Ok. I've held off as long as I can. I've resisted for weeks. I can't stand it any more. ...must.....write...(GASP!)...about.........nutrition....

Nutrition: It's something we all need.

We can't live without it.

Some people are satisfied with cheap imitations, and others are more discerning.

There are also others who know the difference between what is recommended in the "Nutrition Pyramid" and REAL NUTRITION.

The pyramid of the Standard American Diet (SAD. Nifty acronym, hey!) is 100% upside down. Look at it. It claims that the body requires a diet that consists of 65% "complex" carbohydrates. This is a fakey-phony way of saying "bread instead of candy." At the tip of the pyramid are the fats. Saturated fats, to be more precise. Bad fat. BAD fat! Bad!!

Sounds healthful, doesn't it? I mean, after all, we have been told for so long that meats, animal fats, and cholesterol are killing us. So they* crank out McKinley-sized mountains of "fat-free" and "lite" foods that have had whatever normal fat they posessed removed and replaced with....surprise!...SUGAR. Oh. You didn't know that? Ah. You haven't looked at an ingredient panel in the last fifteen years. Ok. That explains a lot.

The human body, which is composed of meat, bone, and saturated fat, can't live on bread alone. Saturated fat, the utter bugaboo of the fat/heart ghouls, is one of the main components of the body, along with cholesterol (does 50% sound about right?), protein, and water. Cholesterol comprises about 50% of the composition of every cell, providing each cell with structural integrity. And, saturated fatty acids are the main component of brain and nerve tissue. They are also essential for the formation of normal hormones (hormones are messengers and messages. They are essential for life. Imbalances produce aberrant behavior, illness, dementia, and death.)

Did anybody, even once, wake up and realize that all the evidence really points in the opposite direction from the ill-conceived "pyramid?" (Well, yes. And they were laughed out of town, shouted down, and either silenced or ignored). Did anybody even once, notice the total connection between the new "diet" of synthetic, "fat free" (hah!) "foods" and the corresponding, identical rise in heart disease, obesity, Type II diabetes, and hypertension? Yep. Same results as above. This pyramid is the stuff that is being forced down the throats of your kids in school every day.

Ever wonder how come so many kids today are on Ritalin? If you are really interested, my suggestion would be to check their diet. Here is what you will find: Synthetic vitamins to replace whatever natural nutrients were refined out of the food; soybean (estrogen-loaded soybeans) meat replacements and sauces, fillers, and additives; very little natural meat, eggs, seafood or poultry in an effort to reduce further the amount of (essential) cholesterol in the diet. Sugar added to virtually everything. (Any "food" that comes in a can, jar, bag, or box is heavily fortified with sugar in many forms.  If you don't think so, just check the ingredients for words with -ose on the end, or dext- in the beginning.  They are all forms of sugar.)

Fat on a body does not equal overeating. It equals BAD eating. Is your teenaged son or daughter still chubby?  Is there enough fat to hang over a waistband? If so, then you need to make sure that child gets more meat and butter and NO bread and sugar until the fat is gone.  Sugars and other carbohydrates are nothing to the human body but a resource for the formation of fatty tissue. Forget the "energy" and "brain food" canards. The brain prefers sugar (glycogen/glucose) the body makes itself. From its fat. So it will make the sugar into fat first in order to have a readily available supply of that fat.  If the body carries no more than 15% subcutaneous fat, it is in an ideal state.  Sufficient fat is present to feed the brain, but there is not so much fat as to cause other health and movement problems.

Parents who love their children don't want to see them get fat, but they must be tearing their hair out when they see that the "healthy" diet they have been feeding those children continues to add body fat, pimples and oily skin, and other health problems that shouldn't attack a human until at least late middle age, like Type II diabetes, which is being diagnosed more and more frequently among young people. 

The simple removal from a child's diet of breads and sugars will cause a dramatic change in not only their appearance, but their mentation, as well, since the sugars and starches in a modern diet are directly responsible for "brain fog" and slow, inefficient thinking and imagination.

And, while you're at it, put yourself on the sugar-and-starch-free diet, and see how much better you feel and look.  Good food is that way for a reason--because it's GOOD for us.