Eating for Good Vision - Dinner Featuring Good vs Bad Fats
Friday, February 29th, 2008Well, it’s been a little while since lunch (our last article), and I imagine you must be getting pretty hungry by now. I am excited to get to dinner as I get to feature a couple of my favourite recipes here. The baked rice recipe is fantastic for convenience. I love being able to throw a bunch of ingredients in the pot, bang it in the oven and walk away and do something else for 1 ½ hours, as so many meals seem to have us standing at the bench for that period instead! It can be kept as a simple and nourishing meal by having with salad, or add a few toppings after cooking for an absolute feast.
For dinner the feature topic is good oil vs bad oil. I have promised a little discussion on eating oils, which has been a controversial issue for many years. The mainstream information has gone back and forth over the issues of fats, cholesterol, animal fats, vegetable oils, margarine, butter….it’s become a real confusion. I hope that a few simple principles plus some suggestions for further reading will help to clarify this important nutritional topic. (more…)