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Why Your Mental Attitude Is Important With Dieting
By EricHanson | November 19, 2009
Your mental attitude, combined with the right food and the right exercise, is the thing that will make you thin. It is also the thing that will make you feel better, and look—and actually be—younger, in every way but chronologically. We can’t do much about the actual calendar, I’m afraid.
Outside of your mental attitude—which I’ve been emphasizing, and which I will keep on emphasizing, food is the most important thing to think about, now. Food makes you what you are. Food makes fat. The right kind of food also makes good skin, clear eyes, healthy hair, a robust constitution. Wouldn’t you think, when food is that important, that everyone would try to learn a lot about it.
For example, which is more fattening, a potato or an apple? I bet you think it’s a potato—unless you’ve already gone into the subject. Well, they’re about equal! Each has about a hundred calories. And how does a doughnut rank? Well, that’s over twice as fattening as either one. And what about tomato juice? Do you know that, except for slight vitamin differences, it’s just as good as orange juice—and in some ways even better— lower in calories, high in vitamins?
A lot of folks think fruit isn’t fattening—you’ve learned better than that and this chapter will confirm your knowledge. Still others believe that if they eat a green salad, simply covered with rich dressing, they are performing a wonderful diet deed—when they’re actually eating a fattening dish.
Other people believe that yogurt isn’t fattening—and has wonderful health-giving properties. So they eat large amounts of it—and wonder why they don’t lose weight. Yogurt is a very good food. It’s just as fattening as whole milk—that is, a half pint of it (eight ounces) has a caloric value of 165 calories, the caloric value of an equal amount of whole milk, whereas skimmed milk, which has the same good properties, on the whole, has only 84 calories, and tomato juice only 50. But think of all of the good bacteria that yogurt contains I Haven’t you been hearing about that for years? Yogurt is fermented milk. It came into use be cause people had no refrigeration. It was the only form of milk people could drink, without fear of contamination or illness.
The intestines of all healthy people contain great numbers of friendly bacteria, maybe a hundred million or so. We don’t need the few that yogurt could give us, but actually doesn’t! According to the newest authorities, as quoted in a recent issue of Today’s Health, published by the American Medical Association, the bacteria in yogurt are digested in the stomach, and very few reach the colon at all ! In yogurt you get lactic acid, a little alcohol and the good bacteria—which digest quickly. By all means, eat yogurt! It is good for you. As good as milk. If you like it, it should form a part of your diet—but don’t expect wonders from it. Acidophilus milk, skimmed milk and yogurt are all excellent foods— complete foods. In fact, later on I’ll give you a recipe for home-made yogurt, so you can make it with skimmed milk, thus reducing its caloric content. But it isn’t a miracle food!
The same with the other so-called wonder foods. They are all good. But they aren’t any more wonderful than a lot of other things that you can eat. Wheat germ is excellent—and high in calories. Black strap molasses contains some minerals—and is high in carbohydrates and calories.
But you should be able to tell about foods for yourself. Why take other people’s word? That’s why I told you that you’d have to study. For I’m giving you the complete Tables of Food Composition, in terms of eleven nutrients, prepared by the Bureau of Human Nutrition and Home Economics, U.S. Department of Agriculture, in co-operation with the National Research Council.
These new Tables of Food Composition are included in few books, mostly intended for the medical profession. As far as I can discover they have never been reprinted for the layman—for the man or woman who wants to get thin but isn’t supposed to understand enough about foods to form his own opinion.
All of the books on diet for the non professional reader that I have been able to find take it for granted that the reader shouldn’t know too much. The foods that are listed are given by their caloric value only, so the reader can’t tell if these foods are high or low in protein or starch or fat, or how they rank when it comes to vitamins and minerals. I’ve tried to show you how important these elements are—they are just as important as the actual caloric value of food. You cannot judge foods by calories alone!
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