Leif E. Greens - A Powerful Family Often Ignored, Especially in the Midwest

 

"We are not having Jello with celery again. Mom's joking."

I misspelled leafy greens simply because they are the least among the food groups and yet the most important in many ways. 

People still joke about the traditional Midwestern salad - Jello, a sugar-based concoction enhanced with sweetened fruit. My mother added walnuts and celery for a more effective gag reflex. If we had reasonably fresh lettuce, I hid mine behind the breakfast room curtains. 

I like Panera salads, but not restaurant salads drowning in a cup of dressing. I was genuinely shocked to learn in the Fuhrman books that leafy greens were powerfully nutritious and almost calorie free. One way to stop binge eating is to eat plenty of leafy greens, which can be satisfying and enjoyable. I did that fairly often with grocery store "fresh" spinach, which is not close to what I grew in Minnesota and Michigan.

I knew I had to eat more of those leafy greens but they held little attraction. First, I saw how inexpensive chopped, frozen greens were - and far more appetizing than canned greens of any kind.  Could I blend them into the daily vegetable concoction warmed on the stove? Yes! - and they are not harmed by heat.

The prominent leafy greens in the frozen section are:

1. Spinach
2. Collards
3. Turnip
4. Kale.

Each one has special benefits without significant calories. They lack the massive amounts of sweeteners, fat, and salt that serve as the foundation of the American fast-food diet.

The nutritional benefits overlap, and they are well worth studying by searching "health benefits of" in the browser. Leafy greens suggest the reason why my vision improved and my arthritis went away (90%) in 2022.

SAD - The Parallel to the Failed Church Growth Movement

SAD is the acronym created by Dr. Joel Fuhrman - the Standard American Diet:

SAD is long on -

1. Fats, 
2. Salt, 
3. Sweeteners, juices, and 
4. High blood sugar carbohydrates (corn, popcorn, white rice, white flour, Wonderbread (I wonder if is bread).

The processed food we buy at McDonalds is very expensive and loaded with all the wrong ingredients, including orange juice (orange flavored syrup, no fiber).

The Chubby Chunky Industry - two components - has an ideal place in our budgets. Our SAD is super expensive for what it pretends to be, such as spending dollars for pennies worth of colas, burgers, and fries. And SAD is very harmful to our health at the same time. Most SAD solutions are expensive.

The Chubby side is exemplified by the enormous aisles at Walmart 

• for sweets, 
• for soda pop, and 
• for snacks. 

At the largest WM in Arkansas, second largest in America, each category above has one side of an entire aisle devoted to that product, plus impulse displays as the laden shopping carts are pushed toward the do-it-yourself cashier.

Being overweight has become the American norm, and that brings us to the Chunky department. The medicine, food, and fad industries endeavor to keep us obese and craving for even more destructive habits. 

First, let us name some obvious outcomes of all that fat - or as the Chubby businesses say - all that wasted money:

• Obesity often causes high blood sugar...diabetes.
• Obesity drives up blood pressure, which leads to cardio-vascular problems, heart-attacks, and stroke.
• Obesity starves the body and brain of good food while substituting bad food for the good.
• Obesity leads to overlapping medical disorders because one thing like diabetes will also cause many other problems, including the need to amputate.
• Obesity drives people to try various useless, expensive, and dangerous fads to reduce weight. Doctors cluck their tongues in pity and offer all kinds of expensive prescription medicine that can be even more dicey than insulin.

Creation-Based Health Ideas - Or, As My Parents Used To Say - "Eat Your Vegetables! Do you know what is wrong with you kids? You are spoiled. SPOILED ROTTEN!"

Dad never saw the irony in his speeches about eating good food.

I was brought to repentance by the combination of overweight, high blood pressure, and high blood sugar. I also had low energy from low potassium thanks to too many colas used to promote energy. 

I found an unread copy of Eat To Live! by Joel Fuhrman in my own library. 

First, I began eliminating bad habits - like ice cream twice a day. One reader observed that our deep freezer was devoted to ice cream treats of many varieties. I also dropped desserts in general.

I knew I could drop 10 pounds easily that way, but I needed to do more than repeat failures of the past. 

