low fat vs. low carb etc./nutrition knowledge

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<<<I am always amazed at how much more informed vegetarians are about nutrition

that the general population. >>>

 

You know it's so true! My husband is taking a nutrition class right now with

the University of Phoenix

online and I have been reading through his classes postings - just amazed and

disgusted with how

totally ignorant pretty much the entire class was about basic nutrition. Like

them thinking

that french fries with ketchup was a good serving of veggies??? Or that it's

even remotely ok for

you to eat red meat three meals a day, scarely a veggie or fruit to be seen, and

drinking

caffienated soda all day with no water - especially the part where they would

say they drink

soda to stay hydrated. Umm...i think it does the *opposite*. And then there were

the anti-veggie

postings - how vegetarians need to take supplements, *for obvious reasons*

because our diets

are so deficient. Yah like eating meat is just a wealth of health.

 

My dh let me post a few replies in his place (signing his name to them) and i

politely set people

straight about how ignorant they are (well i said it nicely)

 

 

~~Morgan~~

Gabrielle and Faith's momma

Pro-Life, Christian, Vegetarian

I will speak up for the little ones

www.fatspider.com

 

 

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Kathleen Pelley

Tuesday, December 14, 2004 2:33 PM

Re: Re: low fat vs. low carb etc.

 

 

Thank you for the link to the " diets " . What I do not understand, when I

looked at the low fat diet, is the lack of understanding. The author assumed

that those on low fat diets do it just to lose weight. I am on a vegetariain

low fat diet to avoid having to have my gall bladder removed. The person also

assumed the fat was so low that you do not get essential oils. I think that

most of us on low fat diets are very careful to get enough fats in order to keep

our neurologcial system, skin, and hair healthy. For example, I take coenzyme

Q-10, but it will not be absorbed if you do not take it with the meal during the

day with the most fat. In my diet, it is when I usually have some form of tofu,

which has an adequate amount of fat. The author did not mention it, but I

carefully avoid hydrogenated fats, such as those in cake mixes, most margarines

[not all], etc.

 

I am always amazed at how much more informed vegetarians are about nutrition

that the general population.

 

Happy Holidays

 

Kathleen

Eureka CA

 

veggiehound <veggiehound wrote:

 

Hi -

You say:

 

> Even a low fat diet is not really a good nutritional plan, and any

> diet that is not sound nutritional advice for life is doomed to have

> temporary, and possibly harmful, effects. See:

>

> http://www.supplecity.com/articles/diets/index.htm

 

Yes, but when you say that you are quoting another diet guru, and this one has

a non-vegetarian commercial site dedicated, among other