They're sticking that 60% calories from fat like a guideline, although it's the protein number highlighted on the front of the package. It is not ketogenic, nor is it a low Omega 6 food, but it looks like a decent compromise food when you need something convenient. It is "lacto-paleo". Each serving is 170 calories, but they are bundled in stacks of three so a full pack plus a single serve of milk would put you at a reasonable meal size. I paid the same for this pack as I did for a half pound block of cheese worth 56% more calories.
I do highly recommend proper grounding for all electrical appliances. Low powered appliances are grounded through the neutral line, high powered appliances have an additional grounding plug. A simple outlet tester should tell you if your house wiring is behaving correctly. Stray voltage is no joke.
Another possible source of stray voltage is static. This is almost impossible to avoid in indoor heated environments. Even the best "earthing" shoes will do nothing because most indoor flooring is an insulative material. The stray voltage you pick up with static is way less than stray voltage you can get from bad wiring and isn't a huge concern unless you're playing with a Van de Graaff generator.
Even if you were worried about proper "grounding" the earth isn't all that conductive, proper electrical grounding requires rods be sunk into the ground. Electrical fences generally use three six foot rods for proper grounding. Home systems are grounded with one eight foot rod. Just touching the earth is not likely to do the trick.
That isn't to say that you won't experience an improvement in health if you try earthing. Barefoot and minimalist shoes may help some people with gait issues through reducing constriction of the foot and leveraging the nerves in the foot that are muted through cushioned shoes to improve gait with biofeedback. Sleeping on a hard surface with no pillow may have postural benefits for relieving back tension and even sinus issues. Spending time outside increases your exercise level, sun exposure and Vitamin D production. Soil also contains beneficial bacteria that you can alternatively pick up through gardening. If earthing got you there and it's helped you, good for you, but it's probably not the actual earth contact doing the trick.
So if earthing helps you, but you're miserable in winter, get some good wool socks (insulative) and thin leather moccasins (water resistant), build yourself a platform bed with minimalist padding, take some Vitamin D supplements, get some exercise, bring in some plants potted in local soil, and enjoy being warm in winter.
(Amusingly this hits just about all of my non-diet blog labels. Even endocrine, since Vitamin D is as much a hormone as a vitamin. Earthing does touch on a lot of real benefits even though the reasoning is all wrong.)
I used to have no tolerance for tart foods. Sugar was a big no-no in our family since Dad was hypoglycemic, but I couldn't get by without the little bit we were allowed in applesauce, jelly, etc... Most raw fruits were too tart to me and I didn't enjoy them. Fermented dairy products also bothered me.
But then I started trying some higher fat yogurts, most of which only came in plain varieties, and therefore needed sugar added. I made a bit of my own maple syrup last spring, so it was a natural match to flavor and sweeten my yogurt. Except when you add your own sugar, it is not as completely stirred in as the commercial stuff, so there are variations of sweet throughout the cup. At first I tasted these tart sections and stirred more or added more syrup, slowly I got accustomed to them, until eventually I was licking up spills of entirely unsweetened yogurt off the outside of the cup, and was able to start adding less sugar to each batch...
Today I'm eating grapes. They make my mouth pucker, but I can still appreciate the deeper flavors underneath.
Lots of people advocating high fat diets try to say that the Calories In/Calories Out model of weight loss is a complete myth and doesn't work.
They're wrong.
But let's rephrase this in terms of physics. "When someone looses weight, where does it go?" Ruben Meerman has an excellent explanation of it:
In summary, you breathe it out as CO2 and H2O.
Let's back up further though, before the food you eat becomes fat. Physics says that matter is neither created nor destroyed (without releasing massively more energy than we're talking about here) so everything that goes in your mouth has to go somewhere. There are several types of things that enter your mouth:
Water - leaves body as urine
Fat - becomes part of the body
Fat and Water Soluble Compounds
Compounds we can use - becomes part of the body
Compounds we can't use - leaves body as urine
Some of these things spend time in the liver getting converted into something easier to use or eliminate.
Some of these things accumulate in the liver
Non-Soluble Compounds - leaves the body as feces
So Fat, Carbohydrates, Protein, and lots of micro-nutrients become part of the body when you ingest them. You gain weight. All macro nutrients break down into gasses when you exercise. You loose weight. Calories In/Calories Out, or to be more tangible, Mass In/Mass Out.
Fat does require more calories per gram than carbs and protein to break down into water and CO2, so you do have to work harder to convert that into a form you can expire, but let's not write it off as a diet food yet, as it may be helpful in other ways.
The real problems with the Calories In/Calories Out diet scheme are: hunger, metabolism, and feeling well enough to exercise. In other words, when you're talking about real humans, our brains and our bodies don't always comply with the plan.
I'm seriously re-evaluating the mass going into my body. My last noticeable weight decrease was two years ago, my net mass has now come back up to where it was before I started. Diet is a complex matter, especially if you have other health issues, it's not as simple as eating less and exercising more, but that does need to be factored in. It is not as simple as avoiding ingredient X or adding ingredient Y, although that does need to be considered. My primary goals right now is to home cook more of my food, continue to avoid empty calories, and eliminate snacking. This is the basic plan I was doing well on before. Hyper analyzing that and trying to replicate it with convenience foods and "healthy" snacks does not work for me.
I'd like to re-evaluate the mass leaving my body, but this is a terrible time of year to add exercise. It's getting to be dark by the time I get home. But I can make sure I'm idle less. Even just being on my feet cleaning my kitchen, or bending over combing wool will spend more calories than computer or TV time...
