This is a guest post from Kelly of Kelly the Kitchen Kop, one of my favorite real food bloggers whose down-to-earth attitude and charming witticisms make healthy eating fun, informative and easy. Hope you enjoy it! And if you’d like to contribute to Nourished Kitchen, please contact me. — Jenny
Thank you Jenny for allowing me to write a guest post for you on a topic that has me fuming. The problem is, here probably isn’t the best place to post the rotten quality pictures I have to go with this post, on Jenny’s blog where her pictures are always crazy awesome! (I have a good excuse, though. I snapped these from the bulletin board at my kids’ school the other day and thought at the time that I’d be using them on my own blog, where my readers are used to that sort of thing.) The poor lady there with the after-school kids was stuck listening to my rant. When I told her butter is good for her, she whispered apologetically, “Yeah, I eat a little now and then.” I wanted to scream. Due to THIS misinformation below, she and probably 95% of American adults all think the same old thing. Maybe more? What do you think? In your daily life aren’t you constantly coming across very few people who know the truth about real food and healthy fats? Maybe you’re still unsure yourself, and if so, that’s OK. There’s so much conflicting information coming at us, it’s not easy knowing what to believe.
What’s wrong with these pictures?
Why are so many of us suffering from more diseases of all kinds, but especially Metabolic Syndrome? Read Wikipedia’s definition:
“Metabolic syndrome is a combination of medical disorders that increase the risk of developing cardiovascular disease and diabetes. It affects one in five people, and prevalence increases with age. Some studies estimate the prevalence in the USA to be up to 25% of the population.”(…)
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