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Re: Netflix Instant Recomendations
by Sixstrings » Thu 30 Apr 2015, 23:27:33
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Subjectivist', 'F')ed Up with Katy Couric and President Clinton is up on Netflix now. Nice and horrifying to see how corrupted government recommendations for Americans are, including the school lunch program Sixstrings brought up a couple weeks ago.
That looks pretty good Sub, I found a trailer for it on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCUbvOwwfWM
It says 80% of food items for sale in America, have added sugar.
But of course -- carbs are sugar, too. We're all "addicted" to carbohydrate sugars, ever since the first home sapien woman through some seeds outside the hut and got a bright idea of cultivating food rather than chasing it all over the place.
The best you can do about carbs is to at least eat COMPLEX carbohydrates, that break down slower, and are better fuel anyway versus a fast sugar rush.
Really -- we honestly do have a crisis in the US. And our culture is influencing the rest of the world, and South Koreans and Chinese are eating like this more and more, and now they're increasingly fat too.
Meanwhile -- people like the French, man, they really know how to eat. They prove that you can drink red wine, you can eat lots of butter, you can eat high quality delicious rich food and still be healthy and slim. The point is the quality, versus trash food.
Nobody's ever going to do anything, but what we really need in the US is -- mandatory cooking classes in all high schools. Just as a very important life skill. Healthy food does not have to taste like crap. A nice multigrain bread with sunflower seeds in it and all that, is really delicious.
They need to make small improvements in school lunches, but don't go too far with budgets that don't allow for palatable healthy food. Keep serving the old stuff, because kids have to eat, and some go hungry now on the Michelle plan.
AND THEN -- just teach kids to cook, in the schools. Why do we not do these life skill things, in school? You can completely change society, for the better, in ten and twenty years, if you did that. The key is not just feeding them an Obama Meal, but TEACH a man to fish and he can eat well for a lifetime.
Kids actually get into this, if schools would make it a priority to teach -- teaching how to cook food is actually more important than phys ed classes.
Teach the kids HOW to bake frozen cod and tilapia, that they can buy bags of in the walmart.
Teach the kids HOW to buy a bag of dry beans, and cook it. It's not even hard. You just stick it in the crockpot and turn the switch on. It's so simple, yet most Americans really don't know how because nobody taught them, and that's why people buy beans in cans.
Nobody needs a box of "cornbread mix." All you need in your pantry is a box of corn MEAL. And a bag of white flour, a bag of wheat flour. Baking powder, baking soda, eggs, butter and milk -- if you've got those things, you can do a lot with them.
The kids need to learn the basics -- how to cook beans, throw an onion and some garlic powder and pepper in and now you've got a soup. Just teach them fundamentals like that, how to bake fish and meats. How to make a loaf of bread, with their own hands.
Kids love something interesting to do, I think if the schools would teach them, they'd enjoy it and then they'd start buying healthy items in the stores. Once someone KNOWS how to do something, it's like learning hunting or tennis or a musical instrument, whatever, it becomes a lifelong interest.
The root problem is that America industrlized a very long time ago, and the goal was industrial food so that both parents in the home could work and then have leisure time, and to reduce household drudgery chores. But times have changed -- we've got a national diabetes crisis. Nobody knows how to cook anymore. We need to do something radically different for once -- do not HAND the kids a wheat roll. TEACH them to make a little half white half wheat small loaf. That stuff is delicious, put some cream cheese on it and you've got something that tastes better than any Obama lunch.
edit: and another thing, they should to stop serving pudding and deserts in school lunches. Serve whole apples, oranges, fruits. The Obama lunches are gross, but you can't screw up or go wrong with an apple.
If they could do one thing with these lunches, the trick is you can't be a food nazi and think healthy food can't have any fats in it at all, or have some idiotic food pyramid chart.
What you need in a school lunch is a good multigrain bread with sunflower seeds or whatever. But then add some cream cheese, or if we want to get fancy then there's a world of cheeses out there, that are delicious. The problem with the government healhty eating thing, is that they try to just say "all butter is bad," "all dairy is bad," and it's just not true. They'll serve the kids a bitter gross wheat roll, but not a delicious multigrain that's just as healthy and that it's okay to put some cream cheese, or REAL genuine cheese, on that.
Probably the biggest thing we need t work on in the US is just our breads.
We really do need to get away from just all white flour products. I'm not usually a Bloomberg food regulation type, but honestly, it's true nobody should be eating "wonder bread." All wheat tastes no good, so what you need to buy is the half and half. You can buy it that way or make it that way yourself. Then the multigrain is even better of course, but more pricey and more work.
We're actually making some progress in the US -- if you look at restaurant trends, Chipotle is one of the top fast food places now.
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Re: Netflix Instant Recomendations
by Tanada » Fri 01 May 2015, 06:39:51
Six you start by saying you have not seen the show, then spend a full page of text pontificating about it. You have done the same thing on other stuff like common core school programs. Why don;t you actually learn about the topic FIRST before you reach all these conclusions? Or are you just saving time because your mind is already made up so watching a movie or reading a website is a waste of time you could be typing?
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Re: Netflix Instant Recomendations
by Subjectivist » Fri 01 May 2015, 11:37:22
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', 'W')atched the promo. Good start but not satisfying. Sugar is poison but ALL CARBOHYDRATES are ultimately converted by stomach acid into SUGAR. And sugary fruit is just as bad. School lunch programs promote ORANGE JUICE and APPLE JUICE (which have practically no valuable nutrition). ARCHER DANIELS MIDLAND is the GRAND PUSHER AND GOVERNMENT OPERATOR.
ATKINS HAD IT RIGHT. NOTHING NEW.
--Understand glycemic index
--eat healthy proteins and fats (from grass-feed livestock)
--eat small healthy meals all day (like the Spanish/French/Italians)
--SIMPLE CARBS ARE COCAINE. GET OFF THEM NOW NOW NOW
ATKINS HAD IT RIGHT. NOTHING NEW.
--Understand glycemic index
--eat healthy proteins and fats (from grass-feed livestock)
--eat small healthy meals all day (like the Spanish/French/Italians)
--SIMPLE CARBS ARE COCAINE. GET OFF THEM NOW NOW NOW
Actually Pstarr the whole simple carbs thing was dealt with brutally. Quote, you can eat a bowl of corn flakes with no added sugar or a bowl of sugar with no added cornflakes. Other than the taste your body treats them exactly the same. Unquote.
Lots of fun little animations on how the body digests food differently depending on what the macronutrients are for people who find science boring.
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Re: Netflix Instant Recomendations
by Sixstrings » Mon 04 May 2015, 02:58:19
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', 'A')lso simple carbs/sugar are basically their own preservative and so are easy to package, transport and store. Our entire food system is dependent on these products. We have neither the money nor the infrastructure to change. We are addicts hopelessly enslaved now. 
Actually I'd say it's not so hopeless. There's real progress being made. Food producers are in business to make money. Ultimately, they will sell what people are wanting to buy.
Recent positive trend:
Chipotle is one of the top fast food chains in the country. Using good ingredients, now all non GMO (personally I don't mind GMO jesus it's jsut food eat it, a starch is a starch, a protein is a protein, even if modified). But anyhow.. chipotle has good quality food, and their suppliers treat the animals better too. It's healthy food as well. And it's a big success. While McDonalds has been declining, and so recently McDonalds is looking to remake themselves into a healthier better quality food product, and raising wages a bit too.
So you see, this has an impact. As the customers change, in what they want, then business actually does respond. Because that's just business, you've got customers, and if they want something then business will supply it.
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