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The Big Fat Lie We’ve Been Fed About Our Diet
The Fiscal Times ^ | May 22, 2014 | Maureen Mackey

Posted on 05/22/2014 4:47:36 PM PDT by goodwithagun

Be honest: That bacon, egg and cheese breakfast you scarfed down the other day was so delicious you’d love to have it for breakfast every morning. But like so many other health-conscious, weight-watching Americans, you just won’t allow yourself that indulgence. Instead, you opt for the usual low-fat, low-calorie and (oh-so-bland) oatmeal.

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TOPICS: Food; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: diet; health; saturatedfat
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To: CatherineofAragon

Oh I am light. One of the advantages of my lifestyle.


61 posted on 05/22/2014 6:05:32 PM PDT by southern rock
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To: JayGalt
Well, I can tell you that in the course of my lifetime, I've seen the incidence of obesity grow. A larger proportion of our population is obese now than when I was a child. And, now I regularly see that today's obese parents are often waddling ahead of a pack of little piglets who obviously aren't eating right and who look like they're getting very little physical activity. I remember two cases of obese kids when I was in grammar and high school. Now, they seem to be everywhere, and I mean everywhere.

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.

62 posted on 05/22/2014 6:06:48 PM PDT by Tau Food (Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.)
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To: southern rock

Both of my parents died of heart disease. Neither ate butter, cheese or steak.


63 posted on 05/22/2014 6:07:23 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Gabz
I don't own any stock in any national chain gyms, but I pay one so that I can go nearly every day. There are many days that I really don't feel like going, but I know it's important so I get up and do it, anyway. And, I haven't been to a fast food place in decades.

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.

64 posted on 05/22/2014 6:11:05 PM PDT by Tau Food (Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.)
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To: southern rock
I'm still the same very trim size I was in high school, decades ago. I eat lots of meat, cheese, fois gras (when I can get it), and all the good stuff in life.

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

65 posted on 05/22/2014 6:11:29 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Tau Food
I don't need a gym. I have a garden and grandkids. That's enough of a work out. ;)
66 posted on 05/22/2014 6:12:36 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: southern rock

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...?


67 posted on 05/22/2014 6:12:41 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon ((Support Christian white males---the architects of the jewel known as Western Civilization).)
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To: JRandomFreeper

Good for you, whatever works! ;-)


68 posted on 05/22/2014 6:13:31 PM PDT by Tau Food (Never give a sword to a man who can't dance.)
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans
Mom's doing great too. No problems to speak of...just getting old and enjoying good--if weird--food (that I try hard to prepare).

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).

69 posted on 05/22/2014 6:13:41 PM PDT by RoosterRedux
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To: southern rock
This is so much meat and dairy industry propaganda it's comical.

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.

70 posted on 05/22/2014 6:15:07 PM PDT by Finny (Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. -- Psalm 119:105)
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To: rarestia

#53 was supposed to be to you.


71 posted on 05/22/2014 6:17:25 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: hinckley buzzard; JRandomFreeper
Smoked herring and sausage contain inordinate amounts of nitrites which may give you cancer sometime soon. I'm sure your kids will appreciate getting their inheritances in a timely fashion however.

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!

72 posted on 05/22/2014 6:24:18 PM PDT by Finny (Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. -- Psalm 119:105)
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To: JRandomFreeper
Besides, I offset the nitrates with the nicotine.

!!!!!!!!!!

73 posted on 05/22/2014 6:25:57 PM PDT by Finny (Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. -- Psalm 119:105)
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To: southern rock

I guess you didn’t see the recent news about saturated fat.


74 posted on 05/22/2014 6:27:40 PM PDT by Rodamala
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To: Finny
Hey, it's me. I'm not planning on living forever. But I do intend to enjoy my time here. ;)
75 posted on 05/22/2014 6:29:30 PM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: JRandomFreeper

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.


76 posted on 05/22/2014 6:40:39 PM PDT by Finny (Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. -- Psalm 119:105)
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To: hinckley buzzard

Fresh sausage doesn’t have nitrites.


77 posted on 05/22/2014 6:41:20 PM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: goodwithagun

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


78 posted on 05/22/2014 6:54:20 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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To: Tau Food

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.


79 posted on 05/22/2014 6:54:21 PM PDT by Gabz (Democrats for Voldemort.)
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To: JRandomFreeper
Food fetishists are very annoying people that just won't shut up about their current fetish.

What you said!!!!

I attended my 35th HS class reunion last fall, wearing the exact same size I was wearing the night I graduated!

80 posted on 05/22/2014 6:59:03 PM PDT by Gabz (Democrats for Voldemort.)
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