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The lesson again and again is to simply eat whole foods. ...cue the onslaught of wise-guy comments claiming sliced carrots aren't whole foods.

tonyedgecombe 2y ago
>...cue the onslaught of wise-guy comments claiming sliced carrots aren't whole foods. Also think of the poor, they can't afford carrots.
nonethewiser 2y ago
One does not simply eat a grocery store chain.
MrMcCall 2y ago
Hundreds of housands of years of the human body's evolution should be respected, neh? I like my day's first glass of water to have a half a lemon's worth of juice freshly squeezed into it. My cold-brew (or occasionally espresso) coffee gets real maple syrup (no Log Cabin bullshit sugar-fest) and half-and-half or maybe whole milk. Sometimes I mix yogurt into a mug of milk towards the end of the day. That's the fullness of my liquids, except that which comes naturally with food.
- SketchySeaBeast 2y ago
  I find this line of reasoning disingenuous. After all, we couldn't consume milk hundreds of thousands of years ago. Does your evolutionary heritage put you in places where hundreds of thousand of years ago you would have consumed lemons, coffee, and maple syrup? Is half-and-half natural? Is coffee? Is maple syrup? On a scale of hundreds of thousands of years all those are relatively recent. It's a bit of straw-man, but I'm try to point out that we can't appeal to being in alignment with our evolution when even those barebone items have been refined and we wouldn't have eaten them in our prehistory.
  - MrMcCall 2y ago
    > After all, we couldn't consume milk hundreds of thousands of years ago. But for the past thousands of years, I'm pretty sure my lineage could. > you would have consumed lemons, coffee, and maple syrup? Citris? Beans? Tree syrup? > Is half-and-half natural? Sure is. And so is yogurt (a Turkish word, I'll have you). > It's a bit of straw-man I'd call it something else, completely. > I find this line of reasoning disingenuous. Duly noted.
    - SketchySeaBeast 2y ago
      Few thousand years, OK, but not hundreds of thousands. Coffee has only been drank for less than a thousand years. They aren't just beans, they are specific beans that undergo refinement to get them to where we want them to be. Same with maple syrup - tree sap is not the same in its natural form. You're drinking a concentrated sugar. The lines in the sand here aren't as definite as they are made out to be.
      - MrMcCall 2y ago
        Aspartame was definitely approved in 1974.
  - cynicalpeace 2y ago
    lmao lemons are for sure comparable to aspartame /s

tonyedgecombe 2y ago

>...cue the onslaught of wise-guy comments claiming sliced carrots aren't whole foods. Also think of the poor, they can't afford carrots.

nonethewiser 2y ago

One does not simply eat a grocery store chain.

MrMcCall 2y ago

Hundreds of housands of years of the human body's evolution should be respected, neh? I like my day's first glass of water to have a half a lemon's worth of juice freshly squeezed into it. My cold-brew (or occasionally espresso) coffee gets real maple syrup (no Log Cabin bullshit sugar-fest) and half-and-half or maybe whole milk. Sometimes I mix yogurt into a mug of milk towards the end of the day. That's the fullness of my liquids, except that which comes naturally with food.

SketchySeaBeast 2y ago
I find this line of reasoning disingenuous. After all, we couldn't consume milk hundreds of thousands of years ago. Does your evolutionary heritage put you in places where hundreds of thousand of years ago you would have consumed lemons, coffee, and maple syrup? Is half-and-half natural? Is coffee? Is maple syrup? On a scale of hundreds of thousands of years all those are relatively recent. It's a bit of straw-man, but I'm try to point out that we can't appeal to being in alignment with our evolution when even those barebone items have been refined and we wouldn't have eaten them in our prehistory.
- MrMcCall 2y ago
  > After all, we couldn't consume milk hundreds of thousands of years ago. But for the past thousands of years, I'm pretty sure my lineage could. > you would have consumed lemons, coffee, and maple syrup? Citris? Beans? Tree syrup? > Is half-and-half natural? Sure is. And so is yogurt (a Turkish word, I'll have you). > It's a bit of straw-man I'd call it something else, completely. > I find this line of reasoning disingenuous. Duly noted.
  - SketchySeaBeast 2y ago
    Few thousand years, OK, but not hundreds of thousands. Coffee has only been drank for less than a thousand years. They aren't just beans, they are specific beans that undergo refinement to get them to where we want them to be. Same with maple syrup - tree sap is not the same in its natural form. You're drinking a concentrated sugar. The lines in the sand here aren't as definite as they are made out to be.
    - MrMcCall 2y ago
      Aspartame was definitely approved in 1974.
- cynicalpeace 2y ago
  lmao lemons are for sure comparable to aspartame /s