Has the whole world been brainwashed?

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  • digitalsteel
    digitalsteel Posts: 374 Member

    I'm pretty sure we're talking past each other. I think you are just highlighting some positives of paleo without supporting it all then? Not trying to offend you either.

    Yes
  • fun_b
    fun_b Posts: 199 Member
    Because all my life I was always told I was a greedy child and needed to stop eating. I never considered that it was what I was eating.
  • rfuchs
    rfuchs Posts: 55 Member

    Grits are ground corn, and they are very popular in the southeastern U.S. primarily as a breakfast food, though you really haven't experienced Southern cousin until you've had shrimp and grits. They remain a regional staple. I grew up on them and love them.
    I always that grits were made of wheat. Guess that's why I'm a Yankee-girl.
    I'm a Yankee, married to a Southerner. I'll never forget the first time I went to visit his family and saw Quaker Instant Grits in the grocery store. Like, who knew they existed?

    Haven't you ever seen "My Cousin Vinny"?

    "No self respecting southerner uses instant grits!"
  • eric_sg61
    eric_sg61 Posts: 2,925 Member
    Why do people eat the rubbish processed stuff out there?

    Its called marketing. They're good at manipulation and are paid to make something that's not even good for you look good enough to buy! ... They're way down on my list of professions I trust..,
    Cause maybe it taste good
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  • digitalsteel
    digitalsteel Posts: 374 Member
    Because all my life I was always told I was a greedy child and needed to stop eating. I never considered that it was what I was eating.

    This is a very good point. People are driven to eat based on hormones. If what you eat messes with those hormones, you will have a very hard to ignore desire for more food.
  • LorinaLynn
    LorinaLynn Posts: 13,247 Member
    In for the fruit pastels. Because they sound yummy and colorful.











    How do we know lions don't like them, BTW?

    Because lions are carnivores.

    So are their distant cousins, the house cat, but given the opportunity, mine will steal a pop tart right off my plate.

    She also likes Raspberry Zingers.
  • RobynMWilson
    RobynMWilson Posts: 1,540 Member
    Our bodies weren't designed to eat soy protein isolate either. Do your research on that.

    Yes, we have been brainwashed. Those, especially, who "diet" have been brainwashed. The food industry is a for-profit industry. So is the healthcare industry...
  • Will_Thrust_For_Candy
    Will_Thrust_For_Candy Posts: 6,109 Member
    I'm still trying to figure out who Jillian Anderson is.
  • RhonndaJ
    RhonndaJ Posts: 1,615 Member
    I'm still trying to figure out who Jillian Anderson is.

    Scully from the X-files is my guess. Though I believe that's Gillian
  • myofibril
    myofibril Posts: 4,500 Member
    I'm still trying to figure out who Jillian Anderson is.

    Scully from the X-files is my guess. Though I believe that's Gillian

    The truth is out there...
  • eric_sg61
    eric_sg61 Posts: 2,925 Member
    Our bodies weren't designed to eat soy protein isolate either. Do your research on that.

    Yes, we have been brainwashed. Those, especially, who "diet" have been brainwashed. The food industry is a for-profit industry. So is the healthcare industry...
    So are the paleo's...they make their own protein powder. Paleo marketing was so easy a caveman could do it.
  • majope
    majope Posts: 1,325 Member
    She also likes Raspberry Zingers.
    Everybody likes Raspberry Zingers. Except for evil people and aliens.
  • synthomarsh
    synthomarsh Posts: 189 Member
    simple answer.... money, its all about the money. how can the big company save a buck at your expense. If you really want to eat purely clean raise your own cows and chickens and grow your own fruits and veggies! don't be a part of their system!
  • digitalsteel
    digitalsteel Posts: 374 Member
    Our bodies weren't designed to eat soy protein isolate either. Do your research on that.

    Yes, we have been brainwashed. Those, especially, who "diet" have been brainwashed. The food industry is a for-profit industry. So is the healthcare industry...
    So are the paleo's...they make their own protein powder. Paleo marketing was so easy a caveman could do it.

    I think it is important to note the good points the paleo diet makes along with what technology has provided for us. Not all of each are bad, but finding the merits of both is what I think people need to do more of rather than bashing everything and remaining potentially ignorant of useful information.
  • dfonte
    dfonte Posts: 263 Member
    Your paleo is my warmup
  • eric_sg61
    eric_sg61 Posts: 2,925 Member
    Our bodies weren't designed to eat soy protein isolate either. Do your research on that.

