LOL - Men's Health Crap

Diet and Nutrition
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I got this email from Men’s Health with “recommended foods for the office”

Personally, I wouldn’t eat any of this shite. Personally, I think that Rodale is getting kickbacks from Kraft and other processed-food manufacurers.

(Everyone loves a conspiracy-theory)

[quote]Men’sHealth wrote:
Best Work Foods

Best Breakfast to Eat over Your Keyboard
Chex Morning Mix
We like the cinnamon mix; it has almonds, cranberries, and raisins.

Per pouch: 130 calories, 2 g protein, 24 g carbohydrates, 3.5 g fat (0.5 g sat. fat), 1 g fiber

Best Stashable Drink
Horizon Organic Reduced Fat chocolate milk
Spoil-proof moo.

Per 8 ounces: 180 calories, 8 g protein, 28 g carbohydrates, 4.5 g fat (3 g sat. fat), 0 g fiber

Best Instant Soup
Nile Spice Red Beans & Rice
A low-fat, high-fiber, Louisiana-style soup.

Per cup: 170 calories, 10 g protein, 35 g carbohydrates, 1 g fat (0 g sat. fat), 10 g fiber

Best Snack Bag
Seneca Crispy Cinnamon sweet-potato chips
Seven chips has your recommended daily intake of beta-carotene.

Per ounce: 150 calories, 1 g protein, 16 g carbohydrates, 9 g fat (1 g sat. fat), 4 g fiber

Best Dried Fruit
Blackbird Food Co. Fruit Crunchies Almost all the nutrients of fresh fruit, but without the hassle.

Per cup: 100 calories, 2 g protein, 18 g carbohydrates, 1 g fat (0 g sat. fat), 2 g fiber

Best High-Energy Snack
PowerBar Energy Bites
The whole oats, soy protein, and glucose will carry you to quitting time.

Per bag of peanut-butter bites: 210 calories, 8 g protein, 32 g carbohydrates, 5 g fat (1 g sat. fat), 1 g fiber

Best Fruit Cup
Dole Fruit Bowls sliced peaches
More of what we want–peaches–and less of what we don’t-sugary syrup.

Per cup: 120 calories, less than 1 g protein, 29 g carbohydrates, 0 g fat, 2 g fiber

Best Hard Candy
Creme Savers Sugar Free
The same flavor as regular Creme Savers.

Per 5 candies: 45 calories, 0 g protein, 13 g carbohydrates, 1.5 g fat (1 g sat. fat), 0 g fiber

Best Chocolate Bar
Dove dark
Contains levels of disease-fighting flavonoids similar to those of chocolate used in studies.

Per 1.3-ounce bar: 200 calories, 2 g protein, 22 g carbohydrates, 12 g fat (7 g sat. fat), 2 g fiber

Best Microwavable Soup Cups
Not quite dinner, but enough to hold you over.

Beef: Chef Boyardee beef stew
Per container: 150 calories, 8 g protein, 19 g carbohydrates, 5 g fat (2 g sat. fat), 2 g fiber

Chicken: Dinty Moore chicken and dumplings
Per container: 200 calories, 12 g protein, 25 g carbohydrates, 6 g fat (2 g sat. fat), 1 g fiber

Best Meal for When You’re Working Late
Dinty Moore American Classics roast beef and gravy with mashed potatoes
Shelf-stable meat that tastes better than it sounds.

Per package: 240 calories, 24 g protein, 24 g carbohydrates, 5 g fat 2 g sat. fat), 2 g fiber

Best Instant Macaroni and Cheese
Kraft Easy Mac Original
The bachelor staple made nukable.

Per pouch: 250 calories, 7 g protein, 38 g carbohydrates, 8 g fat (2.5 g sat. fat), less than 1 g fiber

Best Yogurts
You can go low-cal (Dannon) or extra fruit (Stonyfield). Either way, store a few in the office fridge.

Low-Sugar: Dannon Light 'n Fit
Per 6 ounces: 90 calories, 6 g protein, 17 g carbohydrates, 0 g fat, 0 g fiber

Regular: Stonyfield Farm Organic
Per 8 ounces: 150 calories, 8 g protein, 30 g carbohydrates, 0 g fat, less than 1 g fiber

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(Homer Simpson voice)
“hmmm, nukable Mac and Cheese…(drool)”

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Meh, I suppose you just have to look at their audience- I don’t think the average T-Nation reader is their primary target. I imagine many of these foods are better than what much of their readers are eating.

Heh, truth be told, I started out with Men’s Health, and still read it. That road lead me here, so perhaps there is hope for others.

I’m assuming this is one of those Abs Diet E-Mail dealies; any comments on that diet? I think the “Power Foods” (or whatever they are calling it) list is none too shabby.

Now, bring on the print version of T-Nation.

-FC

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Agreed. I think the audience for that article is the average guy who would be eating McDonalds.

Yes, I still have a multi-year subscription to Men’s Health. It’s one of the best Mens magazines. But the diet and exercise generally isn’t intended for a T-Nation type reader.

As someone else said, Men’s Health started me on a path that eventually lead here for me too, so I can’t pick on them too much.

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If it wasn’t for Men’s health type mags I think alot of people wouldn’t end up on sites like this.

I seriously doubt that anyone here who eats 90% clean and has a well designed training routine started out that way. A slow progression is more likely.

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Some things on that diet are very good for you. Other things are crap. You have to be wise in choosing!

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Not to get off topic here. But I actually found T-Nation rather quickly when I began my quest to leaness a few years ago. I came across the Muscle Media 2000 website right away, which somehow lead me here.

I kinda fell off the wagon shortly after, didn’t really get it I guess. But I came back about 6 months ago, and I think I found home. I also found my way on to JB’s site and read some stuff(kinda funny, I read one of his arcticles on “cheat meals” and thought he was a complete dumbass, again, I didn’t get it yet). But I was really intrigued about this post-workout nutrition(which, at the time I drank EAS Myoplex after my workout, I had no comprehention of PWO nutrition at the time, I just “did it”)and saw the link to Surge which brought me back here, again.

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Here’s the Weston Price Foundation’s take on Men’s Health, it seems to concur with Strongman’s opinion:

http://www.westonaprice.org/men/menshealthmag.html

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While I agree that Men’s Health is far from the best, it’s better than most magazines on the market.

I mean, come on, it recommends full range deadlifts and squats! Last time I saw an Ironman magazine, it talked about partials for the best growth effect??? So it’s pretty good in that respect.

-Plus they featured advice from Dave Tate and Jim Wendler of Elitefts.com. Yeah.