In Moderation
Providing health, nutrition and fitness advice in moderate amounts to help you live your best life.
Rob: Co-host of the podcast "In Moderation" and fitness enthusiast. Rob has a background in exercise science and is passionate about helping others achieve their health and fitness goals. He brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise to the show, providing valuable insights on topics such as calories, metabolism, and weight loss.
Liam: Co-host of the podcast "In Moderation" and new father. Liam has a background in nutrition and is dedicated to promoting a balanced and sustainable approach to health and wellness. With his witty and sarcastic style, Liam adds a unique flavor to the show, making it both informative and entertaining.
In Moderation
Food Minutes: How Your Diet Adds or Subtracts From Your Life
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How long will that hot dog cost you? According to groundbreaking research from the University of Michigan, about 35 minutes of your life. But don't worry – that PB&J sandwich you love adds 36 minutes back!
In this fascinating deep dive, we explore the surprising science behind how specific foods either add to or subtract from your lifespan. The findings challenge many common nutritional assumptions: fruits outperform vegetables (14 minutes added versus just 4), nuts and seeds are nutritional powerhouses (adding a whopping 25 minutes per serving), and even breakfast cereal contributes positively to longevity.
What emerges from our conversation is a striking pattern – virtually all the foods that significantly extend life expectancy align perfectly with the Mediterranean diet. From legumes (adding 12 minutes) to seafood (up to 14 minutes) and whole grains, the research validates this eating pattern as genuinely life-extending.
We also discuss practical, budget-friendly ways to incorporate these longevity-boosting foods into your everyday meals. Frozen peas, affordable nut butters, and simple bean dishes can dramatically improve your diet's impact on health without breaking the bank or requiring culinary expertise.
The takeaway isn't about eliminating every "negative" food from your life – it's about finding balance. As we discover, sometimes the most nutritious options are also the most accessible and delicious. Who knew that your childhood favorite sandwich might be adding hours to your life over time?
Ready to make simple changes that could literally extend your life? Listen now and discover which foods deserve more space on your plate, which might be worth limiting, and why the Mediterranean diet continues to prove itself as the gold standard for longevity.
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Introduction with the real Liam
Speaker 1Welcome back to In Moderation with the real Liam Layton this time. Liam I don't think knows it, but last week we had fake Liam. Mike Pridgen came in and pretended to be you.
Speaker 2No, that was me. That was me the whole time.
Speaker 1Oh, sorry, that was you Ask me literally anything.
Speaker 2You asked me last week and I'll be able to tell you.
Speaker 1Okay, 22. What the hell did we talk about last week?
Speaker 2That is exactly correct.
Speaker 1Yes, Okay, it is him. It was 100% Liam, nice. Well, what are we doing this week?
Speaker 2We are both absolutely just dead to the world for different reasons. We're full of energy and life and vigor and vitality and all the things that supplements will boost you.
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PB&J and Food Life Minutes
Speaker 1Oh man. So I think a lot of people have heard about the study where they found peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Add minutes to your life.
Speaker 2They probably have, because I've talked about it a bunch.
Speaker 1You have talked about it a lot.
Speaker 2I just love it because it's. You know, eating healthy is expensive and complicated and I love just bringing up like well, the university of michigan found eating a peanut butter and jelly sandwich adds. Was it like 36 minutes to your life give?
Speaker 1or take yeah something like that.
Speaker 2So, like you know, a simple sandwich that takes less than five minutes put to put together is relatively cheap and easy and tasty. Like I eat multiple peanut butter and jelly sandwiches a week and like, hey, that's that if. If it's like one of the foods that has the most time to your life, it's kind of got to be sort of healthy, right I would think so yeah, and so like I like to bring that up a lot and we were kind of curious like what about all the other foods?
Speaker 2Because I'm interested in what the other foods is. So Rob has the list of a bunch of foods anyway.
Speaker 1Yeah, I got the study open in front of me.
Speaker 2And you're going to ask, and I'm going to nail it Every single one you ask me. I got this, I have a general idea and I feel extra sort of confident.
