Everyone says it's so bad, including all our family doctors and pediatricians. As someone who is allergic to corn, I don't ever have to worry about that whole "low fat" nonsense. I wish my family would understand this concept- my sister was just looking for coconut oil *in a pill form* because she read that it's healthy to eat, but she is so anti-fat she is grossed out by the concept of eating it, even cooking with it. I abso-freaking-lutely agree with this post. Select lettuce that looks fresh (not wilted), since it will taste better and last longer. You tell THEM Michael! Re: Is iceberg lettuce bad for you? Well, I’m here to make you wise. But good health is not about being fat-free! Hence the recent recalls. I'll be making fried chicken on Friday and while I think our version is perfect, I can't wait to see your take, so get a move on . I LOVE this post. Dousing a steak with butter is a sure way to make it tasty but it's also the easy way out, and oftentimes the death of creativity. It has far more metabolism-boosting nutrients and is high in vitamin C. Also, beware of “frisée” lettuce in salads, which is much like iceberg and doesn’t offer a lot of nutritional value. I've been thinking about frying chicken (my first try!) Lettuce is a healthy leaf vegetable. Approved by - Lettuce is a great choice. (It probably has the fat break-down on the nutrition info label.) Drives me crazy. Whew, reading your article about an article really got me fired up. You have to stick to a effective and moreover proper Been a month since the lsat one. They say it has 70%-80% fat and I shouldn't give it to the kids. High in nutrients but low in calories. Would you like us to add you to our newsletter as well? Ruhlman, my boy, fried chicken sounds like an outstanding follow-up to this post. . We like to add them to our salads and sandwiches. It’s during this process that bitter lettuce is produced. While there were families who rendered lard in Cleveland (more than willing to get rid of with vast amounts that ended in my fridge), when we moved to SoCal a few years ago I had to do the job myself:) Yes, it might be helpful once you have it to cut down, but definitely the way to go is cut carbs/sugars dramatically! (You might go and find plenty of items that appear to be corn-free but they will contain hidden corn from the manufacturing or packaging processes like baby carrots washed in citric acid, apples coated with corn wax and cheese dusted with cornstarch so it won't stick to the package. As you could guess, it is safe to give lettuce to your dog. In this article, we share useful knowledge about the shelf life of lettuce and its nitty-gritty! Yep. Normal lettuce is typically a light-green or yellow color, although varieties such as Red Coral have purple leaves. I've lost 10 pounds thus far. This is a great post! - to a nonfat selection in the same brand. Is this true, or is it now more common to find less manipulated lard in a regular grocery store? 0 shares. Imagine that! Thanks for this post, because it pisses me off, too. In fall, start sowing again eight weeks before the fall frost. I just needed to read something that made me feel sane again. This post is filed under Defect Identification.. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.. 7 Comments on “Lettuce- Rusty Brown Discoloration” Gaylene Rea Says: June 30th, 2011 at 7:30 pm I was surprised to read that you had never seen this brown on lettuce. I think "Fat isn't bad, stupid is bad" is going to be my new canned response when my one of coworkers comments on my local, organic, hormone-free yogurt from grass-fed, pastured cows by telling me that the their factory farmed, fat-free, aspartame-sweetened "naturally" flavored yogurt is "really better for [me] than all that fat.". I know what it was that set me off today. Secondly, iceberg lettuce doesn’t do much for your body. I am gong to chow down on wilted lettuce, something we rarely have because of the bacon fat and how bad we have been told it was for you. Mostly eaten raw, it imparts a wide variety of nutrients that give the consumer a laundry list of health benefits. Agree 100%. Anyone out there think the time has come to question the validity of current labeling laws? What To Do When You Have A Flare-Up. Fat is good for your body. No, not a sudden discovery that lettuce has some nasty toxins! Please check back soon. When it’s problematic, it may be due to an intolerance, an allergy or an underlying medical condition. Fat is dangerous only insofar as it’s good, because it’s so much more fun to eat than lettuce and we want to eat lots and lots of it. It is hard to come by, but can still be found if you look hard enough. Kettle Chips. I think you're missing a subject or object or something. It took me a very long time to find corn-free meat and fat so rendering my own lard was out of the question