Thread: v8?

Originally Posted by jasone

Would a serious bodybuilder put v8 in his body? Would this count as a serving of vegetables? The low sodium version is available. Just seems like a convienent way to get those needed veggies, I hate cooking.

Would a 'serious bodybuilder drink it'?

Depends of the person I imagine. 'Serious bodybuilders' do many things - and for the majority of them, I think a lot of it would simply come down to whether or not they wanted some vegetable juice.

In terms of your health (and using it instead of vegetables) - juice is about 5% as useful to you as the real things. Sure, it offers you some of the vitamins and minerals, but it lacks everything else.

Processing will remove a large number of the nutrients available (many are fragile and will not survive heating/over cooking and juicing). Processing will also remove the fibre, meaning it will not help with satiety, cholesterol or intestinal health.. This also means that there are a lot more calories in a typical serve vegetable juice when compared to your typical serve of vegetables - so, although it seems rediculous, you can overdo the calories! Lastly, processing will also distroys most of the anti-oxidants and phyto-nutrients (which are all those things that are essential for the health effects such as the anti-cancer, cholesterol lowering, blood pressure lowering, anti-disease and anti-aging properties).

If you want to drink it - then do, but make sure you are aware of quantity and quality (look for added sugar or other nasty things)... and don't use it as a vegetable substitute. You still need to eat the proper things.

Hey Emma what does the o/b o/b phrase beneath youre name stand for?

Just curious

It's better than Sodee-pop -

Originally Posted by jasone

Would a serious bodybuilder put v8 in his body? Would this count as a serving of vegetables? The low sodium version is available. Just seems like a convienent way to get those needed veggies, I hate cooking.

Im personally more of a v6 person.. my explorer is 4.0 v6 XLT. single exhaust tho and I gotta tell you that blows.. Im working on implementing a dual exhaust system.. dont know if I wanna go from cat back or if I wanna run through the manifold (two mufflers, two catalytic converters and a new manifold would be needed)... Bah screw that, Ill stick to 3inch magna flows

go v6!!!!!!!

Originally Posted by juggernaut2005

Im personally more of a v6 person.. my explorer is 4.0 v6 XLT. single exhaust tho and I gotta tell you that blows.. Im working on implementing a dual exhaust system.. dont know if I wanna go from cat back or if I wanna run through the manifold (two mufflers, two catalytic converters and a new manifold would be needed)... Bah screw that, Ill stick to 3inch magna flows

go v6!!!!!!!

He is either joking or he doesnt read before he posts

Originally Posted by bigss75

He is either joking or he doesnt read before he posts

Plus he probably isn't taking into account the price of gas these days -

Originally Posted by The Monkey Man

Plus he probably isn't taking into account the price of gas these days -

LOL oops..

Originally Posted by njc

Hey Emma what does the o/b o/b phrase beneath youre name stand for?

Just curious

Science nerd joke...





It is the short-hand way of writing that something is deficient in both genes that encode for leptin - known as the 'obesity gene'. They usually use it for talking about specifically breed colonies of mice where the leptin gene on both copies of their DNA have been removed so that they use to mice as models of obesity.

I have it under my name because leptin deficiency usually results in hyperphargia (you eat a lot....).

Perhaps eating a v6 would have fewer calories, less metal to digest. I wonder how many calories a pound of steel has?