Posted on 05/22/2014 4:47:36 PM PDT by goodwithagun
Oh I am light. One of the advantages of my lifestyle.
It's ignorance. People are becoming adults and never being taught how to take care of themselves.
And, then, there are folks who keep reassuring (i.e., misinforming) these people that there's really nothing they can do about it so they should just keep doing what they're doing. "Don't learn about nutrition. Let McDonald's research it for you. Don't get off your butt and exercise, you'll just strain yourself. And, whatever you do, don't listen to people who are physically fit. They're just lucky,"
The truth is that most of these folks don't really like their fat, toilet-busting butts, but they don't know what to do about it. Unfortunately, most have never been taught how to take care of themselves. And, now, you can see that they're teaching their own children everything that they never learned themselves.
Both of my parents died of heart disease. Neither ate butter, cheese or steak.
I was once overweight. I'm not now. Maybe some folks think that maybe my genes changed, but I know the truth - my genes are the same, but my habits have changed.
Of course, I'm not a food fetishist, trying to evangelize all the people that eat differently than I do.
Food fetishists are very annoying people that just won't shut up about their current fetish.
/johnny
LOL!
You sure? Too many carbs and not enough fat make your skin leathery and your body doughy. Sure you’re not kind of doughy...?
Good for you, whatever works! ;-)
For a while she was losing weight...but I solved that problem by giving her what she wanted (pizza, hot dogs, and bacon).
Occasionally, I will go ethnic with fettuccini carbonara...peas, fettuccini, cream sauce, and--of course--bacon.
Once a month I make Thai Chicken Curry (with Maesri Green or Red curry).
Oh, really? My great-grandma was dead-on with regard to smart eating. She lived it, she quietly preached it, and has several generations of offspring who ate likewise and where ZERO obesity or weight problems occurred. I just came back from a family reunion, and it was remarkable, but not, if you knew the fundamental nutrition theory of the folks there, which is pretty much that "industry propaganda" you suspect.
Some of us are genetically better suited for dairy, others are genetically predisposed to lactose intolerance. Regardless, eating food the way God put it in front of us is the best way to go.
One of the fads that will go by the wayside one of these days, is the all egg white kick. You need the yolks, and "science" will discover it sooner or later. When you only eat the whites, you're getting an incomplete package. Yolks are also one of the rare dietary sources of vitamin D.
#53 was supposed to be to you.
In a bit of cattle ranching business, my dad dealt with some old families, third and fourth-generation Swiss, Portuguese ranchers and farmers, who made excellent sausage (still do). They also made jerky out of pork. They shared some with my dad one day. He chewed on it (it was delicious) and asked them, "Don't you guys ever worry about getting trichinosis from this?" They shrugged, one of them said, "We had an uncle who died of it once." My dad was amused because other than that, they took no mind. And those old guys lived pretty long, as a general rule.
As a waitress in a seafood restaurant, I learned quick that the older and sparklier gentlemen, as in octogenarians or older who still had a twinkle, almost always ordered oysters. Just sayin!
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I guess you didn’t see the recent news about saturated fat.
I know what you mean. My garden isn’t just any old garden. It’s a smokers’ garden. I garden (mother nature is about a 65 percent partner in the landscaping), then sit back and have a smoke to admire my handiwork. Enjoying my time here.
Fresh sausage doesn’t have nitrites.
Don’t lose the oatmeal, because it is full of good stuff.
The soluble fiber beta-glucan.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beta-glucan
Avenanthramide (AVE), found only in oats. Cardio protective, anti-inflammatory and antipruritic (anti-itching.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avenanthramide
The closest I’ve been to a gym in the past 35 years was picking my daughter up from a birthday party at the pool at a local Y. Except for when I was pregnant I have only weighed over 130 once in my life time - and I’m 5’10” - that happened during a very stressful time in my life, but nearly 30 years ago.
My favorite hobby is cooking, and other than the brussel sprouts I cook (and grow) for my husband and daughter, I eat everything I cook.
Not everyone has the means or desire to go to a gym - I have neither - and your idea of proper nutrition could very well be far different that someone else’s - and those are the reasons I made my comment in reference to yours.
What you said!!!!
I attended my 35th HS class reunion last fall, wearing the exact same size I was wearing the night I graduated!
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