I had to flip my habits from 100% SAD to 95% beans, greens, fruits, and nuts. That took my weight down another 25 pounds. I faced food cravings by daily weighing. I lost weight steadily with raw spinach and chickpeas, plus many different vegetables. If I indulged in a craving, I could see my weight go up in the next day or two.

The number one weapon against craving is spinach by the bowl. If I have one or two large bowls of raw spinach, the craving goes away a long time and I am not stuffed, quite unlike a SAD binge. I thought I hated all that spinach; I hated the dressings instead. There are good dressings that are not blobs of fat, but I simply like spinach alone. No, I will not say lettuce alone is Honeymoon Salad.

Almonds and walnuts are also good to blunt craving. They are a daily requirement for nutrition and low cholesterol. 

I enjoy four fruits a day, trying out new ones I previously ignored - two apples at least, pears, cherries, peaches, oranges, blueberries. Yes, I swapped apple pie ala mode for apples.

My main food for the day is a quart of frozen vegetables, warmed up on the gas stove:

1. Chickpeas or other beans, like red or lima.
2. Frozen, chopped collard greens or kale. Mustard and other greens are also good.
3. Frozen peas because I always enjoyed them.
4. Frozen chopped onions, green and red peppers.
5. Tomato paste or low-salt tomato sauce.
6. Sometimes broccoli, cauliflower, mushrooms.

All these ingredients are incredibly low-cost. Remember the Roman Emperor who bonked his head on the pillar and moaned, "Varus - Give me back my legions" ? That is how I feel about the money previously not spent on vegetables, greens, nuts, and fruit.

Some good side-effects of vegetables I did not expect:

• My doctor was shocked that walnuts dropped my bad cholesterol to zero, but he showed me the blood sugar was up with ice cream. He scared me with that A1C level, so I went full-Fuhrman and brought down BP and blood sugar.
• I previously accepted painful arthritic hands, but now that sharp pain is 90% gone and no trouble.
• I dropped a BP medicine once it was in a good range.
• I saw that antihistamines were still driving up my blood pressure, so I dropped Benadryl and Claritin, resulting in normal BP, very good sleep, and no allergic symptoms in ragweed season. Marketing tip - "Drop your allergic medicine and decrease BP and allergic symptoms!" That won't fly.

At the risk of offending the medical industry and the non-licensed food fad industries, I have to conclude -

God created many dozens of medicines through plants, herbs, fruits, and nuts. The variety of cures is simply astonishing and low in cost. 

The medical industry addresses symptoms of eating badly, but they skip over the most basic and least expensive way to cure many problems. Christina went to one cardiologist who weighed 400 pounds. I said, "How can he treat patients with a good conscience?" I told the desk clerk it was a bad idea to ask people there, "Are you ready to check out?"

  The doctor agreed that ice cream is a great tranquilizer. However...

Why Is the Fat Food Group the Most Promoted One?

Yes, I am still losing weight and improving what I eat, with some meat, lots of greens, beans, vegetables, and fruit.

 

The key component of the American sugar-salt-fat diet is fat. The first two parts, sugar and salt, are too obvious to ignore, so the fat component remains ideal for gaining and maintaining too much weight.

The highly promoted fat group starts with milk. Ice cream is so profitable and appealing that they deliver it to our doors.

Sadly, fat is quite overwhelming in milk, cottage cheese, and cheese. Those cheese sandwiches are really satisfying because of the cheese, butter, and bread. Salt is prominent, and the sandwich can be enhanced with jelly or honey. Don't ask how I know.

Eggs are high protein, but also high fat, often cooked in fat or made more delicious with butter, which I understand is 100% fat. That is why I stopped buying bread, because it is a gateway drug for butter. Or is it the other way around? 

Fat adds up easily (with salt and many kinds of sweeteners) in all our snack foods. We may have seemingly wonderful plans while including plenty of fat with the fatal partners - too much in the sugar group and omnipresent salt.

The simple alternative is a new but old way of eating. Walmart has gigantic rows of snacks and one devoted to candy. Candy is opposite frozen vegetables at our store.

Snacks and candy are manufactured, quite expensive, and fattening - no nutritional benefits.

