ext_50088 ([identity profile] rainbear.livejournal.com) wrote in [personal profile] serinde 2008-06-06 09:07 pm (UTC)

Please *please* don't fall into the trap of "Fat = bad".

Our brains *need* fats--it helps to regulate our moods and keep our various brain chemicals in balance. Our bodies need them, too. And, honestly, I'd rather see you eating real butter than non-butter low-fat non-food. It's the same amount of fat and calories. And, at least butter is from a natural source. Y'know? Not cooked up in a lab somewhere.

In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (http://www.amazon.com/Defense-Food-Eaters-Manifesto/dp/1594201455/ref=pd_ys_iyr5)--it's a seriously good read. The basics are:

Don't eat *anything* your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as being food. This includes margarine, anything with HFCS, low-fat anything.

Eat food, not nutrients. Nutrients != food. Anything with "Now with added x" is not food.

Yes, I know. Fat guy telling you how to eat. :-/ But I can tell you that my endos have been telling me since I started seeing them, that they'd rather see me eat & drink real foodstuffs than artificial stuff.

Anywho. Didn't mean to rant on. :HUGS:

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