Speaker 1Okay, so just for a reference range, we're talking everything's on a line called the minimum healthy life per serving, which is a range between minus 40 to plus 40 in minutes.
Speaker 2Oh, it goes all the way up to 40. Okay, okay, I remember hot dogs.
Speaker 1well, I mean the peanut butter and jelly is the most and it was at 36. Okay, got it. Yeah, I was gonna say I remember.
Speaker 2I remember hot dogs, the worst and it was around around 40. I know processed meats not great, but that's the one thing I remember from this frankfurter is um.
Speaker 2The range goes between about minus 31 to minus 40, with the median being around minus 35 and the funny thing is because, like, I'll bring up like oh, a hot dog takes away this many minutes, but I'll say, like a peanut butter and jelly adds this many. So people are like, oh, if I eat a peanut butter and jelly and a hot dog, it cancels out. And I'm kind of just like, hey, that sort of sounds like balance and life is important. What do you fucking know? Isn't that some shit when, like you kind of eat some healthy foods and then you kind of maybe eat some unhealthy foods and it all bounce out and like you get to live your life. What, how, who has come up with this thing? We should definitely make a podcast about that.
Speaker 1We should. What would a peanut butter and jelly hot dog taste like? Also, I love how the train's coming just as we start, I know.
Speaker 2I was going to think about eating the hot dog first and the peanut butter and jelly sandwich, but I guess if you want to make some kind of Frankenstein thing, Frankenstein Frankfurter, then yeah, go for it.
Speaker 1I mean, if somebody does that, let us know how it tastes.
Speaker 2I'm not gonna do it, not good, I'll eat a lot of things, but I I'm gonna, I'm gonna pass on that. Uh, all right. So give me, give me, give me one of the other ones, give me something.
Speaker 1Give me, give me something else okay, well, since we, since we went with, uh, hot dogs, what do you? What do you think about burgers?
Speaker 2good old-fashioned beef burger oh so I'm assuming you know like red meat probably not, I've got to assume it's in the negative, but like less in the negative than a burger. Like you know, you have ground beef. That's not like processed meat. You cook that yourself. I'm assuming it's that. But unless it's like a burger, you know you buy it like it's as far as a processed meat If you buy it at like a McDonald's or something. Anyway, I am me if you buy it at like a mcdonald's or something.
Speaker 1Anyway, I am going to guess 12 minutes. Take it away 12, 12, that's pretty close. Actually it's somewhere about minus seven seven.
Speaker 2Okay, it's not too bad. That's actually okay. That's better. I should have gone lower, all right. All right, not too bad at all. Plus, I mean, like you know, you have a burger, right, so usually you put some like veggies and stuff on it, right, you put your tomatoes, your onions, your pickles, all of that sort of stuff, yeah, yeah, so that's so. That's not so bad. I feel pretty good about that. Give me another one.
Speaker 1Give me another one give you another one, okay? Well, let's compare that with uh mixed seafood dishes oh.
Speaker 2So like seafood, oh everybody. And like I wish seafood tasted. It's like I like. Okay, here's the thing. I've you gotta pick. You gotta just find the seafood that you like. All right, people are gonna tell you like, oh, sardines are the healthiest, and even that's true. I can't do it. I can't. I've talked about it many times on the podcast. I won't do it. So I think you just gotta find the ones you like. So you know, I like my salmon and I like my tuna and I feel good with that. So I'm gonna stick with that. But just mixed seafood dishes seafood's got to be up there. I'm going to say it's more positive. Well, obviously more positive than the burger. But even into the positive, more than seven, it's gonna be 16, 16 minutes.
Speaker 1So this might surprise you and I imagine because it's mixed. So there's, you know, it's not uh specific to any specific uh, but it's only at about a plus four.
Speaker 2Four Damn.
Speaker 1But it is in the positive.
Speaker 2It is in the positive, but I was thinking it would be a lot more like. Seafood was one of those things I thought would be up there Dang. All right, all right, all right. So, ok, plus four, still the positive, still the positive. So I get my salmon Good.
Speaker 1Let's see what do we got. How about pizza?