Frozen vegetables and the produce area (fruits, vegetables) are low in cost, low in calories, and very nutritious. The last part was my gigantic blindspot, because the healthy American diet is long on protein, fat, and salt. 

The parents of Boomers grew up on fresh vegetables, some meat, no sodas, and plenty of fruit. Dr. Joel Fuhrman is a bit extreme at times but simply true to our rural heritage, which is also how poor people around the world - and in America - have eaten with great success.

Icha-peek: Cardiologist Loves Fuhrman's Work

I talked to a couple about Fuhrman's books and sent them several titles. They obtained even more - Fuhrman is on YouTube. They went together to see the cardiologist, and the doctor loves Fuhrman's idea.

Ichabodians Switching to Healthy Meals, Good Nutrition, Lower Weight

 I posed in many calendars to promote donuts.

 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.

 Everyone was posing for the photo, but I was working on my mother's DQ cone.

 A Moliner put this together. I would never run and eat a donut. No, I would stop and eat a few.

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.

 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. 

Pineapple Surprise! Better Than Anyone Could Imagine

I got a pineapple whole, which never quite worked before. Christina tried a special pineapple cutter, and I said, "Fingers will come off easier than that outside layer of armor." Cutting that one seemed unusually difficult, so we stuck with Dole.

This is - or was - a fresh pineapple, easily cut with a long, serrated Cutco knife. It seems our other Cutco tools disappeared some time ago. After I made cylinder slices, I looked up the "best way," which was laborious. "Don't eat the core." I just ate the core. I eat apple cores somewhat, depending on hunger.

I ended with four thick triangles per slice. Even with the core, the fruit was heavenly sweet and tasty. Doing everything backwards, I looked up the nutritional value of pineapple.

1. Loaded with nutrients

Pineapples are low in calories but boast an impressive nutrient profile. Just 1 cup (165 grams) of pineapple chunks contains the following nutrients (2Trusted Source):

• Calories: 83
• Fat: 1.7 grams
• Protein: 1 gram
• Carbs: 21.6 grams
• Fiber: 2.3 grams
• Vitamin C: 88% of the Daily Value (DV)
• Manganese: 109% of the DV
• Vitamin B6: 11% of the DV
• Copper: 20% of the DV
• Thiamine: 11% of the DV
• Folate: 7% of the DV
• Potassium: 4% of the DV
• Magnesium: 5% of the DV
• Niacin: 5% of the DV
• Pantothenic acid: 7% of the DV
• Riboflavin: 4% of the DV
• Iron: 3% of the DV

Pineapples also contain trace amounts of phosphorus, zinc, calcium, and vitamins A and K.

As you can see, this fruit is particularly rich in vitamin C and manganese. Vitamin C is essential for immune health, iron absorption, and growth and development, while manganese offers antioxidant properties and aids in growth and metabolism (3Trusted Source, 4Trusted Source).

Antioxidants help prevent oxidation in your body, which may help ward off inflammation that can lead to cancer and other chronic diseases (5Trusted Source).

Pineapples also contain other micronutrients, such as copper, thiamine, and vitamin B6, which are essential for healthy metabolism (6Trusted Source, 7Trusted Source, 8Trusted Source).

SUMMARY

Pineapples are especially rich in vitamin C and manganese, as well as numerous other vitamins and minerals.

Facty says that pineapple helps dissolve mucous (in a friendly way), helping with coughs and stuffiness. Sure enough, I felt the impact soon after eating. 

This strikes me as funny because the meat-milk-fat-eggs group is relatively narrow in its nutritional benefits. But mixed greens, vegetables, fruits, and nuts provide 

1. a wealth of vitamins and minerals, 
2. an abundance of protein and trace elements, 
3. a treasury of phytochemicals. 

Those benefits are overlooked in favor of the Standard American Diet - basic vitamins, protein, sugar, fat, corn syrup, and high glycemic food (like popcorn with sugar, white bread, fast food, and rice).

 Wiki - the last word about everything - on chickpeas.

1. Packed with nutrients

Chickpeas boast an impressive nutritional profile.

