No, I'm not giving away the title.
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...and if I missed anyone, I'm sorry. It's past my bedtime...
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I stopped using margarine and tried to avoid using hydrogenated anything -- I'm interested in reading your next article.
When folks began working in offices more, they moved around a lot less. When folks had to start traveling longer distances to work, that left less time in the evenings for activity. Most times, the man of the house would come home and just sit while the wife was preparing and serving dinner. Not making a gender offensive statement here, just the facts. There were exceptions, of course, some men still did some manual labor in the evenings. Many nights, my Dad would come home from his regular job, sit for an hour or two, reading the paper or watching the news, then get up from the supper table and go out into his shop and spend the rest of the evening building cabinets for a customer. Even then, he dropped dead of something at the age of 64; don't know if it was a congenital heart condition or not, my older brother died of a heart attack this summer at the age of 66.
Women have not been immune from this. Women used to stay slimmer by doing work around the house without modern conveniences like washers and dryers, dishwashers, central vacuums, etc. It took a lot more motion and activity to do the work. The more women moved into the realm of office work, the more they didn't move around a lot during the day, but they still continued to eat as much as they did before, so they started gaining weight, and it's HARD to get off, once it's there.
That was informative, thanks.
substitute "healthy" margarine for butterAmazing (or not) that the push for hydrogenated oils used for margarines led to a backlash; I've even seen lard recommended over vegetable oils for deep frying (not that deep-frying is necessarily a great idea to begin with). I'm a food ho, in that I'll eat pretty much whatever's put before me, but I way prefer butter, and prefer lard in pie crusts.
No, I'm not giving away the title.LOL!
If I can just list out the knee-jerk responses that often appear on threads that dare suggest there's a diet-health connection:
1) We're all going to die of something anyway, so why bother?
2) We only have these diseases because we're living longer.
3) All our ancestors died at age 40 - so quit yer complaining.
4) Bah, that's all just quackery. My doctor said so. So does Snopes and QuackWatch.
might be inspiration for future crunchy articles.