Gwyneth Paltrow’s Night-Shady Elimination of Vegetables
Written by Vegetarian Star on September 17th, 2009 in Actresses, Food & Drink.
Thanksgiving is just around the corner, so we’ll probably start seeing some turkey burger recipes pop up on Gwyneth Paltrow‘s website Goop.com.
The former vegetarian has been ripped by the community for “going back,” but she does try to refrain from some meat, if only for health reasons.
An Esquirer writer took on the task of following Gwyneth’s advice from Goop, which resulted in a hilarious piece of commentary.
The food plan followed called for eliminating several good for you vegetables, like tomatoes.
“Her meal plan cut out all dairy, gluten, meat, shellfish, condiments, sugar, alcohol, caffeine, and an entire class of food (tomatoes, eggplant, potatoes, and peppers) called nightshades. (Who knew?) Her menus were simple: For breakfast I consumed blueberry-and-almond-milk smoothies (fortified with protein and probiotic supplements), and for lunch and dinner I alternated among Paltrow’s recipes for light salads and thin soups. (The full seven-day menu is on goop.com.) Over the course of a single week I spent about $300 at a cluttered health-food market, and every night I spent about an hour preparing the next day’s meals. For those first few days, I felt terrible, and looking over my notes from that period, I’m kind of amazed I stuck with it.”
Kudos to Gwyneth for the almond milk suggestion, but to cut all Nightshade foods of peppers, potatoes, tomatoes, and eggplants?
Sounds night-shady.
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September 17th, 2009 at 3:19 pm
No diet that calls for the elimination of so many good vegetables is good.
Then again, look who’s prescribing the advice.