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1clamairy
I just have to recommend the book that I finished last night:
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan
Oh, good, the touchstones are dead.
:oP
Here's the link: http://www.librarything.com/work/3720689/book/25964798
and a nice piccie:
I am REALLY going to make an effort to eat better.
The first rule shouldn't be to hard to remember: Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food.
:o)
What books do the rest of you recommend or try to follow?
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan
Oh, good, the touchstones are dead.
:oP
Here's the link: http://www.librarything.com/work/3720689/book/25964798
and a nice piccie:
I am REALLY going to make an effort to eat better.
The first rule shouldn't be to hard to remember: Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food.
:o)
What books do the rest of you recommend or try to follow?
2Morphidae
Intuitive Eating by Evelyn Tribole
The first rule: Eat when you are hungry.
The second rule: Stop when you are full.
:)
The first rule: Eat when you are hungry.
The second rule: Stop when you are full.
:)
3readafew
a great reference book Calorie King. Has Calories, Fat, and Carbohydrate numbers for most of the menu items on chain restaurants in the US. They also have a free website with even more up-to-date info.
4DaynaRT
This kind of goes along with the cover of clam's book. (I hope that's Romaine on the cover, lol)
Don't bother with Iceberg lettuce. It has no great nutritional value. It's water in leaf form. It was created to have no taste, hence the lack of substantial vitamins and minerals. Look elsewhere for leafy greens to put in salads. I like Romaine and spinach!
Don't bother with Iceberg lettuce. It has no great nutritional value. It's water in leaf form. It was created to have no taste, hence the lack of substantial vitamins and minerals. Look elsewhere for leafy greens to put in salads. I like Romaine and spinach!
5dchaikin
Child of Mine: Feeding With Love and Good Sense by Ellyn Satter - For feeding babies and children. It was recommended to us by a friend about the time our daughter was born, and the ideas were excellent and worked wonderfully. Satter really pushes smart decisions on what and when to eat and letting your body tell you how much to eat. (for kids, parents decide the what & when, babies/kids the how much)
Because of that, we also have Secrets of Feeding a Healthy Family by the same author. I haven't actually read this one yet... but same basic logic. This one is not just for kids, adults are also part of the focus.
Because of that, we also have Secrets of Feeding a Healthy Family by the same author. I haven't actually read this one yet... but same basic logic. This one is not just for kids, adults are also part of the focus.
6gmork
The first rule shouldn't be to hard to remember: Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food.
:o)
My great-grandmother's generation would have been the second one off the boat, and as best I can tell from family stories applying this rule would rule out sushi, pizza, all pasta including tomato sauces, any meat that wasn't boiled until it was grey, or any vegetable that wasn't cooked until it was a sort of mysterious mush. I guess I'd also be able to eat all the bacon and eggs I wanted, assuming I liked my bacon burnt just about to carbon. Fruit that wasn't canned and in syrup would also be viewed with deep suspicion.
I'm guessing that the author of the book is not of Irish-American extraction? Either that or his definition of "healthy eating" is a curious one, indeed.
:o)
My great-grandmother's generation would have been the second one off the boat, and as best I can tell from family stories applying this rule would rule out sushi, pizza, all pasta including tomato sauces, any meat that wasn't boiled until it was grey, or any vegetable that wasn't cooked until it was a sort of mysterious mush. I guess I'd also be able to eat all the bacon and eggs I wanted, assuming I liked my bacon burnt just about to carbon. Fruit that wasn't canned and in syrup would also be viewed with deep suspicion.
I'm guessing that the author of the book is not of Irish-American extraction? Either that or his definition of "healthy eating" is a curious one, indeed.
7clamairy
gmork, I hope you're trying to be funny.
Give your grandmother a little credit for intelligence. ;o) I would hope my Irish, Scot, English and Swiss great grandmothers would recognize raw fish, pizza, vegetables and meat as food when they saw them. He did NOT say it had to be FAMILIAR to them, by the way. (Just that they could intuit that it was food.)
Give your grandmother a little credit for intelligence. ;o) I would hope my Irish, Scot, English and Swiss great grandmothers would recognize raw fish, pizza, vegetables and meat as food when they saw them. He did NOT say it had to be FAMILIAR to them, by the way. (Just that they could intuit that it was food.)
8maggie1944
Just today I bought Dean Ornish's The Spectrum A Scientifically Proven Program to Feel Better - Live Longer - Lose Weight - Gain Health. He addresses exercise and attitude as well as food. And he is into preventing heart disease, diabetes, etc. etc. I am of the age when these diseases of too comfortable living are likely to arrive. I have not yet read it but I am hoping it will help me get off too much sugar and fat.
9clamairy
Well, according to the book I read, fat isn't anywhere near as much of a problem as sugars coupled with lack of exercise. In fact, the low -at craze of the 90's and 00's made so many people gain weight. I know back when I was doing all carbs and minimal fat I was hungry ALL THE TIME.