until recently. Your email address will not be published. Or that she's just flat-out eating too much? The dietitian told me to start mixing oils in my cereal, such as vegetable oils, canola etc. It promotes a vegan diet as a cure for disease and I asked myself, "Wait a sec. And when they sit down to eat they take adequate portions, never have seconds and then move onto dessert. Why is it so hard to figure a way to live live in moderation? that those supplies unlikey favours possible but rather exacerbates the result much more, [...] Health Hazards of Lettuce | Michael Ruhlman [...], [...] in fried chicken than in baked skinless breast, but not all that much. Good job! God bless gooey butter cakes.....God bless us everyone. As a Registered Dietitian and a Greek, I have to say that the secret of the wonderfully healthy Mediterranean diet is the fat! Dry your lettuce thoroughly. Google soy and estrogen sometime. It's never happened. But most of the food they supply is garbage-processed-man-made-junk food. Yes they do contain vitamin A - which is great for healing inflammation. Along with exercise, (only 30 minutes a day) portion control and balance intake. You made my day. Lard...? That does it, next up: Fried chicken. I dunno, It's all getting a little too soylent green for me. The refrigerated variety may be stabilized with BHA/BHT (which sound like scary acronyms but are harmless at the the micro-amounts used), but will not be hydrogenated. When stored improperly, lettuce wilts and rots quickly. Do you see how many more ingredients are needed to make the nonfat version even remotely palatable?) All I can say is, "hallelujah!" Thanks for the big F.U. I read Real Food about 6 years ago, but recently I saw a documentary that made me start to doubt my well rounded diet. If you liked this post on Lettuce the Silent Killer, check out these other links: © 2012 Michael Ruhlman. http://www.proteinpower.com/drmd_blog/nutrition/lardy-lardy-when-will-they-learn/ [...] Every once in a while we choose blogs that we read. Thankfully here in Cleveland, my local carries lard. I even go so far as to use it with boneless chicken breasts, sometimes, and biscuits to make my own "fried chicken biscuits"; tastier than anything you can get at Bojangles! Well, I'm here to make you wise. Nothing tastes better than crisp lettuce straight from the garden. I'll just have 1 cookie instead of 4. Fat is good for you. Wonderful! Unfortunately, though, it's best to be avoided for the time being, thanks to a nasty outbreak of E. coli infections. Cereals are enriched using chemicals like propylene glycol and genetically modified cornstarch and the vitamins are usually extracted from GMO corn, too. I agree. I’ve heard some people say that it has no nutritional value and that you’d be better off eating cardboard. I'd look into making it myself, but my wife just had a baby and so I'm operating on a limited quantity of Creative Cooking Points. Because the media bombards us with the simplistic message that Fat Is Bad For You, and it pisses me off. My grandmother loved salads and beets, and ate them almost exclusively at one point, until she turned yellow and the doc told her she'd given herself Vitamin A poisoning. Lettuce is one of our favorite garden vegetables because it is far superior—in both taste and vitamin A content—to the store-bought alternative! DEEP FRIED CHICKEN! Yes, it's balance! Most gardeners will tell you that bitter lettuce is the result of summer heat; lettuce is known as a cool season vegetable. I only suggest a product if it is pure and as close to nature as possible. is a really great key point in this post. If you’ve somehow missed the huge warnings so far, we beg of you: Do not eat romaine lettuce. Salads are a great way to pack in the nutrients without packing on the pounds. Dieting is not the solution - eating well is. Vitamin C: 3% dv. So, while not all head lettuce is iceberg lettuce, all iceberg lettuce is head lettuce. Now about lettuce.....If you are celiac (and diagnosed much later, spending most of your life not well) lettuce, and dark leafy greens may not be great for you. Dress it with extra virgin olive oil, vinegar, and salt. Share; Tweet; Pin; Share: 0. To further the point, many of us have either personally visited another country or know someone who has. Michael, I always want to talk about fried chicken. Oops. The French don't like pregnant women to eat salad because of the risk of toxoplasmosis (that disease that one can also get from the cat's litter box). Hey there, fat is an interesting subject and especially for women fats are VERY important. Whoever you heard this stuff from was either giving you misinformation because they're a jerk, or was grossly misinformed. Nor are any carbs that aren't bound up in a significant amount of fiber. I still have not found any corn-free wild caught