The Content Cluster Muster (05.18.17)

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A Helpful Chart

Ben Zornes put together this helpful guide to health food.


Here are Some of My Thoughts on Health Food


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Kevin Bratcher
6 years ago

If I’m reading this right, the food chart indicates that those who eat pizza *only* once might not die.

As long as they avoid all the other categories.

Dunsworth
Dunsworth
6 years ago
Reply to  Kevin Bratcher

That would be a sound conclusion only if the list claimed to be an exhaustive list of food, consumption of which will end in eventual death.

"A" dad
"A" dad
6 years ago
Reply to  Dunsworth

As a contemporary cultural comment;
“When faced with two bad choices, cheetos are better than kale!” ????

Valerie (Kyriosity)
6 years ago

Still my favorite Canon cover.

katecho
katecho
6 years ago

The cover of How to Be Free From Bitterness ranks pretty high though. http://images.gr-assets.com/books/1347351328l/2774711.jpg

Valerie (Kyriosity)
6 years ago
Reply to  katecho

True. Both that one and the forthcoming new edition from CCM, with a fantabulous Forrest Dickison illustration, but I don’t think it’s anywhere online yet.

Several years ago, I was hunting through a stock photo site and came across the original of the Canon version. Made my day!

bethyada
6 years ago
Reply to  katecho

Agreed. Best cover ever.

bethyada
6 years ago

The food barcode is the book ISBN. Clever.

(presumably the price and weight as well)

Matt
Matt
6 years ago

The food thing is incredibly banal.

"A" dad
"A" dad
6 years ago
Reply to  Matt

“Banal”: so lacking in originality as to be obvious and boring.

But hey! Somehow “the food thing” is “incredible” at the same time! ????

Whoops! It’s lunch time.
I think I’ll go have some “jumbo shrimp”! ????

Matt
Matt
6 years ago
Reply to  "A" dad

You should actually just eat rat poison. I mean, you’ll eventually die either way, right?

"A" dad
"A" dad
6 years ago
Reply to  Matt

Nah.
Both the suggestion and the item are too
(wait for it)
Banal for my taste!????

After that, If one has partaken of the right bread and cup, mortal life becomes a temporary condition, and in the spiritual sense,
One does not die!

Such a deal huh?!
????????????

mkt
mkt
6 years ago
Reply to  Matt

I have to agree. Yes, we’ll all die. But do you want to spend the second half of your life on a motorized scooter, stuffing hot dogs and funnel cakes into your mouth? Or do you want a good quality of life until your final days?

jillybean
jillybean
6 years ago
Reply to  mkt

High blood pressure, kidney disease, and diabetes are not fun diseases. Neither is being so fat that your knees can’t support your weight.

mkt
mkt
6 years ago
Reply to  jillybean

Yep, and you see it everywhere these days.

Jonathan
Jonathan
6 years ago
Reply to  jillybean

I’m fairly certain the epidemic of obesity in America is the result of too much organic food and farmer’s markets, right?

jillybean
jillybean
6 years ago
Reply to  Jonathan

Just don’t melt a stick of butter over those organic baby carrots.

People seem to have a hard time finding a balance. It’s a good thing not to be a food crank, but it is not a good thing to be gluttonous either. Food is fuel. I don’t think we ought to be obsessed with it.

"A" dad
"A" dad
6 years ago
Reply to  Jonathan

Yes, it’s all those Wendell Berry raised Free range twinkies!

????

mkt
mkt
6 years ago
Reply to  "A" dad

Just leave wild-caught deep-fried Oreos out of the discussion.

