"Betty Lee" wrote in message
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Tea wrote:
[about a veggie hater husband]
+ at some point he needs to learn the joy of having something else in
+ his diet besides starches and meats

Yes, like candy, nuts, and chocolates!
Or, better yet, candied nuts _in_ chocolate! ;-)

There's a whole lot more to eat than starches, meats, and veggies...

Ah, yes. The other three food groups...
Actually, where my family is from, the four food groups are meat, lard,
starch and sugar.
Protein can keep you lean. However, there have been numerous studies in the
Atkins diet and others that show an all or nearly all protein diet does put
a strain on the heart after a while, and leaves the body vitamin-deficient.
I love a good piece of meat, but meat by itself will not keep you healthy.
Besides, many veggie-haters use the 'meat is good for you' as an excuse to
eat carb-heavy foods like processed meat fast food, which is full of sugar
and starch. We now know that Mickey D's isn't good for anybody except the
stock-holders.

Even is the Demoness' husband has reverted (or progressed- yum) to eating
meat cooked over a fire or inthe oven, if the cuts are fatty or excessive,
he'll still get fat. 4,00 calories of Kobe beef is still 4,000 calories, no
matter how you (sorry, couldn't resist) slice it. Since I've yet to find a
veggie eater that lives on steak Tartare, though, I think we can assume that
starch is a major supplement to hubby's diet. Chances are that hubby is not
a health freak, so all the bread and pasta is probably made out of white
flour and sugar, which are bad for the body in large amounts. Add butter or
oils for frying those egg sandwiches, and you'll be keeping both your
dentist and your heart specialist very happy indeed. Even people with fast
metabolisms have been know to get heart attacks from such diets.
Which still leaves me with the contention that too much meat and starch
(particularly the way Americans eat it) is not good for anybody. I think
even Dr. Atkins would agree on that one. If he didn't, he wouldn't be a
zillionaire by now- because as we keep getting told, Americans are way too
fat, and they didn't get that way from having a meat diet of fresh fish or
lean cuts of meat.