Posted on 08/24/2015 10:43:55 AM PDT by Red Badger
Liberals have freed themselves of sexual morality, and replaced it with moral strictures on food - but because it isn’t as well thought out as kosher and halal, you get a confusing and conflicting mess.
My chunkiest babies have ended up being my leanest children. At 14, my son is lean and all muscle. Even as a young child he would sink like a rock in water the instant he tried to float. As a baby he was so fat he wasn’t even cute to anyone but me. Our youngest daughter is only two, but is long and lean. As a baby she plumped up so fast people laughed at her. Her cheeks looked like they were about to pop!
Once babies start crawling and walking, they lose the extra fluff.
Yup. My opinion only - there's a lot more organic food sold, than grown.
Fad diets are just that - fads. Unless there's something specific - like a gluten allergy, for instance - "gluten free" this and "organic" that are generally just ways to separate people from their money.
Moderation in all things is the key. That's all. But I suppose that "Eat three more-or-less well-balanced meals, don't overdo it, and be sure to exercise" won't sell very well.
Trying to avoid germs and keeping clean is one reason people get sick so much, their immune systems are never allowed to work.
It’s like a muscle: Use It or Lose It.
Tell me about it. It's a bad habit with me, too.
Awhile back, Mrs WBill saw an "expose" on High Fructose Corn Syrup. She's been on a kick to cut it out of our diets. Fine by me, it's in a lot of pre-processed junk food that I shouldn't be eating, anyway. If the cookies, candy, soda, etc aren't in the house for me to eat....they won't get eaten!!!
However - it's ALSO in a lot of "regular" food. Peanut Butter. Most condiments - Ketchup!!!. Bread (?!!). We're shopping a little more consciously, now.
Interestingly enough, since we've cut back on it, I'm less hungry. For instance, I *like* Peanut Butter Sandwiches. Used to eat two for lunch. Now that we're more careful about HFCS, one does me just fine. One sandwich, handful of chips, glass of milk, and I'm good to go for the rest of the day.
Interesting, sez me. My waistline likes it, too.
Depending on what your grandparents ate, that could be dangerous too! In the old days, many people ate lots of lard and butter. I'm talking about them giving big sticks of butter to their kids to gnaw on like it was a corn cob. I've seen fat people doing this in Kansas to this day. Also lard was eaten, without being used for cooking first. And used lard was poured in a coffee can after frying, and reused again and again. A lot of people in older generations had bad teeth (or no teeth at all) because of the crap they ate.
Just eat sensible. This organic thing is a fad.
Michael Pollan said just about everything that needs to be said in seven words. Not that I always follow his advice.
“Eat food, not too much, mostly plants.”
I love what Alton Brown said of ‘organic’: “Stay away from organic unless you like bugs.”
It's purdy danged clear if you have Celiac disease Isabel.
I grew up on mostly white beans and cornbread. Didn’t hurt me. Of course, I had a few other things as well; but it wasn’t fancy fare. - Nowdays, kids seem to think if they don’t have a slice of plain pizza hanging off their plates at every meal, they’re abused.
No. It's not.
Is the number of people who have adopted and embraced the gluten free diet because it's 'stylish' overblown?
Yes. Is gluten sensitivity real? Yes. It's known as Celiac disease. It's an auto-immune disorder and it sux. Avoiding gluten is the key ingredient in relieving it. It's like poison to my wife.
My cousin is a pathologist at a major Cancer center in NY. When I told her I had cancer the first thing she told me was to eat all organic from here on out. We had just gotten back from visiting her parents, and everything in their house was organic. Luckily I garden.
I was raised on Southern fried everything. People, unless they have a real medical problem, can eat just about anything, as long as they don’t eat too much and for too long. Moderation, few carbs, sugar or fat and you’ll be fine...................
Was raised on ‘lard’, homemade!....................
I’ve got a friend who started Whole30 less than 2 weeks ago.
For years she’s suffered from horrible, painful cystic acne all over her body. I’m talking cysts the size of golf balls. Tons of oral medications and creams have been prescribed by doctors and nothing has helped. Too much of the time she just has to wait for the cyst to come to a head and be drained.
As of day seven on the diet, no new cysts. The old ones are almost healed. She’s lost a dozen pounds and is, frankly, stunned by the the difference in her skin.
Honestly, so am I. I saw the changes in my daughter, but this is really remarkable. I see her almost every day and you can actually see the improvement from day to day.
Very cool. I would tell anyone to try it. Even though we are done with the 30 days we are still doing it for basically 95% of our meals.
The key for me was finding recipes and foods I liked and then stocking up on them. Hamburgers was an easy thing I could cook up ahead of time and then season with garlic and red pepper flakes, with a fried egg on top. Avocado egg salad was another good one. You can eat as much as you want, just none of the preservatives, and I think that’s why I was able to stick with it.
If you love peanut butter then you must try Jif Natural Peanut Butter. Its only ingredients are peanuts, sugar, palm oil, salt and molasses. :)
I’ve got to the place where any kind of “food rule” just irks me. I also ate a pretty good amount of candy when I was a kid. Didn’t know better. Was hungry. Momma & Daddy worked odd hours. Was by myself after school. Had a piggy bank. Robbed it. Rode bike to store. Bought a candy bar & an 8 oz. cold drink in a glass bottle. Came home. Watched the Cisco Kid. - Daddy & I picked Momma up from the cotton mill late, late at night. It was the fifties. Times were hard. When Daddy’s foreman at the Milan Arsenal offered his whole crew a job at the Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Ala., Daddy took the offer of a steady job. Moved for that job when I was 9 yrs. old. - I worked a summer job at Redstone on the Saturn V project & Daddy retired from there. Five years later, when the Saturn V shot the astronauts off for the moon; I was SO afraid I’d loused something up that summer that would foul up the whole deal!
I had to type symbols on work orders that I’d never seen before in my life. - I’ve never felt free to even mention it until now. - The engineers I worked with took it for granted that MANY men would die trying for the moon. (I could NOT be that cavalier!) - Well, it worked - in spite of me - certainly not because of me! God allowed it; cause I sure didn’t do much to add anything to the effort! (Werner Von Braun would ride around the floor area of the building where I worked & I would watch them when I had a break. . eighteen yrs. old & green as could be. Not too aware of the significance. The moon was green cheese as far as I knew back then.)
But I'm up for anything.
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