Contradictions

There are a lot of contradicting ideologies on nutrition and food. So many that it actually made my head hurt. Pain. In my head. Because of the low carb / low fat debate. So now I am left confused and annoyed. There are somethings that is seems everyone can agree on:

1. White Flour is bad.
2. Sugar is bad.
3. If you can't pronounce it, it is probably bad.
4. You should eat real food. 
5. Plants are good.

The whole low carb / low fat thing seems wrong and honesty, a lot of the proponent of one or the other sound like religious zealots to me. It is food. It really shouldn't be that controversial. So I am going to assume that they are both right... and they are both wrong. Neither side has incontrovertible proof that it is right. What works for one person isn't going to work for another.

Also, I am hungry and I am not sure that giving up meat all together was the best plan. With that said. I am going to slightly amend my six-week plan. I am just not sure to what.

I do like Micheal Pollens 7 rules for eating (from this webMD article). Although number 7 is my achilles heel, especially with my job.

1. Don't eat anything your great grandmother wouldn't recognize as food. "When you pick up that box of portable yogurt tubes, or eat something with 15 ingredients you can't pronounce, ask yourself, "What are those things doing there?" Pollan says.
2. Don’t eat anything with more than five ingredients, or ingredients you can't pronounce.
3. Stay out of the middle of the supermarket; shop on the perimeter of the store. Real food tends to be on the outer edge of the store near the loading docks, where it can be replaced with fresh foods when it goes bad.
4.  Don't eat anything that won't eventually rot. "There are exceptions -- honey -- but as a rule, things like Twinkies that never go bad aren't food," Pollan says.
5. It is not just what you eat but how you eat. "Always leave the table a little hungry," Pollan says. "Many cultures have rules that you stop eating before you are full. In Japan, they say eat until you are four-fifths full. Islamic culture has a similar rule, and in German culture they say, 'Tie off the sack before it's full.'"
6. Families traditionally ate together, around a table and not a TV, at regular meal times. It's a good tradition. Enjoy meals with the people you love. "Remember when eating between meals felt wrong?" Pollan asks.
7. Don't buy food where you buy your gasoline. In the U.S., 20% of food is eaten in the car.