Being a die-hard dogged rationalist means that just about everything that human beings do gets on your nerves. It also means that someone is always trying to convince you that their way of thinking is more correct than whatever else other people do. Diet is an easy target for this sort of warring because practically nobody has a proper diet, and because the ideas of what constitutes "proper" is very poorly understood, so it is easy to find new ideas and new thinking that supplants the old.
I get all sorts of things about diet fads and how this is the thing you should eat. It's very easy to be fooled by it as well, because often times, there are real studies to back some of what people say about various foods... the problem is that there isn't much understanding of those studies or even the scientific significance of their results by the people who spin fads out of them. There are, for instance, studies that show that acai berry is a rich source of antioxidants... so it becomes the new miracle food. Problem is it ignores the fact that a berry which is rich in antioxidants is about as rare as a liquid that happens to be wet.
So I feel I have to rip apart at least one of the more current food fads that I keep getting requests and spam about -- that being, the raw food movement. I don't think I have any limits to how far I can take this rant, but then, the same can be said about a lot of things. Well, here goes...
The raw food movement is based entirely on partial truths and very limited understandings of food value.
I get all sorts of things about diet fads and how this is the thing you should eat. It's very easy to be fooled by it as well, because often times, there are real studies to back some of what people say about various foods... the problem is that there isn't much understanding of those studies or even the scientific significance of their results by the people who spin fads out of them. There are, for instance, studies that show that acai berry is a rich source of antioxidants... so it becomes the new miracle food. Problem is it ignores the fact that a berry which is rich in antioxidants is about as rare as a liquid that happens to be wet.
So I feel I have to rip apart at least one of the more current food fads that I keep getting requests and spam about -- that being, the raw food movement. I don't think I have any limits to how far I can take this rant, but then, the same can be said about a lot of things. Well, here goes...
The raw food movement is based entirely on partial truths and very limited understandings of food value.
