Modern diet is retarded

[Conservationist]

http://www.yourreturn.org/Inertia/ModernFoodandDegeneration.htm

Summary:
- primitive peoples quickly degenerated in their overall, but
especially dental, health when they switched to Western diets
- Western diet contains much of empty calories and refined additional sugar
- processing (heat, high pressure) foods alters their chemical
structure to worse
- vegetable oils are highly suspicious (chemical alteration forms
transfats, plus these oils never part of traditional human diet)
- additional salt is often unnecessary and demineralized from their
natural variety
- soy is bad (phytoestrogens gives you a nice pair of tits)
- pasteurization makes milk less healthy
- grains, rice and corn are really bad for anyone to consume --
despite their vast agricultural importance
- meat animals are raised in unnatural crowded conditions which is
upkept by unnatural means (antibiotics), and the animals are fead
unnatural fodder nutrition

[creativeblue]

People should try to buy organic whenever possible. People should also try to grow their own gardens as well. The bad diets are all a product of the American system. Capitalism. Money over culture as we have discussed before. Profit before health. What else is new?

[ichi_the_killer]

New evidence links E-numbers to hyperactivity

Health experts last night called for an all-out ban. Ian Tokelove, a spokesman for the Food Commission, an independent watchdog, said: "The majority of additives are unnecessary from a nutritional point of view - they are there to make food more colourful or change the flavour.

"Studies have already shown they have an effect on children's behaviour and we would all be better off without them."

Tam Fry, the chairman of the Child Growth Foundation, said: "We would be happy to see all additives go. They are often in cheap food that is high in fat, sugar and salt."

"Parents who have little disposable income allow their children to have it because it does a fantastic job in temporarily filling them up - but it is devoid of nutrients."

Researchers at Southampton University tested seven synthetic colourings and preservatives on three- and nine-year-olds.

The study mirrored one on the Isle of Wight in 2002 that tested additives on 277 three-year-olds, who drank juice with and without additives over a month. Diaries kept by families showed improvements in toddlers' behaviour when they drank additive-free juice.

When children consumed drinks with colourings they were more likely to suffer from tantrums, become restless and were prone to allergic reactions. However, the FSA insisted on more research.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/05/09/neee09.xml


E-numbers to avoid:

http://www.safekids.co.uk/ENumbersToAvoid.html

[ichi_the_killer]

Using "extra virgin" olive oil is the best alternative to sunflower or vegetable oil... but read this:

Most people think that by purchasing "extra virgin" olive oil they are getting a high quality oil.

Unfortunately, in most cases, this is not true. It's more complex than that. A label reading extra virgin is no guarantee of quality. For one thing, nowhere does it say that extra virgin olive oil has to be made 100% from olives. An major criterion for grading olive oil is its level of acidity. Extra virgin oil should have a free oleic acid acidity of no more than one percent, whereas ordinary virgin olive oil can have an acidity of up to 3.3 percent.

Lower quality oils can be refined to bring the acidity down so they can be labeled as extra virgin. But now the oil has been refined, and that's not what you want. That's why being labeled extra virgin is no guarantee of getting high quality oil, which has not been processed in ways that reduce its nutritional value. To complicate matters even more, the term "extra virgin" has no official meaning in the United States. The U.S. is not a member of the International Olive Oil Council. So, olive oil sold here can be labeled extra virgin without meeting the accepted international standards.

Another reason why you can't trust extra virgin olive oil is exemplified by a problem that manifested last year, and may turn out to be the biggest food fraud of the 20th Century. Despite the fact that details of this scandal have been published in Merum, a Swiss-German magazine, and in Italian journals such as Agra Trade, and the newspaper Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno, this information has been successfully suppressed and is known to only a handful. Investigators are gathering evidence indicating that the biggest olive oil brands in Italy have for years been systematically diluting their extra virgin olive oil with cheap, highly-refined hazelnut oil imported from Turkey. International arrest warrants have been issued and so far documents indicate that at least ten thousand tons of hazelnut oil are involved. As much as 20% hazelnut oil can be added to olive oil and still be undetectable to the consumer. In fact olive oil labeled "Italian" often comes from Turkey, Tunisia, Morocco, Spain, and Greece. Considering what has happened in Europe, where there are strict regulations, imagine what can happen in California where there are no regulations. Apparently, more oil is "produced" in California than there are olives available. The truth is, most of the extra virgin olive oil on the market does not supply all the nutritional value and health giving properties that we have a right to expect from olive oil.

