Kicking the food pyramid to the curb Update post 18 & 19

[PaulaJoAnne]

“What has happened with the dietary guidelines is that they preach a kind of low-fat, high-fiber, low-salt, puritanical diet that is impossible to eat. We have cravings for these kind of foods because we need these foods. We need saturated fats, we need salt in the diet. And people try to go on this puritanical diet and they just can’t stay on it and the result is that people end up eating what I call pornographic foods. This happens at schools as well. They get the puritanical lunch and then at 2:00 in the afternoon these starving children are at the vending machines eating pornographic foods. Why not just feed our children, feed every body, good, rich, nourishing, nutritious foods that our ancestors ate.” Sally Fallon Morell, February 14, 2011

Watch the news conference here...
http://www.cheeseslave.com/2011/02/...ndation-attacks-2010-usda-dietary-guidelines/

WATCH the video before you comment

 

[Teach97]

real simple reason...that doesn't sell books and comon sense isn't that common...Thomas Paine said that...not the part about books...the part about common sense...although he did write a book

 

[kstaven]

But the food pyramid is what keeps the entire medical industry afloat!

 

[RabbitMage]

The problem is people are eating too much salt and too much fat. Limiting these things isn't the same as not eating them at all.

 

[HHandbasket]

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Too much SATURATED fat to be more specific.

We look to our food to comfort us, to please our senses (taste, smell, etc.), but somewhere along the line, we stopped looking at our food as sources of fuel and nourishment. I'm not saying we don't still try, but people as a whole/in general... myself included. I fight "emotional eating" all the time, and after many years and lots of therapy, most of the time I'm winning the battle!

It's all in how we relate to food. I eat what I want, when I want, but when you have a good relationship with your food, the foods you want are usually the ones that are best for your body.

 

[classicsredone]

There is a difference between the saturated fats from feed lot animals, and those from animals eating their natural diet. There is also a big difference between processed salt and unprocessed salt. We do need them, just in moderation.

 

[Organics North]

Eating natural fats, like that of grass fed beef, or cream from grass fed milk, along with whole grains that have not been so processed, may contain calories.... But they fill and satisfy, for long periods of time. This is very different than the fats found in combination with processed foods such as fast food, which pack calories but leave you hungry in a few hours.

Same goes for low fat substitutes, IMO people tend to eat more and eat them more frequently than if they just had a proper proportion of the real thing.

I personally still think the idea of a diet rich in whole grains, actual vegetables and fruit, with small portions of QUALITY natural meats and fats is the way to at least for me.


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I book marked the video.. to watch later..

 

[PineappleMama]

Check the history of that pyramid. It's been a great big gave in to PACs and very little to do with what humans actually need.

Throw in the fact that they teach it in school, but then don't actually stick to it in their own National Lunch Program and it's just a load of hooey.

 

[bakerjw]

A few years back when I was in Ecuador for an extended time I observed their eating habits. They ate for sustenance not for pleasure. When you're making $300.00 a month you can't splurge on roast or steak very often. So we have been conditioned to expect enjoyment from what we eat.

That said. Everything in moderation and combine it with exercise. People in other countries have diets that would give a dietitian nightmares but yet they are healthier than us over here. I strongly suspect that it is due to exercise.

 

[Organics North]

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Ain't that the truth!!!!!

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