In other words a seniors pyramid should be different than a child’s who is growing. Different needs for different generations. This is where one size DOES NOT fit all.
Here’s the real pyramid. We are working and slaving at the bottom to pay for the silly elites at the top who dictate what we get to eat.
~Kitchen Ping~
Reinventing the Pyramid
i’ll eat what I like no matter what some dumb fat ass bitch says!
It won’t look anything like a pyramid either.
Well, that IS good news, but I just wonder what they’ll replace it with? The food pyramid is nearly upside down. If people ate more meat and cheese (fats) they’d be a lot fuller for the long run and eat less over time. We have an all protein/fat breakfast. It lasts to nearly 3-4 PM. We can cut out lunch, and if we just want something, we eat some fruit or an apple with peanut butter, something similar. I am not usually all that hungry for dinner, but still tend to eat more of it than I should, but am cutting back steadily. We eat lots of eggs! Both our cholesterol levels are way down and our HDL is 2x the level of the LDL. The doc did a ultrasound to see if I had plaque in the carotids and nada! YAY! He said he would not believe it for my age, but our everyday diet really works. Both my grandfathers died of stroke and heart attack, so I have been quite diligent to cut out most breads, cakes, etc. It is not that hard to eat well. Diets high in carbs tend to push your cholesterol levels up, as does the low fat diets, which seem to work for about 3 months, then have a disastrous turn and the cholesterol goes up higher than before. As an RN, I have been horrified by the food pyramid, as it is not healthy. But, like I said, I wonder what Michelle will replace it with? I don’t have confidence that it will be any better, really. We’ll see.
The real food advice metaphor should be a treasure chest and a dumpster.
The treasure chest contains lots of meat, nuts, eggs, oils, butter, vegetables, fruit, and dairy. All minimally processed.
The dumpster contains sweets (especially corn oil), processed “food” (especially processed fats), and white starches like bread, rice, pasta, and potatoes.
But the corn lobby and the rest of the junk food world wouldn’t stand for it.
Moochelle herself can’t deal with obesity - she certainly isn’t in a position to lecture others on that issue. She has the credibility of a hippopotamus.
In other news, some bogus research says if you have fat friends, then you will also be obese.