First I just wanted to say a quick thank you to all of you who responded to the previous newsletter blog. I was touched and overwhelmed at the amount of comments I got on it. My mother's story is clearly a compelling one and I hope someday, when my life has space to do such things, I will be able to write about her in full and really do her justice. But meanwhile several of you wanted to know more so I referred them to the book my foster aunt, Ruth Kluger wrote. It is called Still Alive and although it is my aunt's story, it does include quite a bit about my mother, whom she meets in concentration camp. This is a sparse, intense story: well worth the read. I hope those of you who have an interest will check it out.

But this week I wanted to write about the foods we're eating. More and more it is becoming clear how damaging processed carbs are to our bodies. Being full of the "trifecta of evil ingredients" (fat, sugar and salt), processed carbs are creating early diabetes in our kids, obesity in our population as a whole, and early death for many. And because they are highly addictive foods they are really difficult to give up.

It is interesting how we are just on the cusp of being able to see that these foods are as damaging as tobacco or alcohol, and perhaps 5 or 10 year down the road there will be lawsuits and warnings on labels, etc. But meanwhile how many of us still need to devour our favorite cookies or chips? How many of us are still eating at fast food or chain restaurants? How many of us are still buying foods at big box stores which carry foods filled with artificial ingredients, preservatives, and the like? 

Since leaving Weight Watchers over 2 years ago, where it often seemed focused on point values rather than food ingredients and addictive qualities, I have changed my diet quite a bit. I have not brought it up here much because I do not want to dissuade any of you from using the point system, nor do I want to encourage you to eat foods which could increase your weight. But I have discovered that I can keep my weight steady and eat foods I never allowed myself to eat much of before, because I eat practically no processed carbs.

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These little frozen squares of garlic are quite potent. They also make frozen basil squares, cilantro and they do others but I have only found these 3 at Trader Joes.

 

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