@Sleepyguy saidThe food pyramid taught in US schools when I was a kid turned the whole damned country into diabetics so farmers could sell us lots of grain.It's easy to blame the pyramid and ignore the rise of highly processed foods. Your seed oils and margarines which are a true abomination and can be found in almost every highly processed industrial food alongside beverages loaded with high fructose corn syrup. Processed foods are engineered with high levels of sugar and salt to create a bliss point that make them utterly irresistible. The true culprits are sugar and salt and empty calories that have no fibre and very little nutritional value. The breakfast cereal companies worked out that if you smothered your morning cereal experience with frosted sugar you have the food equivalent of crack. And it's the glucose spikes with highs and lows that eventually lead to obesity, metabolic syndrome and diabetes. The no fat low fat regime needs to carry a lot of the burden of dietary abomination. When you remove fat the best way to maintain taste is to increase sugar and salt. Let's face it, you can drink Coca Cola and eat potato crisps all day and be considered a vegan. But who has time to prepare meals using wholefood ingredients?
The new Dutch guidelines you're posting about sound like a similar attempt at social control over climate mania.
Eat what you want!
@shavixmir said100 grams.. ? hell, you couldn't even order a quarter-pounder, for gawd's sake.
Well, I wonder what you all make of this.
The Dutch food authorities have issued a new food disc. You know: percentage of what you should eat to eat healthy.
So, the new guidelines have split meat-proteins in 2 categories.
Red meat (beef, pork, venison, etc. ) should be kept to 100 grams per week.
And the intake of the rest of these meat proteins (chicken and fish ...[text shortened]... myself a 300 gram schnitzel tonight. With a musthroom reduction sauce… to even it all out a little.
Schnitzel sounds good.
@kmax87 saidShort short version. Buy only raw ingredients and make it yourself. If you can open a packet or heat it in a microwave and be seated and eating within 5 minutes, thats the problem. Cut down on eating out. Cut down on fast food. Go for walks and get a dog. You will be happy! 😎
It's easy to blame the pyramid and ignore the rise of highly processed foods.