Oh, Ye of the Grocery Tumor
Raising a nation of kids with grocery tumors, more and more of us are pregnant with "baby power." Experts in the art of moving hand to mouth and hand to remote control, we're inspired by ads for Pork Emperor.
When a youngster died of E. Coli from eating an undercooked hamburger at a fast-food restaurant, the media exploded. Millions of pounds of hamburger were impounded. Laws were quickly passed calling for the thorough cooking of hamburgers.
What? Bacterial food poisoning is NOT the biggest problem... eating too much is.
Compare these tragic deaths by food poisoning. Millions die each year from the consequences of eating too much food. But we keep bolting the food down.
Don't get this wrong; There's no such a thing as an unhealthy food.
Well then, what is the worst food you can think of? What is the highest fat recipe?
Two that are tied at the top of the list; fettuccine alfredo and cheesecake. Of course, some cultures will cut fat right off an animal, fry it up and swallow it down!
The real question is, what would happen if you had some fettuccine or cheesecake every 4 months? Nothing. No bad foods exist; only bad eating patterns. I don't want people to misunderstand and think I'm a fanatic. I advocate an "80/20" plan. Pick a day or two and eat what you want. Don't put yourself in diet prison. Repression kills. Diets don't work.
Then again, I don't want you to use this advice to go off the deep end on your eat-anything-you-want day.
Drawn into high-fat franchises by the likes of Ronald McDonald, we raise our kids on all-beef hamburgers and orders of French fries. We have given up control of our kids' eating habits to clowns, an air-heads, and dead, fat white men.
"If you can't beat 'em, treat 'em....
to lunch."
