Here’s a sign from the cruise, when the buffet was closed (like in the middle of the night). There was always – always – food around. But what kind of food?
Considering the body constitution of ordinary Americans on the cruise the sign is ironic. This is exactly the kind of thing they ought to fear.
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until America is convinced that wheat is toxic, excess fructose creates NAFLD, and industrial seed oils damage every cell in their bodies, nothing is going to change. taxing sugar or banishing fast-food ain't gonna accomplish nuttin'.
Fast food availability is not the problem. The problem is the endless hunger created by the high levels of circulating insulin created by the advice to avoid "arterycloggingfat" and eat more "hearthealthywholegrains." If you're in nutritional ketosis in the middle of the night (as you should be), you don't suddenly wake up thinking, "Hmmm. Some pizza and icecream would be really good right now."
"...taxing sugar or banishing fast-food ain't gonna accomplish nuttin'."
Before my husband and I discovered low carb diets, we were very careful to follow the "guidelines" for healthy eating - 1% milk, whole grains, chicken without skin, steamed vegetables, orange juice (with pulp), etc., fast food only a few times a year. It wouldn't have made any difference to us if there had been a 24 hour Burger King in our living room. And unlike a lot of people, we never ate fake low fat products - I hated those from the very beginning. Yet we managed to each gain 50 pounds and we were always hungry. What did we snack on since we were always hungry? Rice cakes of course. Whole grain, unsweetened, fat free and only 30 calories each, but with a glycemic index of 77.
It's the bad advice creating the hunger creating the demand for convenience foods - not the availability of convenience foods luring people to consume when they're not hungry.
It has a little tomato-paste spiked with HFCS, so obviously the entire pizza must be healthy! It's the height of what Pollan calls nutritionism, right?
Current federal guidelines allow schools to count that smear of sweet paste as 1 vegetable serving. As schools now mainly serve only 2 vegetables - pizza & french fries - they are desperate to maintain the government support money for them.
Since people have this habit of thinking - they have been trained into it - they can't help but use it.
So it's all healthy - pizza is a veggie, ice cream is a "healthy" calcium source, made from "real" milk. And this is logical, given nutritionism.
Give me an example of emergeny situations, I can imagine doing so only in a social setting.
"The kids put them in the trash"
I hear ya. When I was a child in school, the lunch monitor wandered the room telling us all to eat our veggies and clean our plates. Of course my grandmother until she died in the early 90s was still pulling out "clean your plate, children are starving in China," because she remembered the rationing of food during WWII.
My friends are starting to have kids now and it's amazing - they seem to feed them what they themselves longed to eat as a child, not what the child actually wants or what would be good for it. Recently I heard from my friend that she wasn't going to "fight" with her kids over food anymore, she was letting them eat whatever they wanted.
She keeps her house filled with orange juice and frozen pastries, so of course that's what they eat. Even the 4 year old can microwave frozen chocolate croissant. So in her house everyone lives on chocolate croissant. It's amazing - she has abdicated her role as "mom," it seems to me, so she can be her kids' "friend." I guess that way she can avoid having to be responsible or admit she herself is a grownup.
I think many mothers are just too tired to care anymore and give up too easily.
The schools can't be expected to fill the gap; parents have to teach and enforce better eating habits.
(A friend of mine will always finish the last drop of her wine or cocktail before leaving a restaurant. Once she explained herself by saying, "There are sober children in Africa.")
Don't even think about buying a burger in this country. If you want a real burger you have to make them yourself, otherwise Burger King is the best you can get.
Even for those who are well informed it can be a challenge to turn off the urge to eat when faced with such a constant barrage of food enticements. I am hearing calls to stop the junk food marketing to kids, but I suspect it's not going happen any time soon. Just note that there is an average of seven commercials at every commercial break; add up that time and it means people watching an unexpurgated version will see many minutes and a couple dozen food commercials. I feel like I am in battle mode every time I leave my house; and only watch programs I prerecord so I can zip through the junk.
oh, Alexandra, that's RICH!!!
gonna have to steal THAT line!!!
A few days ago a Facebook friend posted a picture she took in the - erm - "ladies' products" section of the supermarket. Right there between the Always and the Kotex was a display of Reese's Peanut Butter Cups!
I call that cruel.
Experiemnts on other mammals have clearly shown that eating outwith a 6-8 hour window during the day if diurnal or during the night if nocturnal also helps control weight. Given the same calories animals that are allowed to eat continuously will put on more weight than those that are limited to a narrower feeding window. This is the role of relaxation and sleep as well in controlling weight.
THose midnight snack eaters have got not only their metabolism but also their entire bio-clock in disarray...