Gillian McKeith 12 most toxic foods

**Neish** · 04/01/2006, 6:47 PM

Any of you watch it on C4 last night
She tried to get people to cut all of the below out of their diets or life

Smoking
Caffeine
Alcohol
Chocolate and sweet snacks
Pub snacks: crisps, nuts, pork scratchings
Processed meat
The White Stuff:
Added sugar
Lazy food: takeaways and ready meals
Table salt
Bad fats – saturated fats
Fizzy drinks

F*cking hell, what does she eat to treat her self lettuce juice and tomato bread(without butter of course)?

I would rather die young than live on that kinda cr*p.

Link below:
http://www.channel4.com/entertainmen...wye/detox.html

**The Stars** · 04/01/2006, 6:51 PM

she is on a drip thats why its not on the list and she doesnt eat anything

**tiktok** · 05/01/2006, 10:07 AM

Her show is called 'You are what you eat'.
Clearly then, she eats shrivelled, dried up old twigs with rat's faces stuck on the top.

**Peadar** · 05/01/2006, 10:54 AM

It's all about balance.
I try to avoid carbonated drinks and "contact candy" because they're bad for my teeth but enjoy most other things in moderation and I'm rarely sick.

There's no doubt that alcohol and caffeine, in large doses, are very unhealthy so I try to keep them to a minimum.

Processed meat and red meat are linked to colon cancer so I try to avoid having either more than twice a month.

I certainly think that teaching basic nutrition and food science should be mandatory in schools.

**Macy** · 05/01/2006, 12:23 PM

She just goes to the extreme (and is a bit too interested in poo). Did you see the one with the fat girl who won one of those pop idol style programme? She'd done really well, lost a load of weight and she gave out sh�t to her for having a couple of glasses of wine, a couple of times a month

I gave up smokes last May and have to say I feel better, and haven't had a chest infection or sinus trouble all winter (when I'd been plagued the previous 2).

The thing about sausages and that - sausages have always been made out of offal, that's what they were for (same as black and white pudding). And a lot of the processed meats date back centuries as a way of perserving meat (eg Corned Beef). We're too obsessed with only the prime cuts of meat imo. Having said that, I don't buy much packaged meats though (breaded chicken and the like), and get all my meat at the local butcher. Would eat red meat a couple of times a week I suppose.

Fizzy drinks I am trying to cut down on. Since I gave up the smokes, when I'm doing jobs around the house and that, instead of taking a break and having a smoke, I had (diet) coke. New Year's resolution to cut that right down - so far so good, and feel better for it (although it has been swapped for tea with sugar, so calorie wise probably worse off).

**pineapple stu** · 05/01/2006, 1:27 PM

Smoking - don't smoke
Caffeine - don't drink coffee
Alcohol - don't actually like getting blind drunk. Enjoy a few pints though.
Chocolate and sweet snacks - Emmm...
Pub snacks: crisps, nuts, pork scratchings - the latter two, never had. Crisps...not too often I suppose.
Processed meat - what's this - pudding and sausages and the like (per Macy's post)? Have been known to enjoy the odd fry up...!
The White Stuff:
Added sugar - Never go for diet or low sugar stuff
Lazy food: takeaways and ready meals - Very good at this, actually! Gave up McDonald's/Burger King about four years ago after getting food poisoning while reading "Fast Food Nation"!
Table salt - Love salt.
Bad fats � saturated fats
Fizzy drinks - Yep, though would drink fruit juice more often.

In addition, have cycled an average of three miles a day for the last ten months, have a glass of milk and about four glasses of water a day...and am still two stone overweight and borderline clinically obese! Damn desk job... That said, bar the food poisoning, I haven't been ill in about six years.

I don't think your diet affects you as much as is made out at times...

**Macy** · 05/01/2006, 2:36 PM

Originally Posted by pineapple stu

Caffeine - don't drink coffee
Fizzy drinks - Yep, though would drink fruit juice more often.

Depends on your fizzy drinks really, but a lot of them have caffeine in them. Would never have put you down as an fruit juice drinker

btw, the white stuff was white bread, nothing to do with ex UCD keepers. Guilty as charged for me on that front - no way does a brown pan taste as nice as a Pat The Baker Toaster (never mind a Cully's Batch)...

**pineapple stu** · 05/01/2006, 4:31 PM

Ah...

Yep, enjoy white bread too! Don't drink Coke incidentally - think it was initially a puerile anti-American thing, but now I think I've pursuaded myself I don't like it! What about saturated fats and "bad" fats? Though I've been known to leave behind the fat on the most lean of meats!

Yep, I enjoy my fruit juice. Pineapple juice would be among my favourites - another nugget you never knew about me!

Apparently it's fairly fattening as well. In the quantities I drink it!

**the 12 th man** · 05/01/2006, 4:45 PM

So whats the benefit if any of drinking a diet soft drink as opposed to a regular one ?.

**anto1208** · 05/01/2006, 4:47 PM

on prossed meat if ye seen it been made ye would never eat anothe rburger chicken nugget etc again ,

on that school dinners show they showed nuggets being made basically they get the carcass of a chicken once the breast ,legs and wings have been removed . blend it up bones and all trow in loads of skin then a few jugs of fat blend it all up into a paste and put bread crums on it !!!.

