Saturday, March 27, 2010
Pour yourself a glass of cold DAIRY BEVERAGE?
On the BariatricEating.com message board there is a polite and lively discussion about Hood Calorie Countdown Dairy Beverage. Some of our members love this stuff as I have been very successful in perpetrating the MILK IS BAD campaign over the years.
Well, things evolve - and milk is NOT bad. One needs to account for the calories BUT the nutrients are worth it! Yep, nearly ten years after my gastric bypass surgery I have changed my thoughts on milk, along with a lot of other foods. I guess that the passage of time created space for the epiphany. If a food is a wholesome food with lots of nutrition, its GOOD to eat or drink it in moderation as part of the BALANCE we are looking for. Absolutes do not create balance - and my former all or nothing attitude encompassed too many foods that I now know keep us from getting the deficiences that wrack our bodies.
The Hood product is NOT milk, its DAIRY BEVERAGE. What the hell is Dairy Beverage? I eat very healthy foods, and I dont want to drink thickened water colored with a bit of white.
Hood Calorie Countdown Ingredients:
WATER, ULTRAFILTERED FAT FREE MILK, CREAM, TRICALCIUM PHOSPHATE, SALT, DISODIUM PHOSPHATE, MONO AND DIGLYCERIDES, CARRAGEENAN, LOCUST BEAN GUM, SUCRALOSE (SPLENDA® BRAND), ACESULFAME POTASSIUM, VITAMIN A PALMITATE AND VITAMIN D3.
1 cup, 90 calories, 3 carbs, 2 grams sugar, 8 grams protein
Stonyfield Organic 1% Lowfat Milk, our family recipe:
ORGANIC GRADE A LOW FAT MILK, VITAMIN A PALMITATE, VITAMIN D3.
1 cup, 110 calories, 13 carbs, 12 grams sugar, 8 grams protein
While the stats for the Hood Dairy Beverage seem even better than milk... its not a whole food product, it is water that has been thickened and colored white with a small amount of milk - preservatives and chemicals.
Account for the calories and drink the REAL milk in small measured quantities - its good for you. NOTHING absorbs better than the calcium from MILK. In order to live WITH our surgery and in order to gain our health and stay healthy - count the calories, adjust for it, and CHOOSE the healthier alternative. I am not saying to eat Saltines and adjust for the calories - they are not nutritious. I am not saying to eat mashed potatoes with butter and milk and adjust for the calories - they are not nutritious. A cup of milk, a small roasted sweet potato, broccoli, romaine salad with tomato, edamame salad, spinach sauteed with garlic - YES, the carbs and calories are worth the micronutrients that come along for the ride.
The problem with long term bariatric post ops is that we dont eat enough unprocessed whole foods. Our population had the absolute worst eating habits, as was illustrated by our morbid obesity. Let's go opposite from our old food choices and choose real food that has not been changed into something else. We have terrible vitamin and mineral deficiencies as long term post ops - lets eat some real FOOD and see if we cant change that.
We need to stop driving through Wendy's thinking that we're making a good choice because we get the chili!
posted by Susan Maria of BariatricEating.com @ 10:03 AM
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