Politically Incorrect Nutrition
Despite
my unconventional lifestyle, I tend to be very trusting of
authority. In a dicey situation, I walk toward the policemen
rather than away. I scoff at Mark's conspiracy theories and
believe in sound science. And I lapped up the USDA food pyramid
in health class, vowing to eat 6 to 11 servings of carbohydrates per
day and to consume fats only in extreme moderation.
At the same time, I
believed in what I call the hippy food
pyramid. It looks a lot like the USDA food pyramid, but is a bit
stricter and more specific. Whole grains make up the base of the
hippy food pyramid, and soy replaces meat in many instances. The
vegetable and fruit section is a little heftier and red meat is bad,
bad, bad.
Over the last year, though,
I've been slowly learning nutritional
factoids that don't seem to fit my old view of proper nutrition.
As Mark and I incorporated these anti-USDA nutritional guidelines into
our lives, we felt perkier, smarter, and thinner. But I was
concerned about making drastic shifts in our diet based on
half-understood truths, so I checked out Michael Barbee's Politically
Incorrect Nutrition.
The book was
eye-opening, full of twenty pages of small print
references to back up his nutritional guidelines --- ones that my gut
already told me made sense in my own life. I've excerpted the
most game-changing facts in this week's lunchtime series, but this is
one book I recommend checking out on your own and taking the time to
slog through. Yes, it is dense, but isn't it worth putting in a
bit of study time to take care of your most important possession ---
your health?
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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.
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