Ooops, never mind.
Posted on 07/06/2014 8:45:50 AM PDT by Kaslin
Heh heh heh.
Did I mention that cities suck?
Yeah-—I saw that recipe.
Even easier-—I make 1/8” cuts tip to tip-—when pan-grilled in butter, the cuts crisp up and brown, and are very tasty.
Everything keeps my weight up, flour, potatoes anything with sugar. I’m an equal opportunity fatty.
Haven’t have bread for 20 days and it helps a lot, but no potatoes either.
I notice that if I eat less beef, I lose faster.
Read a book once, I think it was called “Eat for Your Type. Theme was your blood type determines the style your should eat, meat, vegan etc.
Author tracked it back to cave man days.
I wanted to be a carnivore, but book said we A+ types need to be vegans. My experience with beef may confirm that but gotsta have my steak.
On the one hand, I find all this glutenphobia just another example of Silly Oat Bran Syndrome (anybody remember the Oat Bran craze?). On the other hand, gluten - among other things - makes my daughter break out with zits like nobody’s bid’ness, so this time I’m grateful for the ignorant fools who are responsible for bringing many more gluten-free products to the grocery shelves. Heh.
“But don’t try to convince the crazed people who have sworn off gluten as if it were a deadly poison.”
The nice thing about a (relatively) free country is that we can do our research and draw our own conclusions.
In the case of gluten, I’m with the “crazed people”. We have COMPLETELY re-engineered wheat (via hybridization) to the point where it does not even remotely resemble the wheat your grandmother grew up with 50 years ago. For starters that there are new proteins, many, that humans never dealt with in the past. On top of that, the wheat grown today is 18” tall, no more 6 foot stalks blowing in the wind - totally re-engineered. Also, I actually find it MUCH MORE LIKELY that companies like ADM would be covering up the issues with wheat, rather than growers of rice, corn, and potatoes gathering in smoke-filled rooms to figure out how to bad-mouth wheat. Conspiracies which involving widely differing entities are not easy to pull off - whereas one player (or group of similar players) hiding bad data from the public is MUCH EASIER (just look at the drug companies).
On the good side, yields have increased 10-fold, which is why the world (with the exception of war zones) has an OBESITY problem now, rather than a hunger problem.
So, in the end, yes, I will eat wheat products if there’s nothing else practical to eat (and with a few exceptions, like being on vacation at my handful of favorite eating places) - my body will take the punishment. But on a regular basis, I’m done with wheat, and I’m light on other carbs.
But, as I said, people are free to choose as they wish, at least for now.
It might be a bad stereotype if it were false, but the streets and roadways here in CA are oft clogged with them and most of them ARE douchebags and look like pansies to boot...
I will tell you what--our food, here in the United States, is so chemicalized. When I am out of the country, in Europe in particular, I feel 1000% better. They actually have real food. Dairy tastes like dairy. Produce is ridiculously fresh and natural. Bread? Forget about it. Divine. No rubber tires in the bread. The Euros don't do much right but food, they do it well.
Even beer. I was in the Czech Republic the past three weeks. I was drinking a beer every night with dinner. A big beer--if for no reason other than it was, like, $1 for an enormous beer vs a 6 oz Coke. I never got one headache. If I drink one beer here in the US---headache within an hour.
I am convinced much of our problems is due to chemicals. Overeating. Lack of movement.
On a serious note, there is an increase in energy, but the accompanying gitters that come from a caffeine rush are not present, so I can get lots done, methodically. Finishing the gragae clean out this afternoon ... four days of it is methodical work don'tchaknow.
Ooops, never mind.
Why can’t I have a ll gluten diet?
I say again:
Heh heh heh.
A bunch of holier-than-thou liberal cretins who WON’T get out of the way.
I’m sure there must be a superior, respectable and respectful cyclist crowd, who ride the trails and logging roads on mountain bikes, and who wouldn’t be caught dead on a paved road. Out there in the sticks, viewing the best unspoiled scenery of all.
There must be, but of course, our paths would seldom cross.
I live in a small "city" in the south. We have several farmers markets that we can get fresh produce that was literally on the vine or branch yesterday. It tastes so much better than the processed stuff.
I was going to try eliminating gluten from my diet till I had my first sandwich made from gluten free bread........After taking my first bite, I quickly switched to cardboard.
I’m just amazed at how many conservatives will be so judgmental on other peoples food choices.
“avoiding carbs is a good thing for most people no matter in what form they come.”
You are right, of course. I don’t believe a damn thing coming from the “experts”. They have been wrong so many time, on so many topics related to health, that I don’t know how ANYONE can believe them.
Avoiding (or at least minimizing) carbs, and now avoiding gluten has NOTHING TO DO with Big Medicine - they haven’t changed their tune a bit and I doubt they ever will - the push to get this stuff our of our diet is by a small group of people with really nothing to gain other than, maybe, book royalties. The ones pushing the status quo are looking at huge research grants and also liability protection (i.e., if you tell diabetics to eat carbs, as the government does, then you can’t be sued when they get sicker...since you are following government guidelines - but do the opposite, and you might go broke).
But the funny thing is that Americans are getting SICKER and FATTER by the year, and, especially, diabetes is going through the roof - and why? Because people listen to Big Medicine (which, of course, is in bed with big government).
Have you any idea how much fat is in that butt, Ted?
There aren't though. Not unless you have Celiac Disease.
So how did you ditch gluten? Avoid foods that contain it? What else was in those foods?
50 years ago, wheat wasn’t 6 feet tall. Highest was 2 feet. I drove a combine. Extra stalk was just a waste. Contributed nothing to the quality of the wheat.
I remember when Dr. Atkins was alive. The medical profession and associations excoriated him. The week after he died, the stories trickled out proclaiming he may have been right all along.
My wife’s cousin is a past president of the medical society of DC, an AMA chapter. You should hear his rants about how the AMA sold out to Obamacare despite various chapters objecting.
I don’t trust the medical profession. Find a Dr. you trust and hang on. And read as much as you can from a variety of sources.
Sometimes I get good referrals from this site.
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