Here’s a wormhole in the Internet: Go to YouTube and look for old food ads from the time of your youth. Amazingly, you’ll discover that they are all present and that they have been compiled and sorted into playlists that serve as a horrifyingly quick crash course or, dare I say, crash diet.
This activity was an examination of the 1970s and the first decade of the 1980s, the pinnacle of Mad Men-style advertising that made us believe that “Mikey likes it” and “my bologna has a first name.”
This exercise served as a survey of the 1970s and the first part of the 1980s for me, the pinnacle of the Mad Men-style advertising culture that had us believe things like “Mikey likes it” and “my bologna has a first name.”
Despite the fact that I haven’t had Life cereal or Oscar Mayer bologna in decades, watching the videos made me feel nostalgic even though Don Draper could easily trick me into thinking I was hungry.
I would want to say that I avoid certain meals because they are unhealthy for both myself and the environment, but that is just part of the truth.
It is scientifically proven that the cereal high in sugar and carbohydrates and the deli meat with dubious animal origins are unhealthy for me.
However, if my YouTube binge has taught me anything, it’s that food science is constantly changing and that food firms will always have a special interest in taking advantage of it.
After that, the aughts brought about by the Atkins diet’s infatuation with ketosis. At that time, all fats were considered healthy, and the phrase “fat-free” were simply two f-words.
Kuh-Kuh-Kuh-Keto:
Fat was unquestionably bad in the 1980s, and “fat-free” goods dominated grocery shelves.
In the 1990s, some fats all of a sudden started to be considered good, but only those with names that sounded like indie films (“Carey Mulligan stars in Polly, Unsaturated”) and could be linked to a Mediterranean vision that was much more like the Nouvelle Vague’s imagination of the region than the reality of 1990s Italy or Greece.
The aughts saw a rise in interest in the Atkins-inspired ketosis. All fats were considered healthy at the time, and the phrase “fat-free” were simply two f-words.
The common thread was “science,” even though corporate food chemists were using it as a tool like fish-fingered Frankensteins.
For instance, the chemical addition olestra (commonly known as “Olean”), which replaced fat in products like butter and potato chips with a well-known adverse effect, was approved for human consumption by the Food and Drug Administration in 1996. loose stools You may finally have your cake and eat it too.
Better than cob lettuce is kale. No, kale isn’t good since it’s a brassica, and I forget why brassicas are bad.
Frankenfoods aren’t the only foods to be concerned about either. The following is an excerpt from an email my editor sent in an effort to support kale:
Kale is preferable to cob lettuce. Kale is not recommended because it is a brassica, and brassicas are undesirable because… Although I can’t recall, I’ve seen this. Something regarding thyroid damage.
Due to its high nutritional content, kale quickly gained popularity. People began consuming it in big numbers before discovering that, while it is beneficial in moderation, it can be poisonous when consumed in excess.
And because of this perfectly reasonable distinction between a normal amount and an exceptional amount, there are a lot of extremely conflicting opinions concerning the crucifer.
In other words, the only thing we’ve learned is that we haven’t learned anything, and the universe’s love of irony assumes that kale is overdue for a turnabout.
Kale is no more. Kale, long live.
No toots or beans are permitted:
They may be one of the most often consumed foods among the seven (or five, or nine, depending on how you Google it) populations in the Blue Zones that are the healthiest and longest-living on the planet, but they also contain what are referred to as “antinutrients.”
Despite the fact that I am not a nutritionist, if I were playing one on television, I would assert that this is because of “Fig Newton’s Third Law of Nutrition,” which states that “for every nutrient, there is an equal and opposite antinutrient,” in this case, the actual protein lectin.
These proteins become inflammatory substances when they attach to specific carbohydrates, such as sugar. and occasionally poison. For instance, ricin, a toxic lectin linked to castor beans, is infamous among cosy mystery authors and medical examiners both.
So, if you want to survive, pass on the bean dip.
However, there’s still more!
Bread. Clearly, gluten is lethal.
Fruit. The sugar is a Soviet-era scheme to destruct the bodies and minds of Americans!
Nightshades, which include eggplants, tomatoes, and peppers, were likely considered to be bad spirits in a Harry Potter novel.
Since mushrooms are fungus, which is code for toxic shock syndrome, they should only be consumed in small doses and never with spaghetti sauce.
I won’t even discuss red wine’s intermittent claims to be a resveratrol-rich health tonic.
There is some irony present in this situation. Our meals transition from living to dead to digested because we eat both plant and animal stuff (also known as food).
Is it insane to believe that the reasons behind our food concerns are actually plants and animals getting back at us?
I admit that it is incorrect as well as paranoid. Perhaps not the revenge aspect (have you read Animal Farm? ), but rather the idea that all edibles are essentially miniature time bombs.
The Truth
The truth is that you may find a diet that will keep you healthy and happy by following a few basic rules of thumb, such as never eating anything with your thumb on it.
Understanding your own particular nutritional requirements is a good place to start. A nutritionist or registered dietitian can be of assistance in this regard.
Next, try to stick as closely as possible to sustainably produced organic choices that aren’t overly processed and don’t contain ingredients you can’t pronounce. Always keep things simple. similar to the immortal Michael Pollan’s catchphrase.
Eat, but not too much, and primarily plants.
The truth is that your diet is probably safer than you believe, so there’s no need to feel bad about it whether you eat Life cereal or not, consume nightshades or avoid them, or occasionally eat bologna.
Your fair trade, shade-grown, farm-to-fork, non-GMO, natural, and organic black bean and blue corn nachos should be the only thing that is black and blue. Obviously with vegan cheese.