Tequestra wrote:
"What would CKinnard think of these potatoes fried in vegetable oil with salt, pepper, crushed-chillies & ground tumeric from a health perspective in comparison to cheese on toast with tomato sauce?"
Is there any known major health hazard associated with fried potatoes as an evening snack?
both promote hypertension, high LDL cholesterol, and obesity.
If you crave a snack, especially these, you are insulin resistant.
I am off work for a week staying at a SE Qld rainforest resort famous for its bushwalking.
Guess how many people over 35 walked the longer walks (over 10km) today. One out of 50+. Me.
Why? everyone else's arteries are excessively compromised, and their feet, knees, and hips cannot tolerate the load bearing.
If you want to ignore the research, and eat in a way that sustains a snack appetite, then you are less likely to be one out of 50.
Once again, I refer you to the Blue Zones diets, if not the WFPB.
THese people live longer on average, and stay active longer on average.
If that is important to you, then re-sensitize your taste buds and insulin sensitivity to that which nature intended.
Otherwise, look forward to spending the last 30+ years of your life being slowly confined to sitting and lying, and gobbing down prednisone, NSAIDs, beta blockers, alpha-glucosidase inhibitors, biguanide, DPP-4 inhibitors, and statins.
My 56yo gf is back in Germany visiting her parents for a few weeks, and getting in some nice downhill skiing on black diamond runs.
She eats like a Blue Zoner, about 90-95% WFPB SOS, and small animal bits 1-2x a week. I've never seen her do fried potatoes, and she rarely touches cheese these days. Like me, she has lost the taste.
She is healthier and more active than most 25yo females I meet.
Sequestra, if you realized how easy it is to permanently re-set your taste buds and insulin sensitivity, and the benefits from doing so, you wouldn't ask such questions!!!
The world can take a lot away from us.
Push back mate.
Think hard about what has REAL value in life, and prioritize getting and keeping that. And crowd out all the other stuff (like eating highly processed food stuffs we didn't evolve on).