They contain a moderate number of calories, providing 269 per cup (164 grams). Approximately 67% of these calories come from carbs, while the rest comes from protein and fat (1Trusted Source).

Chickpeas also provide a variety of vitamins and minerals, as well as a decent amount of fiber and protein. A 1-cup (164-gram) serving of cooked chickpeas offers (1Trusted Source):

• Calories: 269
• Protein: 14.5 grams
• Fat: 4 grams
• Carbs: 45 grams
• Fiber: 12.5 grams
• Manganese: 74% of the Daily Value (DV)
• Folate (vitamin B9): 71% of the DV
• Copper: 64% of the DV
• Iron: 26% of the DV
• Zinc: 23% of the DV
• Phosphorus: 22% of the DV
• Magnesium: 19% of the DV
• Thiamine: 16% of the DV
• Vitamin B6: 13% of the DV
• Selenium: 11% of the DV
• Potassium: 10% of the DV

As you can see, this legume is a particularly good source of the mineral manganese and the B vitamin folate.

SUMMARY

Chickpeas contain a moderate amount of calories and several vitamins and minerals. They’re also a good source of fiber and protein.

 

2. May keep you feeling full

The protein and fiber in chickpeas may help keep your appetite under control.

Protein and fiber work together to slow digestion, which helps promote fullness. In addition, protein may increase levels of appetite-reducing hormones in your body (2Trusted Source, 3, 4Trusted Source, 5Trusted Source).

In fact, the filling effects of the protein and fiber in chickpeas may automatically lower your calorie intake (6Trusted Source, 7Trusted Source).

One study compared appetite and calorie intake among 12 women who ate two separate meals (8Trusted Source).

Before one of the meals, they ate 1.25 cups (200 grams) of chickpeas, then 2 slices of white bread before the other meal. They experienced a significant reduction in appetite and calorie intake after the chickpea meal, compared with the white bread meal (8Trusted Source).

Another small study found that those who ate pretzels and chickpea-based hummus for an afternoon snack experienced a 70% reduction in appetite and a 30% increase in fullness (9Trusted Source).

All the same, more research is needed on chickpeas and appetite control.

SUMMARY

Chickpeas are high in protein and fiber, which may keep you feeling full and reduce your calorie intake at meals.

Though scholars are divided and there are many grey areas of nutrition, anyone can look up the beneficial effects of each food, which is a lot of fun.

Going to the freezer section and canned beans at Walmart is an adventure. I get unusual frozen vegetables because a mistake can be mixed in with the favorites in the sauce pan:

1. Roots (not the novel)
2. Asparagus
3. Green peppers and onions sliced
4. Sliced green beans
5. Lima beans
6. Peas
7. Stir fry combo
8. Sweet potatoes
9. Brussels sprouts
10. Mixed vegetables
11. Tomato paste for the lutein and flavor

I stopped buying soup as the starter because of cost and salt. I use V-8 low salt but I doubt whether it contributes much, unlike Tobasco.

When the stomach feels hollow, beans with spinach are good for many reasons. Flavored beans seem much saltier. Garbanzos (chickpeas) seem to be low salt and are easily mixed with other beans or vegetables. 

One objection to processed foods, like pork and beans, is the cost. But the other objection is the sugar and salt added.

Andrea's Parents Clamor for More Nutrition Articles

 

 Andrea proves that the secret to health and happiness comes from God's own Creation.

Andrea's parents wrote to say they would like more nutrition articles. I was just thinking about some general truths not realized before. 

This all made sense, because God created these intricate relationships from the beginning. We have let the ad agencies blind us to real value in food.

I am not a vegetarian and I dislike all the fad diets that make money for a few while making matters worse for the desperate. Dr. Joel Fuhrman has developed reasons for changing from our grease-salt-sugar favorites to a preponderance of plant-based foods.

Plants are loaded with nutrition and yet are very low in calories. Thus someone can eat two huge bowls of spinach with a tiny bit of dressing and feel satisfied, happy, and unbloated. Spinach or other leafy greens provide a lot of fiber, but almost no calories.

