my roots and my profession

I recently received a comment (and I was very happy that I did) about my previous post that talks about my roots and Hungarian bad foods. This anonymous person wrote to me to defend Hungarian foods, saying that there are NO bad foods only lazy lifestyle. Which is sort of true. However, in case this tiny fact escaped the writer's attention, I claim to be a fitness guru and know a little about nutrition. Know enough that cooking with LARD is not going to make you any good foods. Putting it on bread either. Frying dough and sifting powdered sugar on it won't do it too. Eating lots of fats, trans and saturated, is NOT GOOD. Neither here nor there. I grew up in Hungary (in case that wasn't implied enough) and I didn't grow up eating fish and vegetables. I grew up eating floury stuff, fatty things, processed meat (such as salami, pate', sausages and other cold cuts), and breads. I also say that we ate other vegetables that are not common to eat here and are very very good for you, like beets, radish and cabbage. We also ate lots of fruit. But the staple "thing" that gave flavour to our main meals, usually, was FAT. If you think that is GOOD for you than you may blame this country for getting fat yourself, I suppose. Yes, we also walked everywhere and carried our groceries home in bags all the way from the supermarket. We walked to school. We walked to work.

The fact remains, fats are bad and too many carbs are bad as well. BUT, that also doesn't mean that are no fit Hungarians... did I say that???? I'm one too.
It is also OK to eat BAD FOODS in measure, and that's not a bucket, if you know what I mean. So live a happy full life eating what you like but not too much of it, and do some extra work because our lifestyle does not allow for enough mobility anymore (here). I hope that cleared up some of the 'bad air' and no one got offended. I just don't like the blaming game where we say, "oh, it's not the foods we eat that are bad or badly chosen, it's the lazy American lifestyle". Well, no, you are wrong. It's both.

Mangia!