This Just In:
Eat Red
Meat For A Healthy Heart!
Even The Feds Are Starting To Say So.
The US Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee no longer deems
natural cholesterol a "nutrient of concern". Their report will be sent to HHS and the U.S.
Dept of Ag. New gov't dietary
recommendations will eventually follow:
But this new attitude only applies to real food that
contains natural cholesterol, such as meat, eggs, cheese, butter, stuff like that.
Processed foods with lots of ingredients, including
cholesterol, are bad.
Stuff made of
white flour and sugar is very bad.
Margarine is terrible. Never eat it.
All bad cholesterol is still bad.
But Get This:
It Is
OK To Eat BACON!
And BUTTER!
Even if you have high cholesterol!
And have a glass of wine, or a drink, or a mimosa if you
feel like it.
I've been eating this way for over 10 years:
Red meat + eggs
+ cheese + butter + fish + poultry + lots of vegetables & fruits, + whole
grains instead of white flour.
And I do
have alcohol (I abstain from abstaining).
You would be amazed at how good all the veggie and whole
grain stuff can taste, if you just allow some time get used to it. I can barely stand to eat anything with white
flour in it anymore. (Except for an
occasional Bacon Lardon Croissant at St Honore Bakery in Lake Oswego, OR... but who's going to
tell?)
Humans have an almost infinite capacity to adapt.
While eating this way, I also eat about half the volume of
food daily as I did when I was 20 or 30 yrs old. Makes me feel better, and I don't bulk up as
much. (Way less feeling of acid reflux,
too.) So my wife Heidi and I almost always share
1 entree at restaurants.
But I do get my own salad and martini.
And I still feel good. Satisfied.
When we split a Prime Rib - I Eat All The Fat.
Because It's Not Harmful. Seriously, It's Not Harmful.
(I know, no one will believe that one, but it is absolutely
true. Heidi still doesn't believe it,
but she also doesn't like the fat taste the way I do. So I eat it.)
However, I eat about as much in vegetables and/or fruit as I do in
proteins at lunch and dinner.
It's a good rule of thumb. I've grown to like extra veggies and no potato with an entree.
For me, breakfast is usually coffee with half & half, plus a piece of whole grain toast, lots of butter, and peanut butter. Or scrambled eggs with butter and cheese, and maybe some berries.
At home, all vegetables taste pretty good when sauteed for a
few minutes in olive oil, garlic, butter, etc.
All of them. Even Kale! I got rid of a lot of pre-made gravies and
sauces when I started eating this way, and I actually don't miss those. Use the excess fat from your meat to add
flavor to the veggies, if you like.
That's okay, too.
There are fast, easy and tasty ways to cook almost
everything.
You can even nuke leafy
veggies for 3 or 4 min, carrots, broccoli, beets, etc. for 6-8 min, then add butter, olive
oil and salt. Oven roasted brussels
sprouts are amazingly good. Even meats don't take as much time as we think on the stovetop. For good recipes, always, Google is your friend.
I feel so much better than I did when I ate so much processed
stuff.
We can eat it when we're young, but as we age, we may need
to adapt.
Fun Fact - Pork is good for us! Not only Bacon, but Pork Belly, Lardon, Pork
Chops, Pork Loin, Prosciutto and Ham. All good! (As long as no nitrites/chemicals are
added.)
And for a better dish, you can cook pork
medium rare. It's true.
There have been Zero Deaths
from Trichinosis in America in over 100 years.
Btw - I recently had a savory appetizer of Bacon Cheesecake
at Swine Bar.
Cheese & Bacon, surrounded by greens. It was great!
I am never going back to the way I ate before. No possible way.
Fun Fact 2: Getting
fats and cholesterol only from real meat, butter, eggs, cheese, etc,
contributes to reaching and maintaining a healthy weight, even if we make no
other changes. That alone helps us!
Real food is real good for us.
Processed foods are bad for our hearts, our weight, and
everything else.
More News: Salt is
not harmful for high blood pressure. I
know, also hard to believe, but also true.
The original studies that suggested it was bad were not scientifically
sound, but for decades docs and others have just said what they've always said
about salt. No one actually looked at
the evidence. They are just starting to
now, including reporting this exact information in The Economist.
Use as much sea salt or kosher salt as you like, because it
tastes better. And besides, no one in
this country is ever low on Iodine, and too much of it may be not so good for
our thyroid. Iodine was not part of our
original, historical diet. Meat and
vegetables and fruits were part of it.
Cholesterol evidence began pointing this
way several years ago, and it looks like it's finally come to the attention of
the Feds.
If you cut way back on processed foods, you can eat as much
salt as you want, and you'll still take in less total salt than before. But there are other, much better reasons to
cut down on processed stuff.
For instance, the content and type of fats, sugars and white
flour in most processed foods combine to make us want to eat more, even when we
are full. The processed and fast food
industry knows that their products make so many of us overeat, but they don't
care. All of these things (yes, even my
sacred Doritos) actually do cause food addiction and constant overeating. The companies that make them aren't helping
us get any healthier, so we have to help ourselves.
(Don't get me started on pharmaceuticals, and that entire
industry.)
And if you really want to be good to your body, and have a much easier time keeping your weight where you want it to be:
Stop Drinking Pop.
Sugared or Sugar Free, that stuff is all crap for us.
Soda screws up our appetite, inhibits mineral intake, and messes with our weight, in a bad way.
And anything with High Fructose Corn Syrup in it should be taxed about One Hundred Thousand Percent. That's right: 100,000 %. The stuff is worse than margarine, worse than a Hot Pocket.
So why is it legal, and in so many foods, you may ask?
Because huge corporations that make it have all kinds of expensive, high powered lobbyists.
And all the regular people like you and me have Zero Lobbyists.
That's why.
Stop taking in stuff that's really awful for your health, and you will be surprised at the benefits.
My theory has been:
Even if you still think these are bad in some way, it should be okay to
eat at least some of the real stuff you like, for the pleasure, for the quality
of life they provide.
No red meat, no butter, no salt, no martinis... that's not
living, to me.
Moderate amounts of real food with real flavor - that's good
for us.
Not just my crackpot opinion anymore - the science is on our
side.
And - hard to believe - We Can Eat The Fat!
One more thing - when we turn 70 or so, we may start to
shrink down and waste away like some older people do. Then we should start eating twice as much as
we think we want. Older people often say
food doesn't taste as good as it used to.
Without the pleasure, they eat less, until their strength and even
muscle mass declines alarmingly. So if
that's you, eat more. And if you make it
to that age, heck, eat whatever you want!
----- Sorry for this really long post/food rant. -----
As you can tell, I have been thinking about this subject for
a long time.
Eat real food.
Eat less food.
Enjoy life more.
This author is way ahead of her time:
What do you think?
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