RE: Experiences with Atkins diet

From: gts (gts_2000@yahoo.com)
Date: Mon May 05 2003 - 21:27:52 MDT

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    Lee Daniel Crocker wrote:

    > I certainly have nothing against it either--it might even be
    > better than my present diet. But I'm not giving up my
    > Linguini with clams and Caesar with Parmigiano without some
    > better evidence than I've seen here.

    Nothing wrong with clams, but linguini has practically no food value
    relative to other foods. It is a starchy grain product with very little
    nutritional value relative to the calories it contains. I might say it has
    value for flavor alone, but I think linguini is pretty dismal without the
    high-saturated-fat cheese sauces that generally go along with it.

    Don't get me wrong: like you I love linguini and with Parmigian cheese. But
    these threads are not about what tastes good. They are about what is good
    for us.

    Unlike in paleo times, good tasting foods are plentiful now. Modern economic
    forces have provided easy access to good tasting foods beyond anything we
    could have dreamed in paleo times. If we all ate only what tastes best today
    then we'd all be fat and destined to die before it is necessary. And sadly
    that is pretty much the state of affairs here in 21st century America.

    One thing I've learned from following a paleo diet is that the palate can be
    trained to appreciate natural paleo foods. I never cared much for fruits and
    vegetables during my youth, or even in my adulthood when I knew they were
    good for me and should have had the will-power to eat them. I did not truly
    enjoy the flavor of fruits and vegetables until I stopped indulging in
    high-fat, high-carb, non-paleo foods. Now fruits and vegetables, especially
    fruits, are incredible to me. There is nothing more delicious to me than a
    handful of chilled blueberries. I'm sure my very remote ancestors felt the
    same way.

    -gts



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