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whats defines as processed
When I say processed I basically mean things that are not made out of natural ingredients, and lots of chemicals. Processed items include almost everything ever made by Kraft.
Or anything that isn't sold as a "whole" food (not endorsing any Whole Paycheck outlets here necessarily) that you can combine yourself and cook up. If it comes sold in a box, chances are high that it's processed. If it has to carry an ingredients list, chances are that it's processed.
 

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Or anything that isn't sold as a "whole" food (not endorsing any Whole Paycheck outlets here necessarily) that you can combine yourself and cook up. If it comes sold in a box, chances are high that it's processed. If it has to carry an ingredients list, chances are that it's processed.
Is that what we should be calling them now? "Whole" foods?
 

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ßöмßäяðîëя;3002871 said:
There already is a food thread, search for it.

I was saying that cheese is bad for you, I love cheese, but none of it is healthy.
Exactly

So that's where paleontology comes from. :D

Hey, if you've got a system that works for you, awesome. But a yellow flag for me is anything that creates a secondary market of pill-pushers, book-and-seminar-publishers, etc.
No supplements or pills in the paleo diet

Its everything pre-agricultural revolution
 

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Is that what we should be calling them now? "Whole" foods?
It's the term I've seen most often. "Whole" in the sense that they're pretty close to their origin form and not manhandled by a factory with strange ingredients and chemicals added much afterwards.

No supplements or pills in the paleo diet

Its everything pre-agricultural revolution
So the idea being that you want to have the diet of a serf from the 8th-century? But those people died by the age of 30.

Not to be critical of something if it's working for you, but that smells like some historical revisionism bullshit that stinks like a Taco Bell parking lot.
 

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It's the term I've seen most often. "Whole" in the sense that they're pretty close to their origin form and not manhandled by a factory with strange ingredients and chemicals added much afterwards.



So the idea being that you want to have the diet of a serf from the 8th-century? But those people died by the age of 30.
:rofl: :lol: :lol: :lol2:

Swag, I'm seriously laughing right now..got me crying lol
 

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It's the term I've seen most often. "Whole" in the sense that they're pretty close to their origin form and not manhandled by a factory with strange ingredients and chemicals added much afterwards.



So the idea being that you want to have the diet of a serf from the 8th-century? But those people died by the age of 30.

Not to be critical of something if it's working for you, but that smells like some historical revisionism bullshit that stinks like a Taco Bell parking lot.
Actually its more like cavemen
 

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Actually its more like cavemen
There are interesting elements to at least the concept. One of the things I've liked from Michael Pollan is how he's pointed out how our dietary systems might be able to adapt to handle a lot of the processed foods that now surround us. But evolution and adaptation cannot happen in a single generation, as it's really only been some 20-30 years where much of the world diet went to hell. Maybe in 100 years+ after lots of premature deaths and disease we'd weed ourselves out for the natural selection to survive eating that crap. But we're nothing close to that now.

On the other side, you could say that it's in the human DNA to properly consume and process foods that were familiar to us before the Agricultural Revolution, but that is so, so long ago I would even be hard pressed to believe that today we could still digest half the stuff we ate then.

Not only that, but our physiology has completely shifted and adapted since back then. No longer are we working 15x7 to plow fields through manual means anymore. We lead mostly sedentary lives with the occasional gym excursion to trick our bodies that we're still living a physical existence.
 

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