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.

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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

Happy semi-nekkid Gracie [link]

Grace reading, sleeping.

Noah sitting!, not sitting.

There are things my great- grandmothes recognized as food that I simply will not. Never. Lutefisk, people.

I'm probably more likely to try people than lutefisk, presuming humane killing, etc.

ION, I still haven't decided whom to vote for tomorrow. I hate to be a one-issue voter, but I think I'm just going to have to pick the candidate whose position is closest to mine in the three issues closest to my heart.

Heh. I figure my (paternal) grandpa was a farmer, and he grew a lot of soy. So tofu and edamame, he may not have eaten, and may not have recognized as real food, but I'm down with them! :)

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.

Ah -- I was actually just starting to think of how processed tofu actually is. So coffee's OK, too, then.

I would like to give mit romney and his minions cooties. They need to stop calling me, now.

I am confused why people take things like 'eat like your great grandparents' so literally. But maybe it is because I read so much about food that I automatically interpret to mean " watch out for processed food" .

as for the intuit diet , he was talking about the original diet - not what they are eating now. and I suspect their lifestyle has changed enough that their original diet wouldn't be the best choice either.

honestly, diet and lifestyle need to match better. When DH did a lot of long distance runner ( marathon distances at least 2x a month) it made no difference what he ate. One of the biggest mind changes for him is that not all food is equal. But he no longer leads the runner lifestyle, so his diet has to change ( he's figuring it out)