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24 - Sunday, May 20, 1990 - North Shore News

Good food means good for you

WE HAVE to talk about food. Not ‘‘good food," as we
ysed to do, but “good for you food.’* You'll have noticed

there’s a difference.

Some of the stuff, you'd swear,
was nesting material for
chickadees. Some of it vould serve
for patching pot-holes.

What bugs us, partly, is that we
started out so pure. In our downy
years we ate the wholesome stuif
that mother cooked, out of real
ingredients. Franchised formula
food hadn't been invented. ‘‘Fast
food’’ for us was rabbit. We ate
out only at grandmother’s, or
when travelling.

And mother said, ‘‘Don’t be a
picky eater.’’ She said, ‘‘Eat some
of everything.*’ We did. We loved
it with butter on it, but whipped
cream was better; deep-fried was
one of our favorites, so was choco-
late anything. When we grew up
we had parties where we wallowed
in shrimp and crab and fondues
and tenderloins of beef. We vied as
to the number of layers a cake
could support. Our coffee was the
real thing, ‘‘sweet as an angel,
black as sin.””

We called it rib-sticking, and
that’s exactly what it did.

Then some scientific busybody
put a new word in our mouths,
and we found ‘‘cholesterol’’ hard
to swallow. Eggs had it, seafood
had it, whipping cream had it in
spades, and a nicely-marbled piece

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of beef was like a loaded gun. The
air rang with dire warnings about
clogging our arteries with gooey
deposits from chicken strips and
french fries and Hollandaise sauce.

Some people, hearing things like
that, immediately respond, *‘That
had nothing to do with me. I don’t
have that problem.”* Some people
have to be hit over the head. Like
me.

For a long time, like a year or
more, I’d had trouble walking.
Pain in my leg. Sciatica had dogg-
ed me for a long time, so I took
this as just another manifestation
and kept on plodding. But it got
worse, so much worse that even a

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agony.

. The location of benches became
very important. | practised a varie-
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my watch as though I'd been stood
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boots or political pamphlets.

When I finally gave in, the med-
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was being short-changed on blood.
There were three things they could
do, the third one being removing
the leg.

Number one was to do a
fascinating examination of
discovery. First it was the dye-job,
for tracing down inside the leg. It
was the first time I knew that the
tummy-button offered convenient
access to the femoral artery.

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““.some
scientific
busybody put a
new word in
our mouths,
and we found
‘cholesterol’

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swallow. ’’

That catheter soon unmasked
the glob of cholesterol that was the
problem. For the second round,
the catheter this time bore a plastic
balloon on the end, and when it
reached the offending glob it was
repeatedly inflated to paste all the
gooey stuff against the arterial
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I could watch it all on TV and it
was some gripping program.

Can you think of a better per-
suader to a2 plain and stringent
diet? I loved eggs and ate them
daily. Two a week, now. I loved
whipping cream, too, and lavished
it on my cereal and in my soups. |
scorned any spread but butter,
which has vanished from my
larder. Now it’s yogurt and soft
margarine and great wads of por-
ridge and I'm very friendly with
fish. Nothing in our house tastes
quite the way it used tc.

There’s all manner of other stuff
to eat, but it lies differently on the
tongue without the treatment
we've come to expect. Sherbet isn’t
ice cream, by a long shot; sour
cream did a lot more for cabbage
rolls than yogurt can ever do. It’s
retraining, when we think we've
got past all that. It’s rearranging
the priorities, taking stock of the
ghastly alternatives. it’s being able
to walk.

It isn’t reasonable to insist,
given our disparate consti«utions
and lifestyles, that there is one
good diet and that it starts with oat
bran. We do know that aging less-
ens our interest in and need for
food, so what we do take on
should be what best serves our
feelings of vigor and satisfaction.
Fat seems to be the chiefest enemy.
Fight fat.

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