I'm not inclined to take Dr. William Davis seriously. Rodale Press is famous for promoting quackery.
Book Review: Avoid Eating All Grains
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That is strange. Brewer's Yeast is considered by many to be a health food. I won't be using this diet....:smile:
Beware of any diet that says to avoid one food, especially if it says to avoid beer.
It would sound better if he had actually written papers based on his case reports to give as evidence...instead of hocking a book.
Maybe we should just all encase ourselves in bubblewrap and eat nothing but bland, tasteless gruel through a straw.
That'll fix everything.
That'll fix everything.
Even coffee and cigarettes? I've always known it but I never heard anyone say it.
Did someone say make seeds safer like the good old days? You must be kidding.
In the good old days the witch hunts came about from people eating diseased
grains. The chemical produced by the contamination, through a plant disease had
people seeing things just like those on LSD apparently.
There was a lot of things that improved with the improvement of disease resistant
grains and other things. There are all kinds of people who believe organic food is
really organic too, and that ain't necessarily so either.
As for genetically modified food, we don't know whether there are problems or not
the proper tests have never been done. What we need is defined labelling on the
packaging so we can educated make up our own minds about what we want to
eat.
In the good old days the witch hunts came about from people eating diseased
grains. The chemical produced by the contamination, through a plant disease had
people seeing things just like those on LSD apparently.
There was a lot of things that improved with the improvement of disease resistant
grains and other things. There are all kinds of people who believe organic food is
really organic too, and that ain't necessarily so either.
As for genetically modified food, we don't know whether there are problems or not
the proper tests have never been done. What we need is defined labelling on the
packaging so we can educated make up our own minds about what we want to
eat.
I'd have said lima beans, which I think are despicable. That awful mealy texture... eeewwww. Or maybe iceberg lettuce, the polyester of greens.
Actually there's probably no single dietary item you absolutely require, but it's a lot easier to get a properly balanced diet if there's more variety in it. It's a fairly complex task to get all the proteins you need, for instance, if you don't eat meat, and considering that for most of our history on the planet humans were hunter-gatherers, it would seem that an omnivorous diet is the one evolution has fitted us to. In that sense I think vegetarianism is unnatural, an idea that's reinforced every time I see various members of that tribe that frequent the local health food store. Many of them do not look healthy, in ways that suggest an inadequate diet.
Yeah, I've read that somewhere too, specifically that the infamous Salem witch trials were due to people eating bread made from grain contaminated by the ergot fungus. I don't know if it's been proven in that particular case, but given the known symptoms of ergot poisoning it's certainly plausible.
The Free Cookbook
By Carmen Schott.
Speak for yourself. Most people that work require at least some meat.
German Purity Laws of 1516. Look on a bottle of Becks it shows all the contents permitted. There are several other beers made this way. Tastes much better than North American swill.
Beware of any diet that says to avoid one food, especially if it says to avoid beer.
It would sound better if he had actually written papers based on his case reports to give as evidence...instead of hocking a book.
You don't have to avoid beer, just the poisons North Americans insist on putting in it. I have developed a sensitivity to wheat gluten and yeast but I drink pure beer regularly. We make bread with our own flour mix and use sourdough.
No apparently about it. It is a mold that grows on grain and is for all practical purposes LSD. Consider it organic acid.
There was a report on local TV news about cans containing some dangerous element called BPA. It was said this contribute to cancer. If true, UGH! I usually store about 25 to 30 cans of various veggies so as to avoid any shortages during the bad winter months. And I just bought my winter supply of canned veggies! Looks like I got more than I bargained for.
Buying stuff in tin cans is seldom a good idea. You pay damned near as much for the can (or jar) as you do for the contents not to mention the fact of creating a lot for the recycle department. For produce buy fresh and if you absolutely have to (Yuck) buy frozen. Packaging is much cheaper than cans and jars and much lighter to carry home.
Yep, frozen's better than canned, fresh is better than frozen, but in a Saskatchewan winter fresh veggies have to come from far away. We grow as much as we can in the garden, mostly stuff that'll store for a long time if you know how to do it and have the facilities (and we do), like carrots, potatoes, beets, and onions, and every October we have a soup-making bee. We buy a dozen dead chickens and cheap roasts, barbecue them, cut them up into soup-sized bits, throw them into a stock pot with the garden vegetables, then freeze the results in 2-liter containers. We've got 40 liters of chicken and beef vegetable soup in the freezer now, it's infinitely superior to anything Campbell has ever made, and an easy meal to prepare, just drop the frozen stuff into a pot and heat it up. And on a -30 degree February night, there's nothing as comforting as a rich and hearty homemade soup with a slice or two of toasted homemade bread.
One more hint for your soup making, in the bulk food department of your grocery store they have chicken and beef soup mix, add a couple of tbsp. of each to your 2 litre batches. I freeze turkey carcasses after most of the meat has been carved off and the chicken mix helps to make a very tasty turkey soup along with lentils and barley, carrots, turnips, onion and cabbage.
Oh yeah, that's the best philosphy to feeding kids. Their choice is what is being cooked, or nothing. Nowadays parents ask their kids what they want for dinner. That may have happened to us on our birthdays, maybe. Food dictatorships are better.
But the food nowadays really is Frankenfood, it is being messed up to be commodity, not a form of health and nutrition. Increased agricutural productivity is killing taste. I grow a few tomatoes on my balcony each year, and they taste fantastic. Our food is being denatured by science for profit. I disagree with this.
People are more senstitive now. I remember being told by a girl, "Do you know what milk smells like?" I said no, I have no idea. Then she told me, that at school, when somebody has a cucumber, she can smell it right away. I was surprised. People have become more sensitive to food because its gotten worse. The world is getting nicer looking slop, and its not as healthy for us.
There was also a science program on TV about two years ago that talked
about ergot in Europe during the Middle Ages, or about the time the witch
events started. Thanks for mentioning it was ergot, I had forgotten the
name of the disease. They went through the whole thing and had found
evidence from that time as to the disease.
about ergot in Europe during the Middle Ages, or about the time the witch
events started. Thanks for mentioning it was ergot, I had forgotten the
name of the disease. They went through the whole thing and had found
evidence from that time as to the disease.
Yeast and the microbes weren't even known of in the 1500's, and it wasn't until Louis Pasteur's 1857 paper Mémoire sur la fermentation alcoolique, that it was proven that alcoholic fermentation is facilitated by living yeasts, and not chemicals.
Yeast was definitely in the German beer produced under the purity laws, they just didn't know it.
A doctor was talking on C.B.C. radio the other day. The main problem is we are all getting too "sanitized". Women are afraid to open a bathroom door without putting their gloves on! :lol:
That has nothing to do with other people and everything to do with the simple fact that your olfactory senses have weakened over the years.
There's some debate amongst immunologists that the increase in allergies is related to our hygiene. Allergic reactions are caused by your body reacting to normally harmless matter; the class of immunoglobulins is called IgE. The debate is about the origin and evolution of that class of antibodies. Some believe it arose from persistent parasitic infections, and this is certainly true in animal models. It's harder to tease out the relationship with humans though, as it's not really ethical to give humans a disease in order to study pathogenicity. With better hygiene now, the argument scientifically is whether or not the reduced parasite load we now face is contributing to the development of atopies.