If people in the US are by average 7,5 kilos heavier than they were two decades ago... and more people now are in an anorexic mode of mind, would that not indicate that those that are not in this anorexic state, are in fact quite a lot heavier than they "were."
Unless more detailed studies showed that most people hadn't gained weight at all, only those that were already overweight did.
Although I would like to mention that when I was speaking of unnatural foods and communal digestive systems, I was referring to Iceland. It bothers me none that others eat the food that they have for long.
I find it all fair if people that are accustomed to eating wheat in great quantities do so, like Italians have indeed done, but I am not so sure that it is all too good an idea to so suddenly change the national diet as we have done here. The change would be fine, if it were more gradual, over the course of several generations, but not in only some 20 years. The food that people eat here day by day has changed so very much since I was little. I remember a whole different menu, there was of course some bread eating, but not as much as it is now, and pasta was unheard of, occasionally one would get spaghetti, but that was rare. Boiled lamb was more common and so on. What bothers me the most is the assumption that all humans are the same. We are of course all human, but we still have different nutritional needs, it is not logical to assume that people that have lived in very different climes and ingested very differently from "the food groups" have all the same needs. I would like to see that international fallacy abolished and that people try to see a bit into the different physique of people from different parts of the world. I think that the reason this has been so prevalent is in part the domination of the world by West European (or descended from West European) people and in part the recent "erasing of the races" I would like to think that there are indeed races to humans, like there are to cats and horses and dogs, and other domestic animals, but I do not think that any race is superior to the other, that is also a fallacy.
A favourite example of mine is the Icelandic Horse, they have very different food requirements from, let us say, Thoroughbreds. The Icelanders need feed that is coarse and not very rich in simple carbohydrates, whereas the Thoroughbred needs a lot more of the simple carbohydrates and a finer feed and richer. Oats for an Icelandic horse in the same relative to weight amount as a Thoroughbred is given would be likely to induce colicking.
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Date: 2004-07-16 01:00 pm (UTC)Unless more detailed studies showed that most people hadn't gained weight at all, only those that were already overweight did.
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Date: 2004-07-16 05:51 pm (UTC)Although I would like to mention that when I was speaking of unnatural foods and communal digestive systems, I was referring to Iceland. It bothers me none that others eat the food that they have for long.
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Date: 2004-07-16 06:30 pm (UTC)That's unclear to me. You mean "it's okay if Italians eat pasta, but Icelanders shouldn't", or something like that?
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Date: 2004-07-17 06:08 am (UTC)A favourite example of mine is the Icelandic Horse, they have very different food requirements from, let us say, Thoroughbreds. The Icelanders need feed that is coarse and not very rich in simple carbohydrates, whereas the Thoroughbred needs a lot more of the simple carbohydrates and a finer feed and richer. Oats for an Icelandic horse in the same relative to weight amount as a Thoroughbred is given would be likely to induce colicking.