Entomophagy, vegetarianism and other energy efficient diets

[Bromden]

Yummy!

 

[Antoine de Saint-Exupéry]

Almond milk is pretty great actually.

 

[AreJohn]

Almond milk is pretty great actually.

Speaking of milk made of lies, Soya milk apparently increases risk of cancer.

 

[Austupaio]

Cow milk is actually quite bad for you, drinking soy, cashew, almond or rice milk is far healthier. Plus since they all taste a little different, you can do more with them.

 

[Bromden]

Why is cow milk bad for me?

 

[PinCussion]

I usually eat them if I can't be bothered. Pretty much every part of a sea animal is edible and digestible, it just depends on your tolerance.

The shells might be a bit tricky though. Maybe shrimp shells might go down but crayfish, lobsters and crabs? Damn chewy.

 

[kurczak]

Almond milk is pretty great actually.

Speaking of milk made of lies, Soya milk apparently increases risk of cancer.

Jesus, there's like one study that say that if you already have tits cancer you should not eat too much soy, but it gets turned into "soy = cancer".

This reminds me of the repetitive talks I have with some my relatives who smoke, drink and eat like the Slavs they are,  but they still feel perectly entitled to give me **** about "vegetarians don't get enough protein" or iron or whatever nonsense they read in Blesk.

And of course it is aways such a shock when after a life full of pastry, fried pork, liquor and cigaretters they get rewarded with any combination of diabetes, ass or lung cancer and heart attack.

 

[Patchouli Knowledge]

Literally every single person that had told me my vegetarianism is unhealthy has been a fat piece of **** that'll be dead from a heart attack before they turn 35.

 

[DanAngleland]

And of course it is aways such a shock when after a life full of pastry, fried pork, liquor and cigaretters they get rewarded with any combination of diabetes, ass or lung cancer and heart attack.

But it could have been the occasional vegetables that they ate which gave them these diseases! 

 

[Harkon Haakonson]

Cow milk is actually quite bad for you, drinking soy, cashew, almond or rice milk is far healthier. Plus since they all taste a little different, you can do more with them.

Hemp and especially oat milk are great, too!

 

[Untitled.]

Cow milk is actually quite bad for you, drinking soy, cashew, almond or rice milk is far healthier. Plus since they all taste a little different, you can do more with them.

I have a friend who studies biology and who made it his life goal to write as many blog posts as possible about milk being evil and wanting to kill you. I'm still not fully convinced by any of it.

 

[Bromden]

Yes, I want to know those negatives too. I'm a milk addict and was for my whole life. It probably had a hand in me becoming that fine specimen I am.

 

[Swissky]

Cow milk is actually quite bad for you

But then I can't assert my dominance by viciously proclaiming my lactose tolerance!

REEEEEEEEEE

or whatever nonsense they read in Blesk.

Heh, our word for those kinds of newspapers is nyhetsblaska, coincidence? No.

 

[Kharille]

Love drinking milk.  Lactose intolerant, but I think I get buy, must be a massive colony of lactose digesting bacteria I've accumulated.  You know, discovering I was lactose intolerant involved a 3 year break from milk products and then trying to down 1.5 litres in one night.  Couldn't get any sleep that night.



http://asia.nikkei.com/magazine/20170202/Tech-Science/Moon-mission-inspired-containers-help-fight-food-shortage

Great Nikkei article on a new vacuum packing technique.

Nice wiki on the origins of canning foods

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canning

 

[MMontage]

And of course it is aways such a shock when after a life full of pastry, fried pork, liquor and cigaretters they get rewarded with any combination of diabetes, ass or lung cancer and heart attack.

I'm not really fan of gluttony and have no idea what it actually feels like to be over forty, but I would more than gladly trade my elderly years for a half eaten sandwich. I mean I certainly could understand why someone would chose a brief life full of pastry, fried pork, liquor and cigaretters over a long one without.

 

[Adorno]

... Soya milk apparently increases risk of cancer.

Cow milk is actually quite bad for you...

Medical research - especially in nutrition - is of such low quality that you need several studies over several years to be somewhat sure of anything.
(And it doesn't help the press are poor at reporting accurately on the findings)

E.g. notice how Japan tops the list of life expectancy, with Sweden and Norway also being high up on that list.
Yet soy milk and cow milk consumption, respectively, are particularly high in those nations.

 

[Antoine de Saint-Exupéry]

To be entirely fair that doesn't necessarily mean those things aren't unhealthy

 

[Swissky]

E.g. notice how Japan tops the list of life expectancy, with Sweden and Norway also being high up on that list.

That's because we don't count suicides.

 

[Adorno]

To be entirely fair that doesn't necessarily mean those things aren't unhealthy

Yes, but it means the impact on health is likely insignificant.

 

[Яowan]

... Soya milk apparently increases risk of cancer.

Cow milk is actually quite bad for you...

Medical research - especially in nutrition - is of such low quality that you need several studies over several years to be somewhat sure of anything.
(And it doesn't help the press are poor at reporting accurately on the findings)

E.g. notice how Japan tops the list of life expectancy, with Sweden and Norway also being high up on that list.
Yet soy milk and cow milk consumption, respectively, are particularly high in those nations.

Feel free to correct me on this one, as my knowledge concerning this subject is incredibly limited, but as far as I am aware the Japanese (traditional diet, not commercialized 'fast food') generally involves fermenting soy products.

So though soy products that haven't been fermented *could* increase the risk of cancer (very little in the way of  soy products are fermented in the west, if any at all), the process of fermentation may negate those negative effects by changing the 'chemical make-up' of the product or otherwise providing other health benefits (through the bacteria that grows and other nutrients) that may counter the possible damage.

Once again, this may be a misunderstanding on my part, but I do consider it possible that the 'west' may have mistaken the health benefits of soy as a whole, when the benefits may come from the fermented products instead.

As far as I am aware Sweden and Norway also take advantage of fermented foods (I've eaten a fair share of such products from around the globe), though I am not certain if such products are eaten in significant enough numbers to impact the health statistics of Sweden/Norway. Also, to add what I just said, it is more than likely the diet of the people on a whole has a huge impact on cancer rates, and not any particular foodstuff. Although this is changing quite rapidly, nations like Japan aren't quite so reliant on fast food - unlike say, the United States.