Friday, January 25, 2008
retired blog
I am going to retire my blog. It has been great fun for me but time to move on to other things outside the computer.
I would highly recommend you read Mindless Eating by Brian Wansink and YOU The Owners Manual by M. Roizen MD and M. OZ MD. There is good stuff on those pages. Knowledge is power . . . and you need to be powerful in keeping yourself and your family healthy.
If you know my blog . . . then you know that what goes into your food goes into YOU! And you know you should reduce your salt intake. If you do not like the #lb on your scale then decrease calories and move more. It is all so very simple.
I have some closing thoughts to share with you.
Bad things happen to people who eat bad things.
Eat food not food products.
Today there are thousands of edible fooklike substances in the supermarket. These novel products of food science often come in packages elaborately festooned with health claims. If you are concerned about your health, you should avoid products that make health claims. Health clamis on a food product is a strong indication it is NOT really food, and food is what you want to eat.
EAT FOOD . . . not food like substances. Don't eat anything your gradmother would not recognize as food. (ie. would your grandmother recognize GoGurt Portable Yogurt tubes from the dairy case?)
Avoid food products containing ingredients that are:
1. unfamiliar
2. unpronounceable
3. more than 5 in number
4. or include high fructose corn syrup.
Shop the peripheries of the market and stay out of the middle.
Shop at your local farmers market. You won't find any high fructose corn syrup at the farmers' market. You also won't find any elaborately processed food products, any packages with long lists of unpronounceable ingredients or dubious health claims, nothing microwavable, and perhaps best of all, no old food from far away. What you will find are fresh whole foods picked at the peak of their taste and nutritional quality.
Take supplements.
Stop snacking.
Eat meals. Eat at a table. Do not eat at your desk, in the car, in front of the tv. etc. It is at the dinner table that we socialize and civilize our chidren, teaching them manners and the art of conversation. At the dinner table parents can determine portion sizes, model eating and drinking behavior, and enforce social norms.
Shared meals are about much more than fueling bodies; they are uniquely human institutions where our species developed language and this thing we call culture.
I would highly recommend you read Mindless Eating by Brian Wansink and YOU The Owners Manual by M. Roizen MD and M. OZ MD. There is good stuff on those pages. Knowledge is power . . . and you need to be powerful in keeping yourself and your family healthy.
If you know my blog . . . then you know that what goes into your food goes into YOU! And you know you should reduce your salt intake. If you do not like the #lb on your scale then decrease calories and move more. It is all so very simple.
I have some closing thoughts to share with you.
Bad things happen to people who eat bad things.
Eat food not food products.
Today there are thousands of edible fooklike substances in the supermarket. These novel products of food science often come in packages elaborately festooned with health claims. If you are concerned about your health, you should avoid products that make health claims. Health clamis on a food product is a strong indication it is NOT really food, and food is what you want to eat.
EAT FOOD . . . not food like substances. Don't eat anything your gradmother would not recognize as food. (ie. would your grandmother recognize GoGurt Portable Yogurt tubes from the dairy case?)
Avoid food products containing ingredients that are:
1. unfamiliar
2. unpronounceable
3. more than 5 in number
4. or include high fructose corn syrup.
Shop the peripheries of the market and stay out of the middle.
Shop at your local farmers market. You won't find any high fructose corn syrup at the farmers' market. You also won't find any elaborately processed food products, any packages with long lists of unpronounceable ingredients or dubious health claims, nothing microwavable, and perhaps best of all, no old food from far away. What you will find are fresh whole foods picked at the peak of their taste and nutritional quality.
Take supplements.
Stop snacking.
Eat meals. Eat at a table. Do not eat at your desk, in the car, in front of the tv. etc. It is at the dinner table that we socialize and civilize our chidren, teaching them manners and the art of conversation. At the dinner table parents can determine portion sizes, model eating and drinking behavior, and enforce social norms.
Shared meals are about much more than fueling bodies; they are uniquely human institutions where our species developed language and this thing we call culture.
