Big Fat Liars
The most common surgeries used to be tonsillectomy and hysterectomy. Today it’s Cardiac Bypass or “cabbage” in doctor speak, which ironically is the result of not eating any.
Coronary Artery Disease (or CAD) is the single leading cause of mortality in the United States, accounting for over 900,000 deaths annually. More than two of every five Americans die of cardiovascular disease. Why are we all so broken hearted? BIG FAT LIARS!
Labels lie, and food marketing programs lead people to believe they’re doing good and that there is “good fat” and “bad fat.” The truth is rapidly becoming apparent that the standard recommended 30% fat in the American Diet is not low enough and that people have absolutely no idea how much fat they consume. The average American eats 4.7 lbs. of trans fat per year and the USDA recommends that people consume no more than 1.6 lbs of this toxin a year, even though it’s being banned in part in New York City because it’s so bad for you.
Fat is fat. If you eat it and are not lucky enough to be genetically blessed with resistance to heart disease, you will likely end up with cabbage. In my house, we eat organically and try not to consume more than 10% of our calories from fat. Always discuss it with your doctor, especially when it concerns children. Our family has heart disease that can only be called a curse, it’s so omnipresent. So, for us, we need to eat to live. Low fat doesn’t mean boring, chemicals or that you’ll starve for good food. Here are some tips I use to lower the amount of fat we eat:
1) Eat Grass Fed Meats - corn fed means fat.
2) Eat Bison, Eat WILD Venison, Boar
3) Use applesauce instead of oil in cakes and baking
4) Use egg whites only in omelets, cakes and pancakes
5) Substitute NO fat organic chicken stock for oil
6) Olive oil still has fat. Fat is fat. Even “good” fat has to be limited.
7) Use spices - lots and lots of spices
8) Low fat does not mean no cholesterol – CHECK THE LABELS!
9) Total fat of all kinds, including cholesterol, is what you are looking to reduce.
11) Get over it and just drink non fat milk
12) Use fat free yogurt in sauces
13) Become a friend of beans and rice
14) Salsa is your BEST friend, we use it on beans, rice, egg whites
15) Use rice noodles - they are fun, fat free in most cases and easy to cook
Some references to disgust yourself with just how much fat you really eat are:
www.chowbaby.com - Click on “fast food calories”
- Click on “fast food calories”www.dietfacts.com - Click on “fast food guide”
Just don’t blame me, I’m not the liar.
