scrapking said:
Interesting link. I think I've read it before (failing that, I read something similar). I agree that orthorexia can be a serious issue for some people. I don't calculate the gclycemic index of my meals (no need, the odds of me getting diabetes from a plant-based diet focused around whole foods is next to non-existant). I don't avoid gluten, lots of really healthy foods contain gluten, and I don't have celiac disease. I don't avoid soy, as it's one of the healthiest beans on the planet, despite fear-mongering to the contrary. I don't ruminate on the grains I'm eating creating malabsorption issues, because if you're eating the rainbow then you don't tend to suffer that effect (vitamin C improves the absorption of a raft of other nutrients, including iron). I don't take supplements, aside from vitamin D in the winter (and only because I live in a northern climate). I do avoid dairy. As a species we only started eating dairy about 10K years ago, which is a blink of an eye evolutionarily. The populations that consume the most dairy tend to have the most osteoporosis despite the dairy industry's calcium claims. Plus there are plenty of ethical issues with dairy where I would be less happy with life if I were participating in them, so not consuming dairy contributes to a happier life for me, which is ultimately what the article you linked to is all about. Meat and dairy aren't stopping Earth's population explosion as the health problems from them tend to come well after reproductive years, so I'm not sure what that has to do with anything. |
What about breast-feeding? We've been consuming that for far longer than 10,000 years I imagine.
