Are there any diet books that dispel all the BS that people believe?

By the time I've read all those books, I've discovered their secret---do not eat anything, ever.

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NO GMOssssssss

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shite, I forgot about that one. It's her latest kick.

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Gluten is spanish for satan

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So true...

Start by having her read this NY Time article from 2002: LINK and remind her that some of the best and sane advice one can live by is "everything in moderation."

She is probably too far gone in her ignorant beliefs but...
-Eat the Yolks
-Eat Meat and Stop Jogging
-Good Calories, Bad Calories
...as far as reading material and "Fathead" is an enlightening documentary. Unfortunately most (all?) people have been raised in this country with one way of thinking and most believe that "cheerios can lower cholesterol" because a commercial saying 4/5 doctors recommend this tells them they can. Very few people actually question things, anything in general, anymore because its convenient to go with the flow and requires effort to get past bullshite. Tell her to quit eating crappy wheat products, to start frying whole eggs in butter for bkfst, and to eat alot more fatty red meat. That in conjuction with a WEIGHTLIFTING routine (not cardio) will make her feel alot better and add muscle. She will look and feel the way she wants if she manages her calorie intake across the correct macros.

Also, tell her to go on youtube and look up the "free range" chicken portion on the documentary "Food, Inc". Free Range means not kept in a cage. They dont tell you that they are in gigantic acre long coop along with 100's of thousands of other "free range" chickens that are so mutated by hormones they can only walk a few feet without getting winded and resting. They must do this because they are so heavy now with all the meat they are carrying that is disproportionate to the size of internal organs such as the heart that they cant support their own body weight. Many of these free range chickens die due to heart failure and lay in their own feces for days before a group of mexicans go in at night and throw them in the bucket of a backhoe and they are then processed by Tyson.

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there are plenty of nonagenarians that drink and smoke and eat the local hamburger meat next to the river that goes by the power plant.

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Surely there's a happy middle ground between "militant organic" and "frick you science."

Except PMac died from a heart defect Source.

And I hear stories of people smoking a pack a day and having bacon milkshakes 3 times a day until they're 110. I don't doubt that some people beat the odds, but the fact that smoking kills about 1 out of 5 people doesn't bode well for those that smoke. Source

I'm just saying there is a happy middle ground. Why does OP want his Mom to start drinking untreated agriculture runoff water because she is a staunch organic foodie person (for lack of a better term)? You don't fight fire with fire. Can't he just encourage her to tone down her rhetoric some and understand that there are marketing factors at play in the lifestyle she has chosen to buy in to?

If I were OP I would buy my mom some books and supplies on gardening and chickens and let her make her own food. Seems more productive than trying to turn her to the other side.

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so mutated by hormones they can only walk a few feet

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Jones will be so proud to see me repeat what he taught me.

No chicken you're buying in a grocery store in the US has been injected with hormones. Antibiotics, sure. But hormones are illegal, and the inspection for these places is extremely strict.

Otherwise, you're right. Free range is silly. Put 300 chickens free in a football stadium, and you'll find all 300 huddled in a corner together when you come back an hour later. This la la land idea of chickies skipping free through the valley is wrong Not only is it not the case, but it isn't even the preference of the actual chickens.

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WEIGHTLIFTING routine (not cardio) will make her feel alot better and add muscle. She will look and feel the way she wants if she manages her calorie intake across the correct macros

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I generally run far away from workout people conversation because it is very cult-esq on the internet, but from what I've managed to catch, weightlifting is much better than cardio.

I think it is funny that some women think weight lifting will make them some muscle man. Lady, if it was that easy to bulk up by tossing around some weights, every man would look like The Hulk.

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No chicken you're buying in a grocery store in the US has been injected with hormones. Antibiotics, sure. But hormones are illegal, and the inspection for these places is extremely strict.

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Ok. Well explain how chickens are now raised to over 5 lbs in less than 6 wks. 80 years ago, it took a chicken 16 wks to reach 2.5 lbs. Modern chickens do not have the cardiovascular system or the skeletal system to support the weight of their own bodies because the grow so big so fast. They cant walk. They just exist. What's changed between the 1930's and today?