CAT AMONG THE PIGEONS 26TH FEB 2017 JULIE'S BLOG

CAT AMONG THE PIGEONS

I mentioned in another post that my weight loss had plateaued…….. Last week I tried a bit harder by following a Dr Berg video to bring the fat content down a little and kept to my two meals a day and no extras. Already being on two meals a day it wasn’t very different. It did also say avoid stress, not really having much as a retired lady, by not listening to the news. So no TV news and no radio at night that I like. I did think I’d probably had enough of The Trump news. Do you know it was very relaxing, I admit I worry about what is happening to the world. Particularly in the case of health and welfare.

Perhaps this blog will be a Cat among the Pigeons. We, my husband Philip and I, were discussing this morning what would happen if everybody listened to the LCHF message and ditched the carbs and processed foods? How many people in the food industries would be put out of work? How many companies would crash? How could we feed the world? Could we find enough organic, real food to give the millions? It certainly could not be done quickly.

People say we should eat like in the 70s but I can remember it in the 50s. I left school at 15 to go to Art School and then work. Food was still scarce after the war. I joined the Royal Air Force for four years as a Physical Training Instructor which is where I first learned a bit about nutrition. Of course I was fed three good meals a day, loads of carbs, even then I went to the canteen in the evening and had egg and chips. It was here I experienced for the first time putting on weight despite all the sports. I could tell by the fact that my uniform became to tight! You had to shell out money if you needed new uniform. I realised that I was adding a small bar of dairy milk chocolate every day to my food intake. I cut it out and returned to my proper size. I wish it had been that easy later in life.

So we have been subject to processed rubbish for a long time. Longer than most writers say. But perhaps just after the war we were limited by rationing and it was one only small bar of chocolate a week. Is it just a matter of the amount of this rubbish people eat, or has the actual ‘rubbish’ got worse as well as more available? Yet now they say there are more people over fed than under fed in the world. More people dying of abundance than starvation. What a crazy world. I still get visions of the TV program a little while ago of frosty corn flakes being made in UK. They had to make millions of tons of the stuff day and night to keep up with the demand. 

Yet I think we must make the effort to spread the news that individually we can save our health, stop pain and reverse such things as diabetes by ditching the carbs and sugar. I shall try to help as as long as I’m here and can work a computer. You Low Fatters and high Carbers will not fool me any longer! 

Yes thanks, I have lost half a kilo, lots more to go.

Love to all
(my other hobby, Painting)