that's prob why. plus it has a lower glycemic index too.

me i'm a 2% milk guy. when i met my gf she was fat free, and I said **** that noise.

now we do 1%. it's aight.

Skim milk for life.

no milk for life.

+1

Lactose intolerant?

.............road trip...........

Although I may have found a local dairyman that will let me "stop by" with a bucket. :)

Are nuts (lol) good for you?

(correct me if I'm wrong) Nuts have some good protein but they are somewhat high in fat; too many of them is a bad thing.

My nuts are good for you, these ones right here, that I'm eating, called almonds.

They have beneficial fats.

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/e...ons/000104.htm

K good I just bought a bag of almonds.

I also have some mixed nuts (almonds, cashews, macadamias, walnuts).

Honey roasted peanuts taste good too.

Pine nuts are the best.

Or Corn Nuts... but I'm not sure they count.

That's because honey is sugar. So, they are essentially Sugar Coated Peanuts.

Yes. You are so wise. -_-

That's not wisdom. That's facts :)

Womp.

peanuts are beans, not nuts, and have have less nutritional value than walnuts/almonds/pistachios.

but they are cheap.

that said, i -love- some Jamaican peanut porridge.....

Actually, they are a legume, but so are beans. :)

yeah... peabeans sounds pretty dumb so they changed it.

True story.

BRB, have to go beat up my high school earth science teacher..... :P

Almond Milk :thumb:

Almond milk is so damn good.

Almond butter
Almond milk
plain almonds

they are just plain good.


Good fats are not bad for you but they've been given a bad rap because they have a lot of calories. But they also are non-inflammatory, have vitamins, help your liver shed fat, do NOT raise triglycerides, and are absolutely vital to your health.

Good oils
Fish or krill oil
Lard
Butter
Coconut oil
Olive oil
walnut oil

bad oils
soybean oil
corn oil
safflower
canola
crisco
margarine
anything partially hydrogenated will be high in trans fats, which are inflammatory to your blood vessels.

vegetable oils are very high in omega-6 unsaturated fat, which is inflammatory. American diet has a ratio of 50 to 1 omega-6 to omega-3 when it should be 1 to 1, maybe 3 to 1.

If you look at a lot of cookies, cracker and snack packages, the main ingredients are: vegetable oil, HFCS, highly refined wheat or corn flour. Complete garbage that unfortunately is very tasty and apparently addictive for some people.

http://naturalbias.com/12-reasons-wh...-good-for-you/
http://www.menshealth.com/health/saturated-fat
http://www.marksdailyapple.com/saturated-fat-healthy/

I'd always heard that canola oil was preferable to other frying oils. What about peanut oil, where does that land?

The omega-6 vs. omega-3 issue is a huge problem. For instance, most people have heard that eating fish is a good source of omega-3s. This is true, but only in the case of wild caught fish. Farm raised fish, of any type (tilapia, catfish, salmon, trout), has been regularly shown to be very high in omega-6s. My belief is that this is because farm raised fish are fed a diet of mostly corn. The same omega-6 imbalance is seen in corn-fed livestock, whereas grass fed beef has been shown to be very high in omega 3s.

we bought some "Naturally More" peanut butter that has added omegas (flax), protein (egg whites) and fiber (wheat germ) added

It's not bad, but it ain't no Adam's.

Peanut oil has a lot of omega-6 unsaturated fat in it but it has a high smoke point, making it good for frying.

Here's a list of oils and their omega-6 (n-6) and omega-3 (n-3) contents. Too bad they don't also list the amount of saturated or polyunsaturated.

Canola has to be highly refined in order to make it useful and it is also high in omega-6 fats. http://www.healthy-eating-politics.c...table-oil.html http://www.diabetesincontrol.com/com.../2570&Itemid=8

Peanut Oil
29g LA (n-6)
1.1g ALA (n-3)

Canola Oil
22g LA (n-6)
11g ALA (n-3)

Soybean Oil
53g LA (n-6)
7g ALA (n-3)

Lard
10g LA (n-6)
1.4g ALA (n-3)

Olive Oil
9g LA (n-6)
0.7g ALA (n-3)

Coconut Oil
3g LA (n-6)
0g ALA (n-3)

http://weightoftheevidence.blogspot....d-sources.html

i only get it once in a great while because its often hard to find and pricey, but almond milk is definitely tasty.

from following this thread, it sounds like I should probably be dead by now...

At age 45, doctor said my cholesterol was a bit high. Since my father had just had his THIRD heart attack, I figured I better make some changes. At first, I thought I had to go all out on the low fat diet but the more I got to reading on the subject, it was clear that low-fat diets are a disaster and all the so-called "healthy choice" foods were not healthy at all.

And, it turns out that cholesterol by itself is not an indicator of heart disease. Since the rest of my blood work was good and my BP is excellent, I'm not going to worry about the cholesterol.

Almond butter and homemade cranberry jelly sandwich.... can't wait for lunch...

I need to make more chicken tetrazzini.


I could http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxsy9w0YQJ1qlphfk.gif for dayyyyyzzz