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Sheep: Why We Can’t Just Eat Grass Like A Sheep… — 15 Comments

  1. Actually, when olive oil is heated it actually turns into a trans fat. I know I’m going against what the majority says, but the truth is that any time you’re going to cook with fats/oils, they need to have a high smoke rate. This means they don’t change form when heated. The two best oils for cooking are clarified butter (real butter only) and coconut oil, which are both mainly saturated fats. Contrary to popular belief, we actually need a moderate amount of SATURATED fats to help our body synthesize certain nutrients. I actually believe we are such a sick society as a whole because we’ve substituted so much grain for high quality animal protein. No matter what people try to do to “make” it be “healthy” they just aren’t the same thing! Grains for instance are a very inflammatory food by nature. You will always see degeneration in societies that consume a lot of grains. Do your research and you’ll see what I’m talking about. Look at India (mainly vegetarian and high grain consumption overall… That’s just one) Peace!

    • Hey Jennifer,

      thanks for the comment.

      You had me worried for a moment (as I’ve always been a big fan of olive oil) – I think you’ll find the idea of olive oil becoming a trans-fatty oil when heated is a myth though – at least at any temperature that can be produced by any kind of household stove.

      Check it out and let me know what you think…

      thanks for the comment though – & interesting point about the grains (I’m going to check that out next),

      take care & best wishes,
      Alan

  2. Fats, though cursed by many, should still be had in ample amounts. The good fat that we need are necessary for us to survive much more if we want to be healthy. Aside from that fats are important to exist in our body because it is our emergency energy storage vessels that we could use in case we lose all of our energy. If we don’t have fats in our body, we would be dead in a couple of minutes the second we lose all the calories in our body.

  3. Isabelle,
    I thought this was going to be an article about eating JUST Mutton but i’m glad it’s not.

    I can relate to Alan’s strange obsession..

    One of my sons has ADD (the inattentive kind). It’s a rarer form of ADD where instead of being super hyper you are SUPER LETHARGIC.

    Anyways, in the beginning I didn’t want to medicate him so I researched every natural method under the sun to help him with his concentration and his energy levels. Thus began my obsessive fixation on experimenting with food. (we are a family of foodies).

    We eliminated (as you stated in your article) ALL manufactured foods. No chips, no cookies that were store bought. Nothing with ingredients we could pronounce. We even eliminated bananas and all yellow foods because some doctors believe the yellow in the food has a certain chemical reaction that can make ADD worse. And lastly, we limited carb intake from pasta and rice to once a week. And we ALL ate this way and for the most part we still do today except that we now eat rice but in smaller quantities.

    Result, we were left with only things we could buy fresh and smaller portions of meat. We all felt much healther and best of all, our food bill was reduced from 1,000 dollars a month to 600 dollars a month. Junk food and prepared foods cost a lot apparently.And eating only fresh foods really simplifies things a lot.

    FYI, back to what food you could eat. Well a guy ate only potatoes for 60 days. you can watch it here. Very interesting. http://vimeo.com/23066546

    • Hi Annie,
      It’s true, isn’t it. It is cheaper to buy good ingredients than already made food AND it can taste a whole lot better. I’m not convinced though about the potatoe diet. Potatoes are certainly not as bad as they are made out to be… but, even though potatoes do contain many vitamins, carbs, proteins, they are not a complete food. If you ate only those for ever, you would be missing vitamin D, E, A, essential fats.
      What happened to your son’s ADD? Did your new diet improve his condition? I think it’s great that you all adopted the same healthy diet to help him out.

      • My son’s ADHD did improve slightly. It certainly did not hurt. He has to exercise regularly. something to do with seratonan and dopamine production. He also has to have lists for everything. He is a little like the rain man. He can remember large sets of data and information. pass tests without studying but he forgets to put his left sock on. He gets lost outside our front door. It’s really strange. The doctors say this is normal and he will grow into it a little. SIGH…..

          • Yes, that was one of the first things we did. It was the low hanging fruit. We eventually put him back on his medication to see what would happen and the teachers called me that weak telling me he had miraculously changed for the better. He was alert, outgoing, on top of it. I was happy but sad at the same time because the medication gave him horrible stomach aches and he couldn’t sleep at night. I took him off after a year and we are trying to get him to deal with his condition without medication. It’s an uphill battle.
            But we’re so used to it now that we all just rally around him and help him as much as we can..

  4. Thou we are not a sheep that eats grass, there are many vegetable to consider that has vitamins and minerals like grass.

  5. What a great overall guide to nutrition. I’m glad you went over the differences between good and bad fats. I think some people lump them both together without realizing that unsaturated fats are actually good for you. For the most part, I try to get my good fats from olive oil. Just throw some olive oil on top of a piece of chicken you’re cooking and you have a pretty good mix of good fats and protein.

    • Oh yes, I agree with olive oil. I come from the South of France and, there, we eat olive oil in pretty much everything! When I first moved to the UK (16 years ago), there wasn’t much olive oil in supermarkets, not always the cold pressed virgin quality and it was very expensive. Olive oil was mainly found in pharmacy to help with earache I believe! So, whenever I went to France, I’d buy olive oil to take back to the UK. Thank God it’s changed now.
      I’m planing to write a more detailed article on good fats, so watch this space.

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