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My new diet.
Silvia Martin:
It's not just the high fructose corn syrup in the gatoraid, it's the artificial coloring that's bad for you.
My hubby doesn't need a needle to make him squirm, he thought my masseuse was to ruff with him ::) men... ;D
Samson:
Good Points Craig,
Technically, your right, these Diet Guru's wouldn't advocate their methods, unless they made money. That Post I made the other day from Kat's thread was actually from an Email my Dad sent me, I didn't necessarily agree with all of it, but thought it was interesting. As you stated from your Post and I agree, Balance is the Key. That's why I don't personally advocate an overly vegetarian Diet. Our Bodies are made up of primarily of Water, Minerals and Amino Acids. Complete Proteins found in Meat, Fish, Chicken, Cheese, etc have all the of the Ten essential Amino Acids and probably all 22 Amino Acids. All I know is that, when I eat primarily Protein Foods and a regular intake of mostly green vegetables with a small amount of starches, I do very well. However, your right, all of this Diet business can become or already is, AN IDOL OF THE HEART. I will take your counsel and use it, because it displays much wisdom. I copied and pasted in blue a paragraph from your first Post that especially stood out for me, thankyou for this Post Craig, I sincerely appreciated it.
Craigs Point in Blue from his first Post on this thread found below.
As far as the people who push a special diet or food, etc. Follow the money, most would not hawk their wares or publish their beliefs if they did not make money. Same with religious characters, if they didn't make money they would try something else. I never saw a diet peddled that someone was not making money off it. Either, by books or selling the foods or supplements. And why do people who may have a new dietary approach such as the one Samson posted the other day, have to lie and claim another source provided their information? (not you Samson, the original author) People follow some of these charlatan's the same as they do a religious leader, with the same fervor and the truth be damned
Thanks, Samson.
Silvia Martin:
If you just leave as much processed stuff out as possible you'll be O.K. Especially artificial sweeteners,colors and flavors. Make the food yourself so you know what goes in it. Tortillas for example only have flour, water oil, salt and a little bakingpowder in it ,but have you seen the list of stuff on the wrapper of a storebought one ? Keep it simple, keep it fresh and on occasion when you treat yourself to some junkfood enjoy it just don't make a habit out of it.
I also use organic where i can,or at least the least processed version...unbleached flour,pure unbleached cane sugar, aluminumfree baking powder etc.
Linny:
Very good Sylvia.
I do want to say one thing. I do not disagree that there are too many people out to make themselves rich.
It is like everything else, there are a lot of bad (fill in the blank) but there are also good ones out there too. It is up to you to discern which are which. We've been blessed to find several really good doctors that aren't out for the money and actually care about the health of people. When you are being sued constantly for telling the truth, if you didn't really care, it'd be easy to say "forget this."
I know one in particular who had to add supplements to his website just to cover the lawsuits. Pretty sad.
I am teaching my children to make a living doing what they love. If you love helping people live a more healthy life, then why not choose that for your profession? I certainly don't think selling God should be a way to make money however.
We believe we have found a good balance in this area. We know too many people who are quite anal about what they eat and we are very flexible while trying to do the best for our family.
We did make food a god in the beginning and recognized that.
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