It is merely “Play with Your Food” … and for the same reason. Preservation is merely the convenient excuse.
Eating organic unprocessed foods and limiting fast foods, takeouts, and packaged foods is the best way to go… I know it, food standards know it, the medical professionals know it, but yet they still surround us with toxins.
From the recipes you post you seem to eat sensibly enough, but for most it’s hard to exercise that sensibility in the face of satiation-evoking produce. A case of mind over matter/thought over instinct… to prefer the satiating but bad options?
Holy shit.
Ok, let me try this one more time.
Considering Japan is a tiny island and has to import almost everything they eat on refrigerated ships just like you.
Considering Japanese people go to grocery stores just like yours,
Considering Japanese people love food additives and preservatives such as MSG and use them even more often than you do,
Considering all of this why do you think Japanese people eat a more ‘nautural’ diet than the typical Westerner? Are you just making it up? Do you have some stats? Were you picturing Japan looking like a samurai movie you saw where everybody sits on the floor sipping tea and eating unflavored rice? Where is this "Japanese people eat more wholesome foods than we dirty westerners’ thing coming from?
Look up some information about Japanese fast food before replying, maybe.
We do? So we (and all other small islands) don’t produce our own produce or manufacture our own foods in factories? We do.
We import foods we produce ourselves because of trade deals and obviously not because of need. Rediculous right?
I know that mountainous habitats like the Alps etc. have to import almost everything… for obvious reasons, but even then a lot of it is fresh produce… they eat so healthy up there you know.
Considering Japanese people go to grocery stores just like yours,
Considering Japanese people love food additives and preservatives such as MSG and use them even more often than you do,
I think you’re thinking of the Chinese? but even Chinese food providers are now advertising their msg and additive free wares to remain profitable in a changing consumer market… they are also renowned for proclaiming how they don’t use msg in their own food but keep it all fresh and sell us the cheaply-flavoured option. Bloody cheek huh?
Considering all of this why do you think Japanese people eat a more ‘nautural’ diet than the typical Westerner? Are you just making it up? Do you have some stats? Were you picturing Japan looking like a samurai movie you saw where everybody sits on the floor sipping tea and eating unflavored rice? Where is this "Japanese people eat more wholesome foods than we dirty westerners’ thing coming from?
Because they do…
My Chinese doctor pal who I had that conversation with has the stats and is liaising with his/the Oriental community on health issues and optimisation… he heads a whole district county’s NHS somewhere out of London.
Look up some information about Japanese fast food before replying, maybe.
I’ll do that now
I don’t think that preservatives have been studied, however, the impact of food choices on longevity has been:
People from the Ryukyu Islands (of which Okinawa is the largest) have a life expectancy among the highest in the world,[2] although the male life expectancy rank among Japanese prefectures has plummeted in recent years.[3]
The traditional diet of the islanders contains 30% green and yellow vegetables. Although the traditional Japanese diet usually includes large quantities of rice, the traditional Okinawa diet consists of smaller quantities of rice; instead the staple is the purple-fleshed Okinawan sweet potato. The Okinawan diet has only 30% of the sugar and 15% of the grains of the average Japanese dietary intake.[4]
The traditional diet also includes a tiny amount of fish (less than half a serving per day) and more in the way of soy and other legumes (6% of total caloric intake). Pork is highly valued, yet eaten very rarely. Every part of the pig is eaten, including internal organs.
