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Human milk IS designed for human babies, because it contains the right amount of fats and nutrients needed for growth of the body and especially the nervous system of a baby, but it would be silly at some point to continue consuming it (and it seems to be that the documented cases of women breastfeeding nine year olds is more or less a psychological thing than an actual need of the child anyway). After the initial growth stages are passed the physical need to strengthen and grow a young body to maturity lend itself to many foods.
Milk is an easy one for kids, they will suck the jug or carton dry in many cases when they like it and you can add vitamins and minerals while reducing the fat content easily as well. While doing this the remainder often lends itself to a myriad of other foods that can be created with it. While I will not argue with you one bit about the need for vegetables to add vitamins, minerals and overall needed diversity to the body's processes it is pretty clear that milk is extremely useful, if not actually perfect.
You gotta advertise, it's a slogan, "the perfect food". And you need plenty of food 'ammo' when you have fussy young eaters to train.
Just no 'mucus'. Save that for Slime...I am too old to have ever been into Slime.
PS People actually eat octopus and squid...I save that for orcas.
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Indeed. We continue to exploit plant and animals by manipulating their genetics either through breeding, crossbreeding, hybridization and even direct molecular intervention. Do they as a species benefit from this? I guess it depends on how you define evolutionary success.
Re paleo diets - No one knows what our ancestors actually ate in the distant past. Our ancestors were different than us and all of the plants and animals were different, too. The entire ecosystem is constantly co-evolving. Stuff that would kill us may have kept our ancestors healthy and vice versa.
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Maybe avoiding gluten is a knee-jerk approach at eating by me. I honestly have not noticed any big difference since I stopped eating gluten. I don't know that I have any rock-solid reasons for thinking it could be bad for me. I do have some circumstantial things that have lead me to this thought process, though. My mother and my 2 sisters all have autoimmune conditions. One of them has had pancreas issues and 2 have rheumatoid arthritis. Gluten does create an autoimmune response in many people, although you're completely right when you say the science is not settled. Is it related to their conditions? I don't know. I can say that autoimmunity is something that is prevalent in my family, though, so it doesn't seem a large stretch to avoid things that tend to create an autoimmune response. That's my logic, shoot if full of holes if you want.
My basic dietary approach is to eat food that have as little processing as possible and is as close to 'natural' as possible. I don't go out of my way to eat a raw diet. I cook. This does mean that I tend to avoid pre-packaged foods, though. I also get grass-fed meat/butter and eggs from the farmer's market. I eat a lot of produce vegetables, but I get my fair share of meat as well. I try to eat more protein than most people do. If this means more meat, I'm OK with that as long as the meat is good quality. I eat a lot of fish.
Corn tortillas are something I don't want me or my tacos to be without, so I eat them. I make bread with a combination of almond and buckwheat flour and I eat that. I have various types of dairy. All of these are processed foods to one extent or another. They don't seem to cause me an issue, so I don't really worry about it. If they did, I'd reconsider.
My basic dietary approach is to eat food that have as little processing as possible and is as close to 'natural' as possible. I don't go out of my way to eat a raw diet. I cook. This does mean that I tend to avoid pre-packaged foods, though. I also get grass-fed meat/butter and eggs from the farmer's market. I eat a lot of produce vegetables, but I get my fair share of meat as well. I try to eat more protein than most people do. If this means more meat, I'm OK with that as long as the meat is good quality. I eat a lot of fish.
Corn tortillas are something I don't want me or my tacos to be without, so I eat them. I make bread with a combination of almond and buckwheat flour and I eat that. I have various types of dairy. All of these are processed foods to one extent or another. They don't seem to cause me an issue, so I don't really worry about it. If they did, I'd reconsider.
Even those without diagnosed celiac disease can experience inflammatory and autoimmune effects from grains (primarily wheat)... one might find it interesting that an effective treatment for plantars fasciitis is the elimination of gluten from the diet as it appears to be a contributory factor to what is an inflammatory condition.
Complications from arthritis can also be mediated by eliminating gluten / gliadin from the diet... gluten is added to durum flour to make it easier to bake with so our modern intake of these wheat proteins is much higher than it has ever been which may be the cause of the increased diagnosis of celiac disease.
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here are just a few of the delicious things found in cows milk:
- Niflumic acid - anti-inflammatory painkiller
- Mefenamic acid – anti-inflammatory
- Flunixin - anti-inflammatory
- Ibuprofen – painkiller
- Diclofenac – anti-inflammatory
- Ketoprofen - anti-inflammatory
- Florfenicol – antibiotic
- 17B-estradiol – sex hormone
- Triclosan – anti-fungal drug
- Pryimethamine – anti-malaria drug
- 17a-ethinylestradiol – steroid hormone
I'm ok with the normal sugar and fat in milk...
