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Originally Posted by lightworker888
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What a really really good article......and so true. Excellent article.
Thanks for sharing...........
In the late 1980's/early 1990's a dear neighbor suffered a mild heart attack. His wife was at her wit's end trying to adhere to the new "cardiac diet" of the day, while she was still used to cooking 1940 and 1950 style meals for her elderly husband and middle aged son. He actually lived to age 92 while she worried so much and went much earlier........at 74.
Anyway, he had been a "farm boy" and loved going for "fresh eggs from a Vermont farm".....it was an inexpensive nutritious meal any time of the day. Now, he could not have eggs......or if so, a very limited amount.
I gave her a recipe for cannelini beans, onions, garlic and tubular pasta which all three of them loved.......and the doctor said it was fine with the olive oil, beans, etc..........so that was good that beans were coming back into vogue at the time..........plus it was tasty.
Getting back to the eggs..........all of the college educated young adults nowadays are "into" raising laying hens on their property with fancy or not so fancy chicken coops............guess it's part of the self sufficient prepper movement........city, suburbs and rural areas are sprouting chicken coops in the back yard............these young folk are into HEALTHY EATING so I'm thinking eggs must be back in vogue too........along with beans........
The gluten is scary.........as are the additives and high fructose corn syrup........SOY, ditto. If people ate all food, including meat, in moderation............but made from scratch.......not packaged, not frozen, not with artificial sugar substitutes just to save a few calories......they would feel more satisfied and not think about food so often..........
The chain restaurants are particularly bad for one's health.
Nothing is made from scratch......
Once we were traveling across the country and stopped for the day in a small town in the midwest. We tried the "Long John Silvers".......well that fried fish, as yummy as it tasted, was just loaded with salt and MSG, etc. We were so thirsty for days afterward. Bob Evans , also in the Villages, also has tons of sodium in their food. We used to think it was good homestyle cooking..........until the last visit. Way too salty.
So, it isn't necessarily a certain food.........but the way it is prepared or "marketed as a prepared frozen food"......in other words, preservatives and flavor enhansors/excitotoxins..............etc.