That’s the ultimate goal of most turkey recipes: to create a great skin and stuffing to hide the fact that turkey meat, in its cooked state, is dry and flavorless.
–Alton Brown
Pay no attention to that quote. I put it there as an illustration of what not to do. Your turkey doesn’t ever have to be dry and flavorless. If it is, you ain’t doing it right.
I love to eat–Kit Kats or cookies-and-cream ice cream. I need sugar like five times a day. –Kim Kardashian
Doesn’t that quote rattle your brain a little bit?
I mean, would anyone argue that a diet like that is healthy? I don’t think so. And yet do people publicly denounce Ms. Kardashian as unhealthy, or suggest she needs to change up her diet? No. Why not?
Dare I suggest it’s because she’s not fat?
The best Doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet and Dr. Merryman.
–Jonathan Swift
Did you see the exciting news? Obesity is now a disease! O Happy Day! Our problems are solved.
Giving up smoking is the easiest thing in the world. I know because I’ve done it thousands of times.
–Mark Twain
The Roommate’s latest suggestion for a post is to reflect on why people might try ditching the gov’mint approved Food Pyramid (we’re 100 certain!) and then after a while give up on this new way of eating.
And by “ditching the Food Pyramid” I don’t mean going on the cookie diet.
As “Dr.” Siegal says, “Hunger Wrecks Diets®©™,” so order all your cookies and shakes now and don’t ever stop eating. That’s the key. And also don’t forget to take all the nutritional supplements, since cookies apparently don’t provide all the nutrition you need.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
–Albert Einstein
I woke up this morning to see similar headlines blasted all over the web. I would love to quote it for you, but I just can’t decide which particular headline to use.
The upshot of all the headlines is that the FDA has finally approved a new obesity drug, Belviq, for sale in the USA. And there are so many things to mock here that my head is swimming. It’s like that time I got dragged to go “fishing” at a fish farm. The pond was about 3 feet deep, 20 feet widem and 10 feet long and contained approximately 1,546,453 fish.
You could just put on your apron, grab one with your bbq tongs, and stick it right on the grill.
It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.
–J.R.R. Tolkien
Especially if dragons make good eating. I’ll have to check on that.
I’ve gotten a few requests to be more specific about what I eat and especially to discuss the proportions and “how to” of it all.
I think every woman should have a blowtorch.
–Julia Child
Hi folks! More tomorrow, but for today just one: a recommendation.
If you’re looking for good recipes, head over to the Low Carb Jabberwocky, who has some amazing ones.
Goodnight from Asia!
In questions of science, the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
–Galileo Galilei
Today I trot out a couple more questions that I commonly hear after I reveal that I’ve stopped eating the Food Pyramid and started eating what’s healthy.
In case you’ve just joined us, that means I stopped eating whole grains, excessive amounts of fruit, and very low fat foods and instead started chowing down on animal fats and meats.
Nullis in Verba
–Motto of the Royal Society of London
In Objections 2 we started talking about fat and explored just a little bit of the history behind the rise and dominance of the lipid hypothesis–that fat is the cause of obesity and health problems.
Now let’s talk a bit about the science.
It is of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man’s oration; nay, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in its place is a work extremely troublesome.
–Plutarch
In the previous post I listed a common objection I hear to eating very-low carb: your brain needs glucose! In this post I deal with another common objection:
But all that saturated fat is very bad for you.
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