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Friday, January 19, 2007

Just One More Bite

The Atkins people would have us believe that Dr. Atkins' diet encourages us all to eat more like humankind was meant to eat, and indeed, the way our antecedents ate for thousands of years, up until the dawn of agriculture and the advent of cultivated and processed starches and sugars. The enemy is white flour, white sugar, white rice, white bread. Whoa, I see a theme developing here. Why, I wonder, the fascination with white food? The amazing thing is, to make the stuff at all palatable, you have to process some taste back into it. White sugar is nothing but raw sugar with all the good stuff taken out, so if you want brown sugar what you're really getting is white sugar with some molasses put back in, and that's why it's more expensive. White flour by itself is bland, bland, bland, which is why white bread has to have sugar and salt in it. I ate crocodile once in Africa, and it's probably the whitest meat you can find. And it's utterly tasteless. You have to eat it breaded and fried, or with sauce, to make it remotely edible. Ostrich is much better, a good red meat that makes sense. We'd all live a lot longer if we just gave up cars and became hunter-gatherers eating red and green food. That's why I've given up counting carbohydrates or calories, and just regulate my diet according to colors. The Rainbow Diet I call it. Want to buy my book?

6 Comments:

Blogger Dick Brown said...

If the Rainbow Diet includes Cabernet and Dark Chocolate count me in! My credit cards out, how can I order?

10:19 AM  
Blogger John M Crowther said...

Red and dark brown, that works. I'll put you down for a reviewer's copy gratis.

1:42 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

John, now you are getting into a very touchy subject that most want to avoid. Go on with it! Someone needs to take it on with gusto! None of the other's diet books work.

Dick's diet of Cabernet and Dark Chocolate sounds good to me. Seems to me I remember some years ago that one of the winning tennis players told his coach, he did not mind what diet he was put on as long as he could drink a 6 pack of beer every night.

5:12 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

This one hits the spot as Katherine pointed out. Put me down on the list for the diet book. Can I make monthly payments? $1.25 per month, 0 interest. Good deal! Need to include black and blue food as well though. Cabernet, dark chocolate, blueberries, blackberries, salmon, etc. I could live with that. Black and blue reminds me of Fats Waller, may have the last name incorrect. I fell in love with him when I heard Nell Carter sing 'Black and Blue' on a tape of 'Ain't Misbehavin'

7:54 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

>>The enemy is white flour, white sugar, white rice, white bread.<<

If you think that's bad for you, try brown flour, brown sugar, brown rice and brown bread.

8:24 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Speaking of living a good life, we shouldn’t dismiss the notion of living a good death as was so splendidly demonstrated by Art Buchwald in his taped obituary for the New York Times. That of course reminds me of the immortal words of Ruby & Kalmar as sung by Cap’t Spaulding, AKA Groucho.

Hello, I must be going.
I cannot stay,
I came to say
I must be going.
I'm glad I came
but just the same
I must be going.

Margaret Dumont:
For my sake you must stay,
for if you go away,
you'll spoil this party
I am throwing.

Groucho:
I'll stay a week or two,
I'll stay the summer through,
but I am telling you,
I must be going.

8:53 AM  

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