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Originally Posted by chattiesmom
(Post 3408624)
The problem, as I see it is the need for "convenience", "quantity" and "fast", not only in "fast food", but meals that we prepare at home quickly with the help of pre-packaged stuff full of preservatives and chemicals coupled with a lack of hard physical labor (as opposed to exercise at a gym).
How many of you remember a grandparent or perhaps great grandparent who lived on the farm, raised crops, or a large table garden, canned their own fresh vegetables, raised their own CHEMICAL FREE beef, pork, chicken, and hunted wild game. My husbands grandmother was one of these. Until she was in ther mid '80's she had a huge vegetable garden and in her younger day she plowed with a mule. She killed a pig after the first hard freeze and smoked/dried her own hams, bacon, etc. She had chickens for eggs and meat. On the other hand she ate lots of bacon, eggs, drank whole milk, chewed tobacco, and rarely went to the doctor. She lived alone until she was in her mid 80's when she had a stroke. Mae lived a good life - when she had her stroke it was "her time to go", but modern medicine kept her alive for several more years during which time she broke a hip at the rehab facility and was never able to live alone again. She died just shy of her 90th birthday.
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parents in my case. This is how I was raised, and my third set of adopted grandparents (they had no kids and lived across the street from us) had their own chickens, rabbits, steer, and bees. Between them and my parents 90% of what we ate was grown, raised, or made.
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Originally Posted by Rhetts_mama
(Post 3410059)
Don't forget, that when they are talking about carbs, they mean the good kind, the complex carbs in whole grains and veggies. Not the kind of carbs you find in junk food and sugary stuff.
I've got a theory about things like butter and fats...we started getting fatter as a society when we started using all the man made crud. Our bodies don't recognize the artificial stuff, so it gets stored as fat. Now, give us REAL butter and our bodies go "I know what to do with this stuff" and uses it for real nutrition.
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:thumbup: I am actually a low-carb eater. It did wonders a few years ago when I had severe stomach and digestive issues that were "undiagnosable" by physicians. I went through every test you could imagine, all coming back negative. My diagnosis was "IBS" - which DH and I coined as "Its bulls*it".
Atkins literally saved me.
However when you follow something like Atkins or Southbeach,
you are not supposed to remain on induction dieting permanently. Both diets advocate the eventual return of carbs - but it is the selection that becomes critical.
My proteins vary greatly, and I try to incorporate a wide range of seafood / fish - not just "meat".
I do eat and enjoy carbs - but they are certain types, and I try to really vary things. Oatmeal, quinoa, brown rice, a pasta every now an then are fine and work very well for me. I love beans - and make a terrific white bean puree instead of potatoes. My guilty breakfast treat is a sunflower bagel every now an then. I eat tons and tons of veggies -- those high in carbs (like beets, and squash) and those high in fiber and other nutrients. IF and when I eat a dessert or sweet is it something
I make at home. My most recent breakfast treat was a whole wheat apple muffin with walnuts.
I think if you really pay attention to your body, and its reaction to various foods (digestive-wise, weight-wise) you will find the nutrient mix that works for you. That does not mean, for me anyway, donuts, soda, crackers, chips, and junk food.
It all comes down to appropriate portions and proportions, IMO.
Thought provoking article Ann, thanks for posting!!
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