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guess I am confused when I see older women celebrities with great skin and fit bodies but still eat some meat.
High Animal Protein Means High Acid
The primary job of stomach acid is to digest protein from your meals. So naturally, the more high-protein foods you eat, like meat, poultry, shellfish, fish, and cheese, the more acid your stomach produces and secretes. Gram for gram, animal protein produces more acid than an equivalent amount of plant protein. As a comparison, one study showed 30-40 percent less stomach acid production with soy protein than with beef protein. According to another large study, peptic ulcers occur more often with milk, meat, and bread consumption, as well as higher fat intake (including olive oil and vegetable fats). Consumption of vegetables, on the other hand, was associated with lower incidence of ulcers.
John A. McDougall. Dr. McDougall's Digestive Tune-Up (Kindle Locations 425-427). Kindle Edition.
colonyofcells wrote:I try to follow the healthy lifestyles of traditional peoples rather than individuals.
A decade later and she's as thin as a broomstick. She looks as though she's taken the straightening tongs not just to her hair but to her entire body.
What is behind this determination to be thin? Having conquered the legal world, does Amal want to the first among women as well, an alpha female always in control?
Or has becoming the bride of a sought-after bachelor made her insecure? Perhaps being model-thin is her way of saying: 'He's mine. I'm good enough for him. Hands off.'
While most modern women will openly scoff at such a notion, an honest conversation with our inner selves may lead us to the uncomfortable conclusion that it is actually women who put other women under pressure to be thin.
How often have we secretly (or meanly with a girlfriend) denigrated a woman's success by thinking we are somehow superior because we're slimmer?
Let's not forget the way Sarah Ferguson and Princess Diana were pitched against each other, when they married into the Royal Family.
The world sneered at the Duchess of Pork while gazing adoringly up at Diana, who by the time she wed Charles in 1981 had become scary-skinny.
But perhaps Diana holds the key to Amal's startling weight loss.
Maybe it's not power she's seeking, but instead is suffering from a sense of powerlessness.
It can't be easy for any woman who goes from an unknown to being thrown into the spotlight by marrying one of the most famous men on earth.
arugula wrote:They usually don't look all that great in candid, unretouched photos. Here is one example:
http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/05/ ... 379176.jpg
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