RightNow -- Sorry to cut so much of your quote - it's pure gold, BTW, but I wanted to reply to just a couple things in it.
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It has less variety than 'eat anything in the grocery store' that is true. However 80% of the crap in the grocery store is not food, it's ingestible entertainment.
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So true. I see so many people buying carts full of sodas, sports drinks, energy drinks, multiple gallons of sweetened tea and/or punch, several types of chips, cookies, cakes, and donuts. Even the ones who are eating "healthy" are still buying all those drinks, lots of bread, a ridiculous amount of fruit, a few Smart Ones, or Lean Cuisines... and a couple of donuts ("Moderation in all things", right?
). It's never been more obvious that the whole idea of what passes for food these days is nothing more than ingestible entertainment.
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"News flash: eating high-sugar foods on a low-sugar diet means you can barely eat any of them without maxing out your sugar metric." Also recently discovered, if you sleep during daylight hours, you have fewer daylight hours remaining to enjoy while awake. Scientists are confounded.
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Sadly, I'm sure they'd see no relationship between the first statement about eating sugar on a low sugar diet and sleeping during the day cutting into your awake daylight hours.
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I used to say that nutritionist was what the pretty but stupid people from high school became. Then I met a few people who did that who actually were properly informed about it and quite intelligent. This is one of those careers, like law and politics, where 95% of them are giving the other 5% a bad name.
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We've had an on-staff, in-house nutritionist at work for... maybe 2 years now?
She's very young, pretty, sweet, and energetic... and I know better than to even begin to discuss nutrition with her, because she's all about low fat, high fiber, with lots of fruit, and honey as the ultimate healthy sweetener. From what I've seen, she gives every single customer she works with the exact same diet to follow.
So far her high carb diet is working out adequately for her, although I don't think how much her face breaks out (far more than when she first started working there, even though the break-outs
should be lessening, since she's a couple years older now) says a whole lot for how great her low fat, high carb, and (based on what he buys, apparently vegetarian, possibly even vegan) diet really works for her. I think at her age, and with her high energy level, she is still able to run off a lot of the carbs, but I don't think she's even hit her 30's yet, so just based on her body type, I think it's going to be a very different story in 20 years.
However, I would never bother to talk to her about nutrition, since I know better than to think she'd consider butter, eggs, full fat meat, and full fat cheese to be good nutritional choices, and probably hates the fact that the "guiding stars" system the store uses to rate how healthy a food is has eased their limits on cholesterol content, allowing things like chicken livers and whole eggs to be given stars.
To give you an idea of how twisted that rating system is though, they have a little over 23 pages of potato chips and 7-1/2 pages of tortilla chips that are considered to be healthy, probably because they're cooked in canola or soy oil, and due to the thickness of the chips, are proportionately slightly lower in sodium than some other brands.