Article in ladies Home Journal

There is an article about fats and carbs in the December Home Journal. It says fats won't make you fat and exercise won't make you skinny. It is all about the carbs you eat! It actually says eating carbs is the cause of insulin resistant diabetes. A very interesting article.Says meat and egss are the new diet foods. It is in the health section.

The other thing that many of us were unaware of is how big business drives the food industry. Everyone is complaining about childhood obesity and pointing their fingers at fast food chains. Somehow they overlook the $4.00 boxes of sugar encrusted crunchy fluffs (with 8 essential vitamins - Woo Hoo!) CARBS! to which children add milk (MORE CARBS!) followed by an imitation fruit juice for a dose of vitamin C (Even more CARBS!) every day for breakfast! Yet you can feed a child for a few weeks on that same $4.00 if you alternate eggs and toast with oatmeal and a piece of fruit every morning.

Agribusiness is big business and big money. They spend it lobbying congress, advertising 'wholesomeness', (which has nothing to do with nutrition, by the way) and selling the public on products that many of us shouldn't have. There is more nutrition in a real piece of pie than in most breakfast toaster tarts. And many kids would be better served by a homemade oatmeal-peanut butter cookie for breakfast than some of the cereals on the market.

Ladies Home Journal had to go out on a limb to produce that story. They will definitely get some feedback from some of their advertisers who make big bucks selling non-essential, non-nutritious foods to an unsuspecting public. It is my opinion that the diabetes epidemic can be partially traced right back to the center aisles of our grocery stores. I wish there were some way to make fresh veggies and fruits the center of every meal for everyone so that they could regain some health. I wish that $5.00 for squash didn't look extravagant and $5.00 for a bag of chips look normal. Enough of my rant....

I just bought the LHJ with that article.  Interestingly enough, it's written by Gary Taubes and is almost a summary of his new book Good Calories, Bad Calories.  It's an easier read and not as tedious, so if you are interested in the facts to support the low carb diet, you would do well to get this magazine.  This is the January issue with Hilary Swank holding a lion cub on the cover.

Oh, Karen, absolutely!  We went out to dinner tonight and I had an arugula salad with crab and proscuito and a steak with mushrooms and blue cheese with a glass of wine.   This is a diet?  Wow!  But, uh, cakewalk?  argh.