Speaker 2Plus 20?. Because I want it to be Wishful thinking, damn, I would love All right, minus two. I'm going to say it's not so bad. I love pizza. Let pizza be good. Actually that's about spot on Minus two bad at all. Let's go, guys. I'm getting my pizza especially.
Speaker 1I always think it's funny when people say pizza's unhealthy and then you're like if you took the bread and the tomato sauce and the cheese and you put them in it like just had them individual, you would say those things are healthy that's basically negative.
Speaker 2Two is basically on the cream.
Speaker 1I I love it well I mean all you have to do is, uh, let's see what we got. What about mixed vegetables?
Speaker 2see, here's the thing like I remember this study being like vegetables were good but not as good as I thought they were gonna be. Like I thought vegetables were gonna be up there and it was still good. It was, I'm gonna say, eight plus eight it's actually about plus four plus four. Not even as good as I. Even saying what I said, I'm still overestimating it.
Speaker 1Yeah, but you take some mixed vegetables and you throw them on the pizza. They cancel each other out.
Speaker 2There you go, you get into the positive. Now we get a plus two. There you go. Hey, throw some. What do I like? Oh no, I guess olives aren't a vegetable, but they're fruit. I like peppers and onions.
Speaker 1Okay, so I just realized something with reading this thing. So the seafood mixed dishes I'm assuming are actual like, not like mixed seafood, but actual dishes that are seafood-based.
Speaker 2I was kind of thinking that too. So like sushi and rice, or something.
Speaker 1Oh, maybe with that. Okay, because they actually have seafood separately on.
Speaker 2I want to know see if I, yeah, let me get. Is it just seafood or does it like? Is it uh individual? Like seafood okay, seafood, just seafood. Yeah, this one's higher, this one's higher, this one's higher.
Ranking Foods by Life Impact
Speaker 119, 19 so not quite that high. Sorry it ranges, and I guess, because seafood is a very broad category, it ranges between about plus two to about plus 14 okay, 14.
Speaker 2What's does it say? Like salmon is salmon is mackerel, uh, sardines anchovies. 14. Is that the 14 I.
Speaker 1It does not say any specific it's gotta be.
Speaker 2It's gotta be like those fattier fish, like you know, the mackerel and whatnot. Yeah, I'll go with the salmon. That's what I can do. That's what I can do Take it or leave it. Give me a fruit. Give me a fruit.
Speaker 1I have to give you all the fruits, because it's literally fruits as a singular category I'm gonna say fruit is higher than vegetables.
Speaker 2Seven, you're a little low, more it's. More than that.
Speaker 1it's a it's more than that, it's 12 keep going what fruit?
Speaker 2is so good for us.
Speaker 118 not quite that high, it's about 14, 14 yeah and vegetables were four mixed vegetables were about four. Yeah, what the?
Speaker 2fuck's going on with vegetables. Maybe the carnivores? And then we should just stop it actually separates um. So that's mixed vegetables, but then there's another one that's there's starchy vegetables, specifically, and there's vegetables excluding starchy so like non-starchy vegetables, I'm assuming would be higher, like your broccolis, like your cruciferous vegetables, your Brussels sprouts, all that stuff, and then, like your potatoes, would be good but not as good, yeah, okay. So like what is it then? So what is it like a plus, one or two for starchy and then like a plus?
Speaker 1seven. No, it's the excluding. Starchy is only one extra minute over. The mixed vegetables and starchy vegetables are about just a zero.
Speaker 2They don't add anything.
Speaker 1They don't subtract anything.
Speaker 2I'm sad. Now, what about man? My world about vegetables? I guess we should just. I guess, when people ask me like hey, I don't like vegetables, Can I just eat fruits, I can just be like fuck it. Yeah, apparently that's better, Just go do it.
Speaker 1I mean to be fair. It is an overall positive.
Speaker 2No, it's right, it's better than a negative. Yeah, that's funny, interesting, interesting.
Speaker 1Yeah, I thought I saw, oh, fruits.
Speaker 2I gotta be eating my fruits.
Speaker 1Legumes and soy products oh, 800.
