I am a charts, graphs and diagrams kind of gal.
I love the visual representation of data which is one reason why I was so attracted to Economics as my college major. Those of you who have taken Economics know what I’m talking about here – charts, graphs and diagrams galore!
Because of my personal predilection for pictorial data, I really am enjoying this new trend toward colorful Infographics.
The latest infographic that really grabbed my attention was this one below that summarized all this neat information about the most important meal of the day – breakfast.
Check out this really cool infographic and share in the comments section which factoid or factoids jumped out most at you.
My personal fave is that 50% of people give more thought to their outfit for the day than their breakfast. No wonder we have such a health crisis in this country!
Another keeper is that folks who skip breakfast have more carb cravings later in the day. Beware that 3pm Snickers attack if you didn’t take the time for a decent breakfast my friends!
Want your kids to do well in school? Ensuring they don’t go out the door without a decent breakfast is one of the most practical things you can do every day. Students who eat breakfast have better grades and are more likely to get that diploma!
Hint: The Standard American Breakfast of a bowl of cold breakfast cereal topped with skim milk and a glass of store OJ is not your best choice. For some healthy breakfast ideas based on how Traditional Cultures started their day, click here for a full listing of this blog’s breakfast recipes.
Sarah, The Healthy Home Economist
Source: People Who Eat Breakfast Are Smarter and Skinnier
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That’s crazy that some people can’t even remember what they had for breakfast. I am always planning what to have for breakfast the night before and look forward to eating it the next day.
I was never a breakfast person. I drank coffee for breakfast loaded with brand name creamer. I often had an upset stomach in the morning because of it. But my mind thought, coffee first to wake up, then food, Except after drinking 8 oz of coffee PLUS creamer, I was full, so no actual food until later.
Since learning about real food, I have magically fallen in love with eating real food for breakfast! I rarely drink coffee, and if I do, it’s well after breakfast and no more brand name creamer. I add in coconut oil and spices (I do not like it black). My children are also benefiting from this because I want them to eat just as well and to know how breakfast is extremely important. In fact I was just talking to my 7yr old about it as she is finishing up the last of her breakfast (pastured egg).
The picture of the “spread” looks like a typical (Austria – Switzerland) European breakfast…
I can’t tell you what I learned about diet and health by visiting and living as they do-
I thought the same thing.
All through Europe that is mostly what breakfast looks like. The differences would / could be the region. In other words, Northern Europe would have more fish at breakfast than say Switzerland. But, overall it looks the same and………..delicious!
The most important meal of the day is anything that has nutrients in them. “Breakfast” is marketing hype, just like having three square meals a day. The only meals with nutrients are those like fruits and vegetables. Cereals have no nutrients (because the nuterients were baked out). Pancakes or any flour based product has zero nutrients.
Fruits and nuts and seeds and veggies and water are the best meal anytime all of the time. If you want, there is Beef Sashemi or fish Sashemi that will provide any carnal urges yet provide unadulterated nutrients.
I’ll admit that many of the statistics didn’t stand out to me and the graphics didn’t always follow the percentages (but I’m not claiming to have understood my econ class). What really struck me and bothered me was the very end – the recommendation to eat grains and low fat dairy for breakfast. Protein and high quality full fat for me! I just finished two eggs cooked in coconut oil, maple pork sausage (from my grassfed beef provider), decaf iced coffee with full fat raw milk! Could have only been better if I’d had some cilantro to put in the eggs or fresh berries!
Katie – there is no protein in your cooked egg or pork sausage. I was hoping sarah would join me in this effort to show her audience that.
Your raw milk is right on – there is your real good fat and your real unadulterated protein.
please do explain Oliver is it because I cooked it?
In the spirit of keeping it simple: an egg protein will start to denature (change it’s molecular shape, it’s function) at about 117 degrees F. To scramble an egg, the temp must be around 145 F – at this point the protein is not denatured, but degraded ( a change not in molecular shape but structure). Most frying pans will give off a temp that is near 200 degrees F or more. If we touched the top of a skillet, the skin and much more (including the protein from the skin and hair on the skin) will be damaged forever.
Many think the protien is now more bioavailable, but a damaged molecule is no longer “available” to do anything.
I am gussing the reason you drink raw milk is perhaps because you may know or feel that pasturizing ( a heat process) damages nutrients – this is true.
Oliver, your posts are interesting but scary. You are saying that the only way to consume protein is to eat it raw? And yet, humans have been cooking eggs, beef, fowl, fish, etc. for about as long as we’ve BEEN human. And thriving on it. There’s plenty of evidence for this in fire pits excavated by archaeologists across the globe. Societies have to be very primitive to eat only raw food. Can you explain this?
Melinda – you sound like me some years back: “OMG I can’t eat burgers and omelettes? Or fries! Not my fries”…
M – I still love bacon and eggs and bacon cheesburgers etc. I think soy bacon is the stupidest thing ever invented.
However, from a chemists perspective, a molecular point of view, which is all that vitamins, and proteins are, molecules, the science does not speak in favor of my burger being “nutritious”.
I don’t know if you are religious or not so when man first came to be might be different. I place mans first being a biped at around 7 million years ago. Depending on who you ask on where you Wiki it, these numbers vary.
