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| "Only in America - Land of Foolish Fads and Foods" |
America is the only nation in the world where people shove aside the healthiest foods and wolf down garbage, the worst kinds being the extra expensive demands of the pagan Diet Fads.
People actually buy fiber, jars and boxes of it so they can mix it with water or orange juice or Hawaiian Punch, cuz "fiber is good for yah."
The most delicious fiber is found in fruit and vegetables. Really! True, it lacks the powered cardboard taste of commercial fiber, but it is more likely to be used from the original sources.
I want to put on sackcloth and ashes in those grocery store aisles that line up huge displays of fiber and protein.
Mom and dad were right about eating good food, even though they went for Fritos, desserts, and wonderous food products. Why repeat their errors, though we are snacking on milk supplements and protein supplements and other hideously expensive products?
God created us so that we would digest food slowly, not in a plastic cup from McDonalds, Starbucks, and "nutrition" stores.
Fiber itself is filling and slow to work, so it reduces the urge to pig out on something we have been trained to love - like donuts or - yuk, yuk - energy bars of processed protein and fat and a few peanuts.
Based on 70 years of experience, I can claim that the expensive side of eating is also the most fattening and least nutritious.
Fresh fruit is loaded with fiber and tastes sweet, which slows down the sugar high and fills our digestive system while slowing it down. Orange juice itself is a sugar bomb. So is grape juice and apple juice. Save time with Kool Aid and just add sugar and water - very satisfying for 10 minutes.
Most vegetables are the same - excluding corn and potatoes. So what do we eat the most of? Yes, potatoes and corn, but they need globs of butter, sour cream, etc. Seriously, potatoes and corn are popular because of the sugar-starch-fat lift.
Super-nutritious raw greens (cooked too) are full of the best ingredients, very inexpensive, and extremely tasty once we get the taste of Frosted Corn Flakes out of our system.
Spinach, kale, collards, and turnip greens are massive DAILY improvements in our diets. The only bad result is stuffing us too full for apple pie with ice cream.
Fruits are the true desserts. They have some sugar but overwhelming amounts of fiber. I have experimented often and found that two large apples alone with wreck my craving for a rich, calorie packed, grease-salt-sugar supper. (Hint - TV dinners do not help the cause at all, even if the dessert portion is tiny and toxic.)
If one must have a midnight snack, apples and oranges are far better than what we crave (fill in the blanks).
God made our complex digestive system so that the best and least expensive foods can improve and even repair various damage from previous bad choices. Following Dr. Fuhrman showed me that I could reduce high blood sugar, high blood pressure, and bathroom scale damage simply by following good nutrition standards without fanaticism.
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