Speaker 2I know it was 52. 800, I know it was uh. 52 107, uh, no, uh, come on 20, let that be super high. No, it's not gonna be that. Nuts and seeds, I remember, were like the highest and it wasn't even like that bad, okay.
Speaker 112 12 is about right, yep that's right.
Speaker 2Yeah, so I figured like they, and yet rfk, that individual is telling people to well, he didn't say specifically eat less beans, but he rejected. There was a recommendation of like hey, beans are a plant protein, we should add that as an option. And he was like no, not that. Like what the hell dude, it's like the cheapest thing, it's got protein and fiber. So yeah, I'm no, not that. Like what the hell dude Like, it's like the cheapest thing, it's got protein and fiber. So yeah, I'm not happy about that. I can stay away from my beans, Leave my beans alone. That was pretty ridiculous.
Speaker 2So ridiculous, especially with, like, the price of food skyrocketing. Oh, not the cheapest food Can't have that, I bet you. He just wants people to eat grass fed Wagyu or whatever.
Speaker 1Okay, so 12, 12 is good, no.
Speaker 2All right, so eat your, eat your legumes which, by the way.
Speaker 1So what do you think?
Speaker 2Peas are in legumes, so eat your peas as well. Also, really good People love peas. Peas are great.
Speaker 1Okay, oils, which I assume. It just says oils.
Speaker 2It doesn't define it, but I'm assuming it's talking about seed oils or butter well, I've been watching a lot of carnivore md switch to paul saladino, so I'm gonna say butter is like five times better, butter's better. No, I mean I'm assuming oils are gonna be high. I know I feel like oils are definitely gonna be higher, but is it say the minutes? Is it like one for oils? I can't imagine oils that high. Zero, is it zero?
Speaker 1oils at zero they are both negative one they're both negative one but, but that's the median. They're both negative. One median oils actually has a larger what's the word I'm looking for? It's a larger variance to it. Where oils butter is like just solid minus one, there's no variance to it, Whereas oils actually there is some that goes above zero.
Speaker 2Okay, they give like specific ones, like olive oils.
Speaker 1Unfortunately no oh, okay apparently there's just, but I think we can, uh, I think we can guess which oils are the better ones rapeseed exactly uh, okay, interesting.
Speaker 2I thought it would be a little. I didn't think the oils would be like super high, because it's still like just a lot of calories and there's not a like it's got a lot of like mono and polyunsaturated fat, but did you know there might be some like vitamin e or something going along with it? But but not, but not that much, right, you know. So you're not getting the fiber, you're not getting any of that stuff. Maybe with like a extra virgin olive oil, you get some antioxidants, but still it's just, yeah, it's not super nutrient dense. Either way, it's interesting. All right, what? Uh, I remember nuts and seeds being the high. Do you have like the nuts and seeds category? I remember that one being like the highest, do you?
Speaker 1have the nuts and seeds category. I remember that one being the highest. It is Well.
Speaker 2actually the peanut butter and jelly was the highest, yeah the peanut butter and jelly was the meal, but the nuts and seeds were the second highest. I remember as a group nuts and seeds were high, it was like 20?.
Speaker 1As a group.
Speaker 2yeah, it was like 25 or 26 minutes.
Speaker 1Yep, yep about that.
Speaker 2I remember that because I was like, like we say like, uh, you know, like, oh, you eat healthy, eat your fruits and vegetables. Right, you always say that I'm like fucking get your nuts in. Tell people to get your nuts in, man, like there's so, there's so good for you, haha, these nuts.
Speaker 1All those jokes aside, like just don't get your nuts in your ear all, all of the nuts jokes.
Speaker 2We could just go on for like five minutes and then come back to like actually how they're healthy. But you know, you get your poly and you get like people like olive oils Good. It's like you're getting like the oils in the nuts, the amount of them and polyunsaturated fats, but then you're getting the fiber, you're getting the protein, you're getting the vitamins, you're getting the minerals, you're getting the antioxidants. Like nuts really kind of have it all. You know they're. Uh, if you're low carb, like hey, nuts are great too. That's like the one thing I can agree with.
