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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So several people have told me, in response to my post about fructose and fruit, that fruit is natural and “has to be good for you” and any benefits outweigh the risks of taking in fructose. After all, they reason, our ancestors as hunter-gatheres would have eaten fruit.
First of all, I claim no expertise on the dangers of eating too much fruit, or in the ways of hunter-gatherers, but let me play Devil’s advocate for a moment.
The way we Americans eat fruit, and the fruit we eat, seems to . . .
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The other night, John Durant, whose website is not up yet, but has garnered some fame from a recent New York Times article entitled “The New Age Caveman and the City“ was on the Colbert Report.
Durant spoke about the caveman or paleo diet, which consists of eating how our hunter-gatherer ancestors did before the agricultural revolution. He’s hardcore — not only doesn’t he eat anything that wasn’t around a million years ago (i.e. no dairy, no grain, no sugar) he doesn’t wear shoes and . . .
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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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