I’ve always thought the whole organic thing was a scam and an excuse to charge higher prices on food.
That’s one reason why I avoid Whole Paychecks.
The other is all the libs who shop there.
The place is a freak show.
It’s not that hard, eat what your grandparents did.
Most of the dietary problems came from junk science in the 1960s and ‘70s, like “salt is bad”, “Soy is a wonderfood with no ill effects!”
Everything else is marketing, more junk science, and snobs looking for something to brag about. There’s no need to avoid gluten if you don’t have Celiac disease.
50% of everything we eat should be vegtables. For a foodie its a battle......
I avoid foods that I have trouble staying away from, I just dont bring them into the house.....I cannot tell you the last time I had peanut butter in the house. I just cannot control it. Now that is FUNNY but true.
1/8 of the avacodo is a serving. I could eat 5 ripe avacados no problem.
And get moving 1 hour a day. IMHO
I still don’t want to buy any food from China or Mexico.
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DIE ANYWAY
Just staying away from crap is the key.
White sugar, white flour, deep fried garbage like potato chips.
You don’t need to eat pure and organic, but crap like snack foods and sodas that are mostly sugar water aren’t good for anyone.
Every time I go into the local “health food” store”, it is full of the most sickly, malnutritioned people with one foot in the grave who can’t wait to tell you how amazing their diet is.
I ingested some industrial strength food the other day. Still alive today.
http://www.dakotastyle.com/chips.htm
... exactly the WRONG people to dispense advice.
The only people worth turning to for nutritional people, are OLD women and OLD men who are healthy mentally and physically.
My wise ol' Ma advised about a year ago that I stop with skim milk and start drinking whole milk, her theory being that the human body needs dairy fat to more efficiently process the nutrition in dairy products. I grew up drinking all the whole milk I desired (which was a lot, I come from a family of milk drinkers), but I had been drinking nearly a quart a day of skim milk for more than 35 years, opting for skim milk to help maintain my girlish figure (!).
So I switched to whole milk ...
... and within a few weeks, even though I exercised and ate exactly the same as always, lost four pounds and it has stayed off.
My ol' ma knows what she's talking about when it comes to nutrition, more in her little finger than "young, attractive women" have in their whole noggins. The young, attractive vegan I knew 30 years ago is still a vegan and has aged into a chronically ill mess.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
What a stupid article.
Eating “clean” means trying to eat all edible healthy foods on the planet in their cleanest states, not raw, necessarily, but not dripping with pesticides or filled with artificial flavors and colors. Those three additions to our food supply are NEUROTOXIC and can cumulatively cause brain damage. Slow neurodegenerative damage like Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, etc. Don’t touch fake sugars.
It is EASY to have your own diet that you enjoy and still eat clean. The article is wrong. Try to buy veggies and fruits that are organic, not because they are perfect but because they have less NEUROTOXIC pesticides in them. Don’t worry so much about heavily peeled items. Buy organic for the thin skinned things like berries and lettuce. Eat meat and fish and dairy from healthy animals. Feedlot animals are rarely healthy. We do this - it is more expensive but we eat less of it. Avoid most packaged foods. Eat normal rice, not boxes where the rice is covered in msg (every flavored rice is). Put your own actual spices on your own rice. It’s easy.
80%. Don’t stress each time you eat at a friend’s house or restaurant. Eat clean 80% of the time and enjoy your life. Parkinson’s, Gehrig’s and Alzheimer’s aren’t fun for you or your relatives.
Well, this is just my own humble input, but I have indeed found carbs to be bad. They make me hungrier and hungrier and hungrier until I feel like a wolf. When I cut them down to near zero, my appetite shrinks, my energy levels stabilize (no more wild ups and down... that means no ups, but oh well.) The weight drops off and I feel like I have myself under control. It works for me, anyway.