What’s in your basket?
The reason why the old adage of ’you are what you eat'rings true is because, well generally it is true.
The thing is most people do not genuinely understand what food does to us and for us. Yes we all know it is fuel however that is normally as far as most people’s understanding stretches, unlike quite how far their waistband often stretches.
Now if you are not so interested in learning the subtle nuances of dietary science, and I would not blame you one bit if you aren’t, there is of course the other old saying of ’do as I do’. Is that a saying? Well either way in this instance it should be.
I say this because I was in the supermarket today standing in a queue to pay for my few and meager items and I, like so many other people do, spied upon the purchases of the couple in front of me.
They had cheese, by the bucket load, Swiss, French, English, Dutch and Italian. They also had meat like they had been on a killing spree with cheap minced beef, chicken, pork and lamb. With the exception of some onions and some green vegetables you had a diet that would give a doctor, and likely them, a coronary.
Here’s the thing though, she had the body even a model would kill for and he was tall, strong and muscular. The pair of them had less fat than racing snakes.
I couldn’t help myself and I apologized and asked if this was for them and if it was their normal diet.
She was very polite and explained how they ate a very high fat and very low carbohydrate diet to ensure that their bodies burned fat as opposed to sugar for fuel.
I asked if it was the Atkins diet and she replied that whilst it was similar it was not specifically Atkins, rather a dietary standard that they lived by where they avoided eating carbohydrates where possible and stuck to a reasonable calorie intake, including some amazing chicken recipes.
I think I will have to look further into this as, after all, the proof of the pudding is in the eating.
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