Between a sample from Okinawa where life expectancies at birth and 65 were the longest in Japan, and a sample from Akita Prefecture where the life expectancies were much shorter, intakes of calcium, iron and vitamins A, B1, B2, and C, and the proportion of energy from proteins and fats were significantly higher in Okinawa than in Akita. Conversely, intakes of carbohydrates and salt were lower in Okinawa than in Akita.[5]
Records from the early part of the 20th century show that Okinawans ate less than 1% of their diet from animals products with no dairy. More animal foods were introduced into the Okinawa diet in the mid to latter part of the 20th century.[citation needed]
The quantity of pork consumption per person a year in Okinawa is larger than that of the Japanese national average. For example, the quantity of pork consumption per person a year in Okinawa in 1979 was 7.9 kg (17 lb) which exceeded by about 50% that of the Japanese national average.[6] However, pork is primarily only eaten at monthly festivals and the daily diet is almost entirely plant based.[7]
The dietary intake of Okinawans compared to other Japanese circa 1950 shows that Okinawans consumed: fewer total calories (1785 vs. 2068), less polyunsaturated fat (4.8% of calories vs. 8%), less rice (154g vs. 328g), significantly less wheat, barley and other grains (38g vs. 153g), less sugars (3g vs. 8g), more legumes (71g vs. 55g), significantly less fish (15g vs. 62g), significantly less meat and poultry (3g vs. 11g), less eggs (1g vs. 7g), less dairy (<1g vs. 8g), much more sweet potatoes (849g vs. 66g), less other potatoes (2g vs. 47g), less fruit (<1g vs. 44g), and no pickled vegetables (0g vs. 42g). [4] In short, the Okinawans circa 1950 ate sweet potatoes for 849 grams of the 1262 grams of food that they consumed, which constituted 69% of their total calories.[4]
An Okinawan reaching 100 years of age has typically had a diet consistently averaging about one calorie per gram of food and has a BMI of 20.4 in early adulthood and middle age.[8]
In addition to their high life expectancy, islanders are noted for their low mortality from cardiovascular disease and certain types of cancers. Wilcox (2007) compared age-adjusted mortality of Okinawans versus Americans and found that, during 1995, an average Okinawan was 8 times less likely to die from coronary heart disease, 7 times less likely to die from prostate cancer, 6.5 times less likely to die from breast cancer, and 2.5 times less likely to die from colon cancer than an average American of the same age.[4]
The traditional Okinawan diet as described above was widely practiced on the islands until about the 1960s. Since then, dietary practices have been shifting towards Western and Japanese patterns, with fat intake rising from about 6% to 27% of total caloric intake and the sweet potato being supplanted with rice and bread.[9] This shifting trend has also coincided with a decrease in longevity, where Okinawans now have a lower life expectancy than the Japanese average.[10]
Every day is different, but not necessarily good or interesting… my younger brother/youngest sibling has expressed the scenario the best when he says it’s as if I’m on opium
…it just means I get wavy easy baby!
After having now recently accepted my condition, and been booked in for a therapy analysis appointment on Friday, I can wholeheartedly say (well not really wholeheartedly, under CF conditions… causing the heart rate to lower) that I think perhaps I was too hasty in my acceptance… in my eagerness for closure on the entire matter.
Still being caught out by some random toxin or other, but I’m learning how to balance out their effect with an intermediate remedial cure… and in turn a reprieve.
Gotta report a local shop to Trading Standards for selling fake goods… been in pain and suffering gut inflammation because of it, so any loyalty to them has been overridden by the pain I’ve been put in.
I dearly hope you feel better soon. Post their name on sites as well, others may need that information.
I am doing what I always do at the beginning of each year, which is become very strict with my eating regimen and so not veer off the correct eating path that enables me to be symptom free. To be bloated or not to be bloated? errr… that’s an easy one.
Still in the fatigue cocoon/in the grip of its hold, but managing it a little better, and coping with it on and off.
Pain management techniques, for the times when a full body muscle ache takes hold for a week or two… sent by the hospital chronic fatigue service.
Sounds like adrenal fatigue.
Symptoms for adrenal fatigue range from dry skin, hair, feeling tired all day, low sex drive, weight loss, insomnia or poor sleep, depression, anxiety, etc. Sounds a bit like chronic fatigue syndrome, doesn’t it? But for CFS/ME crew, joint and muscle pain, tender lymph nodes and sore throat are symptoms we call our own.
I’d definitely call them my own, but I’d prefer I didn’t have to…
Only 8 and 9 apply to me… prolonged fatigue and sensitive to bright light, the remainder have rarely ever applied to me so adrenal fatigue might occur somewhere along the chronic fatigue journey.
Pain management techniques, for the times when a full body muscle ache takes hold for a week or two… sent by the hospital chronic fatigue service.
After having watched the videos after posting the links… my response to them is:
I guess it’s about suffering in daily (painful) silence until the pain decides to one day subside, but one day when.
I was out of London on Saturday and my symptoms alleviated… though the fatigue was still activated as the day wore on, but there were less factors around to trigger it… is CF solely a big city ailment?
I’m a big believe in the hygiene hypothesis.
This also feeds into things like how our foods don’t have crazy levels of afflatoxin so we don’t get stomach cancer like we used to. Bladder cancer in on the rise, but that’s a different discussion.
All this (and now fibromyalgia to add to the heady mix) because of some local anaesthetic injections that floored me… I’m guessing it was a more modern type that I didn’t take well to at all.
My post:
My reply to David’s reply:
Crisps that aren’t over-preserved are back on our supermarket shelves since Article 50 was triggered… I’ve had some, yum.
The additives issue was an EU instigation, so I hope it’s on the reverse and I get my quality of life back… along with more food choices again.