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Diet is key to much (none / 0) (#25)
by MKS on Tue Mar 28, 2017 at 09:14:29 PM EST
I have decided to give up beef for the most part....

Tuna, chicken, low fat mozzarella, non fat milk--all good sources of protein.

Healthy diets could solve much.  I keep learning new stuff all the time, like Chia seeds.  Supposedly almost like a miracle food.  But I have trouble with the jelly like texture they take on when moist. Ick.

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my point is (none / 0) (#29)
by CaptHowdy on Tue Mar 28, 2017 at 09:21:00 PM EST
the group being discussed almost literally live on fast food.  you can eat it sometimes but not all the time.  and if anything is cooked at home its fryed.  usually deep fryed.  and soda is the new water.  watch Idiocracy. "you mean like in the toilet is happening.

just so you know im not attacking but reporting take my sisters house.  all the dietary stuff i said.  plus they have always had a second refrigerator full of an assortment of soda.  no diet soda please.  and a 3  

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sorry (none / 0) (#32)
by CaptHowdy on Tue Mar 28, 2017 at 09:28:08 PM EST
not sure how that happemed

delete this

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Oh yeah, I totally agree (none / 0) (#33)
by MKS on Tue Mar 28, 2017 at 09:30:15 PM EST
Our bodies are amazing and can process out a certain amount of poison, but not a steady tidal wave of sludge.

Just making slight changes in a diet could be really helpful....

Mayor Bloomberg was on to something with those huge sugary drinks.....lots of calories, no nutritional value.....but can't make people eat good food.

We know so much more know about the food we eat.....People just have to be willing to adapt.

You can have a cheat meal once a week with Chicken Fried Steak or sour cream and molasses on a biscuit, and knowing that you can have a little bit of the bad stuff can help with food discipline the rest of the time, I think.

KFC chicken is a good example of adapting ....The word fried has been banned....and I think all their chicken is either grilled or baked now (I hope.)

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Nobody has vegetable gardens down there? (none / 0) (#50)
by jondee on Tue Mar 28, 2017 at 10:15:03 PM EST


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I tried because we eat a lot of (none / 0) (#68)
by Militarytracy on Wed Mar 29, 2017 at 10:30:01 PM EST
Tomatoes and chilies. My husband loves making homemade pico. But anthracnose is a big problem here. It stunts the tomatoes and peppers awful. It's a lot of work prepping the soil and then you can still end up with a very poor crop. So I gave up.

Did have success with okra, and man you can grow some arugula here. Mine went wild, all over the yard. Grew some white radish for kimchi this past year, but we experienced a drought and the deer ate my radishes. Which was okay, they needed them more than I did.

Not sure what the peanut farmers here will do with climate change. We looked at the Pentagon climate change study before moving here many years ago and it predicted this portion of the South would become a lot drier. It's hard to fathom how that impacts a place though until you are there. The peanuts need a lot of rain. It didn't happen last year, and this spring is very dry again. If this becomes a new normal, agriculture will have to change here.

Moving near Zorba soon, she grows everything. Can't wait.

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my point is (none / 0) (#30)
by CaptHowdy on Tue Mar 28, 2017 at 09:24:05 PM EST
the group being discussed almost literally live on fast food.  you can eat it sometimes but not all the time.  and if anything is cooked at home its fryed.  usually deep fryed.  and soda is the new water.  watch Idiocracy. "you mean like in the toilet" is happening.

just so you know im not attacking but reporting take my sisters house.  all the dietary stuff i said.  plus they have always had a second refrigerator full of an assortment of soda.  no diet soda please.  and a 30 gallon can by the back door to collect the empties.

everyone - everyone - in my sisters family is morbidly fat.  not overweight.  dangerously overweight.  my siser is currently dying slowly from a lifetime of terrible eating habits.

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It's kind of crazy to think (none / 0) (#43)
by jondee on Tue Mar 28, 2017 at 09:54:44 PM EST
that the diet of dirt poor rural folk 150 years ago, with their poke salad and groundhogs and occasional venison, was probably much healthier than what some folks in that neck of the woods eat today.

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i think thats true (none / 0) (#61)
by CaptHowdy on Wed Mar 29, 2017 at 11:14:23 AM EST
sort of hillbilly paleo.  i saw an old couple the other day.  they were both skinny as a rail and about 100 years old.  and i realized you see this pretty often.  a very old skinny couple.  not that many fat old couples.  not that many fat old people for that matter.

but i was thinking about this and i think what you are seeing in many cases is an old couple who probably have very little money so they dont eat out.  and dont smoke cigarettes because thats gotten really expensive.   they most likely do grow and produce a lot of their own food.  

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Hillbilly paleo would probably (5.00 / 1) (#77)
by jondee on Thu Mar 30, 2017 at 03:51:51 PM EST
make a good cookbook.

Now there's a project for you.

Here comes Granny with a snicker
and a grin
Here comes Granny with a snicker
and a grin
Groundhog gravy drippin' off her
chin
Oh, groundhog..

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MKS, good for you. (none / 0) (#83)
by fishcamp on Sat Apr 01, 2017 at 09:05:10 AM EST
I gave up red meat and sugar over 50 years ago.  Of course we get sugar in most everything we buy that's packaged.  There was no unbelievable change when I quit.  My cholesterol did go way down from no beef fat.  When you stop adding sugar to food, your body weight seems to shift back to the places it belongs, as in away from your belly.  Sometimes it is difficult to resist deserts, but one bite is all I need.  

McDonald's restaurants, and others like them, were invented after I moved to Aspen in 1959,, and we had none of them, so I've never had a Big Mac, or even been to one of those places, ever.  I eat what I catch.  Now that you've given up meat and news, what's next?

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mcdonalds (none / 0) (#84)
by linea on Sat Apr 01, 2017 at 02:21:58 PM EST
I've never had a Big Mac

filet-o-fish is good

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