Don’t you agree that we have all had enough of all the dieting and restrictions and arguments over what to eat on a diet and what to or not to restrict? Our country is so full of fat people (or, if you’re sensitive, dimensionally challenged) and reduction methods that don’t work, we’re smothering in poundage and pages of useless research about the epidemic that offer nothing solid in return for all the grant money spent (plus the trees to make the paper are dead and gone).
I count myself among the obese in America, and yet I supposedly eat healthy. In my childhood I was the weirdo who actually liked vegetables (I had issues with brussels sprouts but tolerated them) and drank milk and orange juice daily. Now, if you believe the propaganda, orange juice is not good for you because of its sugar content, and most veggies will pack on the pounds as surely as an ice cream cone, because they harbor starches.
Sugar is bad. So are sugar-free substitutes. Salt is bad. Green peppers are bad. Yessiree, those staples of the average salad plate should not be there, according to an expert who champions Atkins style diet choices. He suggests more meat because we were designed to eat it: we started as hunters, and we killed and cooked our own animal flesh, and nobody has ever seen a cave drawing of a fat caveman, he says in so many words. The health community, however, says not to eat meat because it can lead to heart disease.
Potatoes and pasta are out, too. And certain fish are already on the no-no list because of mercury and contaminants. The late fitness guru Jack LaLanne (who died January 23, 2011) claimed that if man made it, he wouldn’t eat it. The Atkins supporters say if it grows in the ground you shouldn’t eat it. Recently apples were touted as being the worst fruit you could eat, so I guess stuff on trees are out, too.
I’ve been eating 80 calorie yogurt, but since it has sugar substitute, I guess I should drop that habit. I also include green pepper (oh no!), carrot, celery and radishes in my lunch. They’re all, to put it in British vernacular, right out. Cereals are made with the wrong grains and add sugar, so they’re not right for any diet.
That leaves us with water, in which are mercury and contaminants that kill the fish we used to eat. I’m waiting for somebody to tell me that water should be off everybody’s diet.
Maybe the solution is substituting all food with an IV diet of just essential nutrients. Can’t you see Campbell’s and McDonald’s and Atkins going into the medical supply business to stay solvent? I don’t know about you, but I wish somebody out there would just come out with the outright truth and stop stacking the deck against everybody who has to eat to stay alive.
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