Monday, June 4, 2012

Real food ...

Been saying, and practicing, this for years:

What is it about we Americans that makes eating for pleasure such a doggone difficult concept to wrap our little Cotton Mather heads around?

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But for some reason, Americans still insist on "eating for health" instead of for pleasure. And that all but provokes an inevitable reaction: too many of us keep on mistaking pleasurable foods for processed garbage with lethal amounts of salt, sugar, and who-the-hell-knows-what-else in them. It creates a deadly dichotomy. One side leads to deadly dull meals; the other is simply deadly.

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This is where "keep it real" hits home. There is amazingly little that comes out of a package in this house. Eat real food, get adequate exercise, and you'll never have to put anything with the word "diet" on it near your lips again.

3 comments:

CAFKIA said...

You probably ought to add "Drink plenty of water" to your - do - list. It is the ultimate in simplicity but can have major effects on your health. Bad if you get too little. Good if you are doing it right.

Gordon said...

Americans still insist on "eating for health"

The person who says that is deluded or doesn't get out much, given our national rate of obesity.

Mandelbrot's Chaos said...

One diet rule I've heard that makes a lot of sense is "if it wasn't food a hundred years ago, it isn't food today." While I don't actually live up to this... at all, it, along with the advice to eat more fruit and veggies and less meat, are just about the only pieces of dietary advice that make sense. Sauce:

http://www.dieselsc.com/bsp-nutrition-tip-1-eat-real-food/