To start (since it's short, and loftar mentioned): gluten free baking is usually about using binder substitutes like flax to hold the bread together. There's some tricks, but once you learn them, you can convert almost any recipe to gluten free. Until then, the Internet is great for finding recipes. Some of the foods are actually better (brownies being one), some don't come out so well (actual cakes aren't quite so good... not as light and fluffy, or pick up an odd flavor from the other binders). Give it a try and see what you like. Overall it tends to be healthier because of the grains being used (not because it's gluten-free).
sMartins wrote:even in the so called "full grain flour" we can buy nowdays the main ingredient is still white flour (endosperm), while the other parts are added later on, like it happen for vitamins artificially added.
A) depends on milling methods, B) well of course. the endosperm makes up nearly all--80-90% or more--of the grain's weight. Do you expect it to be different just because it was milled? It's just a matter of whether the grain and flour end up being bleached in the process. The whole-grain flours I buy are unbleached.
shubla wrote:Here is one example that proves my point. At least in Finland, we no longer have that disease. It is caused entirely by lack of D-vitamin and other nutrients.
It was very common few hundred years ago, because people ate monotonously. These days, not so much. For example, D-vitamin is added to milk in Finland, to prevent such things.
I'm pretty sure this is pretty much standard in industrialized nations. It was started in the US in the 1930s (not sure what country it first originated in), and milk chosen as the source for extra D due to kids drinking a lot of it. Wouldn't surprise me if it originated in Finland or a Scandinavian country as it is a substitute for a "healthy tan" which you can't get if you live in an area with little sun. But then, we all know today about how "unhealthy" a tan is.
sMartins wrote: Btw all this propaganda against meat nowadays it's just a marketing war ... if you don't eat meat you need to buy other stuff ... so it's part of our sick system, to bring people to buy their new products that cost more .. advertinsing nowadays relys on kids and feelings ... while some time ago was pretty much exclusively about sex.
1. In the US, vegetarians and vegans tend to be healthier than the rest of the population. I don't know about Europe because I just don't get a damn about being either.
2.In Hinduism, all live without red meat, as it's better to milk a cow than to kill it... or any mammal for that matter. It's a tenet of the religion few are willing to break. Some Buddhists have been living as vegans for almost as long as Buddhism has existed (1600+ years).
3. Let's also mention that animal farming is one of the biggest producers of free methane on the planet with no way of trapping it short of more factory farming methods (which are bad, both from a humane perspective and nutritional value of the animal as food), and that
methane is upwards of 86x as dangerous as CO2.
As far as the aspect of killing an animal... I say if you aren't willing to do it yourself, you should be a degenerate vegetarian... damn commie hippie scum. (And that comment about driving large engine SUVs... I don't know any actual vegetarians short of Hollywood actors that drive these things, so don't know where you're getting your information. All the vegetarians I've met are at best eco-friendly, and on the extreme, eco-terrorist on their level of activism about their views.)
Yeah, there are nutritional issues that need to be addressed, like the total lack of two important B-complex vitamins (B6 and B12 IIRC), and some other nutrients aren't easily found in plants, so supplements should be taken. Otherwise, vegetarianism is one of the healthiest diets on the planet.
As far as diets go, there was a short "diet" done by a local nutrition professor for 10 weeks "just in the name of research" where he lived on nothing but snack cakes and sweets. Blood testing and all that was done just to check for proper nutrient and hormone levels and such. After the diet period... just fine and healthy, and significantly lighter. Due to the general knowledge of sugars and long term effects, he didn't want to go any further, but you could, in theory, live on about anything if you had to and have proper nutritional supplements. (This was just after "Super Size Me" came out about the 30 day "all hamburger" diet that could have killed the guy pulling the stunt.) I'm not sure what will show up internationally, so just google "Twinkie diet." Articles exist on CNN.com, Huffington Post, and several others.
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by shubla » Wed Feb 14, 2018 10:56 pm 
