next a USA Today report on bacon?
Replies
-
Type a google search for "food consumption over the decades" and you'll find a plethora of articles and abstracts indicating increased calories.. The reasons are everything from reducing fats and increasing carbs, to being supersized in restaurants, to intentional increased palatability of (primarily) packaged foods, to the size of dinnerware.
I became overweight because I ate too much and I ate too much for many different reasons.1 -
Now I am having relatives email me with links to the coconut oil controversy. The AHA can kiss my white shiny patootie. The AHA and the American Diabetes Association have given me a death sentence with their high carb diet advice for more than half my lifetime. Kitten them and the horses they rode in on!6
-
(These poor kittens are sure getting a whuppin'!)
3 -
Well, kittens have to work for a livin'.2
-
I think they're keeping their kitten end up!!
3 -
Think of those poor horses when the kittens attack! Singing, "Attack of the killer kittens, attack of the killer kittens.."4
-
Did folks see this one? http://sustainabledish.com/coconut-oil-wont-kill-listening-american-heart-association-might/4
-
Sabine_Stroehm wrote: »Did folks see this one? http://sustainabledish.com/coconut-oil-wont-kill-listening-american-heart-association-might/
Yes! That's a good one too!1 -
Type a google search for "food consumption over the decades" and you'll find a plethora of articles and abstracts indicating increased calories.. The reasons are everything from reducing fats and increasing carbs, to being supersized in restaurants, to intentional increased palatability of (primarily) packaged foods, to the size of dinnerware.
I became overweight because I ate too much and I ate too much for many different reasons.
This is true for me too.
I don't believe that my family (including back in the 70s and 80s, when I was a kid) ate more grains or carbs (we were a big potatoes family, more than grains), because of food recommendations, even though I recall being vaguely aware of anti fat sentiment as a kid. It was well-understood that the healthy grains were supposed to be the whole grain ones (I recall learning in school that you had to look for "whole wheat" or "whole grain," as not all brown bread was such), that there was a big difference (or so we believed) between something like plain Quaker oats and all of the flavored packages, and that -- of course -- sugar was not healthy. Muffins were basically desserts that we sometimes had for breakfast for fun (like a sugary cereal -- although I always hated those -- or special occasion pancakes or waffles, which we'd have with bacon and eggs anyway, normally).
I also remember every meal being meat, potatoes, and veg (like I said, we did more potatoes than grains, but my grandfather, who had been a farmer, was the biggest grain person I knew). This was culture, not food recommendations (if anything I figured we should be eating more fruit and veg than we were.) Any grains+sugar or grains + fat (except the fat we added ourselves -- butter, cheese, etc.) that came that way was considered an unhealthy food, likely a snack food, not a wholesome one. (I know some of my era grew up eating lots of sugary cereals, but I recall even back then no one thought those were healthy, just that kids would eat them and that it was okay to have a not especially healthy breakfast. My family had sugary cereals as a special treat -- my sister got to have it on the weekend, I hated it so got L'Eggos or some such, which were obviously just as bad or worse -- but we didn't think this was healthy, it was an exception, and my sister and I were thin.)
I'm always shocked when I hear how low vegetable consumption is in the US, because for my family it was always required, and understand as the basics of a healthy meal (along with meat, grains/potatoes were the "fill you up!" element). So when people blame the guidelines for the diet, I can't help but look at the vegetable issues and getting grains from snack food vs. whole grain sources and say no way. And I say this even though I now think the merits of whole grains are way overstated (and the current thing about coconut oil being bad is dumb).3 -
Now I am having relatives email me with links to the coconut oil controversy. The AHA can kiss my white shiny patootie. The AHA and the American Diabetes Association have given me a death sentence with their high carb diet advice for more than half my lifetime. Kitten them and the horses they rode in on!
Amen, @Aquawave.
