food is complicated

Dec 08, 2008 15:31

My doctor says that my "bad cholesterol" is a smidge high (good's fine ( Read more... )

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cellio December 9 2008, 03:59:02 UTC
Hmm, yeah, that makes sense.

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gardenfey December 8 2008, 21:11:02 UTC
A book that Ian read last year, "The Omnivore's Dilemma", supposes that the food produced before mono-culture and giant farms was actually healthier.

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cellio December 9 2008, 03:59:57 UTC
Interesting. Does the book suggest a dominant cause?

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gardenfey December 9 2008, 12:38:12 UTC
Having the cattle eat mostly corn and corn by-products rather than being free range, if I remember correctly. And consider the manner in which most plants are farmed; by force-feeding them Nitrogen, Potassium, and Phosphorus, with little regard to trace minerals or beneficial organisms.

I also remember reading somewhere that the nation's weight increase shows a direct correlation to the use of high fructose corn syrup.

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hildakrista December 8 2008, 22:33:06 UTC
mypyramid.gov has a LOT of detailed info if you poke around

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cellio December 9 2008, 04:00:16 UTC
Thanks. I'll check it out.

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starmalachite December 8 2008, 23:19:18 UTC
Presumably it is possible to find the right combination of nutrients in nature, without taking supplements.

Why? From nature's point of view, long & healthy lives for individuals are irrelevant or even undesirable. Once you're done reproducing, the sooner you get out of the way & stop competing with your offspring for resources and optimal diet, the better. Nutritional deficiencies that cause problems later in life may be just one more weapon in nature's plot to get us all sooner or later.

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cellio December 9 2008, 04:01:00 UTC
Hmm, good point.

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tigerbright December 9 2008, 01:16:57 UTC
A pre-industrial lifestyle - and even most post-industrial lifestyles - was pretty well geared to burn up all that cholesterol. All those gyms are making money off the people descended from the ones who didn't starve to death in famines or collapse in the fields.

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cellio December 9 2008, 04:03:01 UTC
I guess I don't know how burning cholesterol works. Are you saying that exercise either prevents, or accelerates the removal of, cholesterol? That would make a difference, yeah.

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tigerbright December 9 2008, 13:14:16 UTC
I don't know the exact mechanism, but basically, a hard-working body NEEDS the "bad" cholesterol.

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