One way I look at foods is to think of the ingredients set in little bowls as a feast. Would I enjoy eating a bowl of water and another bowl of palm kernel oil and some margarine and another bowl of sugar, corn syrup and another of some chemicals? How about all these things sort of mixed together lightly?

When I think of some heavy cream and sugar, I wouldn’t mind just drinking it straight. I think of all foods this way when reading the labels. The margarine type grease (especially the types that don’t come from normal food type things, like cottonseed oil and rapeseed oil and canola.. that are more cheap byproducts used because they’re cheap, not because they are good or taste good. sugar and chemicals and preservatives. Sugar I do like, but not when it drenches out the flavor of the food. I think well prepared natural foods have such a good flavor and too many people only taste the sugar and salt and that it’s something to gulp down.
Now if you’ve been to a pastry shop in France or Italy and had a Napoleon or Cream filled pastry, you would see that natural cream based fillings and toppings are infinitely better than all the synthetic types of pastries we get in most places in the US. I’ve given up on finding any good pastry shops here. About the best you can find is half real cream products. But that’s another story. I have to make my own if I want good pastry..

Sugar’s definitely a preservative. I think it’s horrible for you for other reasons, though. Even honey is, and on top of that it’s also a processed sugar, no matter what the health nuts tell you. Bees do the processing, that’s all. But I’d rather use it than high-fructose corn syrup, if I had to use one or the other.

I don’t think they *are* right about everything; for instance, they claim grains are healthy if you process them first, when Weston Price’s own data show that the more grain a traditional group ate, the more cavities they had. But if you take the time to do your own homework instead of depending on a middleman group with an agenda to interpret everything for you, you’d be surprised what you can learn.

I had serious problems with heavy periods when my cycle came back after my daughter was born. I had no insurance at the time, so I went investigating whether there might be any natural way to deal with the problem–some change in diet, or whatever. Then I remembered WAPF had said that vitamin A is necessary for reproductive health, and that people with hypothyroidism and diabetes can’t convert beta carotene to vitamin A (a claim I checked, and it is true). I had been diagnosed with neither disorder, but I was also overweight, so *something* wasn’t right. I decided to try supplementing the real vitamin from fish liver oil.

Bingo.

I have since heard from a friend of mine on Facebook who was having the same problem and who, after hearing my story, decided to try vitamin A for herself. She had the same result. I have since learned that vitamin A is a common treatment in developing countries employed by charity clinics trying to help women with painful and heavy periods. And when they’re trying to prevent blindness, they don’t do it with golden rice. They do it with vitamin A capsules.

Also, since I started eating more animal fat and saturated fat (not always the same thing, I also use coconut oil), I find my mental-health status has vastly improved. I wasn’t looking for that to happen and it took me about two or three years to figure out what was going on. My fat intake has also improved my insulin response because even when I’m not being scrupulous about diet, if I eat a lot more carbs than I’m supposed to eat, I respond better to them. I don’t get the blood-sugar ups and downs anymore and I feel better overall.

I’m certainly hostile to people who say it’s healthy to not eat animal. My experience says otherwise. The experiences of a lot of other people say otherwise. Try as you might you will never find real vitamin A in a plant. Clearly I cannot be healthy without consuming it. That means that a vegan diet will never be possible for me. That means that when vegans say no one needs animal foods, THEY ARE LYING.

You’d be hostile too if someone was demanding you follow a diet that will make you sicker.

Although, there are plenty of reasons to avoid eating *corn*, and never mind the dextrin–not the least of which is so much corn is GMO now, and they won’t label it.

What vitamins are in Cool Whip that would have occurred there naturally? What’s the point of eating something that does not benefit you at all? At least when all our food was real you could expect to get nutrients from your desserts. Now they’re a nutritional wasteland.

The worst part of natural whipped cream is the sugar you add to it. You could add stevia instead, or just skip the sweetener if what you’re putting the stuff on is sweet enough already.