Food 08 Sep 2006 07:57 am
More on a Nourishing Traditions line of thought (and other stuff)…
the same author, Sally Fallon, has a book called Eat Fat, Lose Fat. I’ve added it to the list of books I want to read because besides feeling TONS better eating the way we have (and c’mon, see the below post and how could we not feel good to our very pores?!), we’re actually losing inches.
My dh has lost an entire pants size to his great surprise. His metabolism is up. Not having added any new excersize in, he attributes it completely to the food.
Good, high quality saturated fats, also affect hormones (sexual and not), seratonin levels (anyone want to explore the rampant problem of depression and low-fat diets?), and our ability to concentrate.
and anyway, on a total tangent that I don’t have time to explore: I hope no one, on this site or any other, is thinking I’m being a pharasee and saying it’s a law to take your children into church with you, or any of the other outward manifestations of our christianity. That would be to miss the point entirely. I think most of the “pharasee” argument is not unlike that of my old pastor, who inadvertantly and I’m sure unintentionally, wanted to so guard everyone’s personal expressions and put them under a blanket of “love” that any move in a more deliberate direction was guilt ridden. Suggesting someone is just being pharasitical because you don’t like what they might be saying is a convenient argument. It also shuts down any true dialog. I think modern christians are so threatened by any expression of christianity that might threaten their autonomy that they don’t know how to accept it, and either paint with a very broad, “everything goes” brush or reject it as extremeism. What the heck is wrong with it having some merit? And why are we all calling ourselves “followers of Christ” when we can’t stand up for a gosh-blessed thing?
