For dinner I had: toasted whole wheat pitas with deli hummus, raw red peppers, tomato, carrots, cucumbers, cranberry sauce, and yogurt. Mmm.
I read something about the superior Paleolithic diet today, but the author was way too dogmatic and didn’t seem to care to explain how humans have thrived, survived, and conquered the world on our shitty, “toxic,” grain-including diet we’ve had for the past ten thousand years.
Perhaps it isn’t eating rice and beans that have made us so unhealthy, maybe it’s the quantities of salt, sugar, and refined derivatives thereof. Mayyybe.
I have still never tried wheat grass. Mmm, lawny.
I just learned of a two-hour History channel show on the samurai, tonight at 9. Sure, it’s neatly timed with a certain movie release. I donut care, I am tapin it.
Very anxious to vote tomorrow. It will be a relief when it’s all over and decided. I hope that for once, the good guy wins.
Wheatgrass is much worse than lawn.
I actually tried wheatgrass juice the last time I was in Jamba Juice.. and it wasn’t nearly as bad as I had anticipated. It smells like lawn, but doesn’t really taste like it..
It’s generally due to ever-improving health care that we’ve conquered the world with a “bad” diet. People are fatter today than ever, and cancer and diabetes rates have skyrocketed, but by the same token, we live a lot longer than we used to, fewer of us die in childhood, and we’re far, far less likely to be killed by disease before a certain age than ever.
I think it’s interesting to consider why, exactly, we consider ourselves so terribly unhealthy when, compared to our natural-diet-having forebears, we’re practically immortal. I guess it’s the problem of rising expectations.
Salt has been around forever, as has hypertension; in fact, in the days before artificial preservatives, the only way you made food last longer than its natural spoilage date was to cram it full of salt. The Romans, or at least the ones who didn’t live on farms, probably ate more salt as a percentage of their diet than we do. The problem is probably not that we eat more salt, but that we eat so much more in general. (Although sodium, as I know all to well, is still outrageously overused in packaged food, and even shows up where it has no business.)
It’s generally due to ever-improving health care that we’ve conquered the world with a “bad” diet.
I’m talking about humans conquering the animals, which happened thousands of years ago, long before the arrival of sanitation and western medicine. Of course we were able to do this with our big brains, but we were also somehow healthy enough as farmers and sugar-eaters to multiply prodigiously.
Another big difference I failed to mention was physical activity. If your body remains physically active throughout life, you will overall be much, much healthier. That’s where Americans have declined the most.
AND another fact people often overlook: in ancient and stone age times, the human lifespan may have been around 40 years old due to injury and infections, but the life expectancy was exactly as it is today: 80-90 years.
Just like turtles!
wheat grasss
if you like the smell of fresh cut grass, you’ll probably like wheat grass juice, in that it tastes like a fresh mowed lawn smells. it’s one of those instances where the smell really makes the taste. i liked it but it was just too expensive to make a habit of.