I think the key is sugar in moderation, not to cut it completely.
Actually, margarine has been around a lot longer than most people think. It was actually invented during the reign of Napoleon (who wanted a butter substitute that would taste like butter and be cheap to make so that even the poorest of the poor could have some), but it didn't actually pick up steam until people started adding yellow food coloring to it to make it pretty.
If you're hungry all the time, maybe there's something you need that your body's not getting. Points to ponder; calories aren't the only things a body needs.
Well-no. No, that's not what I heard. I heard it has a tendency to throw a body's chemistry out of whack so that it can't absorb certain nutrients. I do believe you about that bit of listening to your body though. I used to get these horrendous cravings for tomatoes (hard on me because I literally can't stand the taste of them) that didn't stop until I started taking a potassium supplement. The human body is a strange thing.
I'm diabetic, and I use a lot of stevia. I'm just guessing, but here are some of the bad things you may have heard:
My responses:
- It has a nasty aftertaste.
- It's bad for the environment.
- It hasn't really been proven to be safe.
Eating too much sugar and/or high fructose corn syrup can cause diabetes. It can also cause cirrhosis of the liver. Just because sugar is a natural sweetener doesn't mean it's good for you. When we were evolving, a desire for sweets resulted in eating more fruits, with all the fiber and vitamins that came with the fruit. It also gave us more calories, so that we could better survive periodic famines. But then we learned to keep bees in hives controlled by humans who would periodically steal their honey and sell this highly refined version of sugar, we learned how to refine sugar ourselves, and our consumption of sugar increased way past safe levels.
- Yes, the stevia that you can get in your local grocery store does have a nasty aftertaste. This is a result of the cheap purification method they used. When stevia is prepared properly there is no nasty aftertaste at all (though it's too sweet if you try to eat it straight). I recommend either Now Better Stevia or NuStevia. There are probably a few others that taste good, but I haven't gone searching for them.
- This particular claim is being made by a company that plans to manufacture a synthetic version of stevia, in order to justify what amounts to a cost-cutting measure because they can't be bothered to actually purify stevia properly. Unfortunately, it means yet another artificial sweetener, and they're trying to get the government to say that they can call their new sweetener "stevia," without saying that it's artificial (which genuine stevia is not).
- There was a scare a few years ago about stevia causing some kind of horrible organ failure, which proved to be based entirely on speculation. The biggest problem with stevia that I've been able to find online is that it can actually cause hypoglycemia (low blood sugar). In most people it shouldn't, but if you're worried about it there are some excellent glucometers (blood glucose meters) available at low expense; I got mine from a Kroger pharmacy; it's their store brand and both the meter and the test strips are cheap, while the quality remains high. And if stevia does cause hypoglycemia for you, you may want to get a checkup. Merely replacing refined sugar with stevia shouldn't do that to you.
Yes, for most healthy people, sugar is safe, in moderation! Saccharin may or may not be safe, but it still tastes like saccharin.Cyclamate may well be safe -- the study that got it banned for being a carcinogen was funded by the people who wanted to market aspartame. The studies that claim to prove the safety of aspartame all have the same disclaimer: "in moderate amounts," which is what I say about sugar!
As for fats, it isn't fat that is the problem; it's the kind of fat. We absolutely have to have some cholesterol; our brains need it. If a mother doesn't get cholesterol while pregnant the developing brain of her fetus can be damaged, and even adults need it for proper brain functioning. The problem arises when we get too much of one kind of cholesterol and not enough of another. See http://www.drsinatra.com/defining-the-different-types-of-cholesterol/ for definitions and more depth than simply "LDL cholesterol is bad and HDL cholesterol is good." Our bodies are complex, and the fact is that we simply don't know everything about them. Yes, new research keeps coming out, and sometimes it proves that the things we used to be told about health are wrong. The best rule of thumb that I know of is, listen to your body. Pay attention! Notice when something new in your diet makes you feel bad, or good. And read as much as you can, because the more you understand about how your body works the better you can understand what it's telling you.
Margret
Sodium is something your body needs, very badly (and in moderation, of course). And have you considered honey? It's all natural (some of them) and some of the people down here add it to their tea while it's hot to sweeten it, before chilling it. Just a thought.
Get a spray tan if you must have some color on you. Any color from the sun is sun damage. The sun is your skin's worst enemy. It is NOT worth it . Use sunblock every day. If you have not found one that works for you, go to sites like Amazon, Sephora, Ulta, etc and read reviews of other kinds. Your skin will thank you years from now. Always wear sunglasses when you go outside. Squinting causes crow's feet. I have light ones by my left eye because of just that. It's much easier to prevent them than it is to get rid of them.
