Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
You've been dieting for two weeks, determined to squeeze into your little black party dress. You've avoided sugar, carbs and bad fats. You're all about superfoods and supergreens and are on first-name terms with the staff at your local health shop. You feel awesome. But you are not losing weight.
We now bandy around buzzwords like paleo, clean and organic, while discussing the merits of cutting out grains, dairy or gluten. Or all three. We snack on protein bars or refinedsugar-free flapjacks instead of chocolate, and choose oven-popped vegetable chips over packets of bog-standard salt 'n' vinegar.
Then why are we not morphing into Greek gods? As a nation, we're getting fatter. According to Public Health England, 64 per cent of adults are overweight or obese. I am one of the healthy brigade who was mystified as the counter crept up on the scales. I had replaced re-fined sugar with agave, maple syrup or honey, and white flour with almond flour. My beef was grass-fed, my butter and eggs organic, and nutbased bars were my snack of choice.
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...iet-fads-eat-less-and-move-more-a6691046.html
We now bandy around buzzwords like paleo, clean and organic, while discussing the merits of cutting out grains, dairy or gluten. Or all three. We snack on protein bars or refinedsugar-free flapjacks instead of chocolate, and choose oven-popped vegetable chips over packets of bog-standard salt 'n' vinegar.
Then why are we not morphing into Greek gods? As a nation, we're getting fatter. According to Public Health England, 64 per cent of adults are overweight or obese. I am one of the healthy brigade who was mystified as the counter crept up on the scales. I had replaced re-fined sugar with agave, maple syrup or honey, and white flour with almond flour. My beef was grass-fed, my butter and eggs organic, and nutbased bars were my snack of choice.
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...iet-fads-eat-less-and-move-more-a6691046.html
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