I'm still chewing on the great-grandmother thing, and realizing that, although it's intended as one of those "go back to Primordial Days! When everything was Fresh! and Wunnerful!" exhortations, it actually makes no sense at all, in the US. 1900 was a terrible year for Primordial Days cooking! Food was just getting industrialized, and was full of stupid mistakes and botulism outbreaks and strange things pickled and stuffed into cans!
The Jungle
hadn't even been published yet, which means there wasn't an FDA!
There's a fantasy in there, about the wonderfulness of the agrarian past, that wasn't even true in the past. I hate the idea of attempting to rest my concept of best practices on a fantasy -- sounds like a recipe for failure to me!
snacks - do you think of snack as 'extra' food or are they part of you nutritional plan? That tells you if you should be eating snacks.
For me, it's part of my plan and there's usually some protein involved. I guess they're less "snacks" and more "mini-meals."
I always took the "what grandparents would recognize as food" suggestion as an elimination of things like "methylchloroisothiazolinone".
For me, it's part of my plan and there's usually some protein involved. I guess they're less "snacks" and more "mini-meals."
Yeah, my snacks are stuff like edamame or grapes.
I always took the "what grandparents would recognize as food" suggestion as an elimination of things like "methylchloroisothiazolinone".
Yeah, this is clearly what he means -- and as such I agree with it -- but the fact that I've had this same conversation a bunch of times tells me dude has some serious communication issues.
Some of my great grandparents lived on biscuits, cornbread and cured pork products, plus a couple of kinds of vegetables cooked to mush with more pork products.
Less than five ingredients, though!
I had Chun King chop suey (or maybe chow mein?) in a can for many, many a childhood dinner. Really two cans, because you got the exciting extra can of crunchy noodles to sprinkle on top.
This was all I knew of Chinese food as a kid. I always thought I hated Chinese food, until I visited my dad in Marin when I was in college, and I told him this. He took me to Chinatown in SF and ordered for me. ZOMG, teh yum. I
love
Chinese food!
his feeling is that Intuit - on their seal blubber and lichen diet - were/are healthier than the average American do to what the average American.
Most Inuit today don't really eat a traditional diet. Even if they do mostly, what I've seen was drowned with soda. In fact, when I visited Barrow, I noticed a lot of young children with gold or silver teeth. It turns out that they take them in to the dentist and get caps on all their teeth as a preventative measure. To counteract the effects of drinking soda from baby bottles.
Assuming a true traditional diet, there are still terrible problems with environmental toxins that tend to accumulate in the fats that they eat. Mercury levels in hair and mother's milk in some areas of Alaska are kind of mindboggling.
edited for grammar.
My assistant just ran into my office to tell me I HAD TO watch this video: [link]
And now I am running in here to tell all of you the same thing.
Sorry to start a whole thing and then disappear, but the higher-ups are here from NY and I’ve been in a meeting all morning.
The list I posted is a set of
guidelines
to help you eat food that is less processed. They are not meant to be taken literally. If the food has oodles of ingredients, it is more likely that it is processed and there might be things you don’t want to eat, or things that our bodies haven’t figured out how to process efficiently. His point about traditional foods is that they have evolved (and been tested on humans) over centuries. One example he uses is tofu. Soy as tofu is something that is time-tested; other soy products, or randomly adding soy to everything, not so much.
I always took the "what grandparents would recognize as food" suggestion as an elimination of things like "methylchloroisothiazolinone".
Or, what Trudy said.
As for chicken, eggs, and beef, “free range” doesn’t necessarily mean very much (as Jess said) and he does mean grass-finished. Because people are starting to demand grass-fed cows, marketers use the term grass finished to appeal these people, even if the cows are primarily grain fed.
I am hitting a wall. post-lunch/repetitive paperwork/end of internets.
please to post/send links