This is also true as to when man first harnessed fire for cooking – some studies say 7 to 12 thousand years, some say 20 thou, some say though we used fire for warmth and defense, we only figured out the cooking thing around maybe 25 thousand years ago.
My math says then that because there is no record of us cooking any meals that date back even a million years, then we have been eating raw food only, and water, for 7 million years. When we first evolved from a tad pole ( if one is so inclined) we certainly were only eating raw stuffs – like the way every species did then and the way they all still do it.
If raw is bad for you, no species would be able to survive those critical first few days or years or centuries. We not only survived those first few years, but we thrived. we survived on raw and we thrived on raw for seven million years.
This cooking thing is so relatively new, and now we are falling behind the other species in terms of who is suffering from the most diseases – we humans are far away in the lead in the disease dept. Cooked food deprives us of the vital nutrients we used to get. You can still enjoy a burgerm just see that you get some raw goodies in you once in a while – which most of us do – salads, fruits, veggies, nuts seeds etc – some people drink raw eggs. Some eat raw fish. There is a restaurant in my town that serves up beef sashemi ( raw japanes beef strips – so delicious) – I still prefer my BLT though
Yes I want to hear this too!
The only way to destroy the protein in an egg is to cook with high heat in open air over a long time (who does that?)
Actually cooking eggs like we normally do whether it be boiling for a couple of minutes or lightly frying an egg will not change its nutritive value. In fact, it will actually improve it. Cooking it this way inactivates most of the avidin which is found in the white of the egg. Avidin binds with biotin and makes it unavailable, but cooking it destroys most of the avidin and allows biotin to be released.
kathy, with all due respect (and I mean that), from a chemistry lab perspective/reality a protein is long since damaged at your cooking temps.
The due respect thing is here. Most of what everyone reads about protein comes from the internet or nutritionists books or magazines – and the dialogue is all the same – bio available this or that.
In the lab, in the chem lab – all of that supposed food science stuff is laughed at by chemists – those chemists who aren’t hired by food companies of course (egg, cereal and beef industries).
If you read a non nutritionist book, a book on pure proteins, like Carl Branden’s “Introduction to protein structure” – you too would come away laughing, saying what were we thinking. reading those actual chemist books on protein you will see how uber fragile protein is and that even light and oxygen can and will impact even before being exposed to heat.
These lab chemists, they’re not trying to sell anything. It is that need to sell that has food marketing side with non science references – those mostly provided by nutritionists who have no real chem lab training.
Nobody skips breakfast in my house. Kids often have eggs or cheese, sometimes a little raw milk ice cream. Today we kept it simple with whole wheat sourdough, Kerrygold butter, and organic blueberries. I like to make soaked English muffins, smoothies with yogurt, sausage and biscuits, and more. All homemade.
For optimum breakfast benefits eat non-fat dairy (the last visual)?! Are you sure this should be promoted?
I was just thinking the same thing. This is all so helpful and then WHAM with the non-fat stuff again. I like to eat full-fat yogurt for breakfast, with homemade peanut butter that I have added coconut oil to. If there are grains involved, then on goes the butter. And wow, I feel great and not hungry until lunch time. Then its time for more fats. Life is good.
It would be interesting to see an infographic that showed what people usually eat (and think is good for them) vs what a more nutritious ‘traditional’ breakfast would look like.
Heavy on the whole grains and light on the fat? Love the concept– not so thrilled about the details.
Skim dairy…no way! Butter and eggs for me!
“Those who skip breakfast consume: 40% more sweets, 55% more soft drinks, 45% fewer vegetables, 30% less fruit. People who eat breakfast everyday are also: 34% less likely to develop type 2 diabetes… … and 40% less likely to develop fat around the belly than those who don’t.”
There are loads of confounding variables, you can’t tell whether it’s the direct lack of breakfast or just that those were people who don’t care about what they eat. It’s called health consciousness. When you’re eating a high-carb low-fat diet, which is what the subjects are most likely eating when they go on in that iconograph to say that breakfast improved test performance; they’d be hypoglycaemic without breakfast as they have unstable blood sugar from their high-carb low-fat diet so of course breakfast would improve their results, it’s correcting the hypoglycaemia. Notice they recommend non-fat dairy for a healthy breakfast, along with grains.
If you eating plenty of fat and not eating too much carbs then blood sugar is stable all day long and it doesn’t matter what time you eat. And in fact skipping meals (even breakfast) has been shown to improve insulin sensitivity, blood cholesterol, and help people loss excess weight… without restricting calories! It’s called intermittent fasting.
The only comment I didn’t like was eating “non fat dairy products”. I do well throughout the day when I eat eggs for breakfast (love them).
Aaaah, breakfast is my bane! Culturally, it’s hard to find a variety of hearty breakfasts that don’t take a long time to prepare. I will be checking out the breakfast recipes link you have. Thanks!
I always have ready-to-use chicken or beef stock in the fridge. This way, it takes me less than 5 minutes to get breakfast on the table. And I only have to wash a small pot, bowls and spoons (which I do by hand).
I make tiny ground beef and liver meatballs, which I keep in the freezer and just take as needed. I just bring the stock to a boil and drop the meatballs along with pre-minced onions and kale.
I also keep minced beef in a jar (with a spicy garlic marinade), which I use throughout the week. In another jar I have sliced shallots, mushrooms, and carrots.
