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I'm not against cheese, I'll have it now but in smaller doses. I feel I was eating too much cheese and so I stopped that. But I know a mother who has a few children; and when she comes home her reward or gift to those children is a nice bag of cookies for each child. Two children are very fat, yet they love those cookies! She will buy them fast food burgers and fries as a treat as well very often. They have bags of potato chips around them at their disposal as well. Would you say these items are nutritious? The kids love them; they are not on a diet, they are not told by their mom to stay away them, in fact, she feeds them these things as if they were the greatest foods on the earth. Sorry, folks, if you want to eat lots of cheese despite knowing the

cholesterol it contains, that's your choice. Go for it. If you don't want to believe that eating certain foods like vegetables and fruits is "good for you," and believe that a steady intake of fast food burgers with cheese and fries and bacon is OK, believe what you want. I, for my part, will continue to enjoy vegetables and fruits, keep using my choices, and I choose to stay away from fries and burgers at a fast food place covered with melted cheese for the most part. I love IE, but I"m not giving up my thinking ability. I was at the health food store yesterday because I wanted a particular item (yes, folks, chicken bouillion without MSG, another additive in foods I try to refrain from), and I saw a flavor of potato chips that I kind of wanted to try. hmmm I was so tempted ... for less than 2 minutes. I even went back to look at them, thinking maybe maybe I'll buy them, haven't had a bag of potato chips in years. But then I realized

it was a big bag and I MIGHT NOT enjoy the new flavor, I really didn't enjoy my previously addictive highly processed food and the thought of all those additives and saturated fat in those chips made me willingly reject them. Now when the doctor tells you that you have diabetes, do you continue eating all the sugary products you want? Some do and they may have to suffer the consequences of the disease, which in most cases of adults is self inflicted. As I said, if a person wants to believe it's OK to eat all the sugar and cholesterol they want, who am I to stop them? But I will eat cheese from time to time, just not as much as I used to because yes, I don't think it's good for me. Now if you want to think that all the cholesterol-laden foods are ok for you, I am not your food policewoman. But I am knocking off so much cheese, just like I stopped eating potato chips in large quantity. Tai To: IntuitiveEating_Support Sent: Saturday, August 27, 2011 11:47 PMSubject: Re: I Am Not a Garbage Disposal!

I agree completely; this is all Big Pharma making billions more dollars a year selling statins. Same with lowering the #'s for blood pressure a few years back; made them even more billions and the pharmaceutical companies are on the boards that set the standards of care in medicine. Nasty.

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> > >> From: Tailyn Grey <tailyngrey@>

> > >> Subject: Re: I Am Not a Garbage Disposal!

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> > >> Date: Thursday, August 25, 2011, 8:31 AM

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> > >> Jane, good going! You were able to stop. I am curious, though. How much

> > >> food did you eat when you realized you were no longer hungry? I am having

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> > >> real problem with that. I am revising my thoughts and feelings about

> > >> certain kinds of foods, trying to move away from cheese because it is so

> > >> high in cholesterol anyway, even though it is such a luxurious food for

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> > >> to eat. The idea of something dripping with cheese is still very

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> > >> but I am working on getting off cheese. Do you notice how much food it

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> > >> to get you unhungry? (Anybody ...) Tai

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