Are You Eating Healthy or Drinking Toilet Bowl Cleaner?

"...you'll be more likely to drink the toilet bowl cleaner before you'd eat the foods that are unhealthy and again let me stress, this isn't an aversion therapy book, this is a totally new level of information for you and it will change your life..."

Interesting claim from this book. I would love to think that it was true but all the evidence in my weight loss coaching points to the fact that we all know what is bad for us, what makes us pile on the weight. We know our foods are full of artery-clogging cholesterol and chemicals which do all kinds of things to rats in the lab, yet it doesn't stop us eating it.

Ms Rowlett, the author, evidently eats very pure food - hormone-free, free-range, wholly additive-free organic etc. Quite honestly, I would love to go there too (and where I have an easy choice at the supermarket I do that) - but I am loathe to let food take over my life that much by insisting on this100% - I don't feel that is healthy either - and I can see the sourcing, shopping and cooking of food taking a lot more effort if I did that.

As for my clients, they make great strides in their health and weight loss with a reduction in junk food and portion sizes and an increase in health giving foods like fruit and vegetables and the drinking of water in place of high-calorie drinks.

What about you? Has evidence about the ingredients in food ever changed the way you eat or stopped you buying a cookie or fast food?

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Comments

[sweetsheils]

I do my best also to buy good quality fruit or veg but some times you have limited choice.
On being dissuaded for eating a particular food once when I was on a Diet the instructor showed a single pancake and a bag of 8 apples and told us that the same amount of calories were in both. That stuck with me for years (I would regularly have made pancakes as a dessert)and it was about 3 years before I made or ate one again! Sometimes when you are in a particular frame of mind you can hear a message, good or bad, and it can stick with you.

[Janice]

I agree Sweetsheils, it's quite scary the amount of caories in some foods that we may be unaware of.

Even I get caught out sometimes - I was just eating my Shape Low-Fat Greek style yogurt the other day for dessert feeling virtuous when I noticed it had 140 calories a pot...even 4 squares of chocolate don't have that many! Wouldn't mind if I had chosen luxury full-cream yogurt - that's different and a real choice.

But actually I think this book would say both the pancakes and apples are Ok if the pancakes are made from real food without additives. It is the calories that come along with junk food and hormone, additive ridden food that they seem to be talking about. Plus all those cheap bulk fillers and flavourings like high fructose corn syrup.

Janice
editor Think Slim

[JL Rowlett]

Hi there!

You're right I would pancakes are okay (my partner makes them on many Sunday mornings for our kids) with real maple syrup - what a treat!

My main goal is to educate people about the foods they are being sold that are so bad for them and may be sabotaging the best weight loss efforts.

Genetically altered ingredients (insect, bacteria and virus DNA inserted into the DNA of certain ingredients in these foods) as well as addictive substances in their foods they are sold as healthy (examples are Special K cereal (take the Special K Challenge!), Lean Cuisine, Healthy Choice Dinners, Kid Cuisine and Lunchables for the children's lunches and more) and how to those everyday foods with organic and better choices and where to get these items if you can't find them in your local stores (I moved from the 4th largest city in America to the 27th in 2003 so I feel everyone's pain for how inconvenient it can seem to find items but I have developed a network of local co-ops, mail order and my local grocery chain is starting to carry a pretty dandy organic section).

Have to share this one, I saw a commercial the other night of this guy eating ice cream and he finished his bowl of ice cream and danced to his fridge and then the commercial freeze framed and large letters asked, "Why Is This Man Dancing?"
And then the commercial says - "because XYZ Ice Cream has half the fat so he can have a little more."
Which I thought was grossly misleading.

We all know actual human sized portions are a large part of weight loss and eating more ice cream because it's half the fat isn't going to help anyone maintain their weight and certainly not reach weight loss goals.

I want everyone to get healthy and if the big corporations are going to use GMO/GE ingredients at least be forced to say so on the lables - I don't know anyone that would knowingly eat a pesticide producing bacteria with their morning breakfast (especially since there is compelling evidence certain individuals now have these bacteria resident in their small intestine and they are still putting out bacteria).

And that's my piece,
Peace!

JL Rowlett

[Janice]

Thank you for your comments and clarification JL.

I think we are getting better and better at organic in the Uk and Europe in general but we are not there yet in all places. And actually the fresh organic food we do get has been flown half way round the world and I wonder if there is any goodness left in it.

I am still concentrating on getting my kids to eat better food by offering home cooked meals, more vegetables and salad, healthier snacks etc fruit, raisins, yogurt, farm-produced cheese etc but I am definitely not there 100% yet. It is a lot easier to persuade myself to do it than them...and I sometimes take the path of least resistance too.

I'm almost afraid to read your book in case I can no longer find anything in my local shops (or available easily and affordably in the UK) that I can give them with a clear conscience (that they will eat):)

But it would be a model to strive for I can see so maybe I really should read it and see what I can implement already

Janice
editor Think Slim