ask your parents how much corn, soy, sunflower oil they used for cooking, how much margarine they ate, and what percentage of their food was processed.
No need to ask them I remember it very very well, the day my mom proudly came home with a tub of Margarine. My mom and dad both had high Cholesterol so this was apparently a godsend. I basically tasted it and pulled a face, just didn’t compare to butter. Mom was not impressed, from then on if I wanted butter I had to buy my own. Before that I had grown up on butter and chicken schmaltz. I believe she used sunflower oil for deep frying (fish, chips). We ate very little processed food. My mom would go the fruit and vegetable market once a week on a Tuesday. We also had fruit and vegetable trucks owned and operated by local farmers (normally Indians). They would come into the area on a particular day of the week and and you sort of knew around what time they would be around.
biggest contributor to any positive news on heart disease is reduction of smoking
Good point. Smoking is highly inflammatory.
The thread, namely Lane, has been tracking (so far with little success) this elusive whole grain. It may be found, before Loch Ness Monster.
There is a theory that this is just an invention by nutritionists. Rather than admitting they were 100% wrong about the anti-fat, pro grain diet, 180 degrees from truth, they invent the whole grain
Whole grains have been in existence for thousands of years, you might well not be here without them. Of course in the scale of paleological time they are a blip, and I am well open to the idea that our lifestyles, including certain foods, have outpaced our biology. I do not think that this means that there are no beneficial grains. Half the worlds population exists by eating grain staples, they don't all have heart disease, few of them are fat. And here I was thinking it was the evil greenies who wanted to wipe everyone out. I’ll have to rethink that.
Some things are within your control, other things are not. I think I am doing much better on the water front (having purchased what I think is a very good reverse osmosis filter). Air? that's not easy to change on ones own, unless you are talking some in-house filters, which I am not too crazy about.
You don’t stop breathing and drinking water just because you’re outside your house. These molecules are constantly interchanging so it makes sense to keep things as clean as possible from the outset. There are differing degrees of control, mostly it’s about making wise choices. |
