Re: Are you SOS free?
Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2017 12:10 pm
I’ve always considered it a perfectly acceptable subset of the McDougall plan, to sprinkle salt or sugar on my food as rarely as I am able.
I have never bothered to consider myself in violation of Dr McDougall’s recommendations, by not keeping a sugar bowl in the house, or any type of salt shaker. That would seem strange to me, especially when everyone in the plant based community seems to agree that no additional sodium or additional sugar is needed in the diet for good health (beyond what naturally exists in whole foods).
It seems like the thing that people disagree on, is whether people can handle using a teaspoon here, and a teaspoon there, without spiraling out of control. If a person DOES spiral out of control, then it seems fine to just cut sugar out of your life as much as you can (or salt). (Just a behavioral hack — or a compliance hack — not a matter of being holier than thou!)
I have never bothered to consider myself in violation of Dr McDougall’s recommendations, by not keeping a sugar bowl in the house, or any type of salt shaker. That would seem strange to me, especially when everyone in the plant based community seems to agree that no additional sodium or additional sugar is needed in the diet for good health (beyond what naturally exists in whole foods).
It seems like the thing that people disagree on, is whether people can handle using a teaspoon here, and a teaspoon there, without spiraling out of control. If a person DOES spiral out of control, then it seems fine to just cut sugar out of your life as much as you can (or salt). (Just a behavioral hack — or a compliance hack — not a matter of being holier than thou!)