Rib Eye only diet?

[S Keith]

Food Babe is an ignorant idiot, smarter than only the brain damaged dolts that give weight to anything she says.

[Vman455]

Originally Posted by rmay635703

In any event our prehistoric ancestors lived on mainly meat because vegitable matter was hard to get in any QTY.

It's hardly that cut-and-dried, because when it comes down to it, we simply don't know what portion of prehistoric humans' diet was made up of meat and how much was plant matter. We know they ate meat, and that it formed a significant ("sufficiently great or important to be worthy of attention; noteworthy") portion of their diet, but we also know that diet varied by geographical region. We cannot say they ate "mainly meat", because there is no evidence to support this outside of limited populations. And there is certainly no evidence to support the assertion that humans should eat exclusively meat (and much evidence to the contrary), the featured family's portrait notwithstanding. George Burns smoked like a chimney and lived to be 100, but it doesn't mean we should all light up for our health.

[mikeyjd]

Originally Posted by Vman455

It's hardly that cut-and-dried, because when it comes down to it, we simply don't know what portion of prehistoric humans' diet was made up of meat and how much was plant matter. We know they ate meat, and that it formed a significant ("sufficiently great or important to be worthy of attention; noteworthy") portion of their diet, but we also know that diet varied by geographical region. We cannot say they ate "mainly meat", because there is no evidence to support this outside of limited populations. And there is certainly no evidence to support the assertion that humans should eat exclusively meat (and much evidence to the contrary), the featured family's portrait notwithstanding. George Burns smoked like a chimney and lived to be 100, but it doesn't mean we should all light up for our health.

Good words. I'm giving it a 40 day trial run to see how my body reacts. I'm on day 4 and I can honestly say I haven't felt this good since I was a kid...

[Xist]

Originally Posted by niky

She suggests not eating anything that an eight year old can't pronounce.

Well, there goes zucchini... cyanide, I believe, is safe.

Arrugula? My family could not pronounce radicchio.

Hey, isn't cyanide all natural, preservative and gluten free?

[freebeard]

Spud-getti?

I haven't eaten red meat since I was reminded that farmers feed brains to their herbivores. I worked for a feed and seed company in the 60s and they were calling it 'bone meal' then.

Look at the real estate and water required for a meat diet vs vegetarian. In hunter/gatherer societies, the women provided a baseline of vegetable nutrition while the men provided a variable amount of meat.

[Cd]

Nothing surprises me anymore :
Butter, red meat not so bad for you after all? - CBS News

Twinkie diet helps nutrition professor lose 27 pounds - CNN.com

[user removed]

Originally Posted by mikeyjd

Good words. I'm giving it a 40 day trial run to see how my body reacts. I'm on day 4 and I can honestly say I haven't felt this good since I was a kid...

YOU CARNIVORE!!!!!!!!!!

I tell my wife I'm on a crap diet, she eats all that safe food like a rabbit, and I eat the stuff that's supposed to kill you. Two aunts made it to 102 with one still living and one of them ate big macs and smoked menthol cigarettes for 80years, probably did not even make menthol when she started and she rolled her own because they would not sell them to her, at 12 years age.

regards
mech

[jakobnev]

Originally Posted by Xist

Hey, isn't cyanide all natural, preservative and gluten free?

A large enough dose will also completely eliminate the risk of dying from dihydrogen monoxide poisoning.

[California98Civic]

There is no question that a high cholesterol diet will kill me, as it did both my uncles. My blood tests show it all in the numbers. I keep as much meat out of my diet as is practical. But that's me, and people like me. The body consuming the food is a variable in the food's effect.

[redpoint5]

The Food Babe often says to avoid certain foods because they contain chemicals, or had chemicals applied to aid in growth or control pesticides. She is against chemicals, but little does she know that nearly everything is a chemical. Water is a chemical known as dihydrogen monoxide. What, are we supposed to separate out the carbon and hydrogen from our food and eat them as elements? That doesn't sound very healthy.

My wife always says I need to eat more veggies. I then ask her why, and she says because they contain vitamins. I then reply that I take vitamin supplements (which also have not really been shown to aid in health for most people). She basically has no good reason why I should eat veggies. I point out that the cost per calorie is astronomical compared to other foods. How many k calories in a $2 bundle of asparagus; 100 perhaps? I can get a Hungry Man dinner for the same price and it has corn, potatoes, butter, pork ribs and bbq sauce with 850 calories.

Anyhow, potatoes are a good value. That and rice. Lots of calories per dollar with those foods. I'm 6'2" 166 lbs and trying to gain weight again. 200 has always been a goal of mine, but the closest I've come is 195.

... and that reminds me to eat the chicken and rice waiting for me in the fridge at work.