Oh bentos! =D (And you should keep the yoke with the egg--it has the things that your really should be eating with the egg. Like with nuts, you can't get scared away by the fat content. And cholesterol is overrated as a factor in many things--there are other less explored pathways that are much better links to issues often said to be the result of "high cholesterol.")
I think the scarf is groovy! =D Handmade things are fun. But, I know how you feel about a "cop out" kind of gift. I feel that way every time I give away something that I've made. Like....man. This is so not that exciting. Sigh.
I saw Food Matters, and Food, Inc. But, more importantly, my more recent attempt to convert to an increasingly Raw Food diet comes from an ever stronger realization that so much of what we're told about good food, healthy food, etc is primarily manipulated data for the purpose of selling a product. Even something like yogurt, which really is one of those things that you shouldn't be eating, mostly because it's not something your body needs, is misunderstood (98% of all the yogurt found in the grocery store isn't the yogurt they talk about when they show those studies about how yogurt helps all sorts of things). I think it's very important to learn more about how and why we need to eat certain foods, and to examine more closely where many of our beliefs about food come from. Even our understand of health, and what we need for our body to function is often very skewed information--such as all the "fats" and "carbohydrates" and "sugar" and "fiber" and so on. Some of it is labeling, but much of it is a failure to educate people properly in school about actual nutrition, so that most of our sources are from advertisments.
Don't forget, there are differences in "protein" that are significant as well. Nut protein, plant protein, and animal proteins are all different. Vegetable proteins are by far the best type of proteins for your body. This really is something to look into, and understand, especially when weighing the cost/benefit of something like eating a "bread" made out of blended and dehydrated nuts and seeds, with a burger made of uncooked vegetables (no legumes though), in terms not only of calories and protein, but of "fat." There's a reason why people who eat a raw food diet have much healthier body fat ratios than anyone who follows standard American "healthy" eating practices (like eating "whole grains" and yogurt, and "lean meats" with lots of cooked vegetables).
But, I wish you luck on getting closer to a healthy lifestyle, and a healthy relationship to food. =D I think that more important than just realizing that certain foods are not really healthy for your body, is being able to say something like, "Afterwards, I went and ate a Burger King, because I felt like eating a hamburger and french fries," without guilt.
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Date: 2011-02-04 08:20 pm (UTC)I think the scarf is groovy! =D Handmade things are fun. But, I know how you feel about a "cop out" kind of gift. I feel that way every time I give away something that I've made. Like....man. This is so not that exciting. Sigh.
I saw Food Matters, and Food, Inc. But, more importantly, my more recent attempt to convert to an increasingly Raw Food diet comes from an ever stronger realization that so much of what we're told about good food, healthy food, etc is primarily manipulated data for the purpose of selling a product. Even something like yogurt, which really is one of those things that you shouldn't be eating, mostly because it's not something your body needs, is misunderstood (98% of all the yogurt found in the grocery store isn't the yogurt they talk about when they show those studies about how yogurt helps all sorts of things). I think it's very important to learn more about how and why we need to eat certain foods, and to examine more closely where many of our beliefs about food come from. Even our understand of health, and what we need for our body to function is often very skewed information--such as all the "fats" and "carbohydrates" and "sugar" and "fiber" and so on. Some of it is labeling, but much of it is a failure to educate people properly in school about actual nutrition, so that most of our sources are from advertisments.
Don't forget, there are differences in "protein" that are significant as well. Nut protein, plant protein, and animal proteins are all different. Vegetable proteins are by far the best type of proteins for your body. This really is something to look into, and understand, especially when weighing the cost/benefit of something like eating a "bread" made out of blended and dehydrated nuts and seeds, with a burger made of uncooked vegetables (no legumes though), in terms not only of calories and protein, but of "fat." There's a reason why people who eat a raw food diet have much healthier body fat ratios than anyone who follows standard American "healthy" eating practices (like eating "whole grains" and yogurt, and "lean meats" with lots of cooked vegetables).
But, I wish you luck on getting closer to a healthy lifestyle, and a healthy relationship to food. =D I think that more important than just realizing that certain foods are not really healthy for your body, is being able to say something like, "Afterwards, I went and ate a Burger King, because I felt like eating a hamburger and french fries," without guilt.