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As an aside, consumption of bread is strongly correlated with tooth decay. Whole wheat has only a slightly smaller correlation.
by iamsohungry 11y ago
As an aside, consumption of bread is strongly correlated with tooth decay. Whole wheat has only a slightly smaller correlation.
- asavadatti 11y agoI trust your word on this iamsohungry. Seriously though, do you know how much is safe?
- gre 11y agoCan't you just brush your teeth afterwards?
- sitharus 11y agoThat's actually worse for you, you should wait at least an hour after eating before you brush. The action of brushing displaces the enamel rebuilding agents in your saliva. Quick reference: http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/21/really-never-brush-your-teeth-immediately-after-a-meal/ http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/21/really-never-brush-...
- Retra 11y agoBest thing to do is always drink lots of water.
- cwbrandsma 11y agoI'm a food cynic: any food will be branded as bad for you given enough scrutiny. All that does is make it harder to discern between foods that are slightly/possibly unhealthy and foods that are just actually bad for you. (my mother still believes that eggs are bad for you because they contain so much cholesterol)
- Dirlewanger 11y agoEh, maybe modern processed bread that has sugar in it. Questionable otherwise, unless you have a source.
- gahahaha 11y agoAgriculture was terrible for our health - even before sugar became a part of our diet. http://discovermagazine.com/1987/may/02-the-worst-mistake-in-the-history-of-the-human-race http://discovermagazine.com/1987/may/02-the-worst-mistake-in...
- nemo 11y agoWhile agriculture has had health-effects, Jared Diamond is a quack who writes shallow fluff-anthropology and seems to take the approach of deciding on a conclusion, then go finding research to justify it.
- iamsohungry 11y agoWhile I'm with you on Jared Diamond not being the best scientist, your criticism misses the mark. What you've described is part of the scientific method: you come up with a hypothesis and you test it. A better criticism of Jared Diamond's work would be that his work suffers from a lack of primary source evidence: he's not doing experiments or directly synthesizing actual data, he's synthesizing the results of studies. And since there's no objective way to choose which studies are relevant or evaluate the methodologies of different studies, that inevitably introduces his own bias into the process. That said, I haven't seen any studies contradicting the claim that grains in diet are correlated with tooth decay (which is a smaller claim than the larger claims Diamond makes about health, and which I think the primary studies he cites actually support).
- rtkwe 11y agoI'm happy for whatever health problems it incurred since it seems to have allowed and fostered modern civilization. I think a very important line from that article is this: > The evidence suggests that the Indians at Dickson Mounds, like many other primitive peoples, took up farming not by choice but from necessity in order to feed their constantly growing numbers. "I don't think most hunger-gatherers farmed until they had to, and when they switched to farming they traded quality for quantity," Hunter-Gatherer works fine until you reach a certain population and it seems that that population/lifestyle is below the point where you start to really see civilization lifting up and starting to advance quickly.
- SixSigma 11y ago[citation needed] because bread in the US is not like bread anywhere else I have been, all that added sugar!