Sun is very damaging to us fair people... It would take me until the summer to get a tan..
Get a spray tan if you must have some color on you. Any color from the sun is sun damage. The sun is your skin's worst enemy. It is NOT worth it . Use sunblock every day. If you have not found one that works for you, go to sites like Amazon, Sephora, Ulta, etc and read reviews of other kinds. Your skin will thank you years from now. Always wear sunglasses when you go outside. Squinting causes crow's feet. I have light ones by my left eye because of just that. It's much easier to prevent them than it is to get rid of them.
I am full blooded Irish. The sun hates me and the feeling is mutual. I have never had a tan in my life and I wish that back in the day (late 70's and 80's) I knew what I know now. I would have avoided the sun like the plague. Back then though, being pale was considered to be horrible. I was teased all the time because I was pale. People would come up to me and tell me that I needed more sun because I was "so pale". We used to slather ourselves with baby oil and lay in the sun
@segelkatt FYI: In hospitals, there are not all consistent with shifts. I worked 10am - 6pm... and from 9am-5:30pm and from 8:30 am - 5pm... with an unpaid 30 minute lunch and absolutely no coffee breaks.. not even the legally called for 15 minute break in a 4 hour shift. Many days we did not get lunch either. We ate in-between seeing patients; a bite here and there...
Huh, I never noticed that sheep before, but I'll be looking for a place to use it. As for the sugar, LOTS of people put sugar in anything tomato-based, to cut the acidity. If you want really strange, I put two squares of a Hershey bar in my chili, You can't taste the chocolate at all, but it cuts the acidity and adds a rich, deep smokey flavor to the chili.
I use mild Italian sausage and only taste the spices when I eat a piece of the ground sausage. You can make it w/o the spices and add them if it isn't spicy enough. My husband likes spicy foods and I don't so he is always adding chili powder to my food.
BTW If your trying to cut calories, check the ingredients on your chili powder. I had one that had sugar added to it.
Just found this icon.Not sure when you would use it. What do ewe think?
You must have disappeared before I joined, Welcome back.
I entirely agree with this. I would add that it looks like she knows she has a willing horse, and is acting accordingly,
I eat a pretty balanced diet. I was raised on good home cooking and that's what I stick with. I also take a daily multivitamin. I just have a much faster metabolism than most and need more calories to sustain my body than most people. I eat twice as much as anyone I know and I'm still considered underweight, but my doctor said not to worry about it because I'm healthy. I'm about 5'6" and 105 lbs. I've been trying really hard to gain 5 pounds so I can donate blood, but it's not working. I had to get a major blood transfusion after an ex-boyfriend beat me up pretty bad a couple of years ago and lacerated my spleen and kidney. It saved my life and I really want to donate blood to "pay back" what I used and help other people. I just can't gain weight no matter what I try. I shouldn't complain, though. Most people have the opposite problem! Haha
I think the key is sugar in moderation, not to cut it completely.
As both AWM and LS are afflicted with the same pale skin you have, I congratulate you on getting a little bit of color without getting burned!
Actually, margarine has been around a lot longer than most people think. It was actually invented during the reign of Napoleon (who wanted a butter substitute that would taste like butter and be cheap to make so that even the poorest of the poor could have some), but it didn't actually pick up steam until people started adding yellow food coloring to it to make it pretty.
If you're hungry all the time, maybe there's something you need that your body's not getting. Points to ponder; calories aren't the only things a body needs.
Well-no. No, that's not what I heard. I heard it has a tendency to throw a body's chemistry out of whack so that it can't absorb certain nutrients. I do believe you about that bit of listening to your body though. I used to get these horrendous cravings for tomatoes (hard on me because I literally can't stand the taste of them) that didn't stop until I started taking a potassium supplement. The human body is a strange thing.
Sodium is something your body needs, very badly (and in moderation, of course). And have you considered honey? It's all natural (some of them) and some of the people down here add it to their tea while it's hot to sweeten it, before chilling it. Just a thought.
I know that the store is in a mess. My previous manager was working insane hours herself as she tried to keep it afloat and was (although I'm not supposed to know this) a hair's breath away from going postal. One of the things the previous manager used to do was to work us right up to the thirty-nine hour mark. (We're all temps--the company doesn't hire full time employees at our level.) I'm not complaining (to management) about the new scheduling, because I don' t know the reasoning behind it. (One of the things I like about the company I work at is that it looks at its employees--even temps--as people.) I know, for example, that of the seven employees working the store at my level I'm only one of two who neither has children, nor has charge of young children. New management might be trying to change the schedule to make it easier for the parents on crew--and I can see where the new schedule would be easier on parents. Of course, I could be overthinking it.