Speaker 2Low carb people on nuts are great yes, they are and like any any of them like then they're pretty. Oh, I mean depend. Like macadamias are like super expensive, but like there's a wide range and they can be pretty cheap, I like to get. Oh, and if you're looking to save money, always go to the baking section. That's what I do. I get my walnuts and stuff in the baking section. When I make my yogurt bowls or something, I just have the walnut pieces and I throw that right on top. Boom, it's great.
Speaker 1Here's one. It's the what was it? The? The most eaten breakfast thing in the us cereal where do you think that's gonna lie?
Speaker 2I remember okay, I do remember cereal being in the positive, which was kind of funny because most of you think ready to eat breakfast cereals are bad. But like what? Two, three, four at most uh, it's about four, yeah, four. So it's like vegetables, it's like the same, it's around the same area. Yeah, like it's the thing. It's like cereal gets so much shit and like, yeah, I'm sure you know reese's, reese's puffs.
Speaker 1Reese's puffs isn't like the best choice if you're trying to eat healthy but still like there's a lot of good, yeah it before the variance goes from like plus uh, plus two up to like about plus eight and of course the plus eight is going to be something like your mini wheats and your raisin bran and the higher fiber, less sugary cereals fiber, all that sort of stuff.
Seafood, Fruits vs Vegetables
Speaker 2Man, all right, like it's good. I've been eating, like in puffins, even more, like I've been eating. I bought a box of puffins um of me some, let me some puffins. And then, like I've been eating, I bought a box of puffins um, love me some, love me some puffins. And then, like I've been, I recently did a video on like all these, um, all they has like a fair life milk now, like their version of fair life. That's a dollar, a little over a dollar cheaper maybe. Yeah, it's like a little over a dollar cheaper and it's good, right. Or like, use that 14 grams of protein per cup. Boom, that's not's not, that's a. That's a pretty, pretty decently balanced meal there. Throw some fruit in there, apparently. Yeah, don't throw vegetables in there. What's fruit in?
Speaker 1there.
Speaker 2That's really good for you, man. Look, you got some. You got cereal, that's a positive, and you got fruit, that's a positive. Come on, let's actually switch from like ready-to-eat cereals to cooked grains. Cooked grains Like cooked whole grains. I'm assuming they mean whole grains.
Speaker 1I'm assuming it's whole grain, and well like any grain, because it's just cooked grains?
Speaker 2I can't imagine, is that one, one, two.
Speaker 1So it actually has a very large variance to it, going from about minus one all the way up to plus 10.
Speaker 2Shit. I wonder so like.
Speaker 1And I'm assuming the more refined it is, it's probably lower on the list where Right refined grains. The whole wheat stuff's going to be higher.
Speaker 2So, like your, barley and like all of that sort of stuff is definitely gonna be higher. Yeah, um, I'm definitely like I've talked about before. I'm definitely a faro man. I like that. It's got a nice like little chew to it. It's good, a great source of fiber. A little bit more expensive, but I did. Um, I've tried barley, what was the other one I tried? I pronounce it poorly. People yell at me how I pronounce it Frika. It's like F-R-E-E-K-E-H, a-h, something like that.
Speaker 2I'm not good at spelling either, but that was really good. That was like a Middle Eastern grain. That was really. I was surprised. I like that a lot. Buckwheat, also super cheap. Buckwheat's like the cheapest Not my favorite, but still not bad at all. So if you're looking for something like a budget thing, buckwheat is great and it gives you instructions. People are like how do you cook it? Like? The instructions are on the package. It's like one cup of buckwheat, two cups of water, boil, add a little oil. If cook it in vegetable stock, that makes it taste better. Or you know, chicken stock or whatever. Bone broth hey, that adds protein. Uh, all that sort of stuff. Add some seasoning. I like it with some feta. I man, I fucking love feta. I love feta cheese. That's like one of my favorite cheeses anyway, what else we got?
Speaker 1speaking of cheese, yeah, what do you think cheese is at?
Speaker 220, because I want to be hopeful again. Come on, teddy, is it negative? I don't want cheese to be negative. Three negative three to negative to positive three that's the range that it's at uh, it's more like um negative three to negative one oh, poor cheese.