**anto1208** · 05/01/2006, 4:49 PM

Originally Posted by the 12 th man

So whats the benefit if any of drinking a diet soft drink as opposed to a regular one ?.

depends on the drink but mainly no sugar .

ive switched to 7 up free no sugar no caffine colourings etc

**the 12 th man** · 05/01/2006, 4:56 PM

Originally Posted by anto1208

depends on the drink but mainly no sugar .

Sugar free,Yeah,but do they not put some other ingredient into it thats bad for you to make it sweet?.

**Neish** · 05/01/2006, 4:56 PM

Smoking-Don't smoke(well not tobacco anyhow

)

Caffeine have an occasional cup of tea 2 or 3 a week on average

Alcohol- Average night out is about 4-5 pints of cider and mayb a few vodkas

Chocolate and sweet snacksNot a massive choclate fan but do tend to stuff my face with it when its about

Pub snacks: crisps, nuts, pork scratchings Love salt & vinegar and bacon fries abou 5 packs a week between the two

Processed meat occasionally

The White Stuff:Eat quite a bit of white bread

Added sugar 1.5 tea spoons in my tea and a spoon on my corn flakes

Lazy food: takeaways and ready meals don't eat that many take aways usually only if I'm on the rip

Table salt add a pinch to most of my meals

Bad fats – saturated fats. only if its in some of the ready meals and take aways etc

Fizzy drinks 3-4 glasses/bottles a week

**Macy** · 06/01/2006, 7:55 AM

Originally Posted by anto1208

on prossed meat if ye seen it been made ye would never eat anothe rburger chicken nugget etc again ,

on that school dinners show they showed nuggets being made basically they get the carcass of a chicken once the breast ,legs and wings have been removed . blend it up bones and all trow in loads of skin then a few jugs of fat blend it all up into a paste and put bread crums on it !!!.

My point was more about sausages, which she used as an example. imo it showed people's ignorance rather than that they were bad. Offal isn't necessarily bad - it's the reconstituted stuff sold as 100% chicken/ Beef etc that is the real issue.

Get down your local butcher, and then you won't have to put up with the supermarket crap...

**noby** · 06/01/2006, 9:45 AM

Gillian McKeith 12 most toxic foods

I think you'll find it's spelled E.X.O.T.I.C.

**Green Tribe** · 06/01/2006, 9:52 AM

Originally Posted by Neish

Smoking- Don't smoke - yuck !

Caffeine Don't drink coffee, just tea with bit of milk or green tea, twice a day

Alcohol- Don't drink as often as i used to and much less than i used to.

Chocolate and sweet snacks Never eat chocolate or sweet things, just don't like them, same as all my family
Pub snacks: crisps, nuts, pork scratchings er...

my downfall, crisps, tayto...drool,but cos i am in scotland, cannot get access, so don't eat too many crisps

Processed meat not too often,i don't eat a lot of red meat and i love fish

The White Stuff:not much, eat brown bread

Added sugar don't take sugar in tea or add it to anything

Lazy food: takeaways and ready meals not often at all
Table salt a wee bit

Bad fats – saturated fats. some
Fizzy drinks never

altered your quote neish, think i do ok, but i guess i am lucky my mum is a good cook!

**Macy** · 06/01/2006, 10:07 AM

I'm surprised you can't get them (Tayto) in Scotland, Green Tribe. Used to be a few places in Manch that you could get them.

**tiktok** · 06/01/2006, 10:11 AM

Smoking I don't smoke

Caffeine 1 Cup of tea a day at most, the odd bottle of Diet Coke

Alcohol I don't (tbh can't) drink anymore, haven't had more than 3 pints in a long while (Night we won the league maybe), usually end up driving on night's out as well.

Chocolate and sweet snacks I eat too much chocolate and I'm a sucker for Pastries.

Pub snacks: crisps, nuts, pork scratchings Rarely touch them

Processed meat Usually don't, get meat form the local butchers, quite fussy about it

The White Stuff: No white bread, a little white Rice

Added sugar Only in tea

Lazy food: takeaways and ready meals Probably have an indian or Chinese take-away once a week

Table salt Don't use much of it

Bad fats – saturated fats Not sure, I guess in The Take-aways

Fizzy drinks Now and again I'll have a bottle of diet Coke

**Dr.Nightdub** · 06/01/2006, 11:48 PM

Smoking 20 Marlboro Light a day, for 27 years now. Best one of the day is just when I wake up, before I get out of bed.

Caffeine Seven or eight mugs of black filter Java a day. Don't drink tea, I have to give me bladder a chance.

Alcohol Once or twice a week, usually to excess. Finishing the night off with a tequila & Red Bull is a guaranteed hangover-avoidance tactic.

Recreational goodies Ah yeah. Never done smack though.

Chocolate and sweet snacks Chocolate bikkies after dinner, that'd be the height of it.

Pub snacks: crisps, nuts, pork scratchings Not really.

Processed meat A weekend morning just isn't the same without Superquinn sausages, Shaws smoked rashers and Clonakilty pudding.

The White Stuff: No bread at all. Unless you count a fried soda farl and fried tatie bread with the processed meat (see above).

Added sugar One and a bit in coffee.

Lazy food: takeaways and ready meals Takeaway from Toni's on Emmet Road every other Friday. Ready meal or Chinese if I'm working dead late and get lazy on the way home.

Bad fats � saturated fats Probably (see much of the above)

Fizzy drinks Club Energise at the weekend. A fry leaves you fierce thirsty.

Table salt Never. Salt is bad for you.