Yeah--AWM had a similar problem with the post office. She had to fight like a cornered wolf to get the pay she was owed, and when they were finally square with each other she quit. (I think she's still one the roster though--they keep sending timesheets in the mail showing she's worked zero hours.)
I've had problems on the blood donation front myself. For the first six times I tried to donate, my iron count was too low. Then, after I had finally managed to donate--twice--they added a question about being in Germany between two years. When I mentioned that yes, I had been in Germany between those dates (DD was stationed there), they told me I couldn't donate blood anymore. When I demanded to know why, they told me that it was because there had been a mad cow epidemic between those two years, which is total bull. I wasn't even old enough to eat solid foods, and my early years were primarily vegetarian (AWM believed that if a baby had a primarily vegetarian diet it decreased the chances of the child turning its nose up at vegetables later). The only exception to the rule were ribs--pork ribs, not to put too fine a point on it. Not to mention that if I had gotten mad cow, I would have gotten sick before now! (Sorry for ranting. It's just that I used to be an organ donor, but when I renewed my license the community blood center had put a notice on my information that I'm not allowed to do that.)
There are two reasons I wanted to work at the company that owns the convenience store I work at now. Reason one is that when AWM and I (we took turns doing this) were taking care of a very cantankerous aunt (who was living in an assisted living facility filled arrogant people who took issue with us because we weren't acting like proper "ladies") one of the things that kept us sane were breaks we were able to take the occasional break (the aunt was in physical therapy and we were able to rest for that hour) at a convenience store across the street. (Also the place that introduced AWM to cappuccino.) I try to create the same quick-helping and yet amiable atmosphere that place had for my customers at the station. (The other reason is that my company wants to rule the world--it's in the mission statement. Almost all of the convenience stores here belong to that company, and they have stores all over the globe, so they're off to a good start.)
Kind of reminds me of when AWM taught me how to drive. Every time we had inclement weather, I was out behind the wheel learning how to compensate for the bad weather. Rain so thick it's nearly impossible to see the end of the car hood? I've driven through it. Snow? Driven through it. Fog that alternates between being as clear as frosted glass to almost no visibility issues at all? Driven through it. Ice that's coated everything in a thin layer? Driven through it. Nighttime during a city-wide power outage? Driven through it. Hail? Actually, no--according to AWM hail is far too dangerous to drive in and the best thing to do during a hailstorm is stay put. By the time I finally got to Driver's ED (which is a story in and of itself) the only thing I hadn't driven in was sunshine. And believe me, it showed. Anyway, AWM would always tell me, "You may never see conditions like this again, but you will drive through them now."
We get enough sodium from bread, cereal, baked goods, etc. I don't add it to my food because I don't like the way it makes it taste. Same thing with other seasonings. You don't use the ones you don't like in your food. I like the idea of using honey for my iced tea, no bad effects from sugar or artificial sweeteners. Thank you!
I think the key is sugar in moderation, not to cut it completely.
As both AWM and LS are afflicted with the same pale skin you have, I congratulate you on getting a little bit of color without getting burned!
Actually, margarine has been around a lot longer than most people think. It was actually invented during the reign of Napoleon (who wanted a butter substitute that would taste like butter and be cheap to make so that even the poorest of the poor could have some), but it didn't actually pick up steam until people started adding yellow food coloring to it to make it pretty.
If you're hungry all the time, maybe there's something you need that your body's not getting. Points to ponder; calories aren't the only things a body needs.
Well-no. No, that's not what I heard. I heard it has a tendency to throw a body's chemistry out of whack so that it can't absorb certain nutrients. I do believe you about that bit of listening to your body though. I used to get these horrendous cravings for tomatoes (hard on me because I literally can't stand the taste of them) that didn't stop until I started taking a potassium supplement. The human body is a strange thing.
Sodium is something your body needs, very badly (and in moderation, of course). And have you considered honey? It's all natural (some of them) and some of the people down here add it to their tea while it's hot to sweeten it, before chilling it. Just a thought.
Well, maybe you do. In our area they're experimenting with low and no sodium everything--breads, meats, cereal--it's getting to where you can't get salt unless you add it. (They've even passed an ordinance that restaruants aren't supposed to use cheese made with salt!
Probably.
