Surprised I have not mentioned this before in this ancient discussion.
I went back and read all of my posts which was educational to see where I was years ago diet wise.
I have continued to do Intermittent Fasting which has kept the weight off. Just wish I could loose a five more pounds. I get close to loosing that five pounds and then it will somehow come back.
One think we have noticed is that old TV shows from the 50's, 60's and 70's are history program now. Look at how people dressed, hair styles, and yes how thin they were back then. What has changed? It is diet, and while the Supersized Fast Food Mentality share some of the blame, I really think it is the processed foods added to our "food."
Too many carbs that are highly processed. Years ago, I was in the grocery store and saw the small red hot sausages I would eat from time to time as a kid. I picked up a package and read the label. It had High Fructose Corn Syrup(HFCS).
I looked at every red hot sausage package I could find, there were surprisingly quite a few, and every single one had HFCS!
I don't think the red hots I was eating as a kid had HFCS as an ingredient.
Back to TV programs. Notice how thin people were in Star Trek, Andy Griffith or Columbo. Pick a show and see the difference in the cast size vs today. A few months ago, I was looking for family history, and ended up reading newspapers from a small town in NC. The papers were from the 1930's. Unreal that someone had digitized that newspaper from that far back but it sure was interesting. I have also found videos taken from that time on YouTube. The common thing is how thin most of the people were. Very few NON thin people, and the people who were NON thin would not really be considered fat today. Overweight sure, but nothing compared to too many people in the west today.
What has changed? It is the diet. Sure many people where more active back then but people are active today as well. They might not be plowing the back 40 but they playing Pickle Ball, walking, going to the gym, etc. Same with kids. My kids had far more sports to participate in than I ever did and they were active in sports. The change is this super process foods.
When I first heard about staying away from seed oils, my reaction was that is silly. But then I started thinking about it. How DO you get OIL out of corn, soybeans, or canola? It is from quite a bit of processing and chemicals. Even olive oil can be processed which is why one should just used EVOO(Extra Virgin Olive Oil).
Animal fat is supposed to be bad for you for frying but is it worse then seed oils? Where people in the 1930s eating fried food that was cooked in lard or corn oil? I think it was lard they had collected. But then we got Crisco.....
Years ago, I wanted to make some Cuban bread. The difference between Cuban and French bread is that Cuban bread has a bit of lard. I found a 8 ounce packet of lard at the store, it took some looking, and made a loaf or two of Cuban bread, put up the lard and forgot about it...
Years later, I found that package of lard. It was perfect. It looked just like I had opened the package.
Of course, that lard was highly processed and was hydrogenated. I doubt people were using hydrogenated lard in the 1930's. We are eating too much processed food. it is everywhere and one really has to read labels.