salmon, bacon or cream cheese. And eating well includes eating fat and sugar - in reasonable quantities! Perhaps if our government outlawed fake fats and sugars, chicken washed with ammonia, cows with hormones and antibiotics, and the overly heavy use of salt instead of different spices, ALONG with some common sense and self education of the American public, we'd cut the cost of health care and instances of disease such as diabetes and heart disease. Advance question: I've heard that the lard that is often found at grocery stores should be avoided, as it's hydrogenated (or some such thing) for shelflife. That’s when knowing how to store lettuce, how long does it last, and how to tell that it’s bad come in handy.. What evidence do yo have that home-cooked food is, in general, better than restaurant food? MY mother and grandmother fixed it for all 12 of us kids and as you can see at 72 i am still kicking, just not as high! I love your phrase “Fat isn’t bad, stupid is bad.”...sums it up perfectly. Then we move back to a burb of Chicago, and I had to drive an hour to an ethnic market to find my lard! "Fat isn’t bad, stupid is bad." Examples in my city (I have no Trader Joe's or Whole Foods): There is only one brand of corn-free cheese available, there is no safe chicken, beef or pork in any of my stores (I have to buy half a grass fed cow and get it custom butchered) and we went without milk for three years - the only safe dairy product in any of my stores was full fat Daisy sour cream and we used it for all our baking. Thank you thank you thank you. Minute Maid. The fallacies of the 'lipid hypothesis' have been revealed and the public is slowly catching on. Morons! It’s made up of 95 percent water and contains only small amounts of fiber and minerals. The Truth: Most leafy greens are good for you — but some are better than others. The Bottom Line: Leafy greens are great for you, and you should be eating more of them! You're killing yourself!". Here are a couple tips: Start every dinner with a salad — and switch it up! http://www.awlr.org/1/post/2012/01/triglycerides-report-from-aha-history-does-not-agree.html. It has comparatively fewer nutrients than other greens you may find in salads and other foods. Dark leafy greens — like spinach, arugula, kale, turnip greens, and so many more — have countless health benefits. Veganism. If I keep the grease from my really nice local bacon in the pan and use it to cook my eggs later it is a qualitative AND quantitative difference from MCGiantCorporation taking chemically cracked oils from genetically engineered corn and force injecting them into the surface of potatoes scrubbed with chemicals and then frying them en masse and handing me twice as many as I need for a buck or two. Thank you. here's hoping the majority in my profession catch on soon. You are choosing to be ignorant. A random article, out of the blue, I shouldn’t even [...], [...] post on the hidden health hazards of lettuce and the no nitrites added [...]. 2 of us are actually on the too thin side i personally think. And of course whatever it says in big, bold, neon letters on the package that our brought-to-you-by-Monsanto food comes in. I get lost in this rant...and does anyone else see the basic flaw? , This article sounds more of a rant than an actual article. However, due to its high water content, iceberg lettuce is less nutritionally dense than dark leafy greens like spinach or kale. I'm happy that someone with your influence writes what I've been thinking all along. It can lead to dangerous malnutrition, grave weight loss, and in women, infertility. I have to confess that I used lard stealthily to elevate the flavor or braised chicken, chicken livers, and potatoes, only to reveal the big secret once everyone praised the meal. Fruit Snacks . Of course not. Lettuce isn't bad for you. Oakleaf lettuce contains high amounts of Vitamin C and Vitamin A. A random article, out of the blue, I shouldn't even have read it. Is anyone else getting weary of how every time Paula Deen's diabetes is mentioned, her liberal use of butter is also mentioned, as if it were the cause! To quote Neil Peart, drummer/lyrisist for Rush: "Everything in moderation with occasional exsesses.". Desserts are an occasional treat simply because we are not up to making them every day.......it works for us. I was pleasantly surprised by your article & overjoyed to find there are others on this earth who are also ALLERGIC TO STUPIDITY!! If you’ve somehow missed the huge warnings so far, we beg of you: Do not eat romaine lettuce. for the past month. You see food in the grocery store labeled fat-free? Eat a balanced diet, which as far as I’m concerned, includes fried chicken once every few months for its [...], [...] with its credit to no-fat and low-fat products. (Don't believe me? 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