Don’t Read This if You Ever Want to Eat a Dairy Queen Blizzard Again

D Q makes sick and I was wondering why

Dr. Esselstyn on youtube about fats and oils added to our diet. You want to know the truth? Watch the videos and believe or not. Science done properly without the BS..

Thanks Jill… and it seems that Maw didn’t understand the purpose of the piece… But, why would a worker at a fastfood restaurant look for your blog and respond such? Doesn’t make much sense to me… My wife and I maintain an almost all natural diet and a very low carb diet… no wheat, very little canned food, no prepared foods… Most of what we eat we cook at home… But the other day right before our 13th wedding anniversary she noticed a sign infront of the local DQ we were passing on our way to our daily run that was advertising a peanut butter blizzard cake or something of the sort and we agreed to return on our anniversary or after running one of those days… We’ve been passing DQ almost every day for 4 years now… Yesterday was the second time we visited the store… The first time was on my birthday before a run 3 years ago… The problem is that after eating the small blizzards or after watching the vanilla icecream come out of the machine with its strangely creamy… overly creamy texture, I began wondering what was in the ice cream… and that’s how I stumbled across your blog… One can’t expect good things or healthy or natural ingredients in today’s prepared foods industry… Everything must be increasingly less expensive with an increased guarantee of uniformity; that texture and flavor doesn’t change EVER… and with ingredients that are less likely to spoil… I understand that, which helps me understand the risk… Almost 3 years of spending a ton of time investigating alternative health and nutrition, I’m also convinced that avoiding industrial oils and refined carbs AND GMO wheat (which means ALL wheat), we can maintain a stable weight by decreasing the production of Triglycerides in our liver; excess carbohydrates are converted to triglycerides and stored as fat in our midsection… But what probably causes the weight gain is inflamation caused by excess glucose and industrial vegetable oils… I’m almost positive that natural fats are first used for fuel and any excess passes through the digestive tract and deposited in the toilet bowl… Maw is incorrect in saying that the way to burn the calories of the blizzard is by exercising… 1,000 calories will not be burned running 5 miles… maybe if you run 15 miles… But, running 15 miles per day is not only dangerous for your heart, but not very realistic regarding time needed for running that distance… I don’t know if you’ve read “Salt, Sugar, Fat; how the food giants hooked us” by Michael Moss http://www.michaelmossbooks.com/ However, it is a very interesting look into the power and pervasiveness of not only the fastfood industry but the prepared foods industry… That they do have the option of creating healthier and more natural products. But the question in the end is that of both competitiveness and responsibility towards the shareholder… The problem is that most people aren’t informed about how what they place in their mouth affects their body (physical and mental health). And even if people were informed, most people are more worried about their capacity towards gratifying consumerism… How you feel the moment you eat your wonderful and horribly unhealthy blizzard is much more important than how you may feel 10 years down the road. I’m 47-years-old, grew up in northcentralwest New Jersey… I’m a Jersey boy at heart and grew up in-love with Roy Rogers fried chicken, Burger King whoppers, Ben and Jerrys Ice Cream and how many other things that we probably shouldn’t be eating… I went from being that typical Jersey Boy to being and international “chef”. I decided 25 years ago that it would be less expensive and healthier if I prepared it in my kitchen and I sought the most authentic recipe books for being able to learn how to cook almost anything from around the world. The problem with removing wheat products is that you remove at least 80% of the most beautiful foods from an international kitchen… All soy sauce has wheat by the way… So forget about Korean, Chinese, Japanese, Thai (bye bye Padh Thai!) and Vietnamese… That said, I am so much healthier… although saddened by not being able prepare my favorite foods… I live in Mexico and my business is a travelling coffee bar. My father-in-law is who cultivates the coffee we sell… Most of what we sell is way too high in sugar content for being healthy… However, the product is much more natural than what most coffee bars sell here in Mexico… Most frappes are prepared with artificial flavorings and stabilizers… I refuse to use stabilizers… are coffee flavors… My recipe calls for brewing coffee, sweetening it with standard sugar and cooling it in freezers… The sweetened coffee is then mixed with whole milk in the frappe machines and there you have it… And everyone says, “your frappe actually tastes like coffee! And is much better than the rest!” But it is not uniform without the stabilizers… So, maybe 1/3 of the frappe is more ice at the bottom, since the sugar and coffee separated from the frozen water as the frappe warmed and the customer pulled upon the denser part of the frappe through the straw… Now, if someone mentions that they are diabetic or their mother or wife is diabetic and which of the frappes has less sugar, I will say (if my wife doesn’t jump infront of me before I ruin a sale) that truthfully, if the person is diabetic, THE PARTY IS OVER, and they shouldn’t be drinking ANY frappe… and the only thing I would recommend is a black coffee… which doesn’t pay the bills as does a frappe… What is most important to me is that we find a market for my father-in-law’s coffee and that our client is getting the best quality product for their money when they are deciding to ignore the diet and splurge on something the makes them happy… when they would have bought a much worse product for their money, since they don’t look at us when they are thinking low-carb, healthfood… We were happy eating the Blizzard yesterday, especially with the whole peanuts and the chocolate chunks… We were aware somewhat of what we were placing in our bodies and understood that before eating the blizzard, we must run at least 40 minutes beforehand… But, the question was what were the true risks of eating the blizzard. And that’s how I found your blog. Thanks again for being honest and for sharing the response to your curiousity shared by us.

I had a choclate sunday an didn’t eat it all an put it in freezer went back 2 days later to finish it off the ice cream was frozen but chocolate was still runny! What’s in that that makes it not freeze?

There are some people with ethics who make their own soft serve mix for the machines. We make in our shop an Organic Gelato with Organic Whole Milk, Skim Milk Powder, Cane Sugar and Xanthan Gum. Then we have over fifty, all natural extracts to flavour the ice cream.