On a serious note, I’ve never had them and they sound almost as disgusting as Krispy Kreme burgers.

jillybean
jillybean
6 years ago
Reply to  mkt

My local Krispy Kreme gave out a free doughnut for every A on a kid’s report card. No wonder I pushed her to study all the time.

bethyada
6 years ago
Reply to  jillybean

Or so fat you can’t see your knees

Jonathan
Jonathan
6 years ago
Reply to  mkt

Obsession with slenderness can be an unhelpful idol. That being said, I feel a little sick to my stomach when I walk into a church and see how unhealthy we’re getting. Often the kids have a bigger head start on the waistline than their parents did too. I think some people have to start seeing that overly processed and commercialized foods, as well as a move away from active rural lifestyles, have to be a part of that. Life expectancies are dropping for the first time in over 100 years too, and the drop started earliest and fasted among White… Read more »

jillybean
jillybean
6 years ago
Reply to  Jonathan

I don’t think overly processed is anywhere near as serious a problem as simply eating too much at every meal and not exercising. I sew dresses using original vintage patterns, and it is unbelievable how women’s dimensions have changed since the 1950’s. The average woman today is a good 30-40 pounds heavier. I have the sad task of telling people that there is nothing I can do to make a 1949 Vogue pattern fit them. If you’re not used to eating brown rice, tofu, and steamed vegetables, that kind of diet seems horribly penitential. So does the advice given us… Read more »

mkt
mkt
6 years ago
Reply to  jillybean

That’s true, though it’s harder to fill up on highly-processed foods that have practically no fiber or nutrients. You don’t see too many people binging on steamed broccoli…unless it’s smothered in cheese.

We’ve had processed foods for many years (the MoonPie/RC combo was Great Depression era), but they’ve become much more prominent. Things my parents thought were a weekly or monthly treat (pizza, burger/fries) are now consumed multiple times a day by many people.

jillybean
jillybean
6 years ago
Reply to  mkt

I agree with GHWBush that broccoli is simply foul. Popcorn fills you up and is very low cal if you don’t put butter on it. I think one of the biggest problems is portion sizes. I’ve been in nutrition classes with people who, when shown a proper portion size for chicken or steak, practically have a heart attack at how small it is.

Jonathan
Jonathan
6 years ago
Reply to  mkt

Yeah, I definitely have my weaknesses, but it’s all about learning what can be a treat and what the bulk of your diet should be based on.

JL
JL
6 years ago
Reply to  jillybean

Wait … You sew? Do you do muffin dresses? hahahahahahaha

jillybean
jillybean
6 years ago
Reply to  JL

I am working on a 1932 Butterick pattern today, and it is driving me to drink. The directions are terrible because they assumed back then that everybody knew how to sew. “Insert a godet at hem level.” Insert a what???

JL
JL
6 years ago
Reply to  jillybean

What a wonderful skill to have. I love sewing, but my results are quite variable. If I had more time and material, I would be better I think.

Jonathan
Jonathan
6 years ago
Reply to  jillybean

Processed foods contribute quite a bit to the overeating though. White flours and processed sugars and processed corn products are addictive in a meaningful sense and don’t fill you up. In general, processed foods cause you to intake calories much quicker than the nutrition the body knows it still needs. I don’t think it needs to be Whole Foods or the other expensive stuff though. Just work for whole grains instead of processed, real veggies/fruits/beans/nuts/etc, and take it easy on the fatty/fried red meat. I never eat steamed veggies – oil isn’t bad for you except in the poorly processed… Read more »

jillybean
jillybean
6 years ago
Reply to  Jonathan

Because I live with a vegetarian daughter, I tend to live on rice, yogurt, and tofu. I don’t mind steamed veggies if they have lemon on them. Not that I like vegetables period, but you have to eat something!

Jonathan
Jonathan
6 years ago
Reply to  jillybean

She needs to learn to be a better vegetarian. When I’m eating a vegetarian diet, I mostly tend to cook Indian food (unlimited variety of veg dishes with incredible amounts of taste), Greek food (hummus and falafel), and veg versions of Italian dishes, especially pesto-based ones.

jillybean
jillybean
6 years ago
Reply to  Jonathan

She’s going to have a hard time in Israel. She was warned that most of the food she’ll get is fried. I am going to send dozens of granola bars along with her.

We have a really good Indian vegan restaurant nearby. I eat a lot of tofu curry.

