Ketchup!

[hyacinthian]

Hello, you all! It's been a while.

Between my internship and my job, I worked a full 40 hours this week - and only got paid for 20 - but yay! Sears cut me back to 9 hrs next week. x.x MONEY, I NEEDS IT.

Because I have no car, for my lunch break, I usually run out to the Borders in the shopping center where Sears is and get a cookie and coffee for

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[gypsy_sally]

New studies actually show that soy is potentially very dangerous to eat, especially in it's processed form, and especially for women and children.

Dairy is healthy and delicious, and while I AM one of the people who stays on a fairly strict clean and organic diet, I firmly believe that if you consume it intelligently--don't eat cheesy fries with every meal ;)--it shouldn't adversely effect your weight.

The problems with many uber-processed dairies and cheeses is not the dairy itself, it's the crap added to them to make them last longer, or to make the colors brighter. Also, most low or no-fat milks and cheeses have been stripped of their nutritional value during the de-fatting process. Most diet foods are a joke. Just eat cleanly and intelligently and exercise and the weight will go.

I should know--I'm an overweight person who has lost twenty pounds in the last two months through clean eating and walking instead of driving. It makes me especially happy, because, even if I'm not losing the weight uber-rapidly, I'm doing it the right way, so its no risk to my overall health.

I do promote clean and organic foods, because I don't agree with the meat and dairy industries or their effect on the environment or our bodies, and because organic just. plain. tastes. better. But I do understand the expenses issue, and I do find it a little startling to realize that I spend more money on food than on almost anything else. Luckily I am a super-crazy-foodie-person, and willing to make these concessions for the sake of flavor and health.

And, as an aside, the growth hormones fed into animals bred for consumption have been linked to obesity. As have mega-processed dairy products, because your body cannot process them well. So I can understand many nutritionists problems with meat and dairy. But soy is not a viable replacement, especially in milk or tofu form, because it's also uber-processed. If they really want to promote soy as a weight control product, they should be advertising edamame, not soy milk.

/boring dietary diatribe

[hyacinthian]

That's very interesting. I kind of wonder though about international differences in processing. Because of my family, we do a lot of shopping in Chinese groceries where the produce comes from Chinese markets or the products are imported from China. I've always eaten tofu, though I've never taken into consideration how processed it is.

And I'm sorry if I sounded super anti-organic there, haha. I just got criticized a lot when I was in my first year of college about how my buying regular as opposed to organic peanut butter was so ~wrong~, despite the fact that I was not in the tax bracket to be spending $12 on a jar of peanut butter.

The growth hormones fed into animals bred for consumption have been linked to obesity.

My family also believes it's made girls mature faster (as that is also a recent development).