The soups are topped with chopped scallions.
But with a sourdough starter going, and lots of fermented vegetables in the fridge, it’s so easy to do breakfast. Just grab whatever you like, and it’s done
Worst case scenario, I grab a can of sardines and eat it on a slice of sourdough bread. Or, liver pate, which I generally have in the fridge. Or a big hunk of cheese!
I have maintained my weight within 2 lb for over 3 years just by eating an egg and a little carb with butter for breakfast. Makes eating well the rest of the day easier!
I LOVE breakfast! I can’t even begin to imagine how people skip it. And its true, the days I eat a less healthy breakfast are the days I’m snacking in the afternoon and also the days I’m less energetic. Every morning is a good big healthy breakfast for me! My favorite meal of the day!
Have you ever wondered how “bacon & eggs” came to be a breakfast food? An advertising/propaganda genius named Edward Bernays was hired to sell more bacon. His advertising campaign used a doctors survey that said “heavy breakfasts” were better than “light” ones. They they did a nationwide campaign saying “bacon & eggs” are a good breakfast. You can watch Bernay’s interview about how he did this here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLudEZpMjKU Bernays also used the feminist movement in the early 1900′s to increase cigarette sales by getting rid of the taboo for women to smoke. He paid women who were models to smoke in the 1929 Easter Parade in NY (known as the Torches of Liberty Brigade). http://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/31/nyregion/fyi-293806.html
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LOL!! After all the blabbering that woman did yesterday about the ad for CapriSun – guess what? Today – for the first time – there’s an ad for CapriSun! There must be a machine somewhere that figures if that’s what’s being talked about, that must be what we all want to have. Like – what you focus on you create?
Duh — It’s not the first time – that was my point – there was already an ad for the sugary drink capri sun. that’s what started my ranting.
There was an ad, and it will show up again, regardless of weather we mention it or not – I could talk about bycicles for twenty pages and that won’t prompt an ad for a bike.
Definitely the right way to start the day! I am sometimes a bit late on mine, but have had great success since ditching the urge to skip breakfast that plagued my early professional life
I have a theory
I think the reason that people who do not eat breakfast are overweight is because their sleeping patterns are off. If you wake up groggy with only enough time to get dressed and get out the door to make it to work on time, you will not have the time or energy to make a wholesome breakfast. I also know people who eat breakfast and are still overweight. The main thing to me is that breakfast is somewhat of an indication of how well you slept the night before. People who are overweight tend to have disruptive sleeping patterns which lead to hectic mornings. I could be way off base, but this seems to be my own personal experience.
“For optimum breakfast benefits, choose whole grain and non-fat dairy products…” ?? Umm… no thank you.
At some point, hopefully, people will learn, that whole grains or any type of grain is one of the leading contributors to diabetes. Many think it is plain ol sugary products. That is bad too, but it is the starch from many of the things we eat like pasta, beans, potatos, corn, rice, and every cereal, that converts to sugar and sits in our bodies and does all manner of bad things (including fueling cancer – cancer loves sugar)
I agree with Lindsey and others about the recommended breakfast foods! Whole grains paired with non-fat dairy usually translates into extruded cold cereal with non-fat milk, like my mother eats every day. Cue the blood sugar swings, sugar- and coffee-cravings, and abdominal VAT accumulation. She gets irritated whenever I mention this.
Non fat dairy is WRONG.
The picture on the top of the page makes me miss Germany and Switzerland all the more. Now THERE are some countries who know how to eat breakfast! Cheeses, meats, rye bread, yogurt, fruit spreads, milk, butter, it goes on and on. Yummy!!
My challenge is that I don’t really get much hunger until about 9am. But, I get up around 6:30 so I drink a big glass of whole raw milk and then eat a late breakfast about 10am. That works best for me.
Sarah, that would make perfect sense!
besides we are really not all the same! some are morning, some are night people, heck some even have their organs o the opposite side
I believe Oliver, or some one mentioned it, breakfast is a big hype (to sell cereals); we need to listen to our bodies – if we feed them healthy they let us know what they need! If we learn to listen to our bodies instead of commercials we will be fine;
i would not send my kids to school with out a brain food basis but i do not need to eat breakfast until noon actually if i don’t work outside the home; a piece of fruit is usually fine;
I love a big farm breakfast! I liked th A+ out of bacon. I wish I could find bacon as lean as their photo. I ate more than my share of Trix as a child and living in Battle Creek when my kids were small they got more than their share of cold cereal. I can barely stand to eat ANY cold cereal. Love my home made yogurt, oatmeal, Kashi pilaf and Larabars, thank you very much!
Very nice, except for the part that advises non-fat dairy. But still effective. Thanks.
If Louis Pasture wants us to believe that he has discovered a way to kill bacteria in our milk, than like meat we should question what happens to the other nutrients in this process, some which have a similar makeup to bacteria (or not as hardy and resistant to heat as some bacteria). We must know that milk, when exposed to the elements is affected.
We are the only species that saves our milk. We are the only species that drinks milk from other species. We are the only species that exposes our milk to light and oxygen. Milk gets oxidized as well, and so does orange juice and apple juice – better to eat apples and oranges over their respective juices. Even when we use blenders, we should make a point to drink the contents right quick before oxidation takes over.
