Today, Sagan and I watched Tom Naughton's Fat Head. It was a response documentary to Spurlock's Supersize Me. Sagan chose it because the cover looked like the guy had a lot of taquitos crammed in his mouth, but it was baloney.The main thing I got from this movie is your brain loves fat and needs it to function. Also, sugar is not good for you and carbs are sugar. And cholesterol doesn't give you heart attacks.
When we give our children Marshmallow Mateys with 1% milk, we are denying their cute developing brains the fat they really need. Plus, the food we give them pumps them full of sugar and makes it hard to concentrate, so then we give them ADD drugs to compensate.
In the last 50 years, we have all gotten fat and our hearts are failing us. In the last 50 years our government has told us to eat low fat diets and 6-11 servings of carbohydrates. They told us to stop using bacon fat and to use corn or canola oil. They said meat was bad and wheat bread would save us.
When you look at it, they are telling us to eat the stuff we feed cows and pigs to make em fat.
Plus, they define fat and obese in terms of height and weight, rather than body fat.
Contrary to my previous beliefs, biology and weight loss are more complicated than if you eat less and burn more calories, you lose weight. The interaction between insulin and sugar and fat cells is more complicated. The KIND of foods you eat matter. It is hard for the body to produce enough insulin to process lottsa sugar. So it turns the sugar into fat. And your body can store a lot of fat.
I lost most of my weight when I ate very few carbs. I've kept it off by eating limited amounts of carbs.
STUDIES DO NOT SHOW THAT HIGH FAT AND/OR HIGH CHOLESTEROL DIETS CAUSE HEART DISEASE! Unless those studies that were funded by soy bean/corn manufactures. Beans and corn don't even HAVE oil unless you process then A LOT! Just fry your eggs in the bacon grease, you know you wanna. I tell you: it's ok. And buy the 2% milk. It will make you happier. I promise! I have been a 1% for years ... but no more.
I think maybe we should eat like our hunter-gatherer grandparents. Nuts, berries, fruits, root vegetables, meat sometimes. Eggs are fine, salty, fatty, yummy, yummers. I think its fine. Less processed. Old farm. I think bread it ok too tho. But just once or twice a day, not 6-11. Unless you wanna fatten up.
Ok. Now I have some chicken in the crock pot and I entered myself in a cornbread cook-off later this month, so I've got a recipe I'm trying. Then, some leafy greens and some garbage raspberries, I'll tell you about them tomorrow.
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A to the Men. I live on a super low carb, yummy fat diet and I'm relatively skinny and extremely happy with it. My 3-year-old daughter doesn't really like bread, and I support that.
I agree completely. I recently went to a nutritionist and asked about my all vegetarian, almost al vegan diet. They actually recommended MORE protein, MORE fat and fewer carbs. They also recommended a cookbook, called Nourishing Traditions, with these same ideas you are writing about- eating more like our grandparents, knowing where your food comes from, and that includes the oil you use to cook it in.
Yes! And go on and get the whole milk - I know it feels somehow naughty. I've actually graduated to putting whipping cream in my coffee. mmMM. It's wonderful to hear that there are nutritionists and medical experts who have done their homework and support low-carb, higher fat diets.
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