I've been reading, and I don't want it to be true. This is the 2nd time in 6 months that I feel like I'm reading something so true that it is turning my world upside down. The first was when my reading led me to question the ethics of adults controlling children. Now, it's about the roles of fats and carbs in nutrition and health.
In both cases, I've been able to not jump to conclusions too hastily, keeping my husband just a few steps behind me. He's made great strides in giving DD information instead of ordering her around, and while he's still on the "government plan" for diet (though he's doing almost all real foods), he's nearing the end of his weight-loss goal and announced a couple days ago that he's switching to whole milk.
In both cases, I feel like I'm converting to a new religion, finding something so true that I never knew before, but now I want everyone to know how we've been wrong all along! Unlike most things in a religion, there's SCIENCE to back this up, so it's not a matter of your faith and mine. It's that we have been LIED TO about what science says, and people who don't know any better have perpetuated the myth.
It's hard enough for me to watch how most people treat their children and to listen to bad diet advice being given, but I control how my child is treated in most cases, and my husband and daughter and I are all relatively healthy. I don't like controversy, and I don't want to tell people how to live their lives. I'll give information where I have an opening and defend myself if I'm criticized, but that's about where it ends.
In what I'm learning about diet, it's crossed the line where I have to talk to my dad. He's fighting high cholesterol and heart disease with a low fat diet, and he's not really winning. He also suffers from neuropathy (nerves dying) in his feet, something that usually only happens to diabetics, and nobody has been able to help him. I'm beginning to wonder if the two are related to his high-carb, moderate-processed food, won't-touch-butter-with-a-ten-foot-pole diet.
I do want to allow him to make his own decisions about his health, but I want him to have the information. Certainly, he can't just read everything I've been reading. I'm not even sure he'd read a whole book. (He may be ADD as well. Yes, I know. Also possibly related.) Is there something short but reputable I could have him read, or how might I go about talking to him? I talk a lot more often with my mom (Dad's not great on the phone), so if it needs to be a slowly plant a seed thing, it's probably going to have to go through her, which may lose a lot of its effectiveness. What do you all think?
In both cases, I've been able to not jump to conclusions too hastily, keeping my husband just a few steps behind me. He's made great strides in giving DD information instead of ordering her around, and while he's still on the "government plan" for diet (though he's doing almost all real foods), he's nearing the end of his weight-loss goal and announced a couple days ago that he's switching to whole milk.
In both cases, I feel like I'm converting to a new religion, finding something so true that I never knew before, but now I want everyone to know how we've been wrong all along! Unlike most things in a religion, there's SCIENCE to back this up, so it's not a matter of your faith and mine. It's that we have been LIED TO about what science says, and people who don't know any better have perpetuated the myth.
It's hard enough for me to watch how most people treat their children and to listen to bad diet advice being given, but I control how my child is treated in most cases, and my husband and daughter and I are all relatively healthy. I don't like controversy, and I don't want to tell people how to live their lives. I'll give information where I have an opening and defend myself if I'm criticized, but that's about where it ends.
In what I'm learning about diet, it's crossed the line where I have to talk to my dad. He's fighting high cholesterol and heart disease with a low fat diet, and he's not really winning. He also suffers from neuropathy (nerves dying) in his feet, something that usually only happens to diabetics, and nobody has been able to help him. I'm beginning to wonder if the two are related to his high-carb, moderate-processed food, won't-touch-butter-with-a-ten-foot-pole diet.
I do want to allow him to make his own decisions about his health, but I want him to have the information. Certainly, he can't just read everything I've been reading. I'm not even sure he'd read a whole book. (He may be ADD as well. Yes, I know. Also possibly related.) Is there something short but reputable I could have him read, or how might I go about talking to him? I talk a lot more often with my mom (Dad's not great on the phone), so if it needs to be a slowly plant a seed thing, it's probably going to have to go through her, which may lose a lot of its effectiveness. What do you all think?
and welcome.
) is an amazing read, but it is very very long, very scientific and not written in simple, average-person-in-the-united-states-speaking language. i am still plugging away at it. i wish there was an "idiots guide" version! not that it shouldnt be available as is, just it would be nice to have a short and sweet smaller tome to hand to someone interested in dietary theories. marksdaily apple is fantastic but people who arent into athletics and fitness might be a bit scarred away, even though i realize mark isnt only about fitness by any means.
