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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

When folks bring up the "don't" of diet, I have to shake my head.  Grampa 
and the uncles and aunts had eggs and bacon, sausage or ham for breakfast 
almost everyday of their lives.  They'd have clam fritters or cornbread or 
biscuits and gravey.  If we were lucky, Gramma would make waffles.  Pancakes 
of some nature were always being served.  Pot roasts, fried chicken, chicken 
fried steaks

The only folks who died before 90 were involved in some sort of accident, 
which is not all that uncommon when folks work in the woods or head out in 
the Pacific Ocean to fish.

It isn't the carbs or the fats, it is where the heck the carbs and the fats 
come from AND if folks do or don't sit on their assets from morning to 
night.

Grampa and I walked an average of 2 miles everyday.  Grampa was 81 when I 
was born.  Uncle Billie frequently joined us.  Uncle Billie was the eldest 
sibling and was in his 90s!  They'd spent their lives working in the woods 
and Grampa ran a tramp steamer up to the Alaskan gold fields.  They worked 
hard and eat accordingly!

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Clansgian AT wmconnect.com>
> I know, Jerry, you are refering to refined carbs and oils.  Two things 
> about
> this.  First, no one eats fried pies as  a regular part of their diet, not 
> if
> they have to prepare and fry them themselves.  It's a treat.  I often read 
> the
> diet advice of how bad this to that meal in a restaurant is and how you 
> can
> choose healthier fare.  What?  Like you eat in a sit down restaurant 
> twenty
> times a week?   It's so rare that I get to eat like that, I'll eat 
> anything I
> want.
>
> As far as limiting carbs and oils (and again, I know you are referring to
> *refined* products, which we almost never use), anyone who thinks they can
> homestead on a subsistence farm on a diet without carbs and oils, I'd like 
> to invite
> them here for a week to try to do so.  The elimination of oils and carbs 
> and
> fried foods is for the milk-toast type, a two-fisted luddite homesteader 
> could
> not suvive on such a diet.   </HTML>
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