Spinach:

• Vitamin A. Spinach is high in carotenoids, which your body can turn into vitamin A.
• Vitamin C. This vitamin is a powerful antioxidant that promotes skin health and immune function.
• Vitamin K1. This vitamin is essential for blood clotting. Notably, one spinach leaf contains over half of your daily needs.
• Folic acid. Also known as folate or vitamin B9, this compound is vital for pregnant women and essential for normal cellular function and tissue growth.
• Iron. Spinach is an excellent source of this essential mineral. Iron helps create hemoglobin, which brings oxygen to your body’s tissues.
• Calcium. This mineral is essential for bone health and a crucial signaling molecule for your nervous system, heart, and muscles.

Spinach also contains several other vitamins and minerals, including potassium, magnesium, and vitamins B6, B9, and E.

There are two kinds of fiber, soluble and insoluble. They contribute to digestion but not much toward calories.

Fats, oils, and grease (including the "healthy" ones) add a ton of calories and very little nutrition.

Fatty foods to decrease in regular eating are:

• Meats, especially processed salty meats;
• Milk, cheese, cream, whipped cream;
• Dessert forms - donuts, fried in grease desserts, candies using sugar and oil.

 Part of the Bakery and Confection Alliance plan was to create dessert addicts as young as possible. "Sweetie-pie. Want a cake for your first birthday? Yes, the whole cake!"

Healthy desserts can be:

1. Four portions of fruit per day;
2. At least one handful of nuts each day, though we can easily overeat them (good oil but go easy - ditto salt);
3. A delightful food that provides satisfaction, great flavors and taste, good nutrition. I like vegetable sampler warmed up on the stove.

Vegetable Sampler Soup - 

Enjoy the Lumps -

I have a different combo each day. Basics in blue:

• Chickpeas and flavored beans 
• Almonds or walnuts
• Flax seed milled
• Mushrooms frozen or canned
• Asparagus, frozen or canned
• Green pepper/onions frozen
• Peas frozen
• Tomato paste in a tube
• Stir fry combo frozen
• Baby broccoli frozen
• Brussels Sprouts frozen
• Many of the larger bites, like broccoli and stir fry, satisfy the need to chew food.

If the reader looks up the "nutritional benefits of..." (various plant foods) on Google, it will show that this group will provide an abundance of vitamins, fiber, plant nutrients, etc. If we are short on vital nutrients, a good eating habit will heal certain maladies. Blood sugar and blood pressure go up with overweight, go down with weight loss.

Meat and milk products are high in protein and fat, but little else. Many meat products are over-salted, adding to blood pressure problems.

Because fats and sugars go instantly at work or pile up in the body (think blubber and high blood sugar), we feel a brief high for a time. They promote even more eating of the same and are often easily obtained, quick to consume. 

 Forced into bakery work at an early age, this young lad had to promote the glazed donuts without any compensation. 

Many Major Health Problems Are Alleviated by Good Food Habits

 Only one plate?

Having excess weight can cause many different health problems, which accelerate with age:

1. Heart
2. Blood pressure
3. Diabetes.

Our society has changed from one where vegetables are a major part of our diets to a minor part, replaced by snack food, fast food, and just plain awful food.

Here is a list of foods and flavors I use for cooked vegetables, not necessarily all at once:

Beans, kidney and chickpeas (garbanza)

Mushrooms

Asparagus

Peas

Green beans

Onions and green peppers

Tomato paste

Broccoli

Sweet potatoes

Mixed vegetables

Black pepper

Tabasco sauce

V-8 juice.

The funtastic part is the way God has placed essential nutrients in various ways among those plant foods. 

I thought, "I better have the multi-vitamin every day. Where else will I get zinc?" The answer is in vegetables and nuts, but I take the multi-vitamin anyway:

Pumpkin seeds

Chickpeas aka garbanzo beans

Cashew nuts

Mushrooms

Spinach

Oatmeal

Peas

Asparagus.

This can be repeated with variations in edible plants with calcium, potassium, Vitamin C, Vitamin E, and other nutrients. The mix of vegetables in a sauce pan means a host of beneficial ingredients will combine with a much higher fiber count and hunger satisfaction. 

Kitty - "I dare ya."

 "I'm fixin' to change my habits."

