Sushi

[Terrymundo]

Dieting and balancing a busy job can be tough. Sometimes I find myself foodless and needing that next top up nomnoms. Sushi has been the default "go to" for the cutting meal when I cant have the standard chicken or tuna dish.

 

Is it ok? not alot of meat if you add it up. Im lucky my local does brown rice instead of white. but its got to better than a pie or subway.

 

Discuss

[pyro]

High carbs, not a lot of meat so on the lower side of protein and high in sodium. Looks to be healthy but not exactly macro friendly.

[Gym rat]

I love sushi and looking forward to having some during my three day break from cutting after the Pan's also love sushi when bulking as well

[Deal Hunter]

If you are in a rush or buying out then Sushi is one of the best options. Good for carbs and bulking but not as healthy as everyone thinks, still beats pies and subway by miles but nothing beats prepping your own food at home. Something like Pita Pit or Japanese is better but you have to go low fat on everything :-)!

[Pseudonym]

Yeah, given its high carb and very low protein content, sushi would have been one of my last choices for a dieting meal. Certainly not if your diet plan restricts carbs.

Habitual Fix salads are my diet takeaway meal. They are fantastic, but they don't have many stores yet (growing fast though).

[jimmybro1]

Brown rice has more calories than white rice... can't see why people avoid white rice.

Subway is a much better opinion get a wrap with double meat roast chicken no sauces or cheese. Marcos are: 35g Carbs 45g Protein and 6g Fat hard to bet on the go IMO. 

[Dinahlady]

Its not sushi but in a lot of "asian" places you can get chicken satay/teryaki chicken and rice in a lil box to go which usually has a fair bit more chicken/protein than sushi and a good amount of carbs and can be reletively cheap. Also usually includes avo and veggies etc. Tastes good too basically a treat. 

I dont really like subway, not a fan of heaps of bread and the wraps are f*ck all carbs (bulkin man). And Subway seems to always come to like 10$+ compared to asian places do those boxes usually for like 5/6$ 

 

 

[Chemo]

Knock it into a calorie counting app and see man. Get some whey with it and it should be an ok meal. 

What sort of macro split are you aiming for?

[rapz]

bro just go to sushi cafe on colombo street, i eat there almost once a day *blush* chicken on rice trays are boss, ask for extra chicken if you your worried you arnt getting enough proteins but they give you a shitload so its the goods, my post workout meal is 2 teriyaki trays with rice $15 *yahoo* oh shit this is making me hungry......

[Gym rat]

having images of me having sushi the Sunday after Pan's like a nice bento while reading this thread.

[mrgeeky]

Brown rice has more calories than white rice... can't see why people avoid white rice.

Subway is a much better opinion get a wrap with double meat roast chicken no sauces or cheese. Marcos are: 35g Carbs 45g Protein and 6g Fat hard to bet on the go IMO. 

cool, after reading this I went down and got one for lunch..  *good*

[Kalidane]

Dieting and balancing a busy job can be tough. Sometimes I find myself foodless and needing that next top up nomnoms. Sushi has been the default "go to" for the cutting meal when I cant have the standard chicken or tuna dish.

 

Is it ok? not alot of meat if you add it up. Im lucky my local does brown rice instead of white. but its got to better than a pie or subway.

 

Discuss

A ton of castor sugar in the rice might be making that a non-ideal cutting food

[mrgeeky]

Dieting and balancing a busy job can be tough. Sometimes I find myself foodless and needing that next top up nomnoms. Sushi has been the default "go to" for the cutting meal when I cant have the standard chicken or tuna dish.

 

Is it ok? not alot of meat if you add it up. Im lucky my local does brown rice instead of white. but its got to better than a pie or subway.

 

Discuss

A ton of castor sugar in the rice might be making that a non-ideal cutting food

The other thing that most dont realise, is a lot of those Sushi shops add a lot of oil to the rice to help make it sticky and taste better...  So if you are watching calories, might be something to take in to consideration.. 

[mrgeeky]

Maybe there is a good reason for eating sushi..

 

 

http://www.ergo-log.com/kelpantiestrogenic.html

Kelp has anti-estrogenic effect

 

Kelp, or bladderwrack seaweed – scientific name Fucus vesiculosus – has an anti-estrogenic effect. Substances found in kelp delay the manufacture of estradiol in the body and sabotage the working of the estradiol receptor.

 

Researchers at the University of California at Berkeley stumbled upon the anti-estrogenic effect of kelp when they tested an alternative theory on why very few Japanese women have breast, womb or ovarian cancer. These types of cancer are caused by estradiol. The conventional theory is that high consumption of soya, a food with an anti-estrogenic effect, protects Japanese women against estradiol-related cancers.

 

The researchers, however, had a different theory. The Japanese eat between 3 and 13 g of seaweed every day. That led the Americans to wonder whether seaweed also has anti-estrogenic effect. They did a simple experiment in which female rats received 175 or 350 mg of seaweed per kg of bodyweight each day. The highest dose was the most effective and reduced the concentration of estradiol in the rats by almost 40 percent. The graph below shows this.

 

 

 

Because the researchers wanted to understand the mechanism by which kelp reduces estradiol levels, they exposed human ovary cells – technically speaking luteinized granulosa cells – to different concentrations of kelp. The cells produce small amounts of testosterone, estradiol and progesterone. The higher the concentration of kelp, the less estradiol the cells made, the Americans discovered. The production of progesterone rose slightly.

 

The researchers wanted to know more about how the process works so they did another experiment. In test tubes they tested whether certain substances in kelp were capable of sabotaging the receptors for estradiol and progesterone. And yes, they managed to do so, see here below.

 

 

 

Kelp contains many polyphenols and sulfated sugar chains, fucoidans. Exactly which of the components is responsible for the anti-estrogen effect the researchers do not know.

 

Supplements that also have an anti-estrogen effect are Ginkgo biloba, green tea and gamma-linoleic acid. According to researchers at the US Department of Agriculture, mushrooms also have an anti-estrogenic effect.

 

Sources:
J Nutr. 2005 Feb;135(2):296-300.