Yes, milk was designed to come straight from the breast to the mouth of the infant. But we as a species forgot that. I understand that some women are not able to produce milk. What we also forgot is that we don’t need milk beyond our infant years. Like with all mammalian species, breasts are starter kits. They provide the initial amounts of fats and proteins and other nutrients and antibodies that we need to get going. Beyond infancy, we no longer need milk. You don’t see a teenage lion or tiger or bear going back to mom asking for a drink. No, with the exception of kangaroos (teenage roos have suckled still), once they are off the teat, it is water forever more.
We humans continue to drink milk in spite of all the signs telling many of us that it is not doing our bodies any good. That’s one of those dots we don’t connect – and marketing won’t let us. If we want vitamin D – have some uncooked mushrooms – or have a walk in the sun. Ten to fifteen minutes of good sunshine three times weekly is adequate to help your body’s synthesize its requirement of vitamin D. Sit in the park under the sun and read a book.
If you want calcium or iron or anything that the milk label lists (which is questionable) then have some greens or some fruit – and a glass of water.
Oliver
Please Oliver, troll elsewhere…..
I have the right to post as I wish. How is my thoughts better or worse than someone praising bacon?This blog is for many mind sets. There are people who like to hear something beyond the convention – in that they may perhaps further seek their version of the truth.
If you don’t like Oliver, then when you susan, see his name, just ignore him. Just as it isn’t all about me, sarah’s blog isn’t all about susan.
Ugh, I’m SO SICK of hearing the argument that humans are the only species that drink milk beyond infancy. So what? We should do as all animals do? Should I go out and hunt my prey right now and then just dig into it with my teeth? Or how about the next time I vomit……maybe I should just lick it up the way dogs do. Because really, we should model our eating habits and behavior after animals. Give it a rest.
Chris – i get that you’re sick of it. I also get that many don’t want to part with cigarettes or candy. Their are people clutching their french fries saying “please, make it no be true…”.
We are just like the other species when it comes to what are bodies are made of (nitrogen, carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, sulfer etc etc) , and we need to put what those atoms create (nutrient molecules) into our bodies just like each and every species – including the mighty oak tree ( which is also made up of those things i listed).
we are different just like the ant is different from the bear – but the idea of nutrating is the same throughout the planet.
Each species has different “behavioral” (spell check) qualities – but there are some things that are universal. Just because “we can” doesn’t mean we should.
We could learn a lot from the other species; we mimic and learn so much from them from flying, to building homes, to damming rivers etc – We even got the honeycomb packaging idea from the bees (pure architecture). If we just payed attention to how they eat – we would be better off. Maybe not as much fun – but way more healthier.
At the end of the day – to each his/her own. love thy milk baby!
Of course we share much with the animal kingdom but I don’t think animals go round enjoying art or beauty, so you see whatever science says, it has its limits.
There are some humans who don’t enjoy art and beauty.
More scary for you: Most of the flour mills boast about how their methods for milling the wheat, corn, or soy into flour is better than the others. By better, they mean that the methods used for milling/grinding, manage, or don’t, to keep the temperatures below a certain degrees so as to not destroy the nutrient values. This is why most flour has to be re fortified or enriched.
They contend that temps around 119F will eradicate most of the nutrients – they go on to rat out other companies whose methods bring the temps as high as 160 degress F. One company, the littleton grist mill boasts that they use a stone ground method – keeping the temps at a cool 90 degrees.
Here’s the bugger – What do we use flour for? For frying and baking etc – and the temps we use are 3x higher than the milling temps. bread is baked in an oven at 350 F – for an hour.
Yes, all of your wholesome, seven grain organic bread is as dead as a doornail – with the exception of some toxic peptide trace remnants left – little spores that are truly impervious – like anthrax – google how hard it is to kill anthrax spores.
Put a slice of bread on a shelf and leave it there – the water will evaporate, and from that point on there will be zero decay dynamics – no odor, discoloration, the shape will remain – for many years – there will be no biologic dynamics that would normally occur with any real organic entity, a potato, a banana, a dead mouse etc.
It will not even mold. Mold is a topical dynamic anyway – you can have mold on bathroom tiles – so long as there is warmth and moisture.
BTW if you click on Sarah’s tab at the top of her site, about flours and grains (under the ‘resources’ tab) you will see a mill company speaking to low temps to prevent nutrient damage. Look where it says “to your health Sprouted flour” — Oliver
Oliver, I am finding your posts intriguing… Am I correct to assume you eat a 100% raw diet? Aside from your occasional BLT, of course.
I wish i ate a raw food diet Hillery (not really). Alas, I love the burger way too much. Is there a better smell than bacon? Answer: No Some may say coffee or roasted garlic.
What i do do though is each day, every day, I make sure i nutrate myself ( made up word there). Each day i make sure i have some type of nut (raw walnuts and brazil nuts are great sources of protein and good fat). I also have a bevy of fruits that i eat through out the day.
One day I counted (added up) how many days in a row i ate pasta – 11,673 days. That’s 30 years in a row ( I might have missed 4 or 5 days). I used to put tofu in my pasta for protein ( I had known for some time then that pasta had zero nutrients ( the flour thing), so tofu was it. Then I learned that soy is processed with high heat to kill off toxic elements – so too went the good stuff. (actually some toxic elements remained)
Now, i just put fresh raw broccoli on top of my hot pasta and sauce, mix it in, and the residual heat warms it up enough to where it doesn’t feel like cold veggies.
