>> craig, fat isn't bad. saturated fat isn't good <<
don't buy into that baloney about mono-unsaturated vs saturated fat. it's another example of doctors trying to make the world more complex when it is really quite simple.
margarine is typically lower in saturated fat than butter. does that make it better? nope. it's worse. simple logic will tell you that butter is healthy for you and margarine is not. butter is natural and comes from animal fats. margarine has been bombarded by hydrogen atoms at 500 degrees, chemically altering it. unnatural and tampered by man who believes he is smarter than nature.
the public has been sold a bill of goods. red meat is extremely good for you. egg yolks are the best part of the egg, not the worst. the public has been done more harm by believing quack doctors and nutritionists instead of resorting to good old fashioned common sense. that's why one year margarine is healthier and butter is bad, now it's butter is healthier and margarine is bad, and once eating too many eggs was bad, and now it's ok to eat a few more eggs. it's all hogwash perpetrated on the unsuspecting public. some of it is just plain ignorance, and some of it is motivated by selfish greed.
the simple rule of thumb is to recognize that sugar and carbohydrate laden food is the true evil, and not natural animal fats. we were meant to eat food from nature, not food that has been processed and tampered with by man. if it comes in a box and can sit on a shelf for a year it's probably not good for you. if it's fresh and it will spoil quickly there's a good chance that it's far better for you.
>> the most sound diet i'm aware of is the zone diet... protein adequate, carbo adequate <<
carbo adequate? some carbs won't hurt you, and they're near impossible to avoid completely, but technically you could live without ever consuming a gram of carbohydrate again. you cannot live without protein and fat. you will quickly die. so to use the term "adequate" implies that carbohydrates are essential to life when they really aren't.
>> intake levels depend on one's lean body mass and activity level (isn't this obvious?). <<
but they problem is people can look at a chart and say this is what my intake level should be, but it's hard to stick to it. people develop cravings. there is a simple solution to curbing your appetite so you don't overeat. it is to stop eating so many carbs and to return to a proper diet with a significant level of fat and protein. |
