Posted on 08/24/2019 6:04:48 AM PDT by Leaning Right
Many of the millions of people who shop on Amazon.com see it as if it were an American big-box store, a retailer with goods deemed safe enough for customers.
In practice, Amazon has increasingly evolved like a flea market. It exercises limited oversight over items listed by millions of third-party sellers, many of them anonymous, many in China, some offering scant information.
(Excerpt) Read more at wsj.com ...
Yep, sugar is the worst, and to their credit, the government got that right (so Big Food just buried in their ingredients and calls it HFCS). Fresh fruits, while high in sugar and hence carbs aren’t quite as bad as their fiber somewhat slows down processing. But yea, overall, some people did develop the ability to live off a mostly fruit diet, just as Eskimos lived off a zero carb diet and didn’t become sick and alcoholic (and diabetic) until they were ‘civilized’ and started eating carbs.
Yeah.
In principle, any woman should be able to walk down any street naked at any time in perfect safety.
In practice, don’t tease the animals.
lol
I’ve lost 30 lbs with zero effort twice in my life. I have a couple secrets to weight loss...
> there are so many phony reviews <
Yep. I don’t trust - or even read - the Amazon five-star reviews. I figure many of those are planted. But I will read all the other reviews, especially the critical ones.
Carbs in processed food are much more densely packed.
And a glass of orange juice has more sugar in it than a can of soda.
Europeans are starting to get fat, too, because we exported McDonald’s and KFC over there.
Me too...I always start at the 1-star. It is possible that they’re written by competitors, but usually not. The easy way to tell is to look at the posting history of the 1-stars - if they post a lot and give ratings that vary quite a bit, they’re almost certainly legit. If they post 5-star for Product A, and then 1-star for competing Product B (and C), they may well be placed by people associated with Product A, even even if it does say they actually bought the product.
It takes a bit of work to do that level of research, but if it’s something important, it’s worth it. Also, if it’s a common product, then there may be thousands of reviews, so it’s much less likely that fake reviews will impact the overall score.
By the way, NEVER buy refrigerators from Amazon...they simply haven’t figured out how to ship them without getting damaged. Just look at the reviews. They all still work, but who wants a BIG DENT in their kitchen refer?
“Europeans are starting to get fat, too, because we exported McDonald’s and KFC over there.”
That is true...also happening in Asia now, from what I’ve seen, with the exception of Japan, so far.
It could well be that the highly hybridized dwarf wheat that is now used throughout the world is the one thing that finally triggers the huge problem (when combined with the rest of the bad parts of the Western diet).
Outstanding video...thanks!
We’ve got a huge Nebraska Furniture Mart here, I’ve never bought anything from them, just curious what others’ experience with them has been.
The French trappers of the northern regions were familiar with Mal de Cariboo, which is fat starvation in the face of eating abundant lean meat. Protein poisoning from excess lean meat results in excess urea and eventually shuts down the kidneys.
lol...I know...I’d be in the mood to eat him!
A couple of years ago, I started my weight loss regime using the app Lose It!.
Towards the end, it had me down to 1100 cal/day. It was tough, the reward was worth it though.
Keto diet is 70% fat calories. It’s not a high-protein diet, they recommend only to eat meat the size of your palm, and that it’s fatty cuts of meat.
A diet should be something you can maintain, that’s one of the great things about doing Keto. You can lose weight eating 1800 calories a day, easily. And you’re not hungry. Then once you’ve reached the goal weight, you can then increase the calories back up to whatever the recommended daily amount is, but it’s not a big change at all.
Not sure fruits and vegetables have been a large source of food forever.
“The English novelist Anthony Trollope reported, during a trip to the United States in 1861, that Americans ate twice as much beef as did Englishmen. Charles Dickens, when he visited, wrote that “no breakfast was breakfast” without a T-bone steak. Apparently, starting a day on puffed wheat and low-fat milk—our “Breakfast of Champions!”—would not have been considered adequate even for a servant.
Indeed, for the first 250 years of American history, even the poor in the United States could afford meat or fish for every meal. The fact that the workers had so much access to meat was precisely why observers regarded the diet of the New World to be superior to that of the Old.
“I hold a family to be in a desperate way when the mother can see the bottom of the pork barrel,” says a frontier housewife in James Fenimore Cooper’s novel The Chainbearer.
In the book Putting Meat on the American Table, researcher Roger Horowitz scours the literature for data on how much meat Americans actually ate. A survey of 8,000 urban Americans in 1909 showed that the poorest among them ate 136 pounds a year, and the wealthiest more than 200 pounds.
A food budget published in the New York Tribune in 1851 allots two pounds of meat per day for a family of five. Even slaves at the turn of the 18th century were allocated an average of 150 pounds of meat a year.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2014/06/how-americans-used-to-eat/371895/
” Before the railroad system was fully established, people ate the vegetables they grew (corn and beans were two common vegetables), and consumed the livestock (cows, chicken, etc) that they had or hunted animals such as deer, squirrel and rabbits. Cows were also used for milk, cheese and butter. If you didn’t have a farm with animals, you might trade some of your crops for some dairy products or meat from another local farmer. Fish was mainly fresh water, unless you lived by the ocean. It certainly wasn’t like today where you can get fish from all over the world at your local restaurant.
One of the biggest differences between then and now is the methods of preservation. Where we now refrigerate and freeze meat, in the 1800s the main way to preserve meat was to have it smoked, dried as “jerky,” or salted. Preserved meats included bacon, salt pork, smoked ham, dried or corned beef, and smoked, salted or dried fish. Vegetables could be kept in a root cellar or pickled in a solution of brine and vinegar. In 2012 we have access to fruits and vegetables from all over the world, even when they might not be in season here. In 1812, if you lived in Maryland, it would have been rare to enjoy grapefruit or oranges. During the winter months when fresh vegetables weren’t available, they were served pickled.”
https://www.baltimoresun.com/health/bs-xpm-2012-06-12-bs-fo-nutrition-1812-20120612-story.html
Also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuisine_of_the_Thirteen_Colonies
“Cowboys living in the American West required foods that were nutritionally dense, easy to prepare and portable. They generally consumed a combination of dried and fresh meat, hard cheeses, ready-cooked beans, dried fruit, biscuits and coffee.”
https://classroom.synonym.com/what-cowboys-ate-in-the-west-12081236.html
What one does NOT see in history is a rejection of meat and fat. Both were prized when available.
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You might as well just go ahead and ask the mods to change the title to:
“A bunch of self-appointed dietary experts spouting theories no one who wanted to read about Amazon gives two craps about”
“Protein poisoning from excess lean meat results in excess urea and eventually shuts down the kidneys.”
Yep, I’ve read that Atkins was more towards the higher-protein compared to Keto, which was one of his ‘mistakes’ (although I’ve also read that wasn’t the case). Atkins admitted that he wasn’t sure of the best composition of his near-zero carb diet, and he wanted at least some studies done, but the ‘experts’ treated him like crap and refused any studies...but finally the truth is coming out, that he was right all along (regarding carbs)
As it is, Keto says replace carbs with fat, not protein, for the reason that you state.
The liver has the first pass at blood sugar and uses a different metabolic chain to force storage as glycogen in muscle tissue. The pancreas is second in line and clears excess blood sugar by a transformation process to fat storage. An unhealthy liver is the root cause of type II diabetes. Only 5 to 10 percent liver function will mask symptoms.
Bitter green vegetation is what the liver craves to heal. It takes about two years to fully regenerate, given the proper nutrients. Dietary fat of itself has little effect on raising blood sugar. It will suppress hunger.
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