People don’t realise that all plants have protein in them – Broccoli has as much protein per gram as does chicken – but chicken is cooked…
I suppose I would love to get to a point where all i ate was a few boring raw things all day, and water – would I be better off? My social life would suck! Unless I hung out with all raw foodists – that would be boring.
And besides, at the end of the day…………Ice cream = happiness
What the heck!? Oliver, If that’s your average diet then keep reading this blog because you need it. Really, take it as that “other view” you mentioned earlier. Fresh RAW brocoli on PASTA! I about had a seizure when I read that! Then too, what’s this about plants having as much protein as chicken? I guess that could be true–you seem to know so much about proteins after all. But that’s really not what you’re after when eating meat, you’re after the EIGHT “ESSENTIAL” proteins which are NOT found in plants! Zero! Zilch!
NOTTA! I’ll stop there. Take a hint.
P.S Those nuts soaked?
Luke, calm down. don’t get a heart attack becuase of something someone wrote on a blog.
Luke those 8 essential proteins you speak of are part of the protein myth. I only indulge the protein conversation for lay folk – but what we are really working on is showing you that “protein” doesn’t work in the way 99.9999 percent of the world thinks.
first of all it is not the protein we seek anyhoo, it is all about the amino acids. There was an experiment done in 57 ish by a scientist named Miller. Google Miller/Urey experiment. He created an environment in a lab in which he was able to create amino acids in a jar – just by mimicking the gases that existed during early earth ( stay with me).
I recently spoke with the guy who inherited his legacy and we discussed the whole myth that people think they get proteins from their foods in the first place. There are plenty of websites that speak to the protein myth ( about 300,000 google results – most of them ads for whey etc…)
What chemistry knows, and you can google this as well is that proteins for humans are only inside the human body. Now that is a giant leap of faith – or simply understanding bio- chemistry. But if you go to a science forum and ask how are proteins made – you will soon learn that they are only creatred by DNA/RNA dynamics – period. We can design protein in a lab – by grouping peptides (short strands of amino acids), but we can’t then put them into the body to do what the proteins made by the body does. Unless it is a specific treatment type procedure where the entity is directly applied to a region – and hopefully it takes – like skin grafting
You can’t eat a protein, keratin say, and it will go to the skin or hair and join up with the other keratin proteins – as soon as your protein is chewed the acids break it down anyway – supposedly…
You can’t take a protein that repairs muscles and makes you stronger, eat it and then it will join in and say “hey let me help you other proteins with that heavy lifting or repairing or what ever.” This is part of the protein myth.
Protein can only be made in the body by amino acids put forth in specific sequences for specific functions. the amino acids are assembled by atoms – nitrogen, hydrogen carbon etc put together by the body and natures doing.
This may all seem heady – and you will not be the first to call me a complete lunatic – if you want to contact us for more info – you can do that.
I contradict myself most time when i talk about eating proteins from peanuts, because this other stuff is way to heady – and absolutly unbeleiveable. I don’t contradict myself or the facts when i talk about protein damage however.
You are right though to speak to thet fact that there are different types of proteins from different sources – it is always intersting to see only one reading for protein on a loaf of bread when they have 7 or so diferent protein sources, from wheat, soy, nuts and seeds etc all in the same loaf, including eggs in the flour.
I understand that soaking removes anti-nutrients but why is it that you don’t rinse the oats after soaking? How are the anti-nutrients removed if left in the same soaking liquid?
One of the ways I lost 20 kgs was changing the way I view breakfast. I read “fit for life” & started working in co-ordination with my body’s cycles. In the morning yr body is trying to expel waste leftover from the food it’s just finished assimilating overnight, if you stuff yrself full of slow digesting foods for breaky, you slow that process down, or stop it altogether, and all that waste stays put. After my lemon water in the morning, I only consume fruit or veg in liquid form, not by juicing, but by blending them. Because F & v are super quick at digesting it does not hinder the body’s processes. It is still filling, and you can eat as much f & v as you like up till midday. I then enjoy a bountiful lunch full of good fats, nuts, eggs, more veg, etc when my body is ready for intake. And I feel energetic, clean & alert all day!
What about if you are on a ketogenic diet and are “fat-adapted”. I feel fantastic and I don’t have to eat all the time.
What about if you are on a ketogenic diet, or are “fat-adapted”?
We eat a breakfast every day! Even when we have to run somewhere in the morning, I make something portable and take it with us (like bananas with toast).
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What jumped out at me was the promotion, once more, of non-fat dairy products.
Oh no ya don’t! Not if you wanna be healthy. We all need those full-fat products.
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I am very mindful about what I put in my body and why, and for that reason eat a low-carb paleo diet. But I am so tired of the “we’re the only species that drinks milk, so it must be bad” argument. I could sit here all day, naming things that we, as a species, are the only animals that do. Because we are humans. We are different. Which is why I am able to sit here right now, punching keys on a handheld device, that is allowing me to have a conversation with other humans across the world. But, since no other species does that, I guess it is bad. Grammar, the written word, art, building, designing, engineering, plumbing. Bad, bad, bad. I suppose I must go move to a cave in the woods… no loincloth, I don’t want to do anything unique from other species… no fire… just me and my imagination, no, wait… just me and my will to survive.
