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Well it seems one large glass of milk and/or one small portion of turkey. For 100g roasted light turkey meat you get 340mg of tryptophan, 100g of cow's milk has 75mg. So you need 4.5 times the weight of milk to get the same amount, 2% milk only has 40mg per 100g.

Well it seems one large glass of milk and/or one small portion of turkey. For 100g roasted light turkey meat you get 340mg of tryptophan, 100g of cow's milk has 75mg. So you need 4.5 times the weight of milk to get the same amount, 2% milk only has 40mg per 100g.

If you are interested, here is a list of food products containing high levels of methionine:

http://www.nutritiondata.com/foods-000084000000000000000-w.html

And tryptophan:

http://www.nutritiondata.com/foods-000079000000000000000-w.html

If you are interested, here is a list of food products containing high levels of methionine:

http://www.nutritiondata.com/foods-000084000000000000000-w.html

And tryptophan:

http://www.nutritiondata.com/foods-000079000000000000000-w.html

You can get most of that information here.

Well, other than the fact that it was blatantly factually incorrect. No matter if you put a pejorative on it or not, the majority of the calories in any fruit come from the sugar in that fruit, not from complex carbohydrates, and even more, most of the complex carbohydrates in fruits are fiber (which is a good thing to eat, but not really a source of calories, as it is not digested by humans).

And white bread does contain mostly complex carbohydrates (this is what starches are!), the reason it tastes sweet when it is chewed is that amylase (an enzyme in saliva) breaks the starches down into simpler sugars. See:

http://www.nutritiondata.com/facts/baked-products/4872/2
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amylase

I do mostly eat whole grain bread, but that is mostly because it actually has texture and flavor, the health benefits of the whole grains are a bonus.

The carbohydrate content of most fruits is sugar, not complex carbs. For instance, the majority of the calories in an Apple (not a particularly sweet fruit...) are from sugar:

http://www.nutritiondata.com/facts/fruits-and-fruit-juices/1809/2

Bread on the other hand is full of complex carbohydrates (starches...).

http://www.nutritiondata.com/facts/sweets/10638/2

you should probably feed it more nutritious things then.

This might help... :}

Cheese contains approximately 2% of your RDA for Iron: http://www.nutritiondata.com/facts/dairy-and-egg-products/7583/2

Where to start?

Why should he eat only vegetables and protein on workout days and lots of carbs on rest days? Would be nice to see the source for that advice ... If everything the muscles can pick up food without insuline after working out and you refill your glucogen storages better at this time to, so why shouldn't he eat lots of carbohydrates on workout days? Also what's this stupid "no fat" advice?
Time and time again it's been proven that a higher fat energy percent improves your body composition, not the opposite.

Let him eat whatever breakfast he prefer, porridge or cooked food would be fine to, personally I most often eat bread and tea because I like it ..

Why should he eat apples but not banans and melons? Almost all fruit have lots carbohydrates in the form of sugars in them, apples does to, so what? Melons are LOW in total energy content and have much nutrition in them.
http://www.nutritiondata.com/facts/fruits-and-fruit-juices/1954/2
The sugar vs should still eat them is an advice for all kinds of fruits.

Red meat and especially processed things like sausage and such isn't that good no chicken and fish are better. Personally I'm vegan so neither of them for me of course.

Nutrition wise asparagus kicks ass:
http://www.nutritiondata.com/facts/vegetables-and-vegetable-products/2312/2

To begin with if one also supplements the diet isn't that a meat replacement?

The human body can convert ALA to DHA and EPA, how effecient it is at that varies, I've seen numbers ranging from 0.2 to 15.2%. It seems to be better at converting it to EPA because at some place I saw values of 5% mentioned for EPA and 0.5% for DHA.

The human body can also convert between EPA to DHA and DHA to EPA, but the former are much easier to do. Whereby EPA are seen as more important nowadays.

Together that makes me belive that maybe the body just needed those 0.5% of DHA so that may be the reason because only that amount was made/converted.

The amounts of EPA and DHA which are needed are quite low, the numbers I've seen spoke about 650 mg and atleast 200 mg of each. But then it's also suggested to keep the omega6 to omega3 ratio at something like 2-5:1, and most people consume way more omega6 than omega3.

So anyway, what you say about DHA are simply completely wrong. It's true that most vegetarian fats don't contain any DHA or EPA, but since your body can convert ALA to them it's not a huge issue if you consume enough ALA.

Also (some?) microalgea produce both fat acids, and it's that way the fishes themself gets them.

http://www.water4.net/ sells vegan omega3 capsules made from algea, which are also free of the toxins and heavy metals found in fat fish since they don't grow it in the sea and it haven't been concentrated by the food chain.

You can visit http://www.nutritiondata.com/ and look up the fat acid content among other things in various food types, for instant candula, flax, chlorella and spirulina.

B12-vitamine are the real issue, and are produced by bacteria. It's easily available and cheap so not a big deal.

