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Originally Posted by luja
There was an interesting blurb about a 1907 SA article stating that Americans eat too much meat and need to eat less of it and more fruits and vegetables. Here we are 100 years later talking about the same thing. Humans are something.
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Interesting, isn't it? My grandmother (my Mother's Mom) hardly served or ate much red meat- she said it was a treat, but not something to be served on a daily basis. She also believed that a huge part of weight problems began with red meat, processed foods (cereals, frozen foods with chemicals, canned foods, etc) and dairy products that had preservatives in them.
My aunt (Dad's sister) does not eat red meat and has hardly ever eaten it in her lifetime. She told me a couple of months back, the last time she had a steak was sometime back in the 70's, and that was the first and only time since she was in her 20's that she had had red meat. She is now 74, and if it wasn't for a broken hip, she would still be up and hopping around. She's still very trim even if she doesn't get to exercise like she used to! She eats lots of fruits and veggies, and still weighs herself daily on the nursing home's scale, to make sure she doesn't go over her five pound "extra weight" limit.
My Dad used to cut out anything made with yeast to lose weight. He used to make "breadless" sandwiches- he'd make deli meat and cheese wraps with lettuce, pickles, tomatoes, mayo, mustard, salt and pepper, and bring some fruit and raw veggies to eat for lunch everyday. He would drop weight quickly doing that and sit ups and walking every morning. He hardly ever ate pasta- thought it was not good for one's stomach because it was "gluey".
They were all on to something back then.