Your gramma's food probably didn't have a lot of unnatural additives in it. In the US, additives are added during 3 stages of production, including packaging. That's a big contributor to poor health in America, imo.
Changes all the time doesn't it? I've decided not to worry about it too much. I just don't buy it much. But then I don't eat regular dairy so does that help, I don't know.
My mother was a southern cook. She ate all of that stuff too. I don't know that she had eggs and bacon daily, but then again, she wasn't a cereal person. She probably ate grits with butter a lot. Of course when she cooked chicken, it was fried. My mom lived to be 97 years old.
Is that per tablespoon? I wonder because I usually keep a serving of butter to a teaspoon or so but a mayo serving is larger in say tuna salad.
I have an app on my phone called MyFitnessPal, that I log my foods eaten throughout the day. I try to keep within equal portions so as to make an accurate comparison. For example, if I enter "butter" in the selection feature, I'll get various units of measure to choose from, like 1pat, tsp, tbsp,cup,stick,oz and so on. I just choose "pat", which is approximately 36 calories. But if I wanted to compare that to mayonnaise I'd choose teaspoons, which for butter would be 34 calories, and for mayonnaise would be 31 calories. Not a big difference calorie-wise, but the trans fat is significantly lower for mayonnaise. Nutrition of Mayonnaise vs. Butter | Livestrong.com
I am convinced that the reason some of our elders lived so long in spite of the smoking and fried food is because perhaps they had less stress overall in their lives (cheap or affordable homes to buy makes for less stress), and they had less plastic in their bodies.
Totally agree with both paragraphs. I much prefer home cooking to takeaway although I am not a food purist. I was raised in a household where we ate meat three times a day, most of it mutton and beef. Growing up I drank lots of milk that was pasteurised but not homogenised. And lollies including honeycomb and chocolate covered caramels.
Coffee is probably good for the liver and the prostrate.
Maybe, but only black coffee, as the studies say. But I add some milk and a little quantum of brown natural cane sugar and cinnamon to my coffee. I never believed such 'scientific' nonsense anyway.
This is the best rule of all. "The middle way" as the Buddhists say.
Despite the advice of my gastroenterologist I drank coffee having read the benefits to the liver. Can Coffee Help Your Liver?
It doesn't, believe me. Since my 50th birthday I'm drinking coffee. My BPH is becoming worse nevertheless. Some weeks ago (at almost 65 years old) I even changed from panty liners to incontinence pads. Not kidding. Before I've tried medication as finasteride and dutasteride, but not only I've got breasts size 40 C but I got severe nose bleeding the last year. I've stopped all medication and rely only on pads now. They work. Nothing to be embarrassed of.
