Rant alert!
Does this look like a photograph of "saturated fat" to you? Maybe i'm brainwashed, but in my world, the picture below is what fat really looks like....
Despite the masterful job Tom Naughton did in "Fathead" to convince us that people DO know what's fattening, i'm not sure we can excuse them from dietary ignorance. Clue
: the top photograph contains perhaps 15 grams of fat in the meat patty, a third of which is saturated. FIVE GRAMS of saturated fat. That's about a fifth of an ounce. It also contains probably close to 200 grams of carbohydrate. So why does the New York Times label it a meal high in saturated fat? Total fat, yes -- because of the industrial seed oils soaked into the starch....
WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED to journalistic integrity? The goal used to be, to print the truth (before everybody else). Kinda looks like they're in a race to be last, as far as nutrition is concerned.
It's hilarious that every time the media show scary "fatty" foods it's invariably some ghastly carb show with a smattering of fat.
ReplyDeleteyep! [sheepish grin] i guess this is why i blog! you get blown away by the rampant idiocy, and you have to vent....
DeleteTess, is there any way of sending you a private message?
Deleteyou bet! tessmck2012@gmail.com will reach me.
DeleteDoctors claim for every piece of bacon we eat, we lose 9 minutes of life. They also claim 17 minutes for every cigarette. Last night I dreamed I went on a bacon and smoking binge and traveled back in time!
ReplyDeletelol! THERE - that is the theme for your first blog post!
DeleteROFL until I wet my pants
Deletethe top photo looks like a sugar bomb with extra kindling.
ReplyDeleteand anymore, it doesn't even look yummy!
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