This is just a website, not a jim jones camp – you don’t have to “drink” anything you don’t want to.
if you wish to beleive that we are different because we have monday night football – and they don’t – that also is no crime and your choice.
Oliver, you make it sound like I think the fully built proteins are used. Yes, we are after amino acids which the body uses to build into new proteins according to the DNA/RNA blueprints to make the many fully built proteins in the body. Eight of the amino acids cannot be synthesized by the body though the other eighty percent of the amino acids are synthesized you might say
by the liver. Good to catch me on the protein vs. amino acid wording though–my bad.
Shoving all the interesting primordial earth stuff to the side, I’ll stay in the realm of life rather than a test tube of boiling chemicals. The real deal- breaker with this idea of not using the proteins from outside the body is that if a person discontinues eating these essential amino acids via animal proteins, why do they not stay in glowing health, but rather deteriorate in health. If the body simply makes them through dynamics of the DNA/RNA then they should be rather self sustaining on this point. In fact, they should only need the gaseous substances used in the Miller/Urey experiment, as that was supposed to have created all 22amino acids–mind a little warmer than the human body, but we are talking about the human body and the chances necessary for evolution so this shouldn’t be too hard for you to explain. Nevertheless, Human beings cannot survive without animal products. Ask Weston Price for an analysis on that. Further:Plants cannot survive without animal manures either. A German Experimenter, Maria Thun tried raising plants without manure compost, only plants. The outcome of saving these seeds and only growing the plants on plant compost was that in four generations the plants failed to produce seed and the experiment ended!
Luke, you’re a patient man! I’m personally choosing to skip over everything Oliver writes.
I think you are reading what i post – all the time. Unlike luke you may not be familiar with the topic to the extent you can engage. But u can still ask – but to be mean for the sake of being mean – and then the need to recruit – luke and i can have a civil conversation, disagreeing to the nth degree but still keep it civil – and then there are those who just need to take it to an ugly level.
If one really wants to ignore, then just ignore. What is this need for people to announce to everyone that they are not reading this or that persons post. Really?
Luke, this is the myth we are trying to dispel – this whole “essential” thre peoing. Do you know that there are people on this earth, humans who can make their own vitamin C – wikipedia may never tell you this.
What you may know is that there are people who have never eaten meat their entire lives and that are not lacking in anything. Yes, opponents can find vegetarians who are sick or vegans who suffer from this or that as well as issues with raw foodists – that is the nature of the human genome not their diets.
As it is I can introduce you to hordes of healthy people who do not eat meat or fish or dairy – some of them are olympians and other atheletes – I personally go without raw meat protein for years and years and I have not been sick since 1996 – no flu, no colds, no headaches, no stomach aches, diarhea (TMI) – nothing.
Once we dispense with food science and subsequent marketing we will all be better off. But that won’t happen cause cash is king.
BTW there are plenty of plants that are not near animals – plants get their nutrients again from the earth’s nitrogen (and other atoms as i mentioned) and the sun and rain.
Oliver, how about posting backing inside of just conjecture. You come of as a real jerk… just an observation and opinion.
Dave – you are a jerk for going onto a website about food and health and calling someone a jerk. Where have I been a jerk? I respond to every one in kind – if I disagree with them i might even use the term “with all due respect” as I have.
I have been friendly and have answered those who had a question for me with friendly answers – nothing mean.
Now, in fairness, you shouldn’t confuse my responding to idiots like you, as all of who i am. I am only human and defense is part of the human condition.
It is not about me being a jerk but more about you just not liking me – which is fair – but is it worth posting your disdain? do we really need to interupt a conversation with vitriol – is that constructive? Really, what good comes of “going There”?
Why is it important to you at 10:30 pm to go there – what are u angry about? What is going on in your world that you have to post ugly – are there not enough problems in life, in the world, that you need to start more?
Oliver you remind me of Sheldon from the Big Bang Theory. Annoying but probably always right.
I don’t know what to tell you Rachel – I gave up trying to please everyone years ago – especially on anonymous forums where people can just randomly insult one another. There are some sites where that is not allowed, where you actually get a “time out” if you curse or start name calling – they give you a 3 day ban where you are unable to post – if you decide to rejoin and do it again your banned for life.
Some forums screen your post prior, and determine if it is disruptive to the thread. All I can do is try my best to stay on the friendly side of discourse no matter how spirited the debate can be. Margaret Heffernan (no relation to Doug) once said: “Good disagreement is central to progress; in business, the best partners aren’t echo chambers; great research teams, relationships and businesses allow people to deeply disagree.”
I am not always right. If there is a topic I am not familiar with I listen and learn. The fracking debate in the other thread was very enlightening and I took notes – I actually learned more from the posters than the original post. And there was some ugly involved with that thread as well. ?????
In my real life work, I know that I am up against it. I realize that right or wrong, what I bring to the table is rarely a popular issue – people love their cooked food (as do I) and they just don’t want to hear it – no matter how nice one tells them – if the pope walked into a church and started telling people to eat raw beef or stop eating beef altogether – there will be an uprising. Most times, it’s not the messenger but the message – and to that, it is easier to attack the messenger than a message that one might not be too familiar with – but still, there should never be hate – at least not overtly.
