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Yes totally agree, on a per calorie basis, this will never be viable (you get almost no calories from greens). Staple crops will always need a lot of land, but
by seiferteric 10y ago
Yes totally agree, on a per calorie basis, this will never be viable (you get almost no calories from greens). Staple crops will always need a lot of land, but they may find a niche for greens, more power to them.
- jlebrech 10y agowith the obesity epidemic calorie density should be the least of our worries.
- ch4s3 10y agoEven if you're obese you still need calories from the base of your diet. Put another way, you aren't going to live on lettuce and kale alone.
- jlebrech 10y agoif you ate lettuce and kale as much as an obese person eats chips, you'd be very healthy.
- ch4s3 10y agoUm... I'm going to treat this as though you're serious. You're probably wrong here. Lettuce especially is pretty lacking in nutrients, and all of the good stuff in kale is locked inside thick cell walls that have to be broken mechanically or by heat. Moreover, you're assuming that someone is fat specifically because of chips, when they probably make a number of unhealthy choices that cumulatively lead to obesity. I'm not sure a 1 to 1 swap of kale for chips buys you much more than a sore jaw and very regular bowels.
- TheSpiceIsLife 10y agoI predict that in the near future the overlap of psychoneuroimmunology and gut flora is going to have a lot to say about regular, well-formed, easy to pass, mid to dark-brown, sinking, bowel movements.