When the Facts Aren’t Clear…
Today I learned that grapes, help people naturally gain weight and increase appetite. Incidentally, I learned this while consuming a large bunch of grapes, gasp! While I thought I was making a wise food related decision as it turned out I was only contributing to the problem that had me writing this blog in the first place. What on earth am I going to do? The answer: stop reading the internet!
Not twenty minutes after my grape related discovery and the subsequent self-loathing, my weight loss partner Deb located an article about natural weight-loss foods AND would you believe that grapes are listed? How can this be? One site says ‘DOWN WITH GRAPES’ and the next touts them as one of earth’s super foods. I’m so confused.
Since I much prefer not to spend hours beating myself up over a food choice, especially, when it seemed like a smart one, I elected to value Deb’s found info over that of my own. Yeah me, for enjoying a healthy snack today!! However, I’m still left with the dilemma of what to believe when it comes to literature about food. Since I’m choosing not to follow a fixed diet (Atkins/Zone/ww/etc) I have decided that I will base my food decisions on a simple question. On most occasions before I reach for a food I will ask myself: could I make this without a bio/chem degree? If the answer is yes, then I will eat it, if the answer is no? then I will think about it, for at least an extra 30 seconds!!! After all, who doesn’t love candy corn and licorice??
-Erica
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