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FWIW humans need more than potato & soy sauce in their diet to be healthy long term, so at least for that part wanting more doesn't seem like snobbery. (You ca

by ip26 8y ago

FWIW humans need more than potato & soy sauce in their diet to be healthy long term, so at least for that part wanting more doesn't seem like snobbery. (You can subsist on potatoes, and you can even do it for a while- but for example young children develop deformities if they lack certain vitamins, which potatoes do not have)

barry-cotter 8y ago
Really cheap nutritionally complete diets; potatoes and milk, rice and beans, peanut butter and bread. Note that these are all ~carbohydrates and protein.
- Engineering-MD 8y ago
  You need a degree of fats in your diet for fat soluble vitamins to be included too.
RobertRoberts 8y ago
If you haven't ever lived at subsistence level you may not understand what you are facing in reality. Food is food, better to have a deformity than to be dead. There are tons of greens in everyone's backyard in America right now that you can eat. Half the weeds in your yard are editable and would fill in all the missing nutrients. Education is the problem here, maybe not so much resources. (unless famine?) But also, when I eat the same meal every day, I do feel a certain hunger for other things after awhile, so I don't disagree about nutrients.
- Noumenon72 8y ago
  You can't subsist on greens, they're 8 calories a cup (47 grams). You would need to eat thirty pounds a day of lettuce out of your back yard. That's polluted urban soil so it would probably poison you whilst you starved.
  - RobertRoberts 8y ago
    I was merely pointing out that probably a few bites of greens (not covered in chemicals, where do you live?) has enough vitamins to stave off scurvy and a host of other nutritional deficiencies... not feed you outright.
- ip26 8y ago
  I think we are talking past each other. I was just trying to say that wanting a variety of food, is not a sign of a greedy opulent society. I've not had to rummage food from dumpsters, but I've been broke & eaten a nutritionally inadequate diet as a result, and I saw what it did to me.
  - RobertRoberts 8y ago
    >I think we are talking past each other. I was just trying to say that wanting a variety of food, is not a sign of a greedy opulent society. I don't disagree at all, I think everyone wants some variety, or at the very least the ability to choose. It seemed your comment was worded unclearly, which may be why the down votes...

by ip26 8y ago

barry-cotter 8y ago

Really cheap nutritionally complete diets; potatoes and milk, rice and beans, peanut butter and bread. Note that these are all ~carbohydrates and protein.

Engineering-MD 8y ago
You need a degree of fats in your diet for fat soluble vitamins to be included too.

RobertRoberts 8y ago

If you haven't ever lived at subsistence level you may not understand what you are facing in reality. Food is food, better to have a deformity than to be dead. There are tons of greens in everyone's backyard in America right now that you can eat. Half the weeds in your yard are editable and would fill in all the missing nutrients. Education is the problem here, maybe not so much resources. (unless famine?) But also, when I eat the same meal every day, I do feel a certain hunger for other things after awhile, so I don't disagree about nutrients.

Noumenon72 8y ago
You can't subsist on greens, they're 8 calories a cup (47 grams). You would need to eat thirty pounds a day of lettuce out of your back yard. That's polluted urban soil so it would probably poison you whilst you starved.
- RobertRoberts 8y ago
  I was merely pointing out that probably a few bites of greens (not covered in chemicals, where do you live?) has enough vitamins to stave off scurvy and a host of other nutritional deficiencies... not feed you outright.
ip26 8y ago
I think we are talking past each other. I was just trying to say that wanting a variety of food, is not a sign of a greedy opulent society. I've not had to rummage food from dumpsters, but I've been broke & eaten a nutritionally inadequate diet as a result, and I saw what it did to me.
- RobertRoberts 8y ago
  >I think we are talking past each other. I was just trying to say that wanting a variety of food, is not a sign of a greedy opulent society. I don't disagree at all, I think everyone wants some variety, or at the very least the ability to choose. It seemed your comment was worded unclearly, which may be why the down votes...