All I do, in my world is try and inform people about the real choices they have. If a parent has $75 to feed 2 or 3 kids for a month, I want them to know that a Costco size box of cereals is not the way to go. The way to go (in a grocery store) is towards real nutrients – nuts, fruits veggies etc. So many poor people say they have to put the fruit and veggie stuff on the back burner cause they can’t afford it, they have to get the rice and pasta and potatoes and meats etc. first.
I have shown many that they need to reverse that and they will be better off (I have so many more details that I can’t always post). It isn’t easy but for me it is worth it, and if I come off to some as “whatever”, I still have to not get side tracked and focus on the issue and not some strangers perception of my personality, which most times is more reflective of who they are or how they are feeling that day.
To question and debate is healthy and progressive and one would think the real purpose of any forum.
Yes, Sheldon is annoying, and what is more annoying is my girlfriend thinks he’s funny and cute.
well keep sharing your info with everyone you seem to know quite a lot.
We all know a lot Rachel. Everyone, each one of us, has a beautiful mind for something. Each one teach one. I have learned so much from being on numerous types of forums over the past 4 years (when I started my hard research). It is a credit to this open forum type format online – and then the quick reference data that is supplied by the massive internet, that is invaluble.
With a modicum of success, I have even learned to work on my “personality” from these forums – how to get one’s message across without being too pushy, or coming off all knowing, or pompous, arrogant, pedantic, absolutist, always having to be right, and a host of other unappealing traits that can turn people off right fast and right quick.
It is the struggle I have each day; how to work on “me”, yet not change who I am too much – and ultimately not let it disrupt the many things I endeavor to do.
i like reading the back and forth! learn a bit of new stuff and be amused over the hot air developing
made my day so far 
the way i see it (no one cares but i will write it any way) we ALL have a glimpse of the real workings, the challenge is to get it together, much like a puzzle; we all see bits and pieces, find a new piece, think we are the greatest because we understand more. In the big picture it is only a tiny, tiny bit more; let’s curb our delusions of grandeur and be civil (well you were i my view) and give praise to the only one worthy — can we agree?
all this over breakfast???? WOW
that is my prob now, I never eat breakfast, a glass of milk will do for me…
Oliver
What are your thoughts on the soft boiled egg yolk that Weston Price suggests parents to give to their babies? The proteins in those eggs are destroyed after boiling (even after 3,5 minutes) isn’t that correct? Thank you
Weston Price had great many insights – he was right to link poor dental health with diet – I say the issue is two fold; malnutirition’s first signs can, in many cases be gum disease and two, the processed (including cooked, which is the ultimate processing) doesn;t breakdown as it should so the crap hangs around your teeh and gums etc.
My bent is always about nutrient damage – nutrient damage from a molecular perpsective – what things in the natural environment can do damage to the many nutrient molecules – before they are ingested,
Weston Price didn’t have the analytical tools to do anytype of subcellualr analysis. Microscopes etc back then could see and study cells and tissue, but proteins, and the even smaller amino acids just couldn’t be analized. Today we have Mass spectrometry and such and still that is a delicate process that identifies damaged peptides etc.
Price was not able to know if in fact a protein molecule was damaged or not. Today we can tell you that when you subject most common proteins (as opposed to extremophiles – things that can exist in high temp regions like lava pits etc) to 212 degrees (boiling temp) the egg proteins are indeed rendered useless.
One also has to understand that an egg is essentially a dead embryo – things that are dead, start to decay, to breakdown, to bio degrade – all on their own. Eggs, like meat is in decay mode as soon as it dies. When a cow dies, just like humans, the body starts to break down – enzymes set up and start breakdown the good proteins and other nutrients – this process is one of the first stages of decay – so that meat is already nutritionally challenged by time it gets to your butcher or grocer, and then gets to your home or restaurant, and then, what ever nutrient value might remain, we do that in with marinating and finally cooking.
This question has nothing to do with the subject but I don’t know where I should post it. Here goes: does anyone here know about a natural way to cure adenoids in babies who snore during the night (breathe with open mouth) and who show difficulty in breathing during the day (but they have no mucus in their nose)? Somehow I cannot edit this post so sorry for sny possible mistake. Thank you in advance!
Breakfast does the most damage out of all the meals in the day. Want to be lean and healthy, skip it….
http://www.schwarzenegger.com/fitness/post/carb-back-loading-step-1-breakfast
Body Wise Food Smart We are all unique, so it is best not to make arbitrary recommendations. However, I am a huge fan of breakfast for myself and clients. If someone is not a big breakfast eater (and they don’t drink coffee) then I recommend something very light but encourage them to have at least something. A bowl of fruit, a glass of milk, fresh juice…etc. I have found that those who are not hungry in the AM are usually those with high-carb needs and therefore do better with fresh fruit, veggies, or raw dairy for breakfast….
Sometime’s I can’t wait to get up just to have breakfast. Everyone is different.
