I dunno, I go back and forth between eating a healthy diet of the kind described in this article (fruits, vegetables, whole grains, some lean chicken and fish, with a few berries and yogurt for dessert, plus green tea to drink) and eating the South Beach or modified Atkins diet (lots of protein and almost no carbs initially, then gradually adding back in a few low-sugar carbs gotten from vegetables). I’ll tell you, I really want to eat the recommended diet, but it’s the carb-free meat-and-cheese diet that drains the water right out of me and drops the blood glucose levels within about five days. So I don’t really know.
I think the reasons Atkins and South Beach work for you is that American medicine doesn’t appreciate that there is an appropriate amount of fat intake needed for a body to be healthy (notice that even the yogurt is nonfat) and I personally think that protein with small amounts of fat contribute to satiation and eating less more than anything out there.
I eat everything on the list but grapefruit (never liked it) quite often. You may want to check out the book “The Fat Fallacy” by Will Cower. He has some liberal politics infused but it’s the philosphy that has worked wonders for me.
I love fresh veggies from the homegrown farmers market.
I can live off them no prob with a little protien. Tonight fresh Seared Tuna with a Greek Yogart/Garlic/Basil sauce.
Unfortunetly our Farmers Market is on a steep hill.
My neighbor is kind when she goes she picks up a load for me.
They dont make neighbors like her much anymore.
I was reading out local paper opinion page and somebody wrote a rant about the Farmers Market being on public tax payer land but totally unaccesible.
I had thought about doing the same. It takes 3hrs to get us out the door and qn hour to transfer back out once home so you can imagine the dissappointment we felt when we went to only look up a grassy steep hill.
Think I will go write an opinion to back up hers.