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Real Food: What to Eat and Why
It is
really interesting and surprising to learn that our ancestors never
actually had any major health problems. This was mainly because of the
diet they followed and the food that they ate. They never really worried
much about cholesterol, fat, diabetes, heart disease and hypertension.
It was because that they usually ate what they wanted, when they wanted;
there was no need for worrying about the consequences of eating the
right type of food, and it is this point and concept that Nina Planck
aims at disclosing in her book, Real Food What to Eat and Why.
Today
everyone is prompted to eat omelets of only egg whites, while
eliminating the yoke. However, the concept of eliminating the yolk is
not a smart alternative as it is the yoke of the egg that primarily
contains all of the nutrients eggs are famous for. Thinking that the egg
yoke and many other "fatty" foods are not healthy for you and then
removing them from your diet is a very unwise decision as it is these
"fatty" foods that are required in the body for proper development and
growth.
There are
other traditional, and tasty foods that are eliminated from the diet
today like butter, beef from grass fed cows, cream, roast chicken skin
and other "fatty" foods. This is what Nina Planck disagrees with and
keeping this in mind, explains how many false accusations most of the
age old foods have undergone. She claims that it is the foods
manufactured industrially like soybean oil that are the foods that are
responsible for the increase of obesity, heart disease and diabetes.
This is all explained in the book, Real Food What to Eat and Why
by Nina Planck. In other words, Real Food What to Eat and Why is
a book that aims at unearthing the age old wisdom about our health and
diet, and in the process, explains the taste for good food.
Another
angle and point that she describes in her book is that most food that
was created in the past century is not as good as the foods that have
been developed since the development of agriculture. Nina Planck claims
that it is better to butter than margarine, unlike what is stipulated in
the health world today. She also says that eating whole eggs is much
better than eating only the egg whites of eggs. In fact, she says, and
it is known that eggs are a very essential constituent of a diet. And
for all those milk drinkers out there, Nina Planck says that skimmed
milk is actually worse for health than full-fat milk and that it is
actually better to drink milk raw than pasteurized.
Nina Planck
aims to promote eating in a natural and old fashioned way in her book,
Real Food What to Eat and Why. She suggests that a meal of
chopped liver and eggs that are hard boiled is wonderful in maintaining
your health. She also maintains that it is better for one to have a diet
that helps maintain and improve health so that it is possible to
maintain stable weight and avoid obesity as this is the diet that has
the food we crave and thus enjoy eating.
Nina Planck
urges her readers in her book, Real Food What to Eat and Why, to
remember what their grandmothers ate which mainly constituted of farm
fresh food, meet, dairy and seasonal fruits and vegetables. She
distinguishes good fats from bad fats and that many nutrients from food
are absorbed into the body through dissolved fat.
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