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Promises Made to Name Withheld
I agreed to emphasize good nutrition versus the majority (garbage) we eat steadily.
Emerging from My Terrible Habits
My blood test in 2020 showed I was diabetic, which scared me into solutions. I had Joel Fuhrman's nutrition book in my library - never used. When I began reading it, I was shocked at the depth of my ignorance.
First - Stupid Eating Tastes Great - I Am Proof
Most of a grocery store promotes and glorifies the worst, which shows in the limited area for fresh produce and frozen produce.
- Milk, cheeses, and eggs are loaded with fat and bad for human bones. They promote bone breakage, cancer, and obesity. But they taste great!
- Grease and oil transfer fat to our bodies - not just with fast food - but with far too much meat, lots of salt added to the fat, and fat in many products. Chocolate, which we all dearly love, combines significant amounts of sweetening and fat.
- Sugar, artificial sugar, and blends of sweetener create - you guessed it - enhancement with the sweetness. When the body gives up burning the sugar, havoc rules everywhere in the body, but shhh, it takes a blood panel to face the music.
- Salt enough to preserve Tutankhamun. We are so used to saltiness that the packaged, frozen food, gigantic snack aisles, and subtle seducers keep up our high blood pressure reading.
Second - Solutions Are in the Same Store!
A. Healthy eating does not promote scarfing down fast food because good food - on the greens, fresh fruits, and vegetables side - satisfies the individual and costs a lot less. As someone said, "You cannot get fat on spinach and other greens. Vegetables are also low in fat production. Fresh fruits are God's own Creation."
B. Fruits are very good when they are eaten fresh and not converted into icky juices (mostly sugar) and various desserts. The wise handlers in the body - are food fiber, which reduce the sugar bomb and set up a matrix to digest and break up foods wisely. In short, fresh oranges are very good but typical orange juice is Kool-aid, more or less. Read the labels on all products that have sweeteners - SCARY!
B. Since I went through the juggernaut of giving up junk food, I made these suggestions to Name Withheld.
- Reject fad diets - they are phony, expensive, but good for a laugh.
- Start to reduce the fat designers by using a foundation of fresh/frozen greens, vegetables, and fruits.
- Weigh the bathroom scale each morning and chart it on the computer. Mine went from 215 down to 174 today, which started at March 20, 2020. I was probably higher before 2020.
- Remove the fatuous snack foods because so many of them are addicting and bad. Popcorn is better because it is mostly air and ruffage. Fritos and Ritz are incredibly addicting, as someone told me.
- Charlie Sue and I have tried a number of meats. We eat small amounts of sausage now.
