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| Early scary McDonalds commercial. |
Spinach, kales, collards, turnip greens are loaded with nutrition and satisfying, with almost no calories. But white rice, white flour, white bread, and white ice cream create a craving for morke - and they have almost no nutrition, and are fattening with loads of calories.
Juices of all kinds are mostly sugar and not nutritious. Paul Newman's orange drink's first ingredient is corn syrup, the worst of all forms of sweetener! Fresh and frozen fruit do not have sweetener added - except by the Creator Himself - and provide a lot of fiber which is essential to food digestion. Fruits are a rainbow of nutrition and not fattening.
Nuts are sold with heavy doses of salt. People gladly or sadly pay large amounts of money at the pharmacy for statins, expensive drugs that claim to block one's high cholesterol chemistry - while providing horrible side effects. Plain walnuts with no salt, no sugar, no roasting - they take away the bad cholesterol, simply with a handful of walnuts a day. Raw almonds can do that too.
Candy is very appealing, especially in all the fruit colors but has none of the fruit benefits. Nothing is more fun than getting the best blueberries, apples, oranges, bananas, pineapples, etc. A bag of MnMs with "almonds" cost me $4.23 today. They were atrocious. I ate a few and gave the rest to squirrels.
All the prepared meals, whether fast food joints or grocery stores or delivered, are manufactured with huge amounts of fat, salt, and sweeteners. They are extremely expensive and often poor quality cuz - profits. A little preparation in the family will yield delicious, low cost meals with a high level of nutrition and very little sugar-salt-fat.
Charlie Sue, my Patterdale Terrier, loves meals, which include Science Diet and enjoys such delicacies as bananas, blueberries, and apples. She gets a little meat each day too, plus a few treats. I love going to the grocery store to carve out our share of Walmart offerings. I can load up the cart with a lot of low cost high nutrition value fruits, greens, and vegetables.
It takes time. I gave up eggs for breakfast and began making original oatmeal with raisins and almonds. It was very satisfying, minus a load of fat and choline. I get some candy now and again, which only reminds me that almost all candy is junk. Much of the gourmet candy is older than a Jack Benny joke. Kettle corn and Fritos were still attractive until I found my blood pressure soaring. Kettle corn is sugar-fat-grease. Fritos make up for the lack of sugar with extra grease and salt.
Dr. Michael Greger has a mountain of short articles and videos on nutrition.
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| See what Ronald did for my stomach? Sassy Sue was afraid of the guy. |
