GA Russell Posted March 30, 2012 Report Share Posted March 30, 2012 Here's a brief but interesting article that lists six foods that we've been told for years we should stay away from that are now being touted. http://www.foxnews.com/health/2012/03/28/6-forbidden-foods-can-eat/?intcmp=obnetwork Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete C Posted March 30, 2012 Report Share Posted March 30, 2012 They left out belly pork. Here's a rant I wrote about egg whites: http://petercherches.blogspot.com/2006/11/throw-off-yolk-of-idiocy.html Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GA Russell Posted March 30, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 30, 2012 That's great, Pete! What I've always wondered is...If these food are such poison, how has mankind made it for over 100,000 years eating them? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Wheel Posted March 30, 2012 Report Share Posted March 30, 2012 (edited) That's great, Pete! What I've always wondered is...If these food are such poison, how has mankind made it for over 100,000 years eating them? Uh... "If modern sewer systems are so great for public health, why did mankind endure for 100,000 years without them?" "If guaranteed health care is such a good idea, why did the human race manage to do well enough to get to AD 1900 without it?" "If sleeping exposed in near-freezing temperatures with substandard clothing is such a dumb idea, how did enough Cro-Magnons manage to do it that we're here today?" While I think a lot of nutritional panicking about this food or that is probably overblown if not outright wrong, there is not a contradiction between saying "this food is bad for you if you want a reasonably long life" and "people could eat this food without it wiping out all of humanity." A species only has to live to reproductive age (i.e., 15 years old for us) for it to not go extinct. Prehistoric people had much shorter lifespans, and it's not a huge stretch to think that at least some of that was caused by poor nutrition. Edited March 30, 2012 by Big Wheel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BruceH Posted March 30, 2012 Report Share Posted March 30, 2012 Yes, but poor nutrition of our prehistoric ancestors was probably due mainly to not ENOUGH food, rather than the wrong kinds. Malnutrition, in other words. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Wheel Posted March 30, 2012 Report Share Posted March 30, 2012 (edited) Yes, but poor nutrition of our prehistoric ancestors was probably due mainly to not ENOUGH food, rather than the wrong kinds. Malnutrition, in other words. Of course - I didn't mean to imply that there were a bunch of Stone Age types dropping dead of heart disease at 20 because they were eating lots of raw gazelle fat. Just that appealing to Stone Age notions of nutrition as "not bad for you because, after all, we exist today" is a shifting of the burden of proof that makes no sense. Our whole notion of "bad for you" is predicated on a lifespan that most of those people could barely dream of. Edited March 30, 2012 by Big Wheel Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
king ubu Posted March 30, 2012 Report Share Posted March 30, 2012 I almost ate chitterlings after what, 15 years? again this week... but as I'd had liver the night before I thought that was enough for a while. How do chitterlings relate to the chitlin circuit? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ValerieB Posted March 31, 2012 Report Share Posted March 31, 2012 They left out belly pork. Here's a rant I wrote about egg whites: http://petercherches.blogspot.com/2006/11/throw-off-yolk-of-idiocy.html had a Cobb salad for lunch today which, aside from the regular ingredients, included small pork belly pieces and a poached egg. it was delish! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete C Posted March 31, 2012 Report Share Posted March 31, 2012 How do chitterlings relate to the chitlin circuit? Well, chitterlings/chitlin being a kind of iconic soul food, popular with southern as well as northern urban black people, the name was attached to bookings at southern black venues as well as northern ghetto venues, places that would normally have an all or mostly black audience. had a Cobb salad for lunch today which, aside from the regular ingredients, included small pork belly pieces and a poached egg. it was delish! You da woman. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brad Posted March 31, 2012 Report Share Posted March 31, 2012 This sounds like a scene out of Sleeper. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jazzmoose Posted March 31, 2012 Report Share Posted March 31, 2012 It's a good thing I didn't know these were forbidden... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
king ubu Posted March 31, 2012 Report Share Posted March 31, 2012 How do chitterlings relate to the chitlin circuit? Well, chitterlings/chitlin being a kind of iconic soul food, popular with southern as well as northern urban black people, the name was attached to bookings at southern black venues as well as northern ghetto venues, places that would normally have an all or mostly black audience. I see! Thought I'd read something going in that direction already, but wasn't sure any more... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim McG Posted March 31, 2012 Report Share Posted March 31, 2012 (edited) This sounds like a scene out of Sleeper. Sure beats being a scene out of Soylent Green. Edited March 31, 2012 by GoodSpeak Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guy Berger Posted March 31, 2012 Report Share Posted March 31, 2012 It's a good thing I didn't know these were forbidden... Seriously... America's obesity problem isn't being caused by people eating too many avocadoes or walnuts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.:.impossible Posted March 31, 2012 Report Share Posted March 31, 2012 This is a fluff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
7/4 Posted March 31, 2012 Report Share Posted March 31, 2012 It's a good thing I didn't know these were forbidden... Forbidden like the Lambada. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Wheel Posted April 1, 2012 Report Share Posted April 1, 2012 It's a good thing I didn't know these were forbidden... Seriously... America's obesity problem isn't being caused by people eating too many avocadoes or walnuts. I think the article is targeted at a certain middle-class reader between about 45 and 70 who spent the 1990s with various talking heads shouting at them about the cardiac danger of all dietary fat and cholesterol. Certainly I remember the years when my dad banned egg yolks from the house and had periodic meltdowns over things like Cracklin' Oat Bran (contains palm oil) and shellfish (lots of cholesterol). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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