Dear American Consumers: Please don’t start eating healthfully

Re:Dear American Consumers: Please don’t start eating health... by Kurtz79 on Monday May 20, 2013 @09:09AM (#5737482)

Maybe because people have been eating wheat based products for the whole extent of human history without having health issues ?

I hate the words "empty calories". It's an oxymoron. Calories cannot be "empty", they are fuel for the body, they always have been.

Only years of fad-diets and food industry advertising could have turned a staple of human evolution as bread as something "evil".

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Re:Dear American Consumers: Please don’t start eating health... by mixmastamyk on Monday May 20, 2013 @02:04PM (#5738995)

Bread (and others) have provided the fuel to build civilization, true. However, they are man-made foods. When was the last time you saw a chimpanzee or caveman enjoying a loaf of bread, plate of pasta, etc?

As it has only existed since the dawn of agriculture, your tying of it to evolution is incorrect.

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Re:Dear American Consumers: Please don’t start eating health... by Kurtz79 on Tuesday May 21, 2013 @03:27AM (#5742326)

When was the last time you saw a caveman or a chimpanzee flying on an airplane or using a computer?

I was speaking of evolution in broad terms (as in, social and technological evolution as a race) not strictly in terms of darwinian evolution.

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