Freakish Oster Blender

[sudsmaster]

I remember in college in the early 70's, when I was taking a mix of biochemistry and nutrition classes. I recall on more than one occasion we discussed hydrogenation of oils to become semi-solid fats. I recall the comment being made, "We don't know at this point if there are any health effects from these foods".

I believe that most artificially created food additives, unless they are identical to natural food substances, are of unknown safety if not downright toxic. I view with suspicion such chemicsls as "Splenda", which in reality is a chlorinated sugar. I also believe that it can take many years for adverse health effects of such artificial foodstuffs to become evident, longer than most safety trials can economically run.

Now the health scientists have determined that no amount of trans fat is safe. It is quite likely the biggest food-related cause of ateriosclerosis. Natural cholesterol, such as occurs in eggs and meat, would play a distant second. Remember, cholesterol is an essential component of every human cell, and your body manufactures cholesterol, but it has never evolved to manufacture trans fatty acids or chlorinated sugars.

I also recall seeing Julia Child rant about margarine and artificial shortenings in her cooking shows and interviews as early as the '70's. "It's no good for you" she'd say flatly. "Use butter instead". Even lard is better than Crisco.

 

[foraloysius]

Julia Child in one of her shows with Jacques Pepin: "And if you're afraid of butter, which many people are nowadays, you just put in cream."

Kelly,

Great reading about your family history. So very Dutch!! Some Netherland's Reformed and all the Christian Reformed were strict religious people. They were righteous men, very convinced of their principles. I think moving to another country didn't make them more liberal. Most Dutch communities in other countries seem more conservative than most people in the Netherlands. Like time has stood still when they moved. For those people it's a shock to come back to the Netherlands after many years. Not only the USA has changed but the Netherlands also. I think we all lost things. But we gained and learned a lot to in our voyage through life.

Zwolle is a very nice old city, it's about an hour away from here.

 

[mixfinder]

Prim and Proper

The rest of the story:
My mom's brother married a mormon. He embraced the church of LDS and has become quite prominent. He and my aunt are 80 and still travel to different parts of country and stay several months being missionaries.
He needed to know the geneology for the head of each family so he could be baptized for the dead. Then we would all be sealed together, in heaven, as one family.
He went all the back to the 16th century
He did exhaustive research and learned why my grand father had emmigrated.

Seems my great and proper grandfather took in a maid for my sickly great grandmother.
He provided the maid with a "benefits package" for her hard work.
The whole comminity knew of his escapades.
My great grandmother died,
My great grand father married the maid with whom he had been having a thinly veiled relationship.
My grand father left Holland because he was disgraced and disgusted.
It made him twice as rigid, in holding to proper respect for God and the rules in the Bible.
He was a wild man who drove his 47 Pontiac like a maniac and held court at the soda fountain in the local drugstore.
The local police cheif would beg him to slow down and beg his children to take his car away.
That was nothing when he got his 1960 Chrysler 300, children ran for cover.
A women was enthralled with his accent and asked him where he came from. He stared her down and in his thick brogue he said, "I come from my mother's womb! What did you think, an elephant!"
He wanted to be young and healthy. He would try anything he heard or read. He took garlic pills by the hand full.
When he would thow his back to laugh his hearty laugh, ten people across the room would collapse.

Kelly

 

[foraloysius]

Not an unwise decision of your great-grandfather to move country after such. All the gossip and ignoring he would have had to endure in a small minded community would be horrible. At least he was able to make a new start. Sounds like your grandfather was the right type for that. Quite a character!

Louis