Monday, March 22, 2010

[fast5] Re: Saving on health care

I wasn't meaning to imply that the government or media should do anything different than it has for as long as I can remember, starting with (in my memory) the "Basic 4 Food Groups" and continuing to the current food pyramid. These are only guidelines, not mandates, and I have never felt that anyone was looking over my shoulder based on those guidelines. Please forgive me if I wasn't clear about that.

I was referring more to what the typical advice is that people hear when they go to the doctor, and what they hear in the media about what is "healthy eating." I just think it's a shame that the advice that is given does not work for everyone, and from the obesity trend and rates of heart disease and cancer, maybe not for very many at all.

I do think it takes a while for the message to catch up with the research, but there are peer-reviewed studies showing the benefits of fasting. I do hope those studies become more frequent, and that the results are shared more widely.

I guess the reason I wrote my earlier question is that I struggled for the last 8 years or so against the tide of that incorrect (for me) message. I knew that I had been healthier and slimmer eating my instinctive way, but I caved to the pressure that seemed so pervasive. Not always, but often enough to undermine my own beliefs about what worked for me. If I had heard about FF or IF back then, I would have realized what it was about my instinctive way of eating that worked for me. I would have saved myself a lot of confusion and frustration. That's what I was trying to get at with my earlier question -- that there should be room for more than one message.

--- In fast5@yahoogroups.com, Katrina Flanary <tigersmoondiva@...> wrote:
>
> Agreed - I don't want big brother watching over my shoulder staring at my
> dinner. Or anything else really - I believe we have already given away way
> to much of our personal power.
>


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