    Yes, we have been brainwashed. Those, especially, who "diet" have been brainwashed. The food industry is a for-profit industry. So is the healthcare industry...
    So are the paleo's...they make their own protein powder. Paleo marketing was so easy a caveman could do it.

    I think it is important to note the good points the paleo diet makes along with what technology has provided for us. Not all of each are bad, but finding the merits of both is what I think people need to do more of rather than bashing everything and remaining potentially ignorant of useful information.
    Protein powder is processed food...which is what the paleo crowd is supposed to be against..
  • digitalsteel
    digitalsteel Posts: 374 Member
    Our bodies weren't designed to eat soy protein isolate either. Do your research on that.

    Yes, we have been brainwashed. Those, especially, who "diet" have been brainwashed. The food industry is a for-profit industry. So is the healthcare industry...
    So are the paleo's...they make their own protein powder. Paleo marketing was so easy a caveman could do it.

    I think it is important to note the good points the paleo diet makes along with what technology has provided for us. Not all of each are bad, but finding the merits of both is what I think people need to do more of rather than bashing everything and remaining potentially ignorant of useful information.
    Protein powder is processed food...which is what the paleo crowd is supposed to be against..

    There are some seriously hard core paleo types who refute all modern marvels. But this seems to me as bad an idea as an all raw food diet. I personally think good quality meat beats a protein shake. However you can find plenty of paleo types adopting more modern things such as protein powder.
  • VelociMama
    VelociMama Posts: 3,119 Member
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  • Cait_Sidhe
    Cait_Sidhe Posts: 3,150 Member
    In for the fruit pastels! They sound yummy.

    And just because a food is processed doesn't mean it's bad for you. Drinking water is processed.
  • BusyRaeNOTBusty
    BusyRaeNOTBusty Posts: 7,166 Member
    Designed?
  • wannawear
    wannawear Posts: 4
    This is a great point actually!! People don't think or realize that what they eat effects not only their physical appearance( weight) but their minds, energy, hair, skin.... Everything!

    People are suppose to eat raw foods. Veggies, fruit, nuts, seeds, grains like rice, quinoa, millet... Not wheat. Meat.... I don't think so.. Maybe fish but when we eat large amounts of meat, those specific protiens screw with our bodies. And your right, dairy is something we can't digest properly. People now eat because it is an addiction, or whatever the reason ( processed food taste so good) not because they are hungry. We are suppose to eat for energy, not because we are hungry.

    I personally think that alot of doctors may not know the importance of eating "clean" or perhaps they have given up trying to convice people to change. Hey! After watching "super size me" people still eat mcDonalds food so it doesnt matter what you do, people will only change what they eat, if they want to.

    I also think all the processed foods, chemicals, additives, preservatives play a big part in all our disesases... Cancer!!

    A good book that supports this is " you are what you eat" by Gillian mckeith.

    Good point! And we have been brainwashed!!
  • CJ_Holmes
    CJ_Holmes Posts: 759 Member
    Paleo marketing was so easy a caveman could do it.

    :laugh:
  • Alatariel75
    Alatariel75 Posts: 18,184 Member
    In for the fruit pastels. Because they sound yummy and colorful.











    How do we know lions don't like them, BTW?

    Because lions are carnivores.

    So are their distant cousins, the house cat, but given the opportunity, mine will steal a pop tart right off my plate.

    She also likes Raspberry Zingers.

    Mine steals whole loaves of bread, eats what she can and strews the rest over the house for me to step on when I get up.
  • 4ever420
    4ever420 Posts: 4,088 Member
    Only an affluent society can worry about things like this. The rest will eat what it can get.


