• Oct. 25, 2006
Ridiculous Nutrition!
First of all, I've come up with a great plan for destroying Wal*Mart! Everybody in the univers buys 10 Wal*Mart movies and makes sad smiley banners and stands outside their local Wal*Mart and hands out the movies to everyone going in! Sounds great! Then again...we could be sued........phooey. 
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Anyway, I am writing this mainly to rant my thoughts before I spew them out in essay form for school. I was reading in the MCC cookbook 'More With Less' about nutrition. Boy, around here (North America) it really sucks!!!
Haven't you seen those packages for some fancy snack food or whatever with a bright coloured circle saying 'Now with a higher percentage of Protien!!!' "Rah! Rah! Eat it to your your heart's content - it's good for you!" Yah right. The amount of protien we eat is way overboard, not that protien isn't a necessary ingredient for our bodies to keep running, but we really do eat to much. Here's an example of how people think that high protein diets are good:
"Scientists say a gut hormone could explain why high protein diets can aid weight loss."
The punchline from a BBC article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/5302054.stm
Do you see the problem? Scientists are promoting high protein diets which are a major cause of the world food shortage problem! Our daily/yearly consumption of meat is very high, in all of 2004 in Canada, people ate an average of 27.1 Kilograms! Eek!!!
Of course we all know the dangers of too much calories - it's posted in every diet ad: "Cut back on calories and get slim fast with our new 'SlimCal' drink!" or whatever. Obese people swarm to the calory-rich convenience foods isle, loading their carts with 'Pop Tarts' and 'Shake and Bake'. Overeating wastes food. People get fat, it costs taxpayers thousands to treat obese people for all their dietary problems, life expectancy plummets; insuranse premiums skyrocket.
Doris Janzen Longacre in 'More With Less' (which I recommend you pick up, read through, and use) states one of these many problems as such: "Most North Americans have sedentary occupations. We live in comfort-controlled temerpatures. Our calorie needs are therefore significantly lower than they were several decades ago. We fail to adjust our eating habits to these conditions." Sad, but true.
In the US. eight, ten, or more pounds of grain is consumed by the beef cattle per pound of meat produced. Ouch! Imagine if that grain was put directly into our mouths? Imagine how much less waste there would be? Imagine how much more grain there would be to go around! Of course, I'm not saying that meat isn't important, or that they should stop manufacturing it (Although, with some of the conditions they put the cattle in, maybe we'd be better off!) but simply that we need to cut back on our meat consumption - way back.
Did you realize that in the 'refining' of white flour, they often discard the most valuable parts of the wheat kernel? They remove the bran and germ and then artificially 'enrich' it, but their 'enriching' doesn't bring it close to the level of nutrition that flour made from the entire kernel (Whole Wheat) has.
We are wasting our time, wasting our energy, wasting the nutrients that God gave us in all things natural, by supporting these 'all-for-profit' food corporations. *Shiver* We complicate our lives with food 'conveniences': toasters, mixers, blenders, deep-fryers, electric frying pan, electric knife, crock pot, electric can opener, rice cooker, pressure cooker, coffee maker, plastic pots, food processors, garbage disposal systems, on and on the list goes. What are they for? The creating of an imbalanced diet that serves only our tastebuds - not our bodies or our country or our planet. What are we doing?
We need to consentrate on Timothy's words from the Bible: "If we have food and clothing, with these we shall be content." Plain old food - a bowl of homemade chicken noodle soup and a slice of whole wheat bread. 'Sounds good to me!
Sheila
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• Oct. 25, 2006
I tagged you!!!!
Posted by Liz
I tagged you! Go to my blog for the questions. Bye!!!!!
~Liz~
