Re: experts make me sick
- From: "TC" <tunderbar@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 3 Jan 2007 14:55:46 -0800
ee wrote:
TC wrote:
Was watching the telly the other day. A British program came on. Showed
a grossly overweight woman in her skivvies. Not a pretty sight. Then as
they explained how desperate she was to lose weight along with her two
chubby young daughters and her husband, they showed little scenes of
the failiy eating potato chips, then twinkies, then soda, then an ice
cream bar, then they showed her piling onto the entire half of a dinner
plate a huge mound of mashed potatoes about 2 1/2 to 3 inches high
alongside what looked like oven baked english style french fries on the
same plate.
Then they cut to an "expert", obviously a nutritionist or a dietitian.
She looked around the kitchen and peered into a 150 lb bag of huge
potatoes. She says, "why do you need so many potatoes?", then she says
(I kid you not), "I don't see anything wrong with potatoes, but I am
afraid that you may be fattening them up too much."
That is when I changed the channel. I can't stand such stupidity from
"experts" anymore.
TC
I sometimes have a hard time following your logic, TC.
I believe your approach to food is based on two paradigms - "natural
food", plus anti-carb. And what gets defined as natural food is a bit
up to your whim. For example, you are a proponent of drinking whole
cow's milk, which some could easily argue is "unnatural" for human
consumption.
One could suggest that eating virtually anything could be unnatural in
some way. Cyanide and LSD are naturally occurring, but I would not
recommend either as a food.
Where I'm coming from should be crystal clear by now. Eat real food
that contains real nutrition. The real nutrients being the water
soluble vitamins, the fat soluble vitamins, the minerals, clean water,
fresh air and sunshine. These real nutrients come from real food like
properly raised animals, seafood, and the freshest and best produce
available.
And, of course, the flip side is to avoid fake manufactured
overly-processed things being masqueraded as food.
So that brings us to the lowly potato. A "tuber" if I"m not mistaken,
which any of our paleolithic ancestors might have eaten as part of the
"gathering" side of the "hunter/gather" equation. What could be more
natural? On the other hand, it's a complex carb, and as I said, you
appear to think carbs are evil.
Read what I wrote. You missed one teensy little detail. The program
showed the lady filling an entire half of a dinner plate with about
three inches deep of mashed potatoes. The plate was full to the rim.
Must've been at least a pound and a half of potatoes. On one plate. And
alongside that was what appeared to be english style chips. Then they
showed other little clips of the family eating 1) potato chips, 2)
twinkies (or something like it), 3) ice cream, 4) pasta (which I did
not mention in the original post), 5) and soda.
So are you saying anti-carb trumps "natural" in the case of the pomme
de terre?
Eric
So what I am saying is that no-one needs a 150 lb bag of potatoes
unless they have a root cellar so that they will last six months. You
cannot live on potatoes and not expect to gain weight. Regardless of
how "whole food" starchy tubers are, you eat 5 lbs a day and you will
be fat.
And my point was that the "expert" seems to be worried about the fat
being added to the 5 lbs of potatoes she was eating per day.
TC
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