It's a close call, but I might save pride of place in the patootie kiss-off for the ADA, it having smugly told generations of unsuspecting T2 diabetics - the very people who are carb-intolerant - to suck down those carbs at every meal, while back-burnering finding a *kitten* cure for the *kitten* disease. I mean, what the *kitten* anyhow.5 -
The brainwashing was so successful even I find myself still being impacted by it. Watching 50-70 years friends dying weekly just because of diet is a hard pill to swallow.3
-
It's a close call, but I might save pride of place in the patootie kiss-off for the ADA, it having smugly told generations of unsuspecting T2 diabetics - the very people who are carb-intolerant - to suck down those carbs at every meal, while back-burnering finding a *kitten* cure for the *kitten* disease. I mean, what the *kitten* anyhow.
My opinion is that a bunch of idiots work for the AHA. The ADA on the other hand employs evil idiots.
5 -
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/06/16/coconut-oil-isnt-healthy-its-never-been-healthy/402719001/
Coconut oil is getting bad press.
It may be that coconut oil and other saturated fats are healthy in certain amounts or proportions to other fats, and if so, this might vary among different people/genotypes...
Thanks to the (continuing) demonization
of saturated fats over the last several decades and the glacial pace of change, research in this and many other areas of interest to us ketophiles remains in woefully short supply. 
2 -
Then there is no hope for me, I am a bad, bad girl!
Not only do I cook with coconut oil, I smother myself in it, and my hair too.
I eat bacon, pork scratchings, I often have more than 1 egg daily (yesterday I ate 4). I love red meat, dark chocolate and I cook from scratch.
I hardly touch rice, flour, potatoes, bread, grains. I limit my dairy intake. I don't buy ready meals. I don't drink coctails, alcopops, beer, I stick to the clean spirits and red wine. For heaven's sake, if I were to follow all this woo advice out there, I'd be miserable, having to change my diet pretty regularly as more and more is now not good for me.
Why are we not allowed in these days to make our own decisions of what we want to put into our bodies? If my body is happy, I am happy. Following all the quack advice out there from the so called experts made me fat and miserable. But these days apparently almost anyone can call themselves an expert and get themselves published it seems.... Just my 2 pence...
Life's journey is not to arrive at the grave safely, in a well preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways, totally worn out, shouting "Holy *kitten*, what a ride!
6 -
Stephen Phinney on the significant differences in how saturated fat is processed in carb-burners v. keto/fat-adapted.
https://youtu.be/IMJAjmXFpR0 1 -
Here's a reply to the AHA from High Intensity Health. (He recommends an advanced (NMR) lipoprotein study to see how your HF is affecting your lipids.)
https://youtu.be/NnL83BmnjOg 2 -
Here's a reply to the AHA from High Intensity Health. (He recommends an advanced (NMR) lipoprotein study to see how your HF is affecting your lipids.)https://youtu.be/NnL83BmnjOg
Last month running the NMR gave me Peace of mind over 300+ total cholesterol. I ordered it from lifeextension while on sale for $75.2 -
@GaleHawkins - Thanks for the tip! Does LE have monthly specials, or do you have to sign up for emails?0
-
The last deep sale ended 31 May and at 11:55 pm I purchased another male panel ($199)and NMR panel ($75) for some future date. They have smaller discount sales.1
-
Stephen Phinney is #1 in my book, with no close competition (in spite of all the genuine experts out there).
He lands at the top of every category even my drinking self can imagine. He's not only knowledgeable and articulate, but he's refreshingly open-minded and humble - he studiously avoids forcing individuals into boxes (by overgeneralizing principles) and views even his own research "with utmost skepticism."
And he's funny!
4 -
Another guy I like is Timothy Noakes, because of him being able to admit he was wrong for so many years and trying to help folks un-learn all he espoused for so long.1
-
Phinney is definitely funny! Phunney.2
-
Pretty awesome, thanks. And I hate the word "awesome," so it's REALLY GOOD.
You?1 -
Pretty awesome, thanks. And I hate the word "awesome," so it's REALLY GOOD.
You?
Ha, no complaints, keto still working.
Can't say I'm a huge fan of this aging thing, though it's definitely better to be slimmer and less sweet than if I were still doing the death march to the low-fat drummer!2 -
Seriously, getting old sucks. Some of the time.
[insert a Maxine cartoon here, preferably one of her shaking a fist in the air]1 -
Thanks to healings over the past three years after starting Keto I think the next 40-50 years of my life are going to be my best years yet.6
