Posted on 10/10/2005 2:22:21 AM PDT by Stoat
I believe it.....when I was on Atkins, never once did I get indigestion or reflux.
That's great to hear! Why did you move away from that diet?
The old adage "moderation in all things" once again proves sage advice. I am convinced that all the handwringing people do over what they've eaten causes more stress-induced health problems than the any food they could eat. My motto is "Eat and be thankful."
I'm back on it again. After losing the weight, I wanted to eat sweets, and that did me in LOL.
Very interesting. I sent a copy to my vasculitis doctor. After losing 54 pounds on a very low fat diet, I was attacked by vasculitis, an auto-immune disease that creates inflamation in one's blood vessels.
In the early '60's, I remember maybe one fat person for say, every 15-20 people. Now it's the other way round!
People ate whatever they wanted to.
I vividly remember the words of my old grandmother, when the younger generation started talking about low-fat diets. She would say, "your body is like a machine. It needs lubrication to keep the parts moving."
She would then figuratively prescribe changing the bacon fat every 300 hours.
You're right. I really never thought about it. But, when I was in high school and college almost everyone was thin (normal, not skin-and-bones). I recall that we almost never had snacks like Colas, packaged sweets and chips. A "Coke" was a treat that we got at the "service station" when on vacation or on a Sunday drive. (Sometimes we bought a small bag of salted peanuts and dropped some in the Coke bottle. Why did we do that?) If we had desert or a snack, it was homemade. We ate three pretty good meals a day and almost always ate at regular times with the whole family present. We were extremely active children, never occurred to us not to be active.
Some people these days don't believe those times ever existed. I remember one of the Sunday evening chores I had was Dad would give me a $1 to ride my bike to the corner store and pickup 2 candybars for everyone in the family. (we had 5 in the family--.10 per candybar) We got one while watching Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom and the other while watching Disney! It was a treat for Sunday evenings. During the week we ate 3 meals a day, had an afterschool snack and played outside until the sun went down.
Cause the salt on the pnuts caused the coke to fizz. I used to do it too. Although as the mixture became more salty, the less fizz it produced.
Hooray cheeseburgers......................and beer!
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The brain also needs fat. Omega 3 oils are essential.
Carolyn
the brain also needs carbs
Mine gets plenty of both in ice cream.
Could you add me to your ping list please. I have lost over a hundred pounds on a whole foods balanced diet and I feel great too. Basically if a food has high fructose corn syrup, partially hydrogenated oils, white flour, and a myriad of preservatives I can't easily recognize then I don't eat it. The cravings disappeared and my appetite is normal.
That sort of thing is always my downfall as well :-) (hiding 'slightly' rounded stoat tummy from view)
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