Re: Fats (was: Swank diet and MS and the fat wars

March 7, 2002

What did cause me to lose weight in the most amazing way

and feel great was the ne Summers diet (please don't laugh).

** heehee. NO, actually I am not laughing because I recently perused that

book and found it to be not too bad at all! :-) Not NT (what else is?) but

refreshingly it was a book with " real " food in it. And she was brave to take a

pro-fat stance. I think she uses a little " vegetable oil " but no trans-fats

thanks goodness. I can't even stand to see the word " margarine " written in a

cookbook now. They may as well reccommend smoking cigarrettes while they are at

it. :-) But, yes, she mostly used olive oil and butter.

>>It would be hard for me to do all at once. It's a whole knew way of

thinking, finding food, and cooking.

** You can say that again. One step at a time. I actually have eaten a

pretty decent diet for several years now... I mean, not a SAD diet of junk food.

I haven't done that diet since childhood (sorry, Mom). For example, even though

I was kinda sorta vegetarian for many years (after reading Diet for a New

America) I have been using good cultured butter and organic olive oil as my only

fats for a few years now. They just tasted best. And I did figure out long ago

that butter was WAY better than margarine. It didn't take too much reading to

figure that one out. But I still have a long way to go to be really on a NT

diet.

>>I'm amazed how my taste buds are

becoming sensitive to fake food . One thing in particular is store bought

bottled dressing. After having real salad dressing the other is terrible.

** Yeah. Luckily, I stopped eating fake foods long ago. They taste

disgusting to me. Now I am at the point where even good quality bottled pasta

sauces (ie organic etc) taste fake to me. I still use the canned (Muir Glen)

tomatoes, but add my own onions etc to make a sauce. One's taste buds (or sense

of taste in general at least) really do seem to become averse to processed foods

if one starts to eat REAL, fresh food!

>> I think that NT strikes a chord within us that just makes sense.

Yep.

>>My

parents both have very low " bad " cholesterol. My dad still had to have

quadruple bypass.

Wow!

Thanks for your comments, they all help.

Carolyn

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