My Rant About All Things Fake and Artificial
This Story adds fuel to the fire with my disgust at all things fake and artificial. I dislike artificial colors and flavors. I don't like all the fillers and preservatives in processed foods. I don't like processed foods period as a matter of fact. I despise hydrogenated oils/fats. MSG is evil and sodium in excess which does not take much is bad for you. I never like artificial sweeteners.
What do I like you may ask?
Whole foods, herbs and teas as fresh as can be found.
Fresh foods are always better than prepackaged. Omega fatty-acids 3,6 and 9 such as are found in Flax seed oil. Plant based foods packed with vitamins, bioflavonoids, amino acids and enzymes. Grapes, apples, and lemons are all packed with antioxidants. Green tea is also packed with potent L-Theanine.
What are your thoughts? Are any in agreement with my views here? Do you despise fake and artificial foods?
What products do you find repulsive? Example: Spam, Twinkies..
What foods / nutrition do you find attractive and beneficial?
Fellowship
What do I like you may ask?
Whole foods, herbs and teas as fresh as can be found.
Fresh foods are always better than prepackaged. Omega fatty-acids 3,6 and 9 such as are found in Flax seed oil. Plant based foods packed with vitamins, bioflavonoids, amino acids and enzymes. Grapes, apples, and lemons are all packed with antioxidants. Green tea is also packed with potent L-Theanine.
What are your thoughts? Are any in agreement with my views here? Do you despise fake and artificial foods?
What products do you find repulsive? Example: Spam, Twinkies..
What foods / nutrition do you find attractive and beneficial?
Fellowship
Comments
Whether they are inappropriate spoilers and tailfins on a car or breast implants that are waaaaay to big on a woman. Some folks don't seems to appreciate elegant design and feel gaudy add-ons make an individualistic statement.
They do. But not the one they were imagining...
She also hates the fake fat in the chips, which isn't doing very well I believe.
Just to go in the other direction, though, I sometimes get annoyed with the belief artificial = harmful and natural = harmless in things like drugs and herbal supplements. There are plenty of extremely potent natural poisons out there, and there are plenty of utterly ineffective herbal supplements. Natural vs. artificial has very little to do with whether a drug has side effects or is harmful or effective.
Originally posted by Fellowship
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Ugh, that microwave popcorn is seriously toxic stuff. Walk into a dorm where someone has made that stuff and the smell is so strong and lasts days.
But tasty food isn't necessarily artificial, it's just tends to be fatty. Deep friers are great things. I'm a big fan of french fries and mayo. It's a great combo.
As far as chemical additives are concerned, I'm looking forward to the next wave of genetically engineered solutions and I support meat irratiation, but I worry less about preservatives and more about my time in the 10k.
Originally posted by Fellowship
This Story adds fuel to the fire with my disgust at all things fake and artificial. I dislike artificial colors and flavors. I don't like all the fillers and preservatives in processed foods. I don't like processed foods period as a matter of fact. I despise hydrogenated oils/fats. MSG is evil and sodium in excess which does not take much is bad for you. I never like artificial sweeteners.
What do I like you may ask?
Whole foods, herbs and teas as fresh as can be found.\\
And.... Krispy Kremes if I recall a thread from last Summer? Or was that not started by you? BTW, I had some Krispy Kremes about a month ago for the very first time, fresh from the oven to my kitchen. MAN. Probably the single worst thing you can ingest from a health standpoint, but they are damn good.
What products do you find repulsive?
Fat-free ice cream.
What foods / nutrition do you find attractive and beneficial?
Scrapple!
I guess it's not really unnatural but around where I live we have fausnacht day. Which are basically doughnuts fried in lard. They are delicious. I guess people around here are a little less health nuts living in amish country where the food is as delicious as it is fatty.
All this is to say that I don't enjoy a nice banana or apple...or ESPECIALLY strawberries! When go out into a field and pick your own strawberries they taste so much better!
I don't really care for twinkies or tastey cakes though...just not my thing.
Originally posted by BuonRotto
Scrapple!
See the problem here is a failure to communicate. Scrapple is not a food.
Originally posted by Moogs
And.... Krispy Kremes if I recall a thread from last Summer? Or was that not started by you? BTW, I had some Krispy Kremes about a month ago for the very first time, fresh from the oven to my kitchen. MAN. Probably the single worst thing you can ingest from a health standpoint, but they are damn good.
Oh God, my mouth is watering from the thought of warm Krispy Kremes.
But now I just exclude Beef
but I eat home cooked meals as often as possible: vegetable stir fries, steamed vegies with togu, tempeh or sausages . . . but the meat is always organic --almost always . . . as I do love my Italian dry-pork salami!!!!
Milk is always organic with no steriods etc . ..
and generally stay away from processed
but Im not strict . . .I'm pretty buddhist about diet . . you know.. 'the middle-path' and all-that . . .
(BTW: in the Pali canon Buddha died by choking on wild boar . . . which means he ate meat) .
so I indulge my sweet tooth often: Super-Hot TamaleS
The surprising this about what most of us eat from day to day, is that when you do go out of your way to eat some healthy or naturally prepared food, it tastes oh so much better than the crap we eat most of time. I have found this to be true, anyway.
Cooked meals is better, but recquier time. Let me thanks my wife for being a good cooker.
I almost eat cooked meals
Not bulimic I hope Doc?
Originally posted by NaplesX
]If I drink anything with nutra sweet in it, I get a splitting headache and general icky feeling. I'll take regular sugar anyway. thanks.
Nutrasweet is pure evil. I get that same jittery stomach / sick stomach feeling anytime I drink or eat something that has that crap in it. What is really distressing is sometimes in work environments I like to have some chewing gum on hand just in case I had garlic with lunch or whatever, and almost ALL of the chewing gum out there has nutra-puke in it.
Altoids for me, I guess.
a big amount of candy with colorants gives me migraine. so often im limiting myself to mint candies with real mint. and no colors.
i try to eat healthy and to avoid excessive amounts of artificial stuff. so i prefer cooking from fresh ingredients rather than eating ready foods.
i get paranoid in supermarkets, all the perverted foods like whipped cream spray, liquid butter for pop corn etc. food that is not it should, it's as pervert and pointless as a plastic christmas tree..
i was at the post office the other day and saw this large african-american women with the most hair i've ever seen. it was super long and done is fine braids. it looked like shit and quite frankly it was gross looking
Originally posted by Giaguara
i get paranoid in supermarkets, all the perverted foods like whipped cream spray...