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| I posed in many calendars to promote donuts. |
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| My doctor agreed that ice cream is a great tranquilizer. |
I used to be a fanatic, against healthy eating. I could eat a huge bowl of popcorn and register 100 on a blood test.
Dr. Joel Fuhrman, Eat To Live, argues that good nutrition solves a lot of problems and always leads to weight loss. My local doctor was overwhelmed that I lost 30 pounds and also had great results on the blood test, A1C, meaning I averaged a good blood sugar for 90 days, slightly above normal. My previous A1C was a 90 day average of 160 blood sugar. The sad reality of the A1C is that cheating shows up from averaging.
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| Everyone was posing for the photo, but I was working on my mother's DQ cone. |
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| A Moliner put this together. I would never run and eat a donut. No, I would stop and eat a few. |
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| At the age of four, I was shackled to the workbench to create donuts. |
Five Ichabodians are following the Fuhrman plan, which is a dramatic change in eating, not a fad diet plan (Scarsborough, Keto, Mediterranean, etc). The change of habit means making the unhealthy foods rare - and the beans, greens, fruit, and nuts dominant.
Too much of too many foods will boost blood sugar, store fat, and add weight. Here are some staggering facts:
Fat goes right to fat deposits on the body. Some fat is good and healthy, but the fatty foods add too much because we consume them over-munchly as healthy foods. The subversive fat foods are eggs, milk, cheese, meat, and fish.
The sugar category means sugar going right into the system, plus many forms of sweetener and "diabetic" sugar, which acts very much like sugar. Starbucks made its name by cooking bad coffee and putting oil (fake creamer) and sugar in it, plus some milk for more fat: mellow, instant jolt, addicting too.
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| My first birthday was a riot of sweets plus cake and ice cream. |
Paul Newman fans - his kiddy orange drink's first ingredient (meaning the most amount in that concoction) - is high fructose corn syrup, which changes easily to sugar and onward to diabetic fatness. Many foods do that because we like sugary salty fatty and fattening things, like Kettle Corn, which should be listed with opiods.
The Source of the Cure - God's Creation
God has scattered concentrated nutrition among many different delicious foods. Because we get tired of the same few items, God's plan makes us dabble with various forms of vitamins, minerals, fibers, even cholesterol that removes bad cholesterol from the body. No! Yes! Walnuts on ice cream gave me a perfect cholesterol score, but way too much ice cream.
Chickpeas aka Garbanzo beans - they taste great, blend with other vegetables, and continue complete protein with many other bonus ingredients.
Fiber in food slows down digestion. That is why fiber-free donuts - with their delicious combination of fat, sugar, eggs, salt, wheat flour topped with glazing or icing or even better filled with custard - stop hunger for only 30 minutes, if that.
What the Dairy Council, Dairy Queen, and the chicken industry failed to teach us was the lack of nutrition (calm down) in the major foods - dairy, meats, eggs - and the super-abundance of nutrition in greens, beans, fruit, and nuts. And the really good foods are much cheaper, quite easy to prepare and store.
If people dial down the most fattening foods, they will have more appetite and satisfaction with healthy foods.