Also over here in Scandinavia and at similair distance from the equator it may be a good deal to supplement d-vitamine because sunlight of the right wavelengths don't hit us that much during the winters. That's not vegan specific thought and here in Sweden d-vitamine are supplemented by law in milk, butter and margarine AFAIK, all of them contains supplements of it. But since you don't eat those as a vegan you better make sure to supplement that on your own aswell.

I don't think this is true. If I fill my cart with fresh produce, it only costs about $20. If I fill my cart with stuff from just about any other section of the grocery store, it costs $80 or more.

Fresh produce is cheap. Processed food is expensive.

Raw carrots are about $1/180kCal. Lettuce, you're getting down around $1/50kCal. I don't know the $/lb on spinach, but 15 cups/1lb is only 105 calories!! 1/4lb of Broccoli is only 40 calories. You have to eat a lb of Asparagus ($4 here) to get 100 calories.

And of course, that's not even counting the time spent preparing the veggies, nor the fact that you have to go back to the store every 3 damn days. You can't stock up on 30 lbs of veggies when they're on sale, lest they all rot in the fridge and become worthless.

Don't get me wrong, I eat my veggies now, but there are things I miss about dropping $150 on HotPockets and not having to hit the store again for a month.

And of course, remember - vitamins are necessary for health, but lack of calories will kill you faster than lack of vitamins.

All caloric info from Nutrition Data.

Um, sugar's a good start when it comes to basic survival. There's nothing unhealthy about a glass of orange juice. Do you think 112 cals/glass is going to give you diabetes? Limiting yourself to one glass every two weeks sounds anorexic, not health conscious... Not to be hostel but come on... are we not being a wee bit paranoid? Hell, water it down a little if you don't think your body is up to the challenge of 21 grams of sugar. I need energy in my system to have a clear head. A good well rounded meal with plenty of real fruit/veg juices and milk really helps me feel good. Limiting yourself to drinking water and vitamin pills all day seems silly to me. I really only go for water when at the gym/pool where I wouldn't be able to stomach the sweet. Mind you, something more watered down like the odd gatorade/whatever can really hit the spot there too.

But yea, lots of water is great. Clearly 3 litres of a thick sweet orange juice would be really pushing it. I'm just saying that cutting back to the point where you're essentially removing juice from your diet is extreme. I think most nutritionists would disagree with you there.

Source: http://www.nutritiondata.com/facts-B00001-01c20Vr. html

I've been following Atkins diet for a while and it worked until I reached a line that my body refuses to cross, so I changed to a hipocaloric one (less than 1600 KCalories every day) and a little of exercice (walking as much as I can, and 2 hour gym every week), the results are very promising, and at this moments I think that I know a little about dieting and losing weight, some things that work for me :

1.- Watch what you eat, (http://www.nutritiondata.com/ has been a wonderful help) 1600 Kcalories enables you to loose up to 2 Kg every month.
2.- Eat frecuently, no more than 4 hours without eating something, 100 gr of fruit is right between meals when you are hungry. This way you are not empty (and hungry) when you do the real meal.
3.- If you are really hungry between meals, 10 gr of butter (yes pure butter only) helps me to avoid the starving feeling (thanks to Atking, this really works).
4.- Don't eat outside meal time, and stop doing it as soon as you have enough or you don't have hunger, this is really important, and it is an habit change that you need to track carefully.
5.- Make a little exercice, you don't need to train like Mr, Universe, just 20 minutes walking every day and some serious aerobic exercice 2 times (or more) a week is right.
6.- Avoid highly carbohydrated food, like rice, sugar, pasta, flour etc..., vegetables and fruit will give you more than enough for your needs.
7.- Drink, no less than 3 Liters of water every day, but no sodas or similar, just water or tea with a sugar substitute, saccharin is better than aspartame.
8.- Put the maximun food intake in the breakfast and the lunch, and the minimun in the dinner, this way you go to sleep almost empty.
9.- Loosing weight is a SLOW PROCESS, so don't try to recover your perfect weight in 2 weeks, put a realistic schedule, 1 to 2 years is a correct one. Going faster will not work in the long term.
10.- Persistence, all this is nonsense if you do it for 1 week and forget it the next one, loosing weight is a state of mind.

I've lost 20 Kg, in the past 18 months, and today I'm quite happy, even my sexual life has improved a lot, but I understand that every person is a world and at the end you need to decide what is right and what works for you, so watch how your body reacts to your actions.

Regular Coffee
vs.
Caramel Macchiato!
Ouch!

In response to Hormel's ad campaign, grocery shoppers all over the world decided not to bother spending any money on reminding Hormel that they all thought SPAM was nasty crap long before they ever had E-mail addresses.

Specific activity (picocuries of potassium-40 per gram of potassium) = 818 pCi/g (see here)

and the UK Radioactive Substances Act 1993 (c. 12) says you can't put radioactive waste in to landfills. I accept that they aren't really going to stop you but technically you shouldn't!

See also this article on radiological problems in food and other goods.

Ian

they should be able to survive just fine according to the SPAM nutrition fact sheet