Book Review: Avoid Eating All Grains

[dumpthemonarchy]

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.

Yes perhaps, but I have never heard of people smelling food like her. People today are hypersensitive, and not just about food, and they didn't used to be to such an extent. Today there are more choices, too many choices. Problems of prosperity.

We need simpler, better food. Less Frankenfood for one thing.

 

[petros]

I'll give up eating grain and just eat animals that eat grain.

 

[JLM]

I'll give up eating grain and just eat animals that eat grain.

Nothing like killing two birds with one stone, Petros! (or were you talking about birds?) :smile:

 

[petros]

I'll eat grain fed birds. Noooo problem!

 

[JLM]

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.

Yep, probably pretty hard to prove anything, so I'll just go by "anecdotal evidence" (as one former poster was so quick point out ad infinitum) people SEEM less healthy today when it's vogue to bathe or shower daily than back when I was a kid and we used to pull the round tub off the wall once a week (whether we needed it or not) and we all bathed in the same water. :smile:

 

[gopher]

Yup ~ from now on I'm buying frozen, not canned.

 

[dumpthemonarchy]

Cattle are fed grain, yet until the 20th century they ate grass. Hmm. Maybe cattle are getting grain optimised for them. Cattle get fattened faster so we can get more tender meat. I no longer like this tradeoff.