Maggie's Farm

There is "Whole Foods" and there is whole foods. "Whole Foods" is an industry that makes big bucks convincng people that they willlive longer and healthier lives if they pay 3 times as much at "Whole Foods". Whole foods is just food, raw carrots and potatoes and all kinds of produce from your garden or from smal and big farms. I am a believer is whole foods but shun the propaganda of "Whole Foods".

Organic has morphed into big business ironically and as a big business often it is the organic foods that carry various diseases. They don't after all fertilize with those nasty chemicals and prefer horse shit or bull shit. You can buy a lot of these commercial orgainc foods with horse shit still clinging to them at "Whole Foods" and pay three times as much as you woud for the same vegetables that have never been shit on. Why? I have a garden, I can food and fruit from my garden. I consider it to be "organic" mostly. I don't use pesticides (see I'm organic" and i use very little chemical fertilizer. But these organic fruits and vegetable are not organic because of some OCD necessity to be "organic" they simply are the fruits of my labor. I carefully avoid anything labeled "Organic" and I don't consume unpasteurized milk or it's products (except for cheeses that meet the FDA standards for cheeses made with unpasteurized milk.

For the most part food is simply food. Your ody doesn't know if the carrot was fertilized with chemicals or BS. It converts the carrot into the lowest molecules in your intestines so that it can be disolved through the intestine walls. All of the carbs are converted to sugar regardless of if they are from sugar, brown rice or organic fruits and vegetables. By the time it gets into your bloodstream and is used by your body it is sugar, period. Obsessing over carbs is foolish but probably harmless. Why? Simply because your body can convert fats and proteins to sugar as it needs it and will. You need carbs and yur body can make them if you don't eat them. You need the MDRs and some basic requirements you need daily and others you can skimp on for weeks or months before they will cause a problem. If you get your MDRs than it truely doesn't matter what else you eat. Almost all of it will be turned into sugar and burned as energy to keep you warm, power your muscles and brain. The same brain that you think with to decide you don't need sugar is in fact powered by sugar.

Burning fat or losing weight (usually the same thing but not always. It is correct to say that it is simply a matter of using more calories than you consume. It is correct but for many of us more complicated. Your body, depending on your genetics, may want to store fat and you will find it much more difficult to prevail over what your body wants than smeone else will. Most truely obese people (over 350 lbs more or less) are obese because of their genes. For these people it is very difficult to lose weight and keep it off. The diets that work for many of us who are 20, 40 or 60 lbs heavier than we want to be will not usually work for someone who is 280 lbs heavier. It is easy to lose 20 or 30 lbs and only slightly more difficult to lose 40 or 50 lbs. Whole foods won't do it, organic foods won't do it, fad diets generally won't do it. (Sometimes fad diets do indeed work but mostly because the dieter has commitment, in these cases any diet would have worked). If you want to lose 20-40 lbs diet (as in eat less) and excercise, moderately but consistently. If you want to lose 250 lbs or more I can only wish you luck but would bet on it.