Disclaimer I am not a doctor. I am not a nutritionist. I am not a dietician. I am not a tax-preparer, a lawyer, a scientist, a phlebotomist, a bassoonist, a balloonist or a cop.
If you need medical or nutritional advice, please seek it out from a qualified professional. Because that's not me -- I am simply a curious and opinionated woman who loves butter.
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Earlier, I wrote this post about how grains were not nutritionally superior to other whole foods — fruits, vegetables, meat, fish, dairy, nuts and legumes.
In this post I will go even further by saying that grains are actually bad for you. As in poison, albeit a slow-acting and often super-delicious poison.
I was originally going to write about various negative aspects of grains, but instead I decided to focus today on one issue: gluten.
It’s the sticky stuff in pasta and bread. It’s found in wheat and other grains such . . .
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Grain, it’s as American as apple pie. Or at least the crust on that pie.
But is it good for us? If we believe the USDA food pyramid, we should be eating 6-11 servings on grain a day! That’s SIX to ELEVEN servings of rice, cereal, bread and pasta a day! And we wonder why as a nation we’re obese, depressed, suffer from diabetes and have low energy. Yikes!
As for veggies — 3-5 servings according to the government, fruit 2-4 servings (does that include fruit juice? I know some companies . . .
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Did you find this link over at Food Renegade’s Fight Back Friday?
Click here to check out more recipes, tips, anecdotes, and testimonies from members of the Real Food Revolution.
Now onto breakfast:
On your quest toward eating healthy, breakfast can seem daunting.
It’s certainly been a challenge in my house. Like many toddlers, my daughter has, shall we say, a strong attachment to Cheerios. You know, the way winos have a strong attachment to Thunderbird. Weaning her off cold cereal is an on-going challenge. We’re lucky that, like most children, she loves fruit, . . .
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Guiding principles: We should strive to produce & eat food that is:
Organic
Humanely raised (animals on pasture, not in factories)
Grown locally when possible
Whole and unrefined (real maple syrup instead of high-fructose corn syrup)
Processed as little as possible (raw milk instead of pasteurized and homogenized)
Nutrient-dense (enzymes, vitamins, minerals, and probiotics)
Free of additives and preservatives
Free of synthetic and chemical ingredients
Not genetically modified
Traditionally produced and prepared
Myth Buster Myth: Saturated fat (animal fat) is bad for you.
Truth: Saturated fats are necessary for health. It's polyunsaturated fats (most vegetable oils) and hydrogenated fats that cause disease.
Myth: Fat makes you fat.
Truth: Sugar makes you fat -- whether it comes in the form of table sugar, grains or starches.
Quote of the week: I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.
-- Thomas Jefferson
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