Speaker 2I feel like cheese just comes down to like the portion, right, like I feel like a serving of cheese can be positive, but we just you know you eat a lot of it's tough to. A serving is 28 grams. It's an ounce. Fucking. Come on, man, you eat an ounce of cheese. You're like, okay, and where's the actual cheese? Now, this was like my, the dusting of cheese that like I eat it. I eat that much cheese. As I'm cooking with things you know, I'm like cooking the food and I'm eating like little pieces of cheese. Cheese is so good.
Speaker 1Okay, what do you think about Eddie Abue's favorite?
Speaker 2Eggs, good old eggs, zero Zero.
Speaker 1One. It actually ranges from negative one all the way down to negative 11.
Speaker 2Oh, so is that like a fried egg, like fried in butter, or something Like what it just is?
Speaker 1eggs. So I mean, I guess you could cook it anyway, but it's yeah, it's solidly in the negatives.
Speaker 2Eggs are just one of those things that I. It's just so polar, like people love them or hate them, and I just kind of feel like eggs they got protein, they got a bunch of vitamins and minerals, minerals. But like you don't need to eat eggs, you can find that elsewhere. I, I don't know like eggs eggs or eggs.
Speaker 1Eggs or eggs, they're good, but like you don't need to have an egg once in a while.
Speaker 2Just I don't listen to these people that tell you to eat 20 of them a day it's like you know, like 10 eggs a day, I'm like, damn, you don't need 10, even like five. Like, if you want to eat five eggs, to eat five eggs. I'm not here to tell you what to do, but I think it's better off with one, two eggs. I don't know, I don't know what else you got, how about?
Speaker 1candy.
Speaker 2Positive 12. With legumes A negative 7.
Speaker 1Well, this is going to surprise you, I think, but the median is actually plus one what? And it ranges from zero to about six.
Speaker 2What the fuck? Okay, I feel like we need to get more like information on the candy thing, because that doesn't make any sense, that doesn't make any sense to me.
Speaker 1I mean, if you think about it for a second, what is one of the greatest things that detracts from our life? Stress.
Speaker 2Right.
Speaker 1I gave you one second to think about it.
Speaker 2I was trying to come up with a joke and be like Sylvester Stallone or something.
Speaker 1And I mean sometimes it's nice to just enjoy a bit of candy.
Legumes, Nuts, and Grains
Speaker 2It is, but like it shouldn't be like a positive, at most it should be like a zero.
Speaker 1I, I need I mean, like I said, the median is just a one but even still, like that's a positive, it's candy.
Speaker 2I need to look into this more. I need to. I'm kind of curious, like because they take into account a lot of other factors and like the, the toll on the environment and whatnot as well, but I don't know if that factors into this. I need to look it up. I'm curious now. I'm very curious how uh candy plays into this. But until then, hey, enjoy some candy. Maybe just don't eat a lot of it. Yeah, I bought this for a video I'm gonna post soon. Um, it's like a little uh picture like you hang on the wall but it holds candy, it holds like m&ms or whatever in it and it has a little knob at the bottom. You turn and it pops out like two or three pieces which I like. So you kind of just like I'm gonna turn this. There's one or maybe just one piece, because I got peanut butter and jelly m&ms they're kind of big and then you get a piece of candy and then you're not like eating a whole bag, not kind of like that.
Speaker 1And peanut butter and jelly, all right, and I just noticed that there's uh, it actually tells, it tells. It doesn't tell you um what is in the category, but it does tell you how many things they sampled in the category.
Speaker 2Interesting, yeah what they said. I'm gonna have to look into that because I'm kind of curious. If there's is more information, all right. All right, give me like a couple more. Give me a couple more couple more.
Speaker 1Okay, what do we got mexican?
Speaker 2I love the mexican. It's just a category. Oh, just mex, just just mexican, all of mexican cuisine wrapped together. I mean there's beans there's lots of beans in mexico and rice, and so I'm gonna say it's positive, I'm gonna say it's a five it actually goes from a negative five to a plus five.