Organic Milk is very pricey, so I just stay with plain Almond milk - as long as it doesn;t have Carrageenan...
why ingest something which you don;t want, need, or in the very least tastes good to you? and then the stuff which has a chance of being harmful? fuggetaboutit!
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In all seriousness, I think the biggest weakness of Paleo is that it is used as an excuse to justify eating lots of steak, rather than Fat Boy's emphasis on eating whole, unprocessed foods. It is not just an emphasis on historical re-enactment to point out that less steak and more insects is probably appropriate. It might be culturally unpalatable, but seriously, insects have been eaten by humans extensively, and many of them are nutrient dense and easily digested.
Side note on the bug thing:
I think you're spot on here. Western countries have a general aversion to eating insects, but they're generally good nutritionally and environmentally. Taste-wise...well, not so much. You aren't going to mistake a grasshopper for a shrimp. To bring this back to the milk topic, while everyone (within reason) can drink milk as a baby, as people age, a lot of us lose the ability to produce lactase which is the enzyme your body uses to digest milk. However, we never lose the enzymes in our systems that allow us to digest insect exoskeletons. That should probably tell us something about eating bugs.
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Even those without diagnosed celiac disease can experience inflammatory and autoimmune effects from grains (primarily wheat)... one might find it interesting that an effective treatment for plantars fasciitis is the elimination of gluten from the diet as it appears to be a contributory factor to what is an inflammatory condition.
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My neighbor has tested negative for celiac, but if he eats anything with gluten (generally beer or bread), then he will get acne in 2 days. It's something he's tested over and over. It's not really a huge deal for him, but in general he avoids it. We had the conversation, if it's doing that to your outside, what's happening to your inside?
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more ketchup.
i do make an attempt to eat as little processed food as i can, but, make no mistake, i'm a fan of red meat as well. I bought a side of grass-fed beef in november and enjoy it often. If i would knock the paleo crowd it would be for making crap food from 'paleo' ingredients and then trying to pass them off as 'healthy' because of the ingredients. I don't care how you make maple fudge...it's still maple fudge. It may taste delicious, but it's _not_ good for you.
Side note on the bug thing:
I think you're spot on here. Western countries have a general aversion to eating insects, but they're generally good nutritionally and environmentally. Taste-wise...well, not so much. You aren't going to mistake a grasshopper for a shrimp. To bring this back to the milk topic, while everyone (within reason) can drink milk as a baby, as people age, a lot of us lose the ability to produce lactase which is the enzyme your body uses to digest milk. However, we never lose the enzymes in our systems that allow us to digest insect exoskeletons. That should probably tell us something about eating bugs.
Side note on the bug thing:
I think you're spot on here. Western countries have a general aversion to eating insects, but they're generally good nutritionally and environmentally. Taste-wise...well, not so much. You aren't going to mistake a grasshopper for a shrimp. To bring this back to the milk topic, while everyone (within reason) can drink milk as a baby, as people age, a lot of us lose the ability to produce lactase which is the enzyme your body uses to digest milk. However, we never lose the enzymes in our systems that allow us to digest insect exoskeletons. That should probably tell us something about eating bugs.
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So, it turns out bananas aren't for monkeys! https://www.cnn.com/2014/01/15/health...html?hpt=hp_t3
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Don't know what that is, should look it up. If Grocery Outlet actually gets Heinz or Simply Heinz (no corn syrup) that is preferred to Del Monte. We make Ore-Ida products in this town.
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I buy ketchup at the Polish market... they also have the most incredible selection of mustards as well as barrel aged 'kraut and pickles.
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I'll stay out of debate on whether drinking milk is bad.
But I will state that drinking bad milk is bad.
But I will state that drinking bad milk is bad.
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... And, here is yet another reason to avoid milk and other dairy products: the link between choline and TMAO...
https://health.clevelandclinic.org/20...the-gut-video/
https://health.clevelandclinic.org/20...the-gut-video/
Not having choline is known to kill you, however.
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Sriracha is a spicy (not super hot) chili/garlic sauce that goes well with damn near anything. It's a standby in most Asian restaurants.
I have this nasty but guilty pleasure I mix up with mayonnaise, Heinz pickle relish, the three aformentioned spices, mix or spin/shake it heavily to blend it and I get an approximation of Hellman's/Best Foods Sandwich Spread/fish sauce at far less than the price of the 20 or so oz real thing, swirl ketchup into a dollop for pink sauce.
