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RE: In Defense of Food - 4/3/2008 7:52:17 AM

SugarMyChurro

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For goodness sake, even orange juice has added sodium in it.

Yeah, that's a problem. Commercial foods are constantly slipping in deadly combinations of things we simply don't need. Many highly processed foods contain the absurd combination of both sugar and salt in an attempt to increase the flavors imparted to the consumer. Elsewhere they might take out the fat that a thing has naturally and replace it with trans-fat - most highly processed peanut butters have this fault and don't actually contain peanut oil! Soda pop is bad enough, but then you discover that it's not even based around sugar, it's based around high-fructose corn syrup (an appalling unfood).

What you eat has to match your lifestyle and dietary needs. A very fit and active person could probably manage to eat just about anything within reason. A more sedentary person probably needs to watch their fat and carb intake more because they will have a harder time burning off those excess calories.

But none of this is rocket science. We knew the truth of it all along. We just let ourselves get led along the path of convenience that was slowly killing us also.

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RE: In Defense of Food - 4/3/2008 12:24:17 PM

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Churro, when I go to Argentina I'll be eating beef probably every day.
I've been looking at the pictures and they're real big on beef down there.

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RE: In Defense of Food - 4/3/2008 3:07:53 PM

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Well, you could approach it by maintaining a very active lifestyle while you are there. Walk, swim, weight train, stretch, etc.

Good eating doesn't necessarily exclude anything that's actually good food - just the stuff that's actually crap unfood. In Argentina you will find plenty of real food that is not significantly processed. Argentine style grilled meats are served with lots of good veggies too (salad, grilled red peppers, corn, etc), so there is some balance and you don't have to eat that way every day. There is so much to choose from anyway. But even so, the beef will be the best you have ever had. Only beef in Chicago has ever tasted as good to me. Here in California while there's plenty of cattle I never felt that even the best quality was on par with the poorest quality from Argentina. You may claim I am just being silly, but try the beef and report back.

Other places in the world manage to have better quality base ingredients for their cuisine than what we have in the states. To me that's just a fact.

Eat a tomato in Argentina and tell me it's not the best tomato you have ever eaten. My recollection is of thin skinned, non-commercially picked tomatoes of the type you might have grown yourself. Here we call them "heirloom" varieties, there it's what they eat every day.

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