Speaker 2Okay. So I feel like that should be for any cuisine, like any cuisine should be, like you could go from the negatives to the positive, because it just depends. But I love that they put that in there Just Mexican. I never thought they would have put a whole fucking like you know, country's cuisine just together. That's fucking great man.
Speaker 1that's awesome well, I mean, we can follow that up with asian negative eight to positive eight, I'm gonna say there's a wider range I don't know, because what the hell? Uh, it's actually more like a negative three to a positive four oh, it's like a more narrow range, okay, I guess.
Speaker 2Oh, that's funny, man, all right. Well, I mean, I like both of those. Do they have Indian? I'm pretty curious. I feel like Indian would be more positive because of all the lentils and stuff. Maybe I don't know.
Speaker 1They do not have Indian I'm sorry, oh, what the fuck?
Speaker 2Come on, you're going to put Mexico and Asian on there, but not Indian, I guess.
Speaker 1Well, I mean there's. There is other grain based mixed dishes.
Speaker 2OK, but there's not Indian. I just went to like this North Market here in Columbus. They have like, just like you walk around there's a bunch of different little places that have restaurants and we got like taste of India. That's in a little place that have restaurants and we got like taste of india. That was pretty good. I got like doll and um. I don't remember the other thing I got, but it was like they had like a vegan section, a vegetarian section and then a meat section. I like that. I love that. With like the indian thing, I can just like I'm gonna pick the, the vegan one and get this with rice and garlic naan always the garlic naan. Are you gonna get regular naan over garlic naan? What are you insane? Garlic makes it taste better.
Speaker 1So, yeah, that's really good all right, well, so liam, yeah, yeah, what do you think? What was something that all of the the positive ones had in common? They were all good for you.
Speaker 2Uh, yes, that's all folks don't be a worse that they were all in the mediterranean diet, yeah that's exactly it.
Mediterranean Diet Connections
Speaker 2That's almost like we set that up to be a thing. It's almost like we were trying to figure out what to talk about. We're like oh, that makes sense. Dude, that's because we get asked about the Mediterranean diet and it's really just kind of oh, here it is.
Speaker 2I had a whole list of things and it's your fresh fruits and vegetables, your whole grains, your oils, your legumes, fish nuts. It's like your fresh fruits and vegetables, your whole grains, your oils, your legumes, fish, nuts, it's all in there. So, like just kind of finding those things and like figuring out how to get them into your diet and like, like I feel like fruits, like one of the easiest, because like, oh, you just eat it, you just snack on it, you know. Whereas, like I feel like you know, uh, vegetables, you add cheese and stuff to it makes it taste better, and then, like that's easier to get that. Or like you know, whole grains, um, it's like whole grains cereal, like we just talked about, like that makes it easy to get a whole grain right, just a breakfast cereal. It's already cooked. Obviously, cooking yourself is great, but like, if it's already cooked, even easier. Um, like, uh, your legumes, you get. Uh, I love hummus Hummus is just great to dip into. Or like guacamole I like the hummus and guacamole packets you dip into that. That just makes it super convenient and easy. But I made just recently posted a video on like a Chana masala type thing, like something like that, and that's super easy.
Speaker 2A couple of cans of chickpeas and onion seasoning oil, like Ooh, I made the Greek yogurt. It was really nice, you got to try this. You got to take Greek yogurt, lemon juice, a little bit of oil and just grate one raw garlic clove, like on the fine grater, one raw garlic clove, mix it all together. You can maybe do a little lemon zest in there as well. Oh, it went so well. It went so well with the chickpeas and all the seasoning. Highly recommend. And then fish, whatever works. I like tuna.
Speaker 1That's what I've been eating I mean, I grew up on fish, so I love all fish I like all fish, I don't know like some.
Speaker 2There's some, some of those little, those little fuckers, sardines and stuff. I can't do, man, I don't care, I've tried it so much. You know what I am gonna try soon cottage cheese ice cream, because I made a fucking video on it and the company saw it and they're like we'll send it to you. And I'm like, oh god, hey, I'm so happy, I'm so I'm so thrilled that you're sending this to me and I'm gonna get to try it. Ihappy. That's how I feel right now.