Of course, everyone is different, and I'm not advocating a high fat diet. I just know that personally sugar is my enemy, and high fructose corn syrup is the devil incarnate. ;o)
Of course, everyone is different, and I'm not advocating a high fat diet. I just know that personally sugar is my enemy, and high fructose corn syrup is the devil incarnate. ;o)
10OldSarge
Prescription for Dietary Wellness: Second Edition
by Phyllis A. Balch. I find this to be a good reference on food and how it affects your health.
For actual cooking this is good. More Healthy Homestyle Cooking: Family Favorites You'll Make Again And again by Evelyn Tribole.
by Phyllis A. Balch. I find this to be a good reference on food and how it affects your health.
For actual cooking this is good. More Healthy Homestyle Cooking: Family Favorites You'll Make Again And again by Evelyn Tribole.
11maggie1944
Clamairy - I am so with you on the sugar is the enemy and high fructose corn syrup is evil incarnate! I swear I go just about blind in the grocery store looking for foods that do not have any hfc in them! And, as I sit here nibbling on Jelly Bellies, I am weak and nearly helpless before these evil doers. p.s. the Jelly Bellies are sitting on the Dean Ornish book - how's that for ironic.
Well, I'm going to add new book to my library. See you later.
oh, it was a small portion of Jelly Bellies. Portion control. Big Key.
Well, I'm going to add new book to my library. See you later.
oh, it was a small portion of Jelly Bellies. Portion control. Big Key.
12reading_fox
I'll repost something I put on the diet comisseration thread:
Just a small word of caution.
There are a lot of quacks out there willing to sell you pills (edit: and books) and dietary advice without any justifcation.
A qualified nutritionist is a fine
Unqualified "nutritional counsillors"* are probably just trying to con you. They may genuinely believe what they are saying and have no malice involved at all. But also no evidence, no training, and it's unlikely to work.
*There's a host of pseudo names they invent for themselves. Legal, but only just. ION - the Institute for nutrition is equally spurious, as are a lot of common names on TV,
the quackometer is one website some guidance as to who's not up to the job.
Fast food nation the original guide to not eating out.
E for addatives some of those numbers are completely harmless. Others less so. (odd doesn't seem to be in my catalog I'm sure I added it)
Finally my favourite cookbook - The cookery year good oldfashioned recipes. Healthy - in moderation.
Just a small word of caution.
There are a lot of quacks out there willing to sell you pills (edit: and books) and dietary advice without any justifcation.
A qualified nutritionist is a fine
Unqualified "nutritional counsillors"* are probably just trying to con you. They may genuinely believe what they are saying and have no malice involved at all. But also no evidence, no training, and it's unlikely to work.
*There's a host of pseudo names they invent for themselves. Legal, but only just. ION - the Institute for nutrition is equally spurious, as are a lot of common names on TV,
the quackometer is one website some guidance as to who's not up to the job.
Fast food nation the original guide to not eating out.
E for addatives some of those numbers are completely harmless. Others less so. (odd doesn't seem to be in my catalog I'm sure I added it)
Finally my favourite cookbook - The cookery year good oldfashioned recipes. Healthy - in moderation.
13clamairy
#12 - There are a lot of quacks out there willing to sell you pills (edit: and books) and dietary advice without any justifcation.
Absolutely. Which is one of the main point of the book in post #1. In fact, most of the great food fads of the past 100 years have been disastrous. For example: "Butter is bad, switch to 'healthy' margarine!" Turns out trans-fats are much more deadly than butter.
His main premise is that we should be eating FRESH. Anything that can sit on a shelf in a box for years and not go bad has had so much added to it (and probably taken out of it) that it is barely food anymore. (There are some exceptions, of course; grains, nuts and dried legumes, etc.)
Absolutely. Which is one of the main point of the book in post #1. In fact, most of the great food fads of the past 100 years have been disastrous. For example: "Butter is bad, switch to 'healthy' margarine!" Turns out trans-fats are much more deadly than butter.
His main premise is that we should be eating FRESH. Anything that can sit on a shelf in a box for years and not go bad has had so much added to it (and probably taken out of it) that it is barely food anymore. (There are some exceptions, of course; grains, nuts and dried legumes, etc.)
14Busifer
Amen to Fast food nation as a way to skip eating out. Truly.
15DaynaRT
high fructose corn syrup is the devil incarnate
I don't have scientific data for this, just anecdotal evidence, but cutting HFC out of my diet drastically and very quickly changed the quality of my complexion. For a few years now I have had two scaly, reddish patches of flaky skin on either side of my chin. Within a week of kicking HFC to the curb they disappeared. I suppose it might be coincidence, but I have cut out HFC once in the past and the same skin change occurred.
I don't have scientific data for this, just anecdotal evidence, but cutting HFC out of my diet drastically and very quickly changed the quality of my complexion. For a few years now I have had two scaly, reddish patches of flaky skin on either side of my chin. Within a week of kicking HFC to the curb they disappeared. I suppose it might be coincidence, but I have cut out HFC once in the past and the same skin change occurred.
16frithuswith
I know this isn't quite the same, but I LOVE my On The Eighth Day Cook Book (neither of which is touchstoning properly!) and the best thing is that the recipes are online! They're all veggie recipes but are often low fat too, especially the stews. The lack of the eighth day café is something I *really* miss about living in Manchester..!
