I thought you fellow low carbers might enjoy this little poem - stumbled on it on another site - it is not my work I am afroad. Enjoy.
"You are what you eat." What a silly expression.
It gives the unwary a quite wrong impression.
I ate up my cabbage as child and adult
But making me green was not the result.
If a dog is fed beef she matures as a cow?
If you think that is so then I want to know how.
Does a horse become grass and a panda a leaf?
To me the idea is a stupid belief.
Perhaps it only applies to the human race.
Is a vegan a nut if that is the case?
I think that is likely but it's only my view
Let's face it, what you eat is just up to you.
Fat — saturated — is there at our birth
And eating that sort should not add to girth.
But polyunsaturates changes our fat
From the kind Nature gave. Do we really want that?
Our stone age ancestors, our long ago kin
Had the same kind of fat in their bodies and skin
And covering nerves so they work as they should.
But it's all of the kind we are told is not good.
If we all ate the foods in Nature's great store
That our own evolution has fitted us for:
Cut out the unnatural, processed, refined
Our brains appetite would keep size confined.
Man in pre-history could eat only meat,
To find plants in ice — an impossible feat.
He left tools and weapons and bones by the ton
Signs of cereals and cooking and fire there are none.
Man can't digest grain till it's ground and had flame
The evidence on weight says carbohydrate's to blame.
If you read the research it's a fact you can't dodge
That eating steamed puddings will turn you to stodge.
Valerie Ward, BA (Psych)
"You are what you eat." What a silly expression.
It gives the unwary a quite wrong impression.
I ate up my cabbage as child and adult
But making me green was not the result.
If a dog is fed beef she matures as a cow?
If you think that is so then I want to know how.
Does a horse become grass and a panda a leaf?
To me the idea is a stupid belief.
Perhaps it only applies to the human race.
Is a vegan a nut if that is the case?
I think that is likely but it's only my view
Let's face it, what you eat is just up to you.
Fat — saturated — is there at our birth
And eating that sort should not add to girth.
But polyunsaturates changes our fat
From the kind Nature gave. Do we really want that?
Our stone age ancestors, our long ago kin
Had the same kind of fat in their bodies and skin
And covering nerves so they work as they should.
But it's all of the kind we are told is not good.
If we all ate the foods in Nature's great store
That our own evolution has fitted us for:
Cut out the unnatural, processed, refined
Our brains appetite would keep size confined.
Man in pre-history could eat only meat,
To find plants in ice — an impossible feat.
He left tools and weapons and bones by the ton
Signs of cereals and cooking and fire there are none.
Man can't digest grain till it's ground and had flame
The evidence on weight says carbohydrate's to blame.
If you read the research it's a fact you can't dodge
That eating steamed puddings will turn you to stodge.
Valerie Ward, BA (Psych)