A Dietary Lesson Taught By Children :
I remember eating breakfast platters, I would’ve been around 4 years old, I wanted the one with the most sausage links and strips of bacon.
You get four. I remember thinking my father and the server the coolest people ever for letting me have two of each instead of one or the other.
I loved sausage links, but this was the only place I’d have bacon.
Two of each, once they even got me three and one.
The problem was the four pieces of fatty meat would be gone one french toast slice or so in.
Four pieces of meat per bread unit always sounded correct. I said so as a little kid.
“Excuse me, this platter needs eight sausage links and four strips of bacon.”
First the meat was gone.
Then the eggs.
Followed by the “main course” of french toast or pancakes smothered in butter, and doused in maple syrup.
Lastly I’d be scarfing down the toast with at least one jelly of every flavor, some butters, and peanut butter packets if they too were available.
As a kid given the opportunity it’s fatty meat first, working your way down to sugar and grain, attempting to fill yourself with that since the adults for some reason thought proper eating was in the opposite direction of nutrients, and you were still hungry.
You don’t know the science behind this as a kid, yet as a kid I clearly intuited it.
I did the same a few years older often opting out of dinner at grandma’s house friday night (a massive salad “rewarded” with some rice, hopefully white rice as brown rice hurt my stomach, and the tiniest bit of lean chicken or otherwise fish, the fish I liked and forced my way through the preceding course to), knowing I’d get some milk with breakfast, and hoping we’d go out, do something, then eat out, where a pizza or burger gave me what I craved.
You’re born intuiting this.
Children get it.
Adults often forget it, then opt into the opposite. They then have health problems.
Lunacy.
Trust your gut.
Trust your instincts.
It’ll never lead you astray.
Saturated fat is the most important, though you’ll fill yourself with carbs when you must, and even then fruit sugar is preferred.
And you prefer smothering grain in fruit sugar, and saturated fat, instead of having it plain whenever possible.