Pure, White And Deadly

[poliphilo]

Yesterday was sunny. I got to hang clothes outside- and have them dry (for only the second time this year) and sit outside myself with a book. I'm reading Pure, White and Deadly- which is all about the evils of sugar. Ailz passed it down to me. She reads a lot about nutrition.

Sugar is nutritionally useless and makes us ill- tooth decay, obesity, diabetes, heart disease- and we all eat vast amounts of it. I knew this, of course, but it's good to have chapter and verse. I don't take a lot of sugar (I don't have a sweet tooth) but it's hard to avoid it entirely because manufacturers add it to everything- including, unfeasibly, tinned vegetables. Henceforward I'm going to be more aware and more discriminating. 

Comments

[lblanchard.livejournal.com]

We don't buy tinned (canned) vegetables because of all the additives. We prefer frozen if we can't get fresh -- and, in some ways, frozen is better than fresh. Veggies are frozen within hours of harvesting. "Fresh" may have spent a couple weeks in a refrigerated rail car coming East from California.

I eat very little prepared food, so my sugar intake is probably lower than most.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I rather like tinned veg. I prefer it to frozen. But mostly we eat fresh. I don't propose to give up baked beans.

I find prepared food disagrees with me- which could be because of the sugar levels- so I eat very little. I used to buy a lot of ready-made curries; now I make my own.

[lblanchard.livejournal.com]

I haven't made actual baked beans (either from scratch or from a can) for ages. I make a lot of cajun / southwestern bean and rice dishes, but sugar isn't an ingredient.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I eat a lot of cheap canned beans- having first spiced them up with Lea and Perrins Worcestershire sauce.

[lblanchard.livejournal.com]

Dried beans that you cook yourself are even cheaper. I usually cook a couple pounds at once and freeze the extras.