We use the acronym "SAD" a lot around here and I wonder sometimes whether or not we are all thinking the same thing when we use it.

What to you constitutes a SADiet? Is it cooked food in general? Is a cooked vegan diet SAD? Is it processed, chain restaurant, Kraft macaroni and cheese and I'll have a fry with that that you consider SAD?

What's your take?


khale

It is Standard American Diet.i think cooked and fast foods and all foods that i suppose are not alive.thanks taylor

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The Standard American Diet? It's a generalization, but it usually means a so-called 'balanced' diet that roughly corresponds to the published Nutritional Pyramid.

-It is a diet that is top-heavy in refined carbs and sugars, breads, cerals, pasta and pastry. It is a diet rich in meat and dairy as a main course, with smaller amounts of cooked vegetables and a very small amount of fruit as side courses. The foods are fairly liberally cooked/infused in oils, salts and sugars. There are large infusions of calorically dense and nutritionally limiting foods and beverages (like alcoholic beverages, soda, candy and snacks).

-A simple salad or an occasional piece of fresh fruit is generally the thinking limit of improving dietary health on this sort of diet.....along with a great reliance on supplments.

-It's a good question. Generally anyone who is not seeking to be more conscious of their diet through a conscious plan to become more vegetarian, vegan, paleo, raw, or natural in some other way is probably going to have some problems in the long run...but I forgive them and will do my best to support them!

-What do you think?

-David Z. Mason

I think typically the SAD diet consists of the last description you made with an occasional healthy meal. That is judging from the people I know. Of course there are quite a few I know that are not SAD. Before I was raw I was, what I considered, on an unhealthy vegetarian diet. I think I was considerably healthier than most SADers

The acronyn means Standard American Diet, what the general populace eats..so SAD.

If the majority ever started eating high raw..what would S.A.D stand for then? How about H.A.P for Healthy, Ample, Produce.

Love,
Prism

Where's Uma!

She has the funniest SAD anecdotes from growing up.

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The typical American diet of fast food, proccessed food, hardly any fruits or vegetables except what comes in their Big Macs or Subway sandwhiches. etc.

I know there are some people that aren't "raw" and believe certain ways of cooking vegetables is "healthy" (well, sure steamed veggies is better than fried with butter..). They don't eat cookies, fast food, soda, know the basics of "Bad" foods like transfats and all that..So although they're "SAD", they're not as bad. It's like another level of SAD. lol.

Cooked Vegans and Vegetarians make me laugh. They walk around with this attitude like they're so cool and so healthy because they don't eat meat and give meat eaters this "eww" look.......... all while eating french fries, pancakes, cookes, bagels, etc. For some reason if the corn chips and popcorn are organic, they're even more better than you. So yeah, I consider them SAD too. Or maybe SOD for Standard Organic Diet since Organic is the new Atkins/fad.



Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 03/03/2007 12:21PM by LikeItOrNot.

LikeitorNot wrote:

"know there are some people that aren't "raw" and believe certain ways of cooking vegetables is "healthy" (well, sure steamed veggies is better than fried with butter..). They don't eat cookies, fast food, soda, know the basics of "Bad" foods like transfats and all that..So although they're "SAD", they're not as bad. It's like another level of SAD. lol."

I guess we could call this B.A.D.= Better American Diet. lol


khale

I dislike the "ewww" look/factor.

I pray I never become this way. I've met many vegetarians/vegans who, like me, grew up on meat and potato's their whole lives and have been vegan for two weeks and give you the "ewww" look.

Just goes to show that a optimal diet does nothing for subduing the ego.


khale

Turned down mouth and tears in the eyes.

i knjow my definition might be unconventional... but i would say that anyone who is getting LESS than 80 percent of their calories from FRESH WHOLE UNPROCESSED raw plant material (fruit veggies, seeds sprouts etc) would be sad......

so anything that is MORE than 80 percent of calories consumed from the same source would be considered NON SAD...

anyone who eats at least 80 percent of calories from whole foods is DEFINATELY not your average SAD person.... but i would not call them raw fooders either....LOL.... ohhhh i guess this really is all just a matter of personal opinion.... so there is mine

tiffntwins