Posted on 04/23/2016 2:52:56 AM PDT by reaganaut1
Dark chocolate is in. So, too, is beef jerky. And full-fat ice cream? You bet.
Driven by fast-changing definitions of what is healthy to eat, people are turning to foods they shunned just a couple of years ago. Studies now suggest that not all fat, for example, necessarily contributes to weight gain or heart problems. That has left companies scrambling to push some foods that they thought had long passed their popularity peak — and health advocates wondering what went wrong.
Under the new thinking, not all fat is bad, and neither are all salty foods. A stigma among the public remains for sugar substitutes, but less so for cane sugar, at least in moderation. And all of those attributes are weighed against qualities like simplicity and taste.
“I think the risk-reward equation has changed,” said Steve French, a managing partner at the Natural Marketing Institute, a research firm, said.
Edy’s ice cream, known as Dreyer’s west of the Rockies, is a case in point. Edy’s sold 10.8 percent more of its Edy’s Grand Ice Cream, a full-fat ice cream, in the 52 weeks that ended Feb. 21 compared with the year before, according to IRI, a data and research firm. Other full-fat ice creams also had sales gains.
Over the same period, Edy’s sold 4.8 percent less of its Slow-Churned Ice Cream, made with a process that lowers the fat content. When the product was introduced in 2004, it was promoted as having less fat and fewer calories — and sales soared.
Now, that sort of marketing is gone. Instead, the company has retooled some of its Slow-Churned products to make them with fewer ingredients and to include cane sugar rather than high-fructose corn syrup, which many consumers don’t like.
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Those of us who love pie, full fat ice cream, steak, prime rib, burgers, pizza and martinis know the score. Everything in moderation. Simple as that.
Look at any movie made in America in the fifties or early sixties. Almost everyone in it, including extras or bystanders will be stick thin. People were not in great danger of starving in America then. I was born in 1944 and I was a little overweight around age fourteen or so but by seventeen I was back to being a string bean, I simply stopped eating loads of starch and sweets. Now I am well over my recommended weight but I don’t carry much fat. It is mostly muscle from years in the gym. I am about to turn 72 and I can outwork most 50 years olds and many 25 year olds.
ive been doing low carb eating for decades, and it works fantastic.
i also treat myself when I want, exercise three times a week....and im doing well, no government telling me what to eat...and no doctors trying to push pills on me.
Good for you.
However, my observation was a general one, not specific to one individual.
The amount of fat and sodium you consume is between your doctor and the patient...you. As a patient who is LOW SODIUM I read labels, and put it back on the shelf if it exceeds what I’m allowed. Get out of our food and let us and our doctors decide what is best for us. I Have to read labels for SOY as like grapefruit I’m NOT allowed it effects thyroid medicine. What you eat is your business and depends on your health needs, not the governments dictates.
Eggs use to be A NO-NO as was butter, no one mentions that margarine does not digest well, and your body needs a certain amount of fats to function. Eggs are called Nature’s Perfect food.
Want better food, grow your own and can or freeze it. It made me cry last fall when moles invaded my 300 strawberry plant bed, they destroyed all 300. Didn’t touch the Blackberries thankfully. When hubby had the bed cleared of dead plants it was bare dirt. I’m having to start over this time they are going into lg kiddie plastic swimming pools on tables, it will take 3 years for the 100 plants I was able to get in to spread.
We can’t put down poison as our dogs use the back yard. And my Morkie is a mole digger like most terriers are. I’ve had a few presents left by the door or even brought in. She gets sick when she tries to eat them.
You're on to something. A study of ancient Roman teeth showed very little decay or other problems. Dental care in that era was poor, of course. But the Romans ate very little sugar.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ancient-romans-in-pompeii-had-nearly-perfect-teeth-180956859/?no-ist
I like your thinking, but you have to allow for drug induced diseases. Certain drugs cause Re-flux or GERD, the medicine for it is a PPI or Nexium, etc. which comes with it’s own risk. Nexium was meant for 2 weeks to heal a ulcer not a life time drug. It causes Barret’s Esophagus http://www.webmd.com/heartburn-gerd/guide/barretts-esophagus-symptoms-causes-and-treatments, and will cause Osteoporosis as it causes brittle bones. The drugs for OP cause GI issues as they give you GERD as the are taken on a fasting stomach. Besides all the other stuff the FDA has flagged all of them for. Foreto is double flagged with a Black Box for Bone Cancer to boot.
They all smoked - a lot.
Asian people eat very little sugar. I wonder if they have a lesser amount of tooth decay.
As an experiment, I switched to an entirely vegan diet. Beans, veggies, fruits, oatmeal, some pasta, rice... the foods I actually LIKE. I've dropped another 6 pounds just in 3 weeks, so I'm pretty happy. I'm almost back down to what I weighed in my 20s (about 8 lbs to go.) I'm 50 so this is a big deal for me.
But it's funny, the human body. It just has its quirks, you know?
I can’t look at a picture of Keith without laughing at the memory of the late, great Bill Hicks: “I see 2 things surviving nuclear war. Keith Richards, and bugs....”
By that logic, anything anyone does anywhere becomes “a societal concern.”. The solution isn’t to mind everybody else’s business, it’s to stop paying the consequences of everybody else’s actions.
“Eat what you like but when we all pay the cost of dental and other treatments it is a societal concern.”
Well there you go.
BTW, it’s time to submit the records of your last three months meals.
I’ll get back to you on what we’ll allow you to eat from here on out.
Sugar is just bad...except in extreme moderation...and that’s where the problem is...because it can be addictive
Fearfully and wonderfully (and uniquely) made.
The more science learn about the body, the more it discovers it doesn’t know. Multiple complex systems the the interaction between which science only barely understands. They may be ok with two systems, but three, four, five? Not a chance. And that doesn’t consider external inputs like environmental, nutritional, etc.
The best thing anyone can do is chart their own history and manage the inputs. Get your medical records. Create blood work comparatives over years. Where possible try and associate health changes to data changes. No doctor is going to do this for you.
There is no one size fits all and there are few absolutes. You just have to try and figure out what works and doesn’t for you.
Yes...I went pretty much caveman diet the last 2+ years..but with some dairy...weigh what I did in my 20s also...and I’m 65
No, I don’t think I ever had it in my life.
This local place is extremely good, kind of pricey but you get the show as well.
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