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The lower the water content, the more dangerous and unhealthy it is. My rule after tracking health studies and fitness information for more than a decade. The o

The lower the water content, the more dangerous and unhealthy it is. My rule after tracking health studies and fitness information for more than a decade. The old boring advice is golden. Fresh fruits, and more importantly, vegetables. Tapering off rapidly toward complex carbs and grains after a substantial portion of legumes. The more you grind fruit and grains the more they turn into sugar. No one wants to hear the truth: HoHos and pork shoulder will ruin your retirement years.

verticalscaler 3y ago
> No one wants to hear the truth: HoHos and pork shoulder will ruin your retirement years. I think it is well understood by interested people that indulging in cream-filled chocolate snack cakes will lead to bad outcomes. But what is your beef with pork shoulders?
- ragazzina 3y ago
  Maybe they refer to the practice of simmering pork shoulders for hours in Coke/soda.
  - NoPicklez 3y ago
    Are you trying to take away my freedoms?
giantg2 3y ago
I generally agre, but pork shoulder shouldn't be that bad for you. If you're barbecuing it, a lot of the fat should cook out. If you eat an otherwise healthy diet and dont over do this, it should be fine. An interesting thing that I've noticed, is that pork fats seem to vary in their solidifying temperature. If I get pork from the supermarket, the fat resolidifies at room temperature rather quickly. If I get pork from a local farm, it can take all night to resolidify at room temperature. I'm thinking the quality of the pork feed may be affecting the health properties of the fat (higher saturated fat tends to equal higher solidity). Obviously it's still bad if one overeats it, but maybe we could get some health benefits from looking at the quality of the fats through things like animal feeds and living condidtions.
katzenversteher 3y ago
I don't think it's just the water content, it's also the surface area. Most processing we do (crushing, milling, blending, juicing, extruding, popping etc.) increases the surface area of the food and therefore make it faster digestible by our body. Not sure if we have any processing that makes food less digestible and decreases surface area but it would be interesting to compare this kind of processing with the other.
paddim8 3y ago
> Fresh No, frozen and dried stuff are fine. I don't get the obsession with freshness when talking about healthy food.

verticalscaler 3y ago

> No one wants to hear the truth: HoHos and pork shoulder will ruin your retirement years. I think it is well understood by interested people that indulging in cream-filled chocolate snack cakes will lead to bad outcomes. But what is your beef with pork shoulders?

ragazzina 3y ago
Maybe they refer to the practice of simmering pork shoulders for hours in Coke/soda.
- NoPicklez 3y ago
  Are you trying to take away my freedoms?

giantg2 3y ago

I generally agre, but pork shoulder shouldn't be that bad for you. If you're barbecuing it, a lot of the fat should cook out. If you eat an otherwise healthy diet and dont over do this, it should be fine. An interesting thing that I've noticed, is that pork fats seem to vary in their solidifying temperature. If I get pork from the supermarket, the fat resolidifies at room temperature rather quickly. If I get pork from a local farm, it can take all night to resolidify at room temperature. I'm thinking the quality of the pork feed may be affecting the health properties of the fat (higher saturated fat tends to equal higher solidity). Obviously it's still bad if one overeats it, but maybe we could get some health benefits from looking at the quality of the fats through things like animal feeds and living condidtions.

katzenversteher 3y ago

I don't think it's just the water content, it's also the surface area. Most processing we do (crushing, milling, blending, juicing, extruding, popping etc.) increases the surface area of the food and therefore make it faster digestible by our body. Not sure if we have any processing that makes food less digestible and decreases surface area but it would be interesting to compare this kind of processing with the other.

paddim8 3y ago

> Fresh No, frozen and dried stuff are fine. I don't get the obsession with freshness when talking about healthy food.