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The Amish love sugar as much as the next group along. Jams, jellies, preserves; pies, cakes, and cookies are all part of their diet. They are probably less lik
by dsr_ 9y ago
The Amish love sugar as much as the next group along. Jams, jellies, preserves; pies, cakes, and cookies are all part of their diet.
They are probably less likely to consume large amounts of prepackaged desserts, sodas and snack foods than their "English" neighbors, but that varies from community to community.
- rando444 9y agoI've never seen Amish consuming pre-packaged anything. They have an abundance of home-grown food. Cigarettes though.. the youth still love them.
- agumonkey 9y agothe culture you live in has enormous impact on how much you will attach to the sensory pleasure of sugar bloated products. With time I started to develop new taste, and I can recognize when something has too much sugar in it. Before that I would be blind. If you live in a place with more subtle food, you probably get years of advance at that game and you can find pleasure in other nutrients. Also lifestyle change your diet, amish are said to be often working outside in groups, that makes you hungry and not seeking for greedy/gourmet.
- dsr_ 9y agoI agree with your first point -- when I drastically reduced my sugar consumption, it was only a few months before I felt that everything I had liked before was horrendously over-sweetened. However, your second point is not applicable. The Amish have a culinary tradition of their own that stems from 18th C German cooking adapted to American ingredients. Because they strictly limit their exposure to technology changes, they do more manual labor than is common for their neighbors, but this isn't correlated with a lack of desire for good (tasty, appetizing, visually appealing) food. If you tour Pennsylvania, Ohio and Indiana, you'll discover Amish foods and handmade goods being sold everywhere.
- agumonkey 9y agoI don't know what amish eat, but I'd bet a dollar or two that it's not crude industrial premade recipes, nor hamburger or pizzas and soda. If it is.. then I am wrong, but I'd be surprised considering the conservatism mentioned in articles about them; they seem to only accept things that have clear benefits and not cheap ideas that look shiny (like any new technology).
- leekyle333 9y agoThey also get lots of sunlight, exercise, and have a tight knit community (one of the largest predictors of longevity).