High fat foods leads to food addiction

[shootingstar]

OMG! That picture of the bacon burger in that article just about made me hurl!!! The bacon doesn't even look fully cooked...ewwwwwwwwww!!!! I was craving something sweet and sugary just now...but looking at the pic, actually made me lose my appetite.

Admittedly I prefer proscuitto, but even much of that is not good since it tends to be quite salty.

What is appalling is a trend by some chefs to combine bacon with other gourmet cooking recipes. (I realize that it is used to give flavour to some traditional dishes at the beginning of cooking process.)

But even too much of healthy food can not be a great thing: for instance, I can absent-mindedly munch through several slices of artisanal bread within a few hrs., bread that has no fat, eggs, sugar nor hardly any salt. I really have to watch myself at times.

The breadmaking thread elsewhere in TE forums, is some evidence of enjoying some 'fruits' of labour.

[OakLeaf]

What is appalling is a trend by some chefs to combine bacon with other gourmet cooking recipes.

Is it really a "trend?" I thought it was just a "style." DH and I have a word for it (not just bacon, but ham hocks, etc.): "po'kified." Sometimes we'll go to a restaurant and two thirds of everything on the menu will be po'kified. That's when they even bother to disclose it. I ordered a salad topped with shrimp the other day. The salad was completely ridden with slices of pepperoni and some other type of summer sausage.

IAE it bugs the !@#$ out of me, too. There are so many people who don't eat pork, whether for religious, moral or health reasons. Myself, I'll pick the pork out and eat it anyway, but for a lot of people, the whole dish would be wasted. Why make two-thirds of your menu inaccessible to such a large group of potential customers? (Don't answer that. I know the answer, and it isn't pretty. )


On topic: what GLC and Knott said. It's just another round of the same old thing that's been going on for the last 40 years. That study just came out about HFCS, so the HFCS industry (who is responsible for all those "low-fat" processed foods) counter-attacks on fat. That's all this latest is.

[Trek420]

40 years? Check out the fad "low carb diet" circa 1825

http://old.eatright.org/videos/nnm/timeline.swf

Food fads come and go, it's good to eat "food that's made from food" and traditional cuisine of any culture. For example for many people the first generations arriving in the west eating the "western diet" or processed foods those new generations gain in height, and weight .... and the western way of death heart disease, cancer, and especially diabetes.

"Moderation in all things" is what my grandmother said. She survived breast cancer and lived to be 100 (or 99, we're not sure. A singer, a little vain, she'd lied about her age when she came to the US ) Have the bacon, just not platters of it.

And that's exactly what I'm going to practice is moderation after this piece of cake from the Sonoma Il Fiorrini bakery chocolate on chocolate with chocolate birthday cake.

[crazycanuck]

nevermind...I get annoyed by "the latest research says"...

[lph]

Heheh - cc, I'm not a scientist by profession but by nature, and this is my take on it:

- people "know" a whole lot of things that aren't true, or just partly true
- even when they are true, people often don't know why, or have a misconception as to why.

There is an enormous difference between experiencing for yourself that eating burgers daily makes you crave them, and "proving" (science doesn't really do that, but no matter) that eating high-fat junk food essentially rewires the brain to the point that these rats rather starved themselves than eat healthily, that there was a high level of addiction, and that people could be born with a predisposition to this kind of food addiction.

I agree that the study did seem flawed, but the results were very interesting anyway.