015-09-14T12:24:09-04:00

Good luck affording a diet that actually encompasses the macronutrients you need while incorporating all of those restrictions. Just eating gluten free alone is very difficult, as gluten is in pretty much all processed foods. Things labeled gluten free either don't innately have gluten normally (such as dairy products), or they have the consistency and texture of, well, a block of wood. And they're more effective as a hammer than they are as food.

Of course your picture is silly, but it illustrates a growing trend in America. Honestly, going without added sugars is a healthy choice. Going without dessert is a healthy choice. Short of having FODMAP allergies, IgA mediated gluten intolerance, or Celiac disease, there's no reason to eat gluten free. If you're not allergic to peanuts, there's no reason to have a peanut-free diet. If you're not allergic to soy, there's no reason to go on a soy-free diet.

Artificially limiting your diet because a guy who knows a guy who did it lost x number of pounds is ridiculous. But for those of us with actual food allergies (I have celiac disease and am very sensitive to even the smallest amount of cross-contamination, which could lay me up for a week), it creates a double-edged sword. On the plus side, the fad diet craze means I can find recipe books for gluten-free foods and alternatives that are edible and even tasty, because the market is there. On the down side, however, many restaurants and waitstaff don't take allergens as seriously, because for 99% of their customers who claim to be "allergic", it's no big deal...which means every time I eat out, I risk basically getting poisoned. I don't risk eating out for a week before any field problem, PT test, range, or anything that will actually require me at my best.

I sort of, kind of understand vegans...but I don't agree with them. I can sort-of buy the organic thing, for certain foods (for anything you have to peel, like bananas, organic farming doesn't change a thing). Antibiotics, ehh...the jury's still out on that one.

I disagree with the GMO craze. We "genetically modify" our meat. We always have. It's called "selective breeding."

Response by Cpl James Waycasie made Sep 14 at 2015 12:55 PM

2015-09-14T12:55:23-04:00

Ummm No thanks, I'll just make sure to ask God to bless my food and eat anything I want. I got out of bootcamp weighing 170 pounds in 1979 and now at 53 I stay around 170 to 180 and I don't diet.

Response by CMSgt Mark Schubert made Sep 14 at 2015 1:18 PM

2015-09-14T13:18:14-04:00

There are hundreds of studies to show that (as an example) gluten intolerance is all in your head. People who THINK they need to eat gluten free really don't understand that people with celiac disease (which is hereditary) don't get it as adults like a virus! If you have it, you should have had symptoms since you started eating gluten - which 99.9% of us have been eating gluten since we were kids - and - it's not about not eating gluten free to make yourself "feel better". The Organic thing is very similar!