[discostu]

There are no superfoods. Some foods are more healthy than others, some provide one type of nutrition better than others, but the superfood thing is just cultish silliness.

[Lx]

Sorry but I'll defer to:

Dr. Ruth

Dr. Phil

Dr. Oz, he's the one this week!

[T-Bone Texan]

Agree 100%, also from a cultural/societal aspect.

The concept of a universal panacea (”Superfood”) to cure what ails us is emblematic of our laziness as a culture.

I would FAR rather live my ice cream and cognac lifestyle and then mitigate with a “superfood” than eat responsibly.

I’d go into detail but I’m about to find out that One Weird Trick to reduce body fat.

[RainMan]

I agree, but I believe that it is somewhat more devious than that. Take a look at the following trends and ask what do they have in common?

Thomas Malthus

Legalization of Abortion

Legalization of Euthanasia

Forced Sterilization

The Pill

One Child Policies

Socialized Medicine

The Food Pyramid and the ostracism of meat

Gay Rights

Agenda 21

The advent of Condo's

Governments refusal to "build out of congestion" on the freeways and the push for light rail

The global warming hoax

Planned Parenthood

Superfoods

Vegetarians

Perpetual war



These are all strategies to address population growth. Some, which involve outright killing such as abortion, euthanasia, perpetual war, planned parenthood and socialized medicine (not providing care when it gets too expensive) address it by directly reducing the population.

Some involve limiting reproduction either thru coercion or cooption. These would be forced sterilization, one child policy, the pill, gay rights. (convincing people to have homosexual sex ensures they don't breed).

Some are designed to increase density of people, to make them easier to control and maintain as much arable land as possible. This would include Agenda 21, the development of Condo's, the refusal to build out of congestion and light rail, and the entire global warming hoax.

Finally, you have the conversion of people from our natural diets to modern diets. This is so that foods that we historically did not eat would be used to substitute for foods that could be grown/raised/spawned/manufactured from non-traditional food growth areas. This includes the food pyramid (designed to move us away from protein), the ostracism of meat, vegetarianism, and the birth of "superfoods".

I had an interesting talk with my mother the other day. She is now in a nursing home and she was complaining about all the Kale they are feeding them. I told her it was the new foo foo food, and everyone was making it out to be this great thing ... and her response was kind of a WTF!!! When she was a kid, Kale was what the poor people ate because they could not afford lettuce. Compared to lettuce it has a lousy texture, it tastes bitter, and is generally a poor substitute for lettuce.

Quinoa is similar ... designed to replace buckwheat, it is low in protein (only 14%), inflammatory and hard to digest.