Healthful Blackberries Are In Season (how to make them unhealthy)
 

Delicious healthful blackberries can now be picked locally. It's fun to pick your own, you can save a little money over the store price, and it's nature's supper food.

Blackberries are high in the following:

Vitamin C (just 2 cups of fresh berries will give you your recommended daily allowance (RDA)

Fiber (pectin is good for those who have high cholesterol)

Phytochemicals (ellagic acid is anti-cancer)

Anti-oxidative action helps to control free radicals

In summary, it protects your heart and protects against cancer.

Yesterday, May 30, The Daily Sun couldn't wait to teach people how to cancel-out or destroy all of the above health benefits. They published, in the Lifestyle section, a recipe that calls for adding regular sugar and brown sugar, white flour, butter, with ice cream topping optional. All of these ingredients are responsible for creating the conditions that blackberries are supposed to fight. To me, it doesn't make sense to take one of natures super foods and turn it into junk-food.

Evidently, The Villages Daily Sun doesn't understand what it takes to become "America's Healthiest Hometown". Or else they don't care and are playing to our baser instincts. "America's Healthiest Hometown", is in danger of becoming an empty slogan, if it's not already.

To a significant extent, aging and disease are the result of accumulated free radical induced cell damage, and the new "Health Care Centers" won't be able to reverse it.

For a healthier way of eating blackberries, try mixing them with other fresh fruit and a small sprinkling of chopped walnuts.

I kind of agree with you. But you can make a nice dessert using the recipe from the Daily Sun using the diabetic sugar products. Eating fruit and nuts as a dessert is okay but boring. I like the fresh berries on my cereal and on my sugar free ice cream also.

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Talk about taking the J out of Joy!

"The condition, which affects equal numbers of men and women, is described as a "fixation on righteous eating".

Experts says sufferers with the obsession for healthy eating tend to be aged over 30, and were middle-class and well-educated.

"I am definitely seeing significantly more orthorexics than just a few years ago," said Ursula Philpot, chair of the British Dietetic Association's mental health group.

Deanne Jade, founder of the National Centre for Eating Disorders, added: “There is a fine line between people who think they are taking care of themselves by manipulating their diet and those who have orthorexia.
“I see people around me who have no idea they have this disorder. I see it in my practice and I see it among my friends and colleagues."

The condition, named by a Californian doctor, Steven Bratman, in 1997, involves rigid eating eating which includes not touching sugar, salt, caffeine, alcohol, wheat, gluten, yeast, soya, corn and dairy foods.

Any “bad” foods that come into contact with pesticides, herbicides or contain artificial additives are also banned.

The obsession can lead to some sufferers ending up malnourished, lead to pressures in personal relationships and make them become socially isolated......

......“They are solely concerned with the quality of the food they put in their bodies, refining and restricting their diets according to their personal understanding of which foods are truly 'pure',” she said.

Nutritional consultant Ian Marber, who is also aka The Food Doctor, told the Daily Telegraph earlier this month that the “very worrying phenomenon” was becoming more prevalent in men.

"It's an obsessive fixation on eating so healthily that it becomes dangerous, characterised by feeling proud and superior by virtue of how little one eats,” he said."

Rise in 'orthorexic eating disorders sparked by healthy food obsession' - Telegraph

So, what is your point? What does the above information have to do with this thread?

What about the white flour and butter (saturated fat).


Well, I thought it was a lot more than just "okay". In addition to the chopped nuts, I had blackberries, blueberries, cantaloupe and bananna mixed together. I thought it was great! Almost too sweet for my taste. Then, a little bit later, I ate my steal-cut oats separately, lightly salted with an unprocessed salt.

You're not saying that what you do is healthier, just that it's less boring to you.

I guess that means you don't like fruit unless it has white flour, sugar, butter or other dressings added to it?

Alas, plenty.

Life is a series of choices, some voluntary, some forced upon us. Some of our choices work out well, some not so well. Diet is a personal choice. You have made your choice. Fine. I hope it works well for you. But to categorize those who don't subscribe to your specific dietary regimen as succumbing to baser instincts I find offensive.

Now you're talking........Meet you at Peachwave:1rotfl:
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Well, what? I'm waiting.

Why do you assume that The Villages isn't a healthy "city?" While the diet plan you follow works well for you and others, it is NOT the only way to eat, nor is it the only healthy way to eat. Villages, you enjoy your food choices. There is absolutely no guarantee that by eating in one particular way that we will live a long life. Life is uncertain, unforeseen accidents happen. We can' t tell all others how to eat, it's presumptuous to assume that our way is the right way, in diet choices, in life choices. It isn't my intention to get into a pi**ing contest over this, I'm not even a fan of berries ....my body just doesn't like them, but others are and they might just enjoy a sweet treat now and then.

As I've said in the past, Live long and prosper.

People who are obsessive about food usually cannot see the obsession.
 

Orthorexia Nervosa:* The Healthy Eating Disorder

The above article discusses a condition that is being diagnosed more frequently these days.

We each have a right to choose a healthy diet for ourselves.

I don't think that anyone is going to change their mind about eating choices by this thread.

Extreme views encourage negative responses.

The American Legion Post at 466 and Rolling Acres is having a blackberry festival this Saturday. See the DS for times.

Everybody enjoy the fresh berries in your own way!

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