http://www.living-foods.com/articles/oliveoil.html

[invictus]

Weston Price's book "Nutrition and Physical Degeneration" is now available online:
http://journeytoforever.org/farm_library/price/pricetoc.html

[scourge]

What's the best diet? The one our early ancestors ate, as shown by studying Stone Age (paleolithic) humans who lived 40,000 years ago, says S. Boyd Eaton, M.D., an Emory University "evolutionary nutrition" expert.
 
We could more efficiently get rid of heart disease, cancer, arthritis, diabetes, obesity and other chronic diseases by changing our diet to fit our genes than by using sophisticated gene therapy, says James V. Neel, a prominent geneticist at the University of Michigan.
 
We have departed so far from Stone Age eating that 55 percent of the American diet is "new food" not eaten by our ancestors.

http://www.usaweekend.com/98_issues/980503/980503eat_smart_caveman.html

The article is a good guide for replacing industrial society trash with foods that improve your quality of life.

[aaronas]

The physical decay from poor nutrition is also intimately connected with the decay of the mental attitudes of the people. This makes sense as our brains and nervous receptors need a state of balance and harmony consisting of adequate nutrients to function properly. “As we had found in some of the modernized islands of the Pacific, we discovered that here too, discouragement and a longing for death had taken place of a joy in living in many.” 2 The inert and stagnant matter which makes up a majority of western fair, creates a deep sense of isolation and despair. Many of these fine human civilizations are being wiped out due to death and inability to reproduce from our modern diet.

Maybe if I eat better I won't be so misogynistic

[THE_WOLF]

Using "extra virgin" olive oil is the best alternative to sunflower or vegetable oil... but read this:

Most people think that by purchasing "extra virgin" olive oil they are getting a high quality oil.

Unfortunately, in most cases, this is not true. It's more complex than that. A label reading extra virgin is no guarantee of quality. For one thing, nowhere does it say that extra virgin olive oil has to be made 100% from olives. An major criterion for grading olive oil is its level of acidity. Extra virgin oil should have a free oleic acid acidity of no more than one percent, whereas ordinary virgin olive oil can have an acidity of up to 3.3 percent.

Lower quality oils can be refined to bring the acidity down so they can be labeled as extra virgin. But now the oil has been refined, and that's not what you want. That's why being labeled extra virgin is no guarantee of getting high quality oil, which has not been processed in ways that reduce its nutritional value. To complicate matters even more, the term "extra virgin" has no official meaning in the United States. The U.S. is not a member of the International Olive Oil Council. So, olive oil sold here can be labeled extra virgin without meeting the accepted international standards.

Another reason why you can't trust extra virgin olive oil is exemplified by a problem that manifested last year, and may turn out to be the biggest food fraud of the 20th Century. Despite the fact that details of this scandal have been published in Merum, a Swiss-German magazine, and in Italian journals such as Agra Trade, and the newspaper Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno, this information has been successfully suppressed and is known to only a handful. Investigators are gathering evidence indicating that the biggest olive oil brands in Italy have for years been systematically diluting their extra virgin olive oil with cheap, highly-refined hazelnut oil imported from Turkey. International arrest warrants have been issued and so far documents indicate that at least ten thousand tons of hazelnut oil are involved. As much as 20% hazelnut oil can be added to olive oil and still be undetectable to the consumer. In fact olive oil labeled "Italian" often comes from Turkey, Tunisia, Morocco, Spain, and Greece. Considering what has happened in Europe, where there are strict regulations, imagine what can happen in California where there are no regulations. Apparently, more oil is "produced" in California than there are olives available. The truth is, most of the extra virgin olive oil on the market does not supply all the nutritional value and health giving properties that we have a right to expect from olive oil.

