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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Favorite sandwich: deep-fat fried lard on grilled white, smothered in cholesterol sauce.
Fish? Poultry? Milk? Smokers? What was the cause?
I think that is what you are doing. Go on, preach that gospel of meat and cheese. LOL! BTW, Food Fetish??
Haha. Let me check. Wait.... Nope. No leather, no dough.
Geeze, I don't eat THAT many carbs. Usually just some quinoa, and some black and red rice. Plus I love avacado and almond butter, so I get plenty of fat.
If you don’t eat fat, your body will make it for you.
LOL!! Enjoy that.
I’ve seen more old drunks than old doctors—Ben Franklin.
“Alaskan Bush People” is a new show on Discovery channel. I’ll bet you would like it if could somehow get ahold of it
Your oatmeal sounds fantastic! Even better than mine, and it’s pretty good!!! (I eat a LOT of oatmeal, cooked, uncooked, dry, swimming in milk, or just washed down with coffee). Walnuts, walnuts, walnuts — like fudge and brownies, oatmeal (to me) is merely a venue for lots of walnuts. Or pecans. Also raisins, dried cranberries, grated orange peel in oatmeal is good, but ... how on earth could I have missed chopped dried apricots?? MMMMMMMMMMMMM!!!!!
Genetics ... probably have less to do with obesity than anyone wants to admit, though genetics have everything to do with what foods an individual can turn to for optimum health. Some of us are lucky enough to be able to do dairy every which-way but loose; others develop lactose intolerance. Some of YOU are lucky enough to be able to eat nice oily fish like salmon, or delectable Macadamia nuts, out the ying-yan; others like me have genetics where even a slight overdose of vitamin E-heavy foods, fish oil, or macadamia nuts make us ill.
But as for obesity, and Rush Limbaugh's sad rationalization that some people are just "born" to be able to eat whatever they want and never get fat: I come from a family where that is said of pretty much all of us, because we all eat like horses (you should have seen my tiny grandmother, piling her plate and going back for THIRDS and she never weighed more than 102 pounds). The thing is that the selection is heavily dominated by animal and dairy protein, plus lots of vegetables, with starchy carbs pretty much relegated to side-dish status or as smaller ingredients in a protein-dominated dish.
So you got identical twins (my brothers), literally CLONES, genetically, CLONES. One got married to a woman who fed him a typical America diet high in carbs and processed foods, but supposedly low in "unhealthy" fats. HE ACTUALLY GOT BEEFY, headed toward pudgy!!! While his clone brother, a bachelor who continued to eat our way, which is more or less the "diet" advised in the article, remained and still remains exactly the type Rush Limbaugh would whine "can eat anything and not get fat." Having seen how two genetic clones respond to differences in diet opened my eyes to THAT myth, though poor ol' Rush needs to believe it. A lot of people do.
As for exercise -- all the folks in my family are amped. Hyper. Energetic, always running around and doing stuff. I'm the ONLY one who goes to the gym, and the only one (except for my mom and dad) who has ALWAYS exercised, but the reason for that exercise is this: imagine having a big rangy Irish setter and keeping it cooped up in a tiny apartment all week long. It would drive the dog nuts. Same thing for me -- if I didn't exercise, I'd be like that poor dog cooped up with no room to run.
But when very lean, trim, skinny CLONES illustrate how one of them can become FAT on a "normal" America diet while the other one who follows this unconventional wisdom that fat doesn't make you fat remains lean ... that tells me genetics have a lot less to do with obesity than just plain eating the WRONG food.
I had my oatmeal this morning with a little olive oil, honey and banana slices mixed in. It doesn't have to be bland!
The thing about type 2 diabetes is that fat gets in your muscle cells and prevents the insulin from unlocking the key to get in. Read Neal Barnard’s Reversing diabetes. There are plenty of people who have reversed this disease. Check out John McDougall on youtube and open your mind a little.
I’m with you, I can’t eat liver or any other organ meats. That’s just a personal thing.
Southern rock, you've posted that you eat a plant-based diet with "plenty" of whole grains. Vegetables, fruits, and grains are ALL carbs....that's pretty much all you're consuming.
As I stated earlier, my mother was diabetic. She ultimately died from eating too many carbs. I'm well-versed with the disease, what exacerbates it, etc.
"Read Neal Barnard’s Reversing diabetes. There are plenty of people who have reversed this disease. Check out John McDougall on youtube and open your mind a little."
I admit I get your vegan gurus mixed up. Colin Campbell is the one who thinks OLIVE OIL is harmful, right? McDougall is the nut who throws fits when people don't buy into his schtick, and who claims Steve Jobs actually had pancreatic cancer for thirty years, but lived as long as he did because he was a vegan.
I've seen you complaining elsewhere on FR about the "hostility" you encounter when folks don't believe what you're pushing. With all due respect to you, RM, this is a signal that you're edging into fanaticism. I direct you to post #65, which describes food fetish evangelists better than I can. (courtesy ping to Johnny).
Never eat filter organs. Just sayin’.
/johnny
It’s all your honey. All. For. You.
My mother made me eat liver & onions as a kid. Never again I say!
Ugh...no argument here, that's for sure.
Genetics. My two brothers have heart disease as well, and both have had surgery.
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