Resurrection

Resurrection. Revival. Renaissance. They have slightly different definitions, but their general meanings are the same: being reborn, being infused with a new sense of vitality, even coming back from the dead. What do these have to do with this blog? This is a nutrition and health site, so why is it starting to sound like a church sermon? Am I about to ditch the beef tallow and bacon and head on down to the pulpit? No. So where is all this coming from? 

FTF: Food With No Brakes

Hmmm...

Food for Thought Friday:  Concepts and quotations to make you think.

“Foods with no brakes.”

Four little words for such a powerful concept.

What are foods with no brakes? According to Dallas and Melissa Hartwig, authors of It Starts With Food and the forces behind the popular “Whole 9” and “Whole 30” concepts, they’re exactly what they sound like:  foods that you can’t stop eating. Once you start, once you take that first bite, you’re like an out-of-control bullet train barreling down the track while some innocent little creature is taking its time crossing those tracks. There is no stopping you. The end result? Total disaster.

You + family-size bag of M&Ms = speeding car + tree?

Call them what you want—trigger foods; gateway drugs…er, foods—we all have them, and they all translate to the same thing:  foods that we are physically and/or psychologically incapable of eating in moderation. (Never mind that no one seems to be able to tell us what, exactly, moderation is.)