http://www.living-foods.com/articles/oliveoil.html

smart balance foods

[Deutschmann]

From what I've heard, an been forced to sit through, is that the very schedule we follow for our meals also affects us greatly. Eating three large meals a day gives us a large sugar boost following each meal, but also makes our sugar levels go down quickly so that right before a meal, we have little energy. Many dieticians are recommending 'grazing,' a schedule in which people eat smaller meals oughout the day, keeping a steadier sugar level and keeping the digetive and circulatory system healthier.

[shroomy_bee]

Best summed up:

People should try to buy organic whenever possible. People should also try to grow their own gardens as well. The bad diets are all a product of the American system. Capitalism. Money over culture as we have discussed before. Profit before health. What else is new?

That's so true.

Olive oil, even the organic kind, I've noticed has dropped in quality in the last few years. Say 10 years ago if you bought organic oil it'd definitely be good - now it's hit and miss, so much of it burns the throat, and that means it is rancid.
The other one that, in the UK anyway, has gone down the pan even when it's organic, is milk. Organic milk used to be a definite of being as close to real milk as you could get in a shop, ie - it smelled and tasted good, and had cream in it. However it was still pasteurised.
Now though, they've changed it and it's impossible to get milk that isn't also homogenised. So it now all smells and tastes like feces, despite being organic, because they've processed it un-naturally to make all the fat molecules the same size.

I'm not sure what the deal is with the oils, but the milk being affected that way seems to be because of the same kinds of dum-dum consumers that buy all that other poison and junk for food. Put it this way: anyone with an intestinal wall so sensitive they are able to detect differences in the size of fat molecules, would also be aware-sensitive enough to know that homogenising it is going to be even less healthy on many other levels.

[Jarl]

hi! i've got an awesome lecture on the subject for those of you, who are not interested in christianity, it is not a sermon, simply some advice about diet that can be found, or can be extracted from the bible. worth watching!
http://www.zugzwanged.org/dat/christian/hovind/the_bible_and_health_2001_kent_hovind.avi

[Saturn]

http://www.yourreturn.org/Inertia/ModernFoodandDegeneration.htm

Summary:
- primitive peoples quickly degenerated in their overall, but
especially dental, health when they switched to Western diets
- Western diet contains much of empty calories and refined additional sugar
- processing (heat, high pressure) foods alters their chemical
structure to worse
- vegetable oils are highly suspicious (chemical alteration forms
transfats, plus these oils never part of traditional human diet)
- additional salt is often unnecessary and demineralized from their
natural variety
- soy is bad (phytoestrogens gives you a nice pair of tits)
- pasteurization makes milk less healthy
- grains, rice and corn are really bad for anyone to consume --
despite their vast agricultural importance
- meat animals are raised in unnatural crowded conditions which is
upkept by unnatural means (antibiotics), and the animals are fead
unnatural fodder nutrition

These are excellent points. The trick is adhering to a diet plan that omits the “bad” from the source above.

I’ve had a bread, flour, processed food free diet for 3 weeks now. I’ve lost nearly 10 lbs of body fat, maintained muscle tone & strength while feeling more energetic throughout the day. No skin conditions, joint pains, stomach cramps, etc....

[purposeguy]

Just came out today that high fructose corn syrup which is in a lot of foods contains MERCURY. And apparently the authorities were sitting on the info for quite some time too. What else is new.

[valken09 =Malaysian National Socialist=]

People should try to buy organic whenever possible. People should also try to grow their own gardens as well. The bad diets are all a product of the American system. Capitalism. Money over culture as we have discussed before. Profit before health. What else is new?

True true, you can see an example when you compare a KFC breast with an organic chicken breast. KFC chicken contains more fats as they inject some type of drug in these chicken to grow big very fast. I would prefer to stick to my local diet though. But for westerners I guess Mediterranean diet is optional, its main source of fats are from fish, beans, and olive oil, so yea I guess its a healthy choice.