Re: My own path

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I do think that one has to take their own health and family health history into account. I don't worry so much about saturated fat, but the sugar I have been legalizing and the fact that diabetes runs very prevalant in my family (my mom and her brother both have adult onset and my mom's grandma died from dieabetes back in the day when they didn't know that much about it). Talk about the food police telling me I shouldn't be eating all of this stuff with sugar in it because of the fear of developing diabetes myself! How do you quiet those voices? I just keep telling them that this is something I need to process and go through in order to get over that hump where I can enjoy small amounts of sugary deserts and chocolate etc in moderation.

I just about can't stand reading or hearing any "new" studies relating to health, food, exercise etc. I find myself turning my ears, eyes and head to all of that stuff more and more. Just the other morning I heard a little snipet about a study relating to red meat and it's correlation to cancer - I don't think it said what kind of cancer though and personally I don't care. Bottom line is that we all will die someday and the best we can do is do things in moderation while still enjoying life - this goes for exercise, food, alcohol and the such.

--Alana

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While on the subject of what helps on an individual basis, probably the single thing that helped me the most in legalising food was finding out what is healthy as opposed to what I was told was healthy. Everyone knows how food recommendations change - one day eggs are deadly, the next it's 'oops, actually they are - and the yolks are the healthiest part of all'. Butter is now practically a health food (especially if you have grassfed butter)when I first tried leglising food, the food police voices were always after me for craving fatty foods. Of course I did - I'd been eating low fat garbage for years - loaded with fake fats and additives to make it resemble real food - my body was probably suffering from a lack of good fat. I could not understand why IE wasn't 'working'. How could I still be craving 'bad' food I was 'supposed to' be craving healthy stuff - it wasn't that it wasn't working - I just had the definition of healthy food wr

ong - My body knew what it was doing - it was craving healthy - I just had mislabeled it as unhealthy.So when I found out fat - even saturated fat - is good and necessary - and I started eating it - that was when the last stumbling block fell away and I was free to eat any food I wanted without judgement - to know what I really was hungry for instead of what I was 'supposed' to be hungry for. This was years ago when you had to do a lot of research to find this stuff. It was there - and had been for decades - but you had to know where to look. the rest of the world was so focused on low fat - and had invested soooo much money in low fat products - they were not keen for the info to get out. now though, the message is actually starting to reach the mainstream. Last month alone there was an article in the NY Times, as well as at least two others I know of in other sources.I thought I'd put this in cuz it helped me pro

bably more than anything else - and who knows - it may help someone else. Not to try to shake up what anyone eats - but maybe just to quiet the voices a little. If they arent' so sure that skim milk is really superior - even if they still think it is - but if there is some little doubt - maybe they won't be so loud. It's a thought anyway Who knows what will work. And if it doens't work for you, feel free to ignore it :)Diet and Fat: A Severe Case Of Mistaken Consensushttp://tinyurl.com/yoesasWhat if Bad Fat is Actually Good for You?http://tinyurl.com/yubfnyhttp://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/6933686.stmDiet food 'may fuel obesity risk'