[Mase]

Sugar, white flour, bread and pasta is poison? Is that really what you're saying?

If so, that's crazier than crazy.

[southern rock]

Yes, that is what I am saying, and that is not crazy, that is pretty much mainstream nutritional thought. Add white rice to the list as well.

If flour, bread and pasta are whole grain, only then are they good for you. The white or "enriched" stuff is a killer.

[EBH]

Actually I don't totally disagree with southern rock or you.

I tend to realize that anything that causes an inflammatory response in the body is bad for you.

Most of the time those responses come from things that are overly refined. What is overly refined? Anything that they have to strip it down and then add nutrition back in.

On the flipside of that though I am not a fan of the no fat diets etc. I use real butter, eat real meat, and drink whole milk.

I've watched the evolution of the mainstream nutritionists attempting to extrapolate research information, to only find a decade or two later it is hogwash. From butter, eggs, coffee and the fats in meat being bad for you...to near complete reversals of position statements.

I know it is a funky position to take, but if we were eating closer to how we were designed to eat...I think we'd be much healthier. As for Paula Deen? Anyone not realizing she is cooking the best of the best decadent southern recipes is a fool. She is not your nutritionist or doctor. She is a chef. As much as people want to pick on her...they can just as easily hammer away at any chef on TV.