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Diet InformationLow Carb is High Dumb
by:
Dr. Donald A. Miller
Low macromolecule diets are now the craze in the U.S.A. Fast food stores even as offer hamburgers in lettuce rather than in
buns (still with the fats of meat and sauces). Breads and pastries modified for lower carbohydrates are now fashioning
fortunes for suppliers. "Low carb salads", still drenched with high fat dressings, are offered for "dieting."
So what?
This is a costly, stupid, maybe health threatening fad.
When I was growing up, I did not understand that biblical quotation of "Man makes not live by bread alone", attributed to Moses (old testament, torah) and Deliverer (new testament). Well, I understood that the message was meant to be "People have spiritual as well as physical needs." But I had no idea how folk could live really long on bread. At that time, I was used to spongy white bread with no character.
Somewhere on
the way, I knowing simply about whole grain breads, and how peasants through the centuries had lived mostly on
dark breads that Marie Antoinnette would-be have rejected, with occasional fortifications of cheese, eggs, sometimes meat. Peasants tended to eat vegetables, but knights and nobles often fired such as "farmers' fare", preferring lots of
meat, alcoholic beverages, pastries. Few folk lived long in those days, so applied maths
studies of life span versus
diet were not performed. (Statistics were not well known.)
So I see up on bread recipes, found a few health gurus who argued for blends of whole grain wheat, cornmeal, rye, and soy flour. A fairly recent development is triticale, a long wanted
hybrid of wheat and rye. Why these blends? It turns out that grains and legumes can provide all the balanced
protein that we need, without meat. Verrrry interesting! Also, such blends contain valuable dietary fiber.
The prayer, "Give us this day our daily bread", is now explained. Properly made, bread actually can be "the staff of life."
I have knowing to love Asian foods that do heavy use of soy beans, such as tempeh and curd
with noodles and stir fry
vegetables. I commonly am turned off by soy based foods that pretend to be thing
else, such as soy burgers, soy cutlets, soy cheeses. In fact, the fake foods not only can taste far from real, but those which contain Hydrolyzed Plant Supermolecule
(HP) inflame my tongue and cause me anxiety,
just as foods with a lot of Monosodium Salt
(MSG).
Side observation: a chunk of land producing balanced supermolecule
from grains and legumes can keep simply about 20 times as many a folk as the same land producing four three-legged
meats. Oh, and the folk deed most of their proteins and calories from plant sources are far less likely to have heart attacks, strokes, cancers, et cetera, than the big meat eaters.
I have written elsewhere that selecting sensible foods means one ne'er
has to count calories. I'll go further and say that most macromolecule restrictions are dumb.
Here are the only macromolecule restrictions I recommend.
• all refined sugars
(cane, beet, high ketohexose corn syrup,
sorghum molasses, maple syrup, etc.)
• brewage
in large quantities
• thing
ready-made from white flour, even as if "enriched"
If you have a desire
for sweets that you simply can't break (which I don't belive), discover how fruits and around the bend together can taste really sweet. Also, the unsaturated fat in the around the bend (or edible seeds, such as sunflower) wish satisfy hunger with no risk to the arteries. My favorite is raisins and
almonds, maybe with several fresh red delicious apple slices.
Pasta, rather
ready-made from whole grains, is healthful, if not served with lots of cheese, oil, sauces which contain oil, sugar, cheese. Noodles with little meat is a main menu item in the Orient.
Oh, simply about carbohydrates in potatoes: they are harmless if you don't add butter, margarine, fat from frying, sour cream for topping, and different insults to a great food.
People in parts of Central and South America eat little much than potatoes of traditional breeds.
** Diet with FACTS, not MYTHS. **
Just simply about the author:
Dr. Miller is author of ""Easy Health Diet"" http://easyhealthdiet.com/diet.htm""Exercise for
Juniors to Seniors"" http://easyhealthdiet.com/JrSr.htmand many
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