Should You Cheat On Your Low Carb Diet or Eat Low Carb Franken Foods?
Apr 28th 2009 · by Catherine Osthaus
When it comes to weight loss there are so many products to choose from. There seems to be a food to fill any kind of need that we have. These franken foods come as…
Low Carb Tortilla’s, Low Carb Bread, Low Carb Chocolate, Low Carb Desserts, Low Carb Syrups, Low Carb Sweeteners and Low Carb Countdown Milk.
These foods all have artificial or modified ingredients in them. When I was vegetarian I ate plenty of fake meats, cheeses and sauces with horrible ingredients thinking they were healthy. I did not see any bad health problems until I was eating them for over a decade!
I now prefer to eat REAL food that my grandparents would recognize. So even if I am feeling emotional and want to sink my teeth into an apple or banana to get my sugar fix – I will. I will eat REAL honey. I will eat sprouted whole grain bread. It will cause my cravings to skyrocket and it will cause me to overeat. It may also cause a Candida Yeast outbreak.
But real food has real nutrition. Fake processed foods cause the real damage to your body (How else did I get insulin resistant!). Think about what happens every time man tries to interfere with food…
- Turning away from butter to margarine… we have created trans fats and a heart disease catastrophe!
- Turning away from raw milk/eggs to pasteurization… this has allowed for the industrialization and factory farming of animals and getting away from the traditional family farm.
- Turning away from whole grains to bleached and processed grains… These grains are so nutrient deficient that they need to ADD vitamins back into them.
- Turning away from nutrient dense spices to artificial flavours… These flavours are so dangerous that they kill brain cells.
- Turning to Genetically Modified Foods to mass produce food.
- Turning to fast food junk rather than slowly cooked nutrient dense traditional food.
- Turning to mass pesticide/fertilizer use and poisoning of our food, soil, water and air and abandoning traditional biodynamic organic ways.
There are still probably many ways that we alter food and in turn poison ourselves that I have not thought off.
Is it any wonder why we are sick?
Am I supposed to trust these people that put this junk on the market? I don’t think so.
All of this is done for one reason – For profit!
Don’t feel bad about cheating on your low carb diet with real food. Do it occasionally if it does not cause to much health and weight issues.
To your health and wellness,








Catherine, your title grabbed me and I couldn’t wait to see how you answered that question. I love your conclusions – makes perfect sense!
Kelly
Thanks Kelly! I see folks turning to these fake foods and recommending them as good alternatives.
I did the same when I was vegan and got all exited about the next faux vegan cheese or faux vegan ice cream. I would then recommend it to all my vegan friends as well as eat them liberally myself.