Lime Chicken
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To Carb or Low Carb That’s the Question
I heard it first from my father. He was sitting at the kitchen table one morning grousing to my mother about his breakfast. My mother had laid out the breakfast my dad’s doctor had recommended. My dad was complaining about what he was eating and why.
Sitting in front of my father was a bowl of Cornflakes. He didn’t want to eat them. He wanted his bacon and eggs back. My father was accustomed to two poached eggs and three slices of bacon. Toast and coffee. Cornflakes weren’t cutting it.
Doctors all over the US had told their patients the same thing. Cut the fat. That meant no more bacon or eggs. This was in the 1970’s when the recommendations coming out of the medical community totally took a new turn and professed that fat made you fat and fat clogged your arteries, so if you were smart, you’d cut the fat. So my dad did as he was ordered.
He also groused about how one decade they tell you to eat whole wheat bread. Then the next one they decide the new fortified white bread is best and eventually they went back the other way and now they are recommending whole wheat again. He wished they’d just make up their minds.
What my father was eating in the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s would be considered a low carb diet...
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Lime Chicken
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