i find your response totally fascinating, toni. On the one hand, its always
a little sketchy when they apply research to a single sex without looking at
the other side of the coin, so to speak. But, unfortunately, its always
*really* sketchy when reading a popularized news-source version of any
scientific research. Its only lately that every single "eat this, eat that,
don't stand near this piece of wiring" live-longer research has been nightly
news material. I think most research scientists will tell you that
everything has a caveat, and they *never* get reported.... But in terms of
this, its pretty basic. No matter *what* you eat, its going to get passed
thru breast milk if you're nursing. Animal fat is a notorious storage place
for pollution, often working its way up the food chain (little fishes get
polluted, middle fishes eat little fishes, big fishes eat middle fishes, etc
etc all the way up to us, concentrating the pollution as it goes). Men get
it too, nursing women just pass it on. And its often easier to notice the
ill effects in babies/children/old people because on one end they're still
new and changing, and on the other end its all gone a bit pear shaped
(loving the mad generalizations, aren't you? :>) anyway, the whole point of
this early morning (why am I not at work yet?) rant is this... First,
science in news is.. well, always sugared up for your consumption. Enjoy at
your own risk, its often tosh. And second, eat as much meat as you want, but
don't complain when it ends up being non-ideal. Atkins is a crackpot, and
theres a lot more food out there than the kind that you have to kill. Just
because a society doesn't have enough *meat* to go around, doesn't mean
there isn't food. Raising meat is a HUGE resource drain on societies,
because we feed endless pounds of grain to animals to get a single pound of
meat.
And to tamara's point of winter food and summer foood.. We might be able to
get things year round now, but they've been shown to be lower in nutrition
and flavor, and have led to eliminating diversity across the spectrum of
plants (and animals, for that matter)...
Whoo, didn't push a button there or anything.. *laugh* Guess I'll have to go
hunting for more humour to make things chipper again..
Have a good wednesday.
Sarah
(oh no, you can't tell her household is vegetarian at all, can you.... :>)
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