Speaker 1I still love the life hack Dr Terry Simpson gave us, which was just snack on baby carrots while you're driving.
Speaker 2Something that's like you can just eat raw. Maybe you can like add stuff to it that makes it.
Speaker 1Snap peas or something.
Speaker 2That makes it a lot easier, right, like just finding those things. Like I love the thing with I talk I talk about peas, you know, or you're making something else. You just throw peas in it, like, because they just, like you heat them up, they're frozen, like frozen peas are great, so you just you just get them warmed up and boom for like a mac and cheese or whatever, so good frozen peas are underrated.
Speaker 2Frozen and they're like a dollar, like one to two dollars for a bag. Come on, can't beat that. Maybe that and like nuts again. Let's just like super easy. I don't fucking love man. I just love peanut butter. I just give me all the peanut butter. It's so good, man. Yeah, it's high in calories, blah, blah, blah, but like it's so, it's so good, it's got all the things.
Speaker 1Give me all the peanuts and it's adding minutes to your life it's adding like the most minutes apparently like well, actually this would be adding hours, if it's like 35 or whatever.
Speaker 2If you don't like it or you're allergic. Fucking almond butter. There's others like sunflower butter. They make all sorts of different ones like cashew butter and all that good stuff. Still very good.
Speaker 1I think we should throw it out there that just because we said something was, like you know, in the negatives, that doesn't mean you have to avoid it, but maybe don't eat it all the time.
Speaker 2Pretty much Exactly. It's all about balance. Add in the other things oh, what was it? Costco sells like a seven nut butter. It's just like a bunch of. It's like hazelnuts and like peanuts and almonds and like all these things mixed together Really good, and they even throw like chia seeds and flax seeds in there, so it's like mega super healthy or whatever. That sounds good. It's only like six bucks for like a big old jar, like a big one of the. It's got like 30 servings in it or whatever. Highly recommend.
Speaker 1Throw that on some bread and you're good to go.
Speaker 2Some whole wheat bread, whole grains boom.
Speaker 1Put it in your cereal putting shakes, put it, put it, put it in a shake with banana, bananas, fruit boom, boom.
Speaker 2Fuck your bananas. They're so cheap, 50 cents a pound.
Speaker 1Yeah, bananas I wish peas were cheaper. I mean you can get the frozen peas, obviously, but I wish, like the nice fresh snap peas and stuff were cheaper oh, like, the snap peas can get more expensive, but like yeah, those are also kind of like more work and whatever, and I just like this shit that's frozen.
Speaker 2They just dump it in there. Yeah, oh, done so I can't ones. Oh, man, it's. You know what's the best, though? Fucking corn is the best. I'm telling you corn, fresh, delicious, canned, delicious frozen it's got the juice it's fucking. What the hell is up with. It's got the juice. Where's that from? Where's that from? People were commenting that I'm like I don't know what. I don't get this fucking meme reference you never saw it?
Speaker 1the the corn kid oh the corn. Did he stay in there?
Speaker 2okay, because I played a clip of that, and I don't even remember him saying it's got the juice.
Speaker 2I must have just missed that yeah, he said that that's so funny because, like I played a clip of him be like corn, but I just don't remember him saying it's got the juice. I just fucking, I guess I blanked that weird it's got the juice, I like it and corn. So yeah, go try and be mediterranean sometimes, eat your other stuff other the other times and like don't stress about it and have some candy because apparently it's fine and don't be your worst okay, okay, but before we go, before we go, I don't want to forget this.
Speaker 1So last week, mike and I, we had a um, a giveaway for anybody that came onto twitch and said banana bread, okay, while we were streaming, obviously. And so I wrote down the names of the people that came in and said banana bread and I've got a dice here. I'm gonna throw a dice and we're gonna find out who gets the gift card. I like it.
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Speaker 1We got aqua toe I'm glad aqua toe won, because that's that seems like an auto-generated name, but I still love it so, aqua toe, when you hear this, just give me a message on twitch and we'll set you up with a gift card aqua toes freaking out right now.
Speaker 2I've been waiting my whole life for this to get my name set on a podcast and the question are you, are you related?
