Every once in a while we'll end up with a low or no fat food product in the house. It's rarely on purpose, and is more likely due to someone not noticing the wording on the label, but those instances have led me to appreciate the effect that fat has on flavor.
Likewise, I have had a few similar instances to taste the low sodium versions of some things I like (V8 being the noteworthy one), and can appreciate the positive affect that salt has on the flavor of my food.
As long as I can remember I have heard that healthy foods are low fat, low salt, and low cholesterol. This has been promoted for decades. What I am now hearing is that much of that is wrong. The latest source I have heard this from is the following video, but it is by no means the first time I have come across this information.
What is particularly frustrating about this video is that it points out that when the dietary recommendations were made decades ago the evidence was already available to indicate that low fat diets were not medically beneficial. I have to say that if I learned this after going through a low fat diet or a low sodium diet I would be none too pleased. Those foods are simply not very good, and to give up those pleasures for no benefit would be difficult. That is to speak nothing of the people who died and may have survived if they knew to focus on something other than fat intake.
So, the good news is I can continue to eat food with fats in them without feeling bad about what that fat is going to do to me. The bad news is that many tasty foods that I want to eat are still known to be bad for me.
Saturday, March 28, 2015
Sunday, March 15, 2015
boring on the surface
The company I work for was acquired a couple of months ago. Much is change is probably afoot, and there certainly have been changes, but so far my work life has been business as usual.
One thing that did happen with the new company, though, was that I was randomly chosen to be a featured in a management meeting for the department I belong to in the new company. I received a questionnaire from which I could cherry pick questions about myself to answer, and I was also asked for a picture. This is actually a good idea, but I couldn't help wondering if I weren't a horrible candidate for a get-to-know-you blurb.
As I went through the questionnaire I noted how boring most of my honest answers were. As an example, I was asked the most interesting place I have been. I have been a lot of places, but few anyone would care to know about, and fewer still that I would consider interesting. I chose Lowell Observatory in Arizona where Pluto was discovered because I have Pluto on the brain, but most people visiting the observatory wouldn't classify it as particularly exciting. I visited the Grand Canyon on the same trip, but an old observatory it was.
My real problem is that I don't do the surface level stuff well. I can't give exciting surface-level answers because on that level I want my life to be boring.
I have long believed that if you sat just about any random person down in a room and asked them probing questions you would find that they have a rich life history and a nuance to what makes them tick. Deep down, I believe that most people are far more than they seem, and full of interesting motivations, thoughts, ideas, and apparent contradictions. I want to believe I am like most people in this respect. On the surface I'm as boring as boring can be, though.
One thing that did happen with the new company, though, was that I was randomly chosen to be a featured in a management meeting for the department I belong to in the new company. I received a questionnaire from which I could cherry pick questions about myself to answer, and I was also asked for a picture. This is actually a good idea, but I couldn't help wondering if I weren't a horrible candidate for a get-to-know-you blurb.
As I went through the questionnaire I noted how boring most of my honest answers were. As an example, I was asked the most interesting place I have been. I have been a lot of places, but few anyone would care to know about, and fewer still that I would consider interesting. I chose Lowell Observatory in Arizona where Pluto was discovered because I have Pluto on the brain, but most people visiting the observatory wouldn't classify it as particularly exciting. I visited the Grand Canyon on the same trip, but an old observatory it was.
My real problem is that I don't do the surface level stuff well. I can't give exciting surface-level answers because on that level I want my life to be boring.
I have long believed that if you sat just about any random person down in a room and asked them probing questions you would find that they have a rich life history and a nuance to what makes them tick. Deep down, I believe that most people are far more than they seem, and full of interesting motivations, thoughts, ideas, and apparent contradictions. I want to believe I am like most people in this respect. On the surface I'm as boring as boring can be, though.
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