    So very true.
  • LiftAllThePizzas
    LiftAllThePizzas Posts: 17,857 Member

    Grits are ground corn, and they are very popular in the southeastern U.S. primarily as a breakfast food, though you really haven't experienced Southern cousin until you've had shrimp and grits. They remain a regional staple. I grew up on them and love them.
    I always that grits were made of wheat. Guess that's why I'm a Yankee-girl.
    I'm a Yankee, married to a Southerner. I'll never forget the first time I went to visit his family and saw Quaker Instant Grits in the grocery store. Like, who knew they existed?
    According to the Historical Documents I have been watching, centered around a small diner in Arizona, 'grits' refers to a woman's buttocks.
  • eric_sg61
    eric_sg61 Posts: 2,925 Member
    This is a great point actually!! People don't think or realize that what they eat effects not only their physical appearance( weight) but their minds, energy, hair, skin.... Everything!

    People are suppose to eat raw foods. Veggies, fruit, nuts, seeds, grains like rice, quinoa, millet... Not wheat. Meat.... I don't think so.. Maybe fish but when we eat large amounts of meat, those specific protiens screw with our bodies. And your right, dairy is something we can't digest properly. People now eat because it is an addiction, or whatever the reason ( processed food taste so good) not because they are hungry. We are suppose to eat for energy, not because we are hungry.

    I personally think that alot of doctors may not know the importance of eating "clean" or perhaps they have given up trying to convice people to change. Hey! After watching "super size me" people still eat mcDonalds food so it doesnt matter what you do, people will only change what they eat, if they want to.

    I also think all the processed foods, chemicals, additives, preservatives play a big part in all our disesases... Cancer!!

    A good book that supports this is " you are what you eat" by Gillian mckeith.

    Good point! And we have been brainwashed!!
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  • digitalsteel
    digitalsteel Posts: 374 Member
    This is a great point actually!! People don't think or realize that what they eat effects not only their physical appearance( weight) but their minds, energy, hair, skin.... Everything!

    People are suppose to eat raw foods. Veggies, fruit, nuts, seeds, grains like rice, quinoa, millet... Not wheat. Meat.... I don't think so.. Maybe fish but when we eat large amounts of meat, those specific protiens screw with our bodies. And your right, dairy is something we can't digest properly. People now eat because it is an addiction, or whatever the reason ( processed food taste so good) not because they are hungry. We are suppose to eat for energy, not because we are hungry.

    I personally think that alot of doctors may not know the importance of eating "clean" or perhaps they have given up trying to convice people to change. Hey! After watching "super size me" people still eat mcDonalds food so it doesnt matter what you do, people will only change what they eat, if they want to.

    I also think all the processed foods, chemicals, additives, preservatives play a big part in all our disesases... Cancer!!

    A good book that supports this is " you are what you eat" by Gillian mckeith.

    Good point! And we have been brainwashed!!

    Hopefully this wont end up like Pandora's box, but what specific proteins are you talking about that makes meat not something we should eat?
  • dixiewhiskey
    dixiewhiskey Posts: 3,333 Member
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  • dixiewhiskey
    dixiewhiskey Posts: 3,333 Member
    This is a great point actually!! People don't think or realize that what they eat effects not only their physical appearance( weight) but their minds, energy, hair, skin.... Everything!

    People are suppose to eat raw foods. Veggies, fruit, nuts, seeds, grains like rice, quinoa, millet... Not wheat. Meat.... I don't think so.. Maybe fish but when we eat large amounts of meat, those specific protiens screw with our bodies. And your right, dairy is something we can't digest properly. People now eat because it is an addiction, or whatever the reason ( processed food taste so good) not because they are hungry. We are suppose to eat for energy, not because we are hungry.

    I personally think that alot of doctors may not know the importance of eating "clean" or perhaps they have given up trying to convice people to change. Hey! After watching "super size me" people still eat mcDonalds food so it doesnt matter what you do, people will only change what they eat, if they want to.

    I also think all the processed foods, chemicals, additives, preservatives play a big part in all our disesases... Cancer!!

    A good book that supports this is " you are what you eat" by Gillian mckeith.

    Good point! And we have been brainwashed!!
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    :laugh:
  • KaleidoscopeEyes1056
    KaleidoscopeEyes1056 Posts: 2,996 Member
    In for the fruit pastels. Because they sound yummy and colorful.











    How do we know lions don't like them, BTW?

    Because lions are carnivores.

    BUT dey so naaaiceee.
    (they're like gummy fruit flavoured sweets with a sugary coating for anyone outside the UK...)

    THAT REMINDS ME!!! I bought a box of jaffa cakes today. I'm going to have one now, thanks!

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