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I try to stick with eating things that have been around for at least 100 years. That cuts down on the level of processing, preservatives,etc. Hopefully the things are in their more natural state.
Actually Sally Fallon and Mary Enig are not fad diet types and they really seem to know their stuff. They have written several diet books and all seem based on nutritional principles that have been in existence for thousands of years. This is not Atkins with coconut oil and with them, sauerkraut is a health food.
Oh yeah, and I think what the powers of advertising did was convince us that fat is bad for us and then they took the fat out of our food and sold it for a higher price overseas and we all just got fatter and fatter as we worked desperately to lower our fat grams even more. Got news for you: THE EMPEROR HAS NO CLOTHES ON!
Why must people make weight loss so complicated???? The secret is to eat moderate amounts of WHOLE FOODS. Reduce meat consumption and processed foods (including diet soda) and eat lots of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, brown rice, nuts, and beans (in moderate amounts).
If you're overweight and having trouble sticking to a reasonable eating plan, go to Overeater's Anonymous. A friend of mine did that and she lost 60 pounds and has kept it off for 2 years now. She still goes to meetings every week. It's the best thing she ever did for herself. She told me "I never thought of myself as an overeater, but I was". I think that applies to most overweight people. Since being overweight has become so normal, people don't even realize they're overeating. It doesn't help that processed foods have a lot of calories but don't make you feel full (because of low fiber content)...so you end up eating a lot more of the processed foods than you would of the whole foods....and it's a double whammy because the processed foods have more calories in the first place.
I try to stick with eating things that have been around for at least 100 years. That cuts down on the level of processing, preservatives,etc. Hopefully the things are in their more natural state.
Bingo!
One of Michael Pollan's "food rules" is "if your grandmother or great-grandmother wouldn't have recognized it as food, don't eat it."
I try to stick with eating things that have been around for at least 100 years. That cuts down on the level of processing, preservatives,etc. Hopefully the things are in their more natural state.
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Originally Posted by mysticaltyger
Why must people make weight loss so complicated???? The secret is to eat moderate amounts of WHOLE FOODS. Reduce meat consumption and processed foods (including diet soda) and eat lots of fruits, vegetables, whole grains, brown rice, nuts, and beans (in moderate amounts). [/url]
Actually this is exactly how they recommend that you eat. Check out their cookbook from years ago called Nourishing Traditions. What's interesting is that it was considered really radical stuff when it came out over 20 years ago because they were recommending that you eat moderate amounts of fat, meat, and butter, as well as coconut oil, vegetables, and whole grains that had been soaked to rid them of the phytic acid content. Their recommendations are based off of the research of Weston A. Price who was a huge fan of whole foods. BTW, they really do not recommend soy foods at all, unless they've been fermented.
One of Michael Pollan's "food rules" is "if your grandmother or great-grandmother wouldn't have recognized it as food, don't eat it."
In my great grandparents time, people got ergot poisoning, and other bad things from spoiled food. They also had to adjust their entire lives around food preparation.
While I try to limit my consumption of heavily processed foods, I will NOT make it a rigid rule - and I will evaluate specific additives based on the available scientific evidence.
Coconut oil is an avoid for my genotype & indeed gave me a headache & stomach ache. Will be sticking with unpolitically correct butter. Whole point of links is to get you to rethink saturated fats. The fact is, the lipid hypothesis is falling apart---- limiting saturated fats hasn't lowered rate of heart disease which has only gone up.
are you living in a world where americans have actually decreased their sat fat intake? Where I live, folks still buy skim milk, then order a big mac for lunch.
Hmmm. A website called coconutoil.com touting the benefits of coconut oil. Imagine that!
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