totally suspicious

i have recently been reading a lot of text material and online articles about holistic diets and whole foods versus processed, comercialized foods.

we are in the process of changing our family's diet to what our body needs--old-fashioned animal fats and REAL food that promote digestion and assimilation. i have been training my kids on recognizing the FAKE foods. we're staying away from "new-fangled" polyunsaturated oils--which are sooo terrible for people and can cause health problems (i.e. myocardial infarction, diabetes, syndrome X and cancers, etc.) modern food processing (including pressing and added perservatives and other additives, etc) compromises the natural nutrients and "denatures" our foods!

If this sound interesting, check out these websites to get you started: The Weston A. Price Foundation's Web Site and The Price-Pottenger Nutrition Foundation. Of course they have a lot of articles about the Cholesterol myth--the old "lipid hypothesis". They want to expose the fallacy that Saturated Fat and Cholesterol Cause Heart Disease--when almost the opposite is true.

They are very much against the use of what holistic-health proponents call "pseudo" fats - "hydrogenated," "partially hydrogenated" and even "polyunsaturated." They help to explain what are truly "healthy fats" and what are the proper sources for those fats.

Also check out their articles on good oils with Omega -3 and Omega -6! The best/easiest to read on oils is here.

Below is a little excerpt from one of their articles.

Engineered Fats and Oils and The Degenerative Disease Epidemic
"The degenerative disease epidemic that wracks the nation came coincidentally with the introduction of engineered fats and oils. It is the type of fats and oils that we consume that is directly correlated to the rise of epidemic degenerative disease; it is not the amount of fats and oils that we eat that causes the problem. It is by chronically consuming the fats and oils that cause degenerative disease that we impair our ability to consume healthy fats and oils. We also impair our ability to consume carbohydrates and thus become Diabetic and Obese." more