That replaces the bloat of an ancient Roman style feast. They used an instrument tickling their throats to make room for more feasting. Don't laugh or gag - anorexia is a serious problem among young women in competitive colleges like Notre Dame.

Soluble and insoluble fiber benefit our complete digestion. Sugar and fats give us instant satisfaction and weight gain. Food fiber gives us

better and slower digestion, satisfaction, and fat burning. Leafy greens and beans, nuts and fruits prevent the urge to eat a chocolate cake as a quick substitute. People find that omitting the high fat, high sugar, and white foods - rice, potatoes, ice cream, white flour - will cut back and almost eliminate the cravings thereof. So a plant-based habit of eating will be fat-burning naturally, without any super-expensive, hyped, magic pills in a jar.

Vegetables are not only delicious and satisfying, but dirt cheap. People without herds of rabbits and squirrels can raise many vegetables easily. Vegetables at the store cost relatively little, especially when factored in with the cost of medical care for eating-related disorders.

Impossibly Good Soup

 

This will revolutionize anyone's grasp of nutrition.

 Somebody - send this to Matt the Fatt in a plain brown wrapper. I consider this a faster read and 
more concise version of Eat To Live.

I was on the SAD (Standard American Diet) so long that I forgot what vegetables were like, delicious and satisfying.

Souped-up Vegetables

Dr. Fuhrman promotes greens, beans, fruit, and nuts. I tried microwaving some frozen vegetables, but the results were uneven. I changed to souped-up vegetables. Here is the approximate recipe, based on what I had yesterday:

• Partial can of soup, with chicken and sausage
• Frozen mushrooms
• Frozen asparagus
• Frozen mixed vegetables
• Tomato paste
• Frozen pearl onions 
• Milled flaxseed
• Almonds 
• Tabasco sauce or black pepper

I slowly stirred this in a covered sauce pan, on the gas stove. I ate about half and saved the rest in the refrigerator for today.

The fast Fuhrman meal is - a large bowl of spinach, a tablespoon of milled flaxseed, a tiny bit of salad dressing, plus almonds and blueberries. I alternate almonds with walnuts.

I eat four or more servings of apples and oranges each day. 

Incomplete Protein Myth

We were told, falsely, that it was hard to build complete protein from eating plants alone. The body does the finishing part during digestion, including some recycling from the body in the intestines.

The Fats Group

We overdo the fats group, promoted by various nutrition experts hired by the fat group producers, far too much:

1. Milk and cheese
2. Meat and fish
3. Eggs
4. Fried foods 
5. Gobs of salad dressing and "healthy" oils

I know the bakers-confectioners were upset when a cigarette company promoted, "Instead of a candy, I reached for a Lucky Strike. They got the company to pull the ad campaign. 

Sweets

The sugar group, which fed and clothed the Jackson kids, and helped me through college, are 

well represented by:

1. Hard candies and chocolate
2. Various types of gum
3. Cakes and pies
4. Soda pop
5. Sugar-free, anything with artificial sweeteners, which have the same effect on the body as sugar, but without tasting good.
6. Juices, which are like drinking maple syrup

Don't Tell Me God Created 

Vegetables This Way!

Fuhrman opened my sweets-blinded eyes by pointing out the remarkable volumes of nutrition found in vegetables. Since we do not and cannot eat the same vegetables all the time, the variety of foods we like will balance nutrition and slow down the digestion, since sugar and fats have instant unbalancing effects.

On Google, look up the "nutritional benefits of..." and add various foods. 

Asparagus is good for bones, low calorie.

Onions have chromium, which lowers blood sugar.

Mushrooms have Vitamin D.

Tomato paste is loaded with lycopene.

Almonds, blueberries, walnuts, and flaxseed are all good for the heart. Look it up!

 How many arms have held you

And hated to let you go?
How many, how many, I wonder
But I really don't want to know.

How many splits have kissed you
And set your mouth aglow?
How many, how many, I wonder
But I really don't want to know.

So always make me wonder
Always make me guess
And even, if I ask your
Weight-gain, don't confess.

Just let it remain your secret
But darling I love splits so
No wonder, no wonder, I wonder
Though I really don't want to know.

{No ice cream since December, OK?}