Cravings and Binges Lead to More Craving Binges

 Fuhrman has a new book on children's eating habits, so I ordered it. I can get this heart book to you for a couple dollars. Email me at greg.jackson.edlp.gmail.com (initials stand for Every Day Lutheran Prices - Trademark)

No one was more surprised than I to discover than a very large bowl of spinach could be delicious, satisfying, and quite nutritious. I always liked fresh spinach from the garden but the Rambo rabbits here get it first. 

Store spinach is pretty good at WM, and $5 worth lasts a long time, maybe five very large bowls in five days. The equivalent in Bacon Egg Cheese biscuit is $25.  BEC is a triple fat product with too much salt. Fuhrman has argued that not only bacon and cheese are fatty/salty but eggs and milk are too.

I am changing the joke about my email address - greg.jackson.edlp@gmail.com. It now stands for Every Day Lutheran Prices - for the e-books and inexpensive printed books.

The reason why Americans continue to eat the wrong and least nutritious foods is simple - craving begets craving and more binge eating. We get used to a combination, acquire a habit of over-eating it, and then develop a mild or even wild addiction to it.

I plead the Fifth on donuts, but they are nothing more than white flour, sugar, grease, and icing made of more sugar. I told Christina when we first dated that bread donuts were made with eggs in the batter, so they were nutritious. Unfortunately, she asked my father how many eggs per donut, and that became an endlessly repeatable joke, even unto this day.

Avoiding donuts is easy now, because every brand is simply wretched, loaded even more with sugar and grease, but also with the lowest possible quality. My students told me that one outfit (which closed down near us) shipped in frozen raw donuts to be cooked in the shop - so dry and tasteless that no one wanted them. 

Here are some simple rules:

1. Milk products, meat, cheese, and eggs are very high in fat, so the chances of having a good weight with those foods are zilch. Colorful ads and gushing recipes make us want to eat a lot from the fat group, which are best at making us fat and craving even more.
2. Sugar formulations (including zero sugar fake sweeteners) are very expensive, just like the fat products below. Both groups provide some lift but also a big let-down and desire for more. Buying a bag of hard candy and devouring it - that is the pancreas calling for help and asking the addict to wise up.
3. Wacky, extreme, cleverly named diets (Keto, Opti-Fast, Mediterranean, Paleo, Atkins, Lo-Carb, Vegan, and Water diets) skip essentials, overdo certain ingredients - such as lots of eggs. They force people into short reductions in weight and fast rebounds like the lady who asked for Diet Coke, Diet Pepsi, diet any soft drink - and settled for six chocolate cream-filled Berliners. An old tradition is finishing a radical diet with binge eating, even more weight gain than before, and self-flagellant remorse. 

I have learned that many foods, packed with all kinds of nutritional benefits, are delicious and satisfying and prone to develop cravings that are good rather than bloating.

 Which is more complicated and effective - a Creation cluster wedged into one cell or a manufacturing cluster designed by humans?

I think I found the parallel in the drawing of a plant cell, which looks remarkably like the Dow Chemical complex in Midland, Michigan. A plant cell has a group of little factories that work together to accomplish the plans and engineering of the Creation. 

When the dams broke upstream Midland, the chemical plants were hit and shut down for a time. However, the Dow Scrubbing Bubbles countered the mess and shortened the clean-up. Mankind does not know how to fix everything in a catastrophe like that. A Creation plant simply recovers on its own, because the Creator can rebuild and strengthen even the most damaged life. 

I use beneficial insects to fashion nurseries for their children, who hatch and (turn your head away) digest the pests. 

So the plant cells include many more kinds of ingredients, part of its living structure, to provide us with ways to defeat blood sugar problems, high blood pressure, heart and cancer treatments.

So this is ironic - the plants we eat are far better for us than the fat-sugar-salt meals which are so heavily promoted, overpriced, and devoured.

Even more ironic - the Fuhrman food - weighted toward greens, beans, fruit and nuts will necessarily be quite varied but also good enough to crave. It takes some experimentation, but that makes healthy kitchen arts and crafts more fun. Once a huge leafy green salad is enjoyed by itself, with a few nuts and a tiny bit of dressing, the fat-sugar-salt foods become far less appealing and - in some cases - repulsive.

PS - It makes me sad that so many children are already obese by middle school, a pattern hard to break. And many are stuffed at the elementary school level. The heart itself stays the same size as we grow up, so it becomes a 4-cylinder engine trying to move a semi. The internal chemistry of the blood-liver-kidneys tries to balance the imbalanced food, vital to every part of the body.