D
D
6 years ago
Reply to  Jonathan

Roast and grilled vegetables are uniformly delicious. Steaming food is awful.

mkt
mkt
6 years ago
Reply to  Jonathan

There’s a book called “Salt, Sugar, Fat.” The author shows how combinations of these are precision engineered for our taste buds, but terrible for our health. They’re usually fast foods and snack items that are calorie-dense with practically no nutritive value. There’s a reason people can eat an entire bag of chips or a dozen cookies…but not a dozen Granny Smith apples at one sitting.

jillybean
jillybean
6 years ago
Reply to  mkt

That plus the ubiquitous high fructose corn syrup. When my ex-husband was diagnosed with high blood pressure,I had to learn to cook without salt. It was a tough transition, but once you’re used to not having it, it’s horrible when you get something salty to eat. I have the reverse problem and have to take salt tablets to keep from passing out in the heat. Talk about Jack and Jill Sprat!

Jonathan
Jonathan
6 years ago
Reply to  mkt

Makes complete sense.

mkt
mkt
6 years ago
Reply to  Jonathan

Childhood obesity is supposed to be 3 or 4 times what it was in the 70s. I’d have guessed it’s more than tenfold based on my anecdotal evidence. When I was growing up, overweight kids were rare at the swimming pool and really stood out. Now there are many, and even the normal kids (which probably don’t register as obese for studies) are often pudgy. Very few besides my own are really skinny, and mine eat like horses (just like I did). One difference seems to be snacking. When I grew up snacks were a treat. Now people take along… Read more »

jillybean
jillybean
6 years ago
Reply to  mkt

I can’t get over that. Is it not possible for grown men and women to attend a two hour meeting without needing sustenance in the form of doughnuts and bagels? Can people really not get through a one hour church service without a water bottle or a cup of coffee? It’s also, as you note, the nature of the snack. When I was a kid, I could have a raw carrot if I couldn’t wait for dinner. Gee thanks, Mum, I think I can wait! I live in a heavily Hispanic area, and it breaks my heart to see toddlers… Read more »

D
D
6 years ago
Reply to  Jonathan

The head start on fat is bad news (at my church the kids are all lean, because we are arch patriarchs and all that, but when I am around the general population I can see how bad things are):

http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/04/25/book-review-the-hungry-brain/

Also, a lot of the decrease in life expectancy is drug overdose and suicide. According to some sources the drug overdose rate is the highest ever recorded. As high as 30 per 100,000 in some areas.

jillybean
jillybean
6 years ago
Reply to  D

I watched a program on the oxy crisis in Appalachia. The people they showed were so poor that there was often no food in the house. Yet they were spending $50 on one tablet? I am so blessed never to have known despair like that.

How do you encourage the children in your community to eat healthily? My own technique was simply never to have junk food in the house.

D
D
6 years ago
Reply to  jillybean

Many of the people in my community live in the country and the children work in the home and garden. They are also mostly homeschooled, and many are into a slow food culture.

But probably most important is limited (or 0) use of television, phones, and videogames. It turns out that when kids aren’t being entertained by an idiot box they are quite active. With the activity level of my kids they could probably subsist on chips and soda and stay thin.

Jonathan
Jonathan
6 years ago
Reply to  D

That all sounds fantastic. Can you say anything more about where your community is, generally or specifically?

D
D
6 years ago
Reply to  Jonathan

Jonathan, I live in the lower Midwest (really an outpost of Appalachia) in the orbit of a small to medium sized city. I go to a conservative presbyterian church. None of the married women in my congregation work outside the home, most families homeschool, but some send their kids to local private schools. large families (5 or more children) are the norm. most of the men have regular city jobs, but there are several who farm or raise livestock full time. It isn’t really an idyll. I spend my days in front of a computer at the office and then… Read more »

katecho
katecho
6 years ago
Reply to  Matt

Here’s a bowl of Cheerios for Matt to cry in. ????

Chris Duncan
6 years ago

ribeye, egg, and a bit of cheese diet. Keep insulin levels and blood sugar in check — probably better than whatever constitutes a “balanced” diet.