You add the relish and garlic to some excess but it's absolutely the right degree of sinful and you can make it in smaller batches to pep up a half empty mayo jar.
THIS is how watching my grandmothers while they were cooking paid off-I can create from scratch.
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Yes, without acetylcholine we would indeed die for the nerves would no longer function leading to paralysis and complete tissue death.
So maybe a lot of fuss over the same things.
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Wish we had more ethnicity in markets as you are oh so correct about that!
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I believe that real dairy milk from animals is healthy. Humans have been eating dairy products for thousands of years. I like the full fat milk instead if skim milk...Non-dairy milk substitutes such as rice milk, almond, soya are garbage and they are not very healthy, all those non-dairy milk products are just water, vegetable oils, chemicals, flavourings and a bunch of other artificial ingridients with no nutritional value.
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The lead in the study that proved these relationships, Dr Hazen, was very careful to say that his study was not about diet -- but about the gut bacteria that produce the TMAO... (even though the major sources of choline are usually listed as: dairy, eggs and red meat)
On the flip side of that comment however: He used eggs and antibiotics to turn the generation of TMAO on and off. When the person ate eggs, the bacteria flourished and produced lots of TMAO. When he killed the bacteria with antibiotics, the level of TMAO went down.
A further extension of the study showed that those with the highest levels of TMAO had double the risk for heart disease.
But, although he is careful to not suggest dietary modifications, I asked him how many eggs he eats. He answered that, with the exception of some in baked goods, he does not eat eggs at all ...
As for: "not having choline will kill you". I am not aware of that. I know it is listed as an "essential nutrient" -- but that only means your body cannot produce it. It does not say that you actually have to have it -- nor does it say in what quantity... In fact, choline is present in many foods -- including plant foods.
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Meanwhile, WITHOUT all those bacteria you couldn't fully digest things and you'd have huge problems and probably die too.
What is being missed here is that a simplistic assessment is being placed on a FAR MORE COMPLEX process than most of you may understand.
We are not self-contained. We are SYMBIOTIC. The fact that acid resistant bacteria reside in our stomach and digestive systems is beneficial, and harmful if we are talking about stomach ulceration or food poisoning etc. There is no perfect balance of life nor is there a perfect health regimen.
What is more, dying is the natural result of living. The process of reproduction is meant to combine two genetic/genomic sets into a unique new one and preserve the cycle as the parents age and die and this is true for all sexual species. Even viruses and bacteria follow some of these processes.
Life cannot continue without variety and change.
Now...you got a lot more than milk is bad or something out of this didn't you?
If you don't like milk, don't drink it or eat it's products. Please don't turn it into an activist's nightmare? We haven't really learned ANYTHING here because it was a bunch of vague, he said-she said stuff.
I'm interested in living better but I'm fully resigned to dying and in the long run my ultimate fate has already been decided. Something has to give in these arguments. It's the middle of winter, when Advocacy and Safety becomes Antipathy and Sarcasm. This isn't what is needed. Every other thread in A&S seems to be anti-car and may turn out to be somebody covering for their own mistakes in a rant...
I understand that you are trying to train for better performance and seek better nutrition. Let's mellow it out, it's an individual need, not an absolute.
What is being missed here is that a simplistic assessment is being placed on a FAR MORE COMPLEX process than most of you may understand.
We are not self-contained. We are SYMBIOTIC. The fact that acid resistant bacteria reside in our stomach and digestive systems is beneficial, and harmful if we are talking about stomach ulceration or food poisoning etc. There is no perfect balance of life nor is there a perfect health regimen.
What is more, dying is the natural result of living. The process of reproduction is meant to combine two genetic/genomic sets into a unique new one and preserve the cycle as the parents age and die and this is true for all sexual species. Even viruses and bacteria follow some of these processes.
Life cannot continue without variety and change.
Now...you got a lot more than milk is bad or something out of this didn't you?
If you don't like milk, don't drink it or eat it's products. Please don't turn it into an activist's nightmare? We haven't really learned ANYTHING here because it was a bunch of vague, he said-she said stuff.
I'm interested in living better but I'm fully resigned to dying and in the long run my ultimate fate has already been decided. Something has to give in these arguments. It's the middle of winter, when Advocacy and Safety becomes Antipathy and Sarcasm. This isn't what is needed. Every other thread in A&S seems to be anti-car and may turn out to be somebody covering for their own mistakes in a rant...
I understand that you are trying to train for better performance and seek better nutrition. Let's mellow it out, it's an individual need, not an absolute.
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