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Default Do you get angry about food?


<Ross@home> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 17 Apr 2012 23:56:04 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> > wrote:
>
>>I have been reading all these diet books lately. And according to them we
>>should eat everything organic, mainly non-starchy veggies, fish and
>>chicken.
>>And apparently not much else. Brown rice is okay for some. The most
>>recent
>>book recommended that we (meaning everyone) have a shake for breakfast
>>that
>>involved rice protein, pea protein, or chia protein with some ice, hemp or
>>nut milk, a little non-citrus fruit, ground flax, walnut oil and some
>>nuts.
>>There was another version that involved tofu. On the one hand this Dr.
>>was
>>telling us not to eat anything that is processed or has a label on it. On
>>the other hand he is telling us we need to slug this stuff down every
>>morning. His recipes also involve canned beans. He said we should feel
>>free to eat 2 pounds of asparagus or broccoli if we wanted to. Now I like
>>most vegetables but even I couldn't eat 2 pounds of them.
>>
>>So that is how the regular person is supposed to eat. Now if we have
>>diabetes or a weight problem or some sort of other medical problem then
>>our
>>diet should be even more limited. I look at what we are supposed to eat,
>>according to these experts and I just don't even want to eat! It is
>>easier
>>for me to just go hungry than to have to force down something I really
>>dislike.
>>
>>So Angela pointed out to me that we are seeing countless people walking
>>around eating Subway, McDonalds, donuts, candy, cookies, ice cream, etc.
>>They are skinny and they do not have any medical problems. So that kind
>>of
>>makes me angry. Not that I want to eat the crap that I see them eating.
>>Because I don't. But part of me gets angry that I can't just eat what I
>>want to with no consequences.
>>
>>Why is it some people can do this and we can't?
>>

>
> It's simple, they probably haven't had their hair tested yet so they
> don't know they're either allergic or intolerant to almost anything
> animal, vegetable or mineral currently known to humankind.


Buh bye!