Love all the pictures! They are awesome, then the recommendation of Non Fat Dairy killed it!! Full FAT please
Oliver, I don’t mean to by skeptical, but your posts are the only place I’ve ever seen anyone posit that there’s no protein in what the world commonly views as protein. (Clearly, I know nothing about paleo eating if that’s where you’re coming from.) Can you please provide us with some links to other writers/sites that confirm this? Even if it’s unpopular with the masses, there would have to be significant information about this out there. If it’s correct, that is.
thanks.
Melinda, You have every right to be skeptical. I could be a charlatan whose hidden agenda is to eventually lure you into buying some holistic supplements… My nick name as well is “Charlie cynic”. Being skeptical is good and wise defense mechanism; there is so much crazy data and info out there that pertains to one’s health, how would one know what to think.
You are smart however to not shy away from hearing something different or new – this is how we progress as a peoples.
I am not of the paleo diet per say – I don’t really know much about – I don’t really care to as well. What I do know about the diet is that it is somewhat inconsistent with the actual period in history – they were not all sitting around a barbecue eating roast beast – in addition some of the things on their diet list weren’t harvested till many moons later – we only started harvesting corn, wheat, rice, beans etc in the last 7 to 11,000 years.
But the reason I don’t concern myself with that diet or others is because it is simply for me, all about eating only unadulterated nutrients if you want to get real nutrients in your body. My love of pasta and burgers has only to do with taste, flavor and texture – those things I grew up on – those habits, needs, are hard to break – I don’t do the burger often, I’m just sayin.
Most of the reason what I know from a chemical standpoint about molecular damage/nutrient damage is not popular because as I mentioned before, cash is king. There is an old black and white movie about a man who invented a fabric that couldn’t be soiled or worn down or burned etc. He tried to market it but was blacklisted, blackballed, ostracized from so many industries – cleaners etc.
We have light bulbs that can run for years, and batteries. Roach spray is diluted, the roaches built up immunities and you by more product.
I written about “What if” – what if government deemed sugar illegal ( it is worse than booze, pot and cocaine). If it were no longer sold in the US – that would set back some major companies in this country. Pepsi and coke could handle that financially – I am worried about the Dominican Republic whose main crop is sugar cane.
The egg industry and beef and wheat industry don’t care to tell you the science that they know. Wheat farmers, who aren’t scientists have it tough already – the up side for them however is that wheat can be converted to fuel now so all won’t be lost..
I spoke with a member of the USDA and he sent me a PDF regarding some tests they did to see if cereal and other baked products actually had the nutrients in them they put on their labels. His PDf led me to the American Chemists Society – on their site – if you typed in their search “cooked food” you will see over 7000 studies on all types of food, from beans to wheat to soy etc. In each and every test/study there was some molecular change done to the food in question. They even found new pathogens, toxic and carcinogenic elements created by the cooking.
The problem is – they never took those tests to the public. The site is free but there is no “news report at eleven”. They obviously didn’t tell the cereal folk that they found no protein content in their cereals. Maybe they did tell them, but the FDA didn’t enforce the proper labeling laws.
What I am trying to do with a number of lay folk and chemists is create a new consumer manual, similar to the ones we have for cars or dishwashers etc. wherein new tests are done, with the latest equipment etc.
More importantly, the charts need to be dumbed down so the average jane and joe can read and understand them. If you do go online to the American chemist’s website, when you access those tests, they are all in science speak. One can recognize “no protein found after this or that temp”, or “vitamin c was no longer retained” but that is only 2 percent of the heady jargon and confusing charts and graphs.
Oliver
do you write some place else? have your own website? can be contacted? via face book? google? what ever
Someone mentioned Larabars. Here’s an excerpt from NaturalNews:
Larabar is one such brand whose snack bars consisting of very minimal ingredients (primarily nuts and dried fruits) have been a favorite of the natural food crowd for years. While their ingredients are not certified organic, Larabar does boast on its product labels that their ingredients are non-GMO. But how are consumers supposed to take comfort in Larabar’s non-GMO ingredients when General Mills, the company that owns Larabar, is spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to defeat proposition 37, the GMO labeling initiative, in California?
http://www.naturalnews.com/036975_Larabar_recipes_boycott.html#ixzz24sW6GgNn
Here’s a link to get the recipe to make your own:
http://www.naturalnews.com/036975_Larabar_recipes_boycott.html
The larabar is one of those good rare products that is for the very most part nutritionally sound – Their product is simply mixed ingredients without baking – which would deminish the nutrient value.
It’s always a tough call when there is politics involved as you mentioned with the gmo issue. I have found that so many companies are unwittingly linked to a giant mothership company which has other agendas.
BTW the recipe link cooks their product.
breakfast is = break – fast get it?? your body eliminates waste and detoxes it self while you are sleeping, breakfast should not be eaten until your body finishes doing its thing
Yeah, the nonfat dairy blurb is stupid, but overall, I thought the infographic was just lovely and positive which is why I posted it.
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if I wasnt breastfeeding, I would be 1 who didn’t eat breakfast. thats how I lose and keep off wieght. been doing that for 10 years. Dr. mercola even said something about this a week ago or so.
We live in West Africa as missionaries. Our only choices in milk are long-lasting shelf milk (supposedly no preservatives, just high temperature sterilization according to the carton) or powdered milk. If full fat is better than non-fat, how is whole powdered milk o.k.? Or, should we be buying full fat shelf milk? There is no raw-milk source here. Is the no-milk route better than either of these two choices?
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