Ain't marketing grand?

I knew a girl back in the late 90s/00s that pretty much only ate Snackwells. At one point, her car was broken into, and she was most upset that they had stolen the cases (yes, cases) of Snackwell snacks from her trunk.

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Anonymous wrote:Back in the 90s/early 2000s I ate "very healthy" aka lean cuisine and diet coke for lunch, sipped on crystal light all day, and loved snackwells for after dinner treats. It makes me gag to think of how many chemicals I consumed on a daily basis. Now I eat a lot more (good) fat but a lot less sugar and nearly all whole foods. Just funny how the times change!

I ate just like this for years. I eat real food now but I have gained weight. Ugh!

Gaining weight from eating "real" food doesn't necessarily make you less healthy. Health and weight are Venn diagram categories that can overlap, but don't really depend on each other.

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Anonymous wrote:Tofu isn't good for you? My kids love it, should I be witholding it? Plain, cubed tofu?

Excessive soy isn't good, but the processed stuff is usually worse. Tofu, miso, edamame are OK in moderation.

Tofu isn't what they mean when they talk about "processed" soy, they mean soy flour / oil / protein / lecithin in packaged foods. Tofu is fermented, it's one of the best forms of soy you can eat.

Wow, sorry but that's seriously wrong.

1. Tofu is not fermented.

2. Unfermented soy products - INCLUDING TOFU - are harmful because soy has phytoestrogens (plant compounds that mimic estrogen in the human body). These should be eaten only occasionally. This includes soy milk, edamame, soy products as a food additive, etc.

3. Fermented soy products are not a danger. This includes miso paste, natto, tempeh, etc.

I am married to an Asian. There's a common misconception that they eat tofu all the time - not so, it's an occasional food. Fermented soy, on the other hand, is often an everyday food (e.g., miso eaten with almost every meal in Japan).

I'm an American, but have really gotten into Asian cooking due having a wheat intolerance. I go through a whole container of Miso each week, i also cook with a lot of Korean soybean pastes which are also fermented . What you are saying is totally true. I hardly come across Tofu, other than recipes I see for appetizers and side dishes from time to time. I also am cooking with an obscene amount of varied vegetables and fresh herbs. If it were not for the Korean grocery store I would be dead broke. There are a lot of great things to learn from Asian cooking if people could just step away from Busara and China King.

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Anonymous wrote:Tofu isn't good for you? My kids love it, should I be witholding it? Plain, cubed tofu?

Excessive soy isn't good, but the processed stuff is usually worse. Tofu, miso, edamame are OK in moderation.

Tofu isn't what they mean when they talk about "processed" soy, they mean soy flour / oil / protein / lecithin in packaged foods. Tofu is fermented, it's one of the best forms of soy you can eat.

Tofu is UNFERMENTED it is not good for you. Unfermented soy should be avoided. It is already snuck into so much of what we eat, no need to eat Tofu and pile it on.

Fermented soy is excellent for you. Examples are:

Miso Paste
Tempeh
Soy Sauce

Anonymous wrote:remember fat free frozen yogurt? Ha!

This makes me think of the Seinfeld episode where they gained weight from the alleged fat free frozen yogurt. Also, back in the 90s I worked with a good-looking in-shape guy, and I distinctly remember his saying "Can you believe this is fat free?" while he was eating yogurt piled high with M&Ms and other candy. Ha.

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Anonymous wrote:Back in the 90s/early 2000s I ate "very healthy" aka lean cuisine and diet coke for lunch, sipped on crystal light all day, and loved snackwells for after dinner treats. It makes me gag to think of how many chemicals I consumed on a daily basis. Now I eat a lot more (good) fat but a lot less sugar and nearly all whole foods. Just funny how the times change!

I ate just like this for years. I eat real food now but I have gained weight. Ugh!

I ate just like this for years, too, and have now gained weight from eating less processed, real food. I don't know if that is related to portion control issues or just the general decline in my metabolism.

remember fat free frozen yogurt? Ha!

I used to get a huge orange juice from the cafeteria at work almost every morning at my first job.

Anonymous wrote:You all must now be fat as duck

quack!

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Anonymous wrote:Tofu isn't good for you? My kids love it, should I be witholding it? Plain, cubed tofu?

Excessive soy isn't good, but the processed stuff is usually worse. Tofu, miso, edamame are OK in moderation.

Why is that?

Phytic acid:
http://www.westonaprice.org/food-features/living-with-phytic-acid

Anonymous wrote:Back in the 90s/early 2000s I ate "very healthy" aka lean cuisine and diet coke for lunch, sipped on crystal light all day, and loved snackwells for after dinner treats. It makes me gag to think of how many chemicals I consumed on a daily basis. Now I eat a lot more (good) fat but a lot less sugar and nearly all whole foods. Just funny how the times change!

I ate just like this for years. I eat real food now but I have gained weight. Ugh!

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tofu isn't good for you? My kids love it, should I be witholding it? Plain, cubed tofu?

Excessive soy isn't good, but the processed stuff is usually worse. Tofu, miso, edamame are OK in moderation.

Why is that?

You all must now be fat as duck

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Tofu isn't good for you? My kids love it, should I be witholding it? Plain, cubed tofu?

Excessive soy isn't good, but the processed stuff is usually worse. Tofu, miso, edamame are OK in moderation.

Tofu isn't what they mean when they talk about "processed" soy, they mean soy flour / oil / protein / lecithin in packaged foods. Tofu is fermented, it's one of the best forms of soy you can eat.

Wow, sorry but that's seriously wrong.

1. Tofu is not fermented.

2. Unfermented soy products - INCLUDING TOFU - are harmful because soy has phytoestrogens (plant compounds that mimic estrogen in the human body). These should be eaten only occasionally. This includes soy milk, edamame, soy products as a food additive, etc.

3. Fermented soy products are not a danger. This includes miso paste, natto, tempeh, etc.

I am married to an Asian. There's a common misconception that they eat tofu all the time - not so, it's an occasional food. Fermented soy, on the other hand, is often an everyday food (e.g., miso eaten with almost every meal in Japan).

Per Wikipedia: A 2010 meta-analysis of fifteen placebo-controlled studies said that "neither soy foods nor isoflavone supplements alter measures of bioavailable testosterone concentrations in men."