Day 67: Cardio X and a rant
April 17, 2008 at 10:23 pm (Uncategorized)
I’m happy to be doing cardio now!
In my inbox I receive newsletters from Beach Body. Today was about getting a wide variety of fruits and vegetables in our diets. What is perplexing is the P90X diet guidelines only recommend 1 serving of fruit and 2 servings of vegetables a day, far and way below what the USDA recommends. Now how can this be?
It is disturbing that Beach Body appears to “keep up” with the latest in nutrition, etc. yet their diet guidelines are SO behind the times with animal based high protein diets and low fruit and vegetable consumption and ESPECIALLY all the supplement pushing.
I guess they have to push those supplements because of their stance on a low plant food diet. Although supplements just can’t take the place of the nutrients in plant foods, especially FRESH plant foods. So I guess the outside of the body will look fine but the inside is gushing with recovery drinks, soy protein isolates, artificial flavorings & colorings and a bunch of animal protein.
It is a good thing our bodies are forgiving. It doesn’t take long for our bodies to repair the damage of unhealthy diets, as long as we feed them correctly with health promoting foods.
Snowbug said,
April 17, 2008 at 10:26 pm
I’ve really struggled with the diet. OK, I’m all for plenty of protein, but am appalled at the amount of animal protein and the avoidance of whole grains. Good heavens, when we first started my husband freaked out over a garbanzo bean salad… too many carbs!! I said that if I couldn’t eat beans/grains etc, just shoot me now.
Obviously, we’re no longer strictly following ‘the diet’. And we’re still losing weight and gaining muscle. All without any of the recovery drinks or sups.
fresh90 said,
April 18, 2008 at 4:17 am
Right on. I do think (and should have added) that for some people the diet is a step up from the main-stream fast food processed and packaged diet but it’s still sorely lacking some important nutrients.
Interestingly, I’ve noticed during the famous ‘pot-stirrer’ exercises Tony Horton always comments on dairy-free soups. Makes me wonder about his diet.
Snowbug said,
April 18, 2008 at 9:20 pm
I’m still giggling over “stirring up trouble”… and Tony’s lame attempt at ’sweaty sock soup’.
fresh90 said,
April 18, 2008 at 9:39 pm
That was a funny one, wasn’t it? I love those “Hortonisms”….
“…here’s Dreya, she flies through the air with the greatest of ease…”
“…put your legs up…to-GE-ther!”
“…I got a crack…I got a crack!…”
“…they’re working hard, I know you are!”
“…If you need a break, TAKE it!”
“…touch them toes…”
“…I hate it, but I love it…”
“There ain’t no part 1 and part 2, this is part 2.”
When we all do Ab Ripper x the kids have the whole routine down “nobody move! Let me show the folks the form!” they’ll all say at the same time, it’s so funny!