Comments on: Eat like your grandma: Why you should skip the kale salad

By: Seema Malik

Seema Malik — Wed, 29 Mar 2017 06:08:19 +0000

Adore how they hold up until part of the way through the article to specify this: “Le, who is not a nutritionist, … ”

With soo much clashing wellbeing data out there, it wouldn’t been pleasant to know his accreditations, or scarcity in that department, right on time in the article.
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By: Neha Sharma

Neha Sharma — Thu, 23 Mar 2017 07:22:36 +0000

The creator dishonors himself by saying that direct liquor utilization is more valuable than organic products/vegetables. The advantages of direct liquor utilization dissipate when you legitimately represent the way that individuals who were debilitated in any case will probably decline — here’s a current meta-examination to that impact:http://www.epfbalancestatusonline.in/

By: sackvillian

sackvillian — Wed, 15 Mar 2017 23:11:20 +0000

The author discredits himself by saying that moderate alcohol consumption is more beneficial than fruits/vegetables. The benefits of moderate alcohol consumption evaporate when you properly account for the fact that people who were sick in the first place were more likely to abstain — here’s a recent meta-analysis to that effect: http://www.jsad.com/doi/abs/10.15288/jsad.2016.77.185?journalCode=jsad

It’s called the misclassification hypothesis, and the same error is often made in studies looking at benefits of being slightly overweight. In any case, there is almost no effect in all of nutritional science as robust as the benefits of fruits and veggies — to argue against that with anecdotes is absurd. But then, Le is not an MD or a nutritionist.

By: Katya Sokolova

Katya Sokolova — Wed, 15 Mar 2017 00:55:19 +0000

It’s not. Potatoes are a recent intro to European cuisine, not more than 500 years or so. Lots of grains, lots of legumes such as peas, root veggies and, funny enough, raw greens. Also blood, meat, fish, lots of fish, peas, more peas, some more peas, just keep eating peas and bread and drink it down with ale and you’ll be fine.

By: Doris Wrench Eisler

Doris Wrench Eisler — Sat, 14 Jan 2017 19:27:39 +0000

“Grandma”, or even “Ma”, in my case, didn’t have to contend with GMO foods that you don’t even have the right to be informed about, or the literally thousands of chemicals that are added to foods routinely, as well as environmental poisons of various kinds. And, if you shouldn’t “cherry pick” “scientific” reports, trials, etc., just because they support your position, on whose authority should you decide?
“Science”, a term with many connotations, doesn’t even understand what causes common skin disorders like eczema and psoriasis, nutrition, or very much else. It’s mostly a matter of intuition on the part of doctors, nutritionists and “scientists”. In the case of the Canada food Guide, it was a matter of industry promotion more than any other consideration. And meat and dairy didn’t kill anyone outright in those days but widespread use of antibiotics in cattle has changed that equation drastically.
if someone gets positive results from a diet that seems mildly bizarre to others, they have as much right to it as any other opinion on the subject.
The rejection of food additives and artificially coloured and sugared food for children is hardly taking a stand against “Science”, as this article seems to imply it does.

By: Gage G.

Gage G. — Sat, 07 Jan 2017 04:01:30 +0000

Sorry, meant maternal grand mother.

By: B.Causeiknow

B.Causeiknow — Fri, 06 Jan 2017 00:24:07 +0000

The first part of the article it states that he has a PhD. in biological anthropology. I suggest that this, coupled with his extensive research, may be more reliable than a nutritionist … with a BSc. employed by a food company.

By: Gage G.

Gage G. — Wed, 04 Jan 2017 20:41:44 +0000

The comment about his mother dying young vs. His grandmother who lived to 92 is interesting because a person is made up of genetic material from two sources…a mother and father. His mother had her father’s genetic material that may have contributed to her shortened life span. My own mother had a mother and maternal mother who both passed away at age 62. My mother was certain she too would pass away at that age. My mother will turn 90 in two months.

By: David Lloyd-Jones

David Lloyd-Jones — Wed, 04 Jan 2017 11:49:46 +0000

“The surprising answers he uncovered in his research…”

Could somebody maybe get this poor magazine an editor or two, so somebody could point ot to the writers the difference between an “answer”, “a hypothesis,” and “the latest version of the ever-trendy attack on the food industry”?

The two ideas that we could eat more wisely and that some of the things gandmas did were fortuitously better than what some of us do today are both plausible. They’re not deep enough to get anybody’s ankles wet, though.

Sorry to hear about the author’s mother dying so young.

By: Peg's view

Peg's view — Tue, 03 Jan 2017 22:16:43 +0000

How long did ‘we” live in Paleo times (apart from eating our children!)?
My ancestors were Scots and Irish- I assume my ancestral diet is potatoes and oatmeal.
Yum……

By: dana74

dana74 — Wed, 10 Feb 2016 23:42:15 +0000

The healthiest bits of any ancestral diet are usually the animal bits they ate. The plants can augment it, but if you took the plants out you’d still be pretty healthy–take the animal bits out and stuff starts going wrong. We had that happen here in the USA… even white Americans used to be pretty healthy but then they decided they were too good for things like liver, and it all started going downhill.

Paleo isn’t an animal-only diet, obviously, but you could in theory Paleo-ize your ancestral diet and really have the best of both worlds.

By: DP Singh

DP Singh — Sun, 07 Feb 2016 20:08:59 +0000

I get the feeling after reading this that we human’s are mere idiots unable to really understand our make up. So we organize a bunch of words, read them, and our brain starts to draw it’s own conclusions and we spout our own little rap…..we weren’t supposed to die or try and lead ourselves in the first place …we’re idiots who need journalism graduates to make us think…..and we still get it wrong

By: Alja Pirosok

Alja Pirosok — Sun, 07 Feb 2016 18:55:16 +0000

Agreed. Here’s a take on the situation, reporting on the same theme in the work of a nutritionist: http://www.eestielu.ca/et/component/content/article/161-estonianlife-eestielu/lifestyle-elustiil/cookery-kulinaaria/1581-homecoming-and-home-cooking

By: OopsaLoompa

OopsaLoompa — Fri, 05 Feb 2016 16:02:39 +0000

Love how they wait until halfway through the article to mention this: “Le, who is not a nutritionist, …”

With soo much conflicting health info out there, it wouldn’t been nice to know his credentials, or lack thereof, early in the article.

By: Michael Forrest

Michael Forrest — Wed, 03 Feb 2016 23:39:49 +0000

In conclusion, just eat alot of vegetables, some fruits (need to
watch the sugar) and everything else in moderation. The
occasional beef steak and a fast food meal is okay.
But most importantly don’t overeat. As the Japanese say,
stop eating at an 80% full stomach.

By: stray

stray — Wed, 03 Feb 2016 03:08:43 +0000

Well, that’s pretty easy to sort out when both of your parents and those who came before, are all from one ethnic group. Let’s see, if I look back 500 years, I could choose Spanish, French, British, Scottish, Norwegian, maybe First Nations, not sure about that one yet….. So I guess I’ll stick with the Mediterranean diet, as that’s what feels best to me. The blood type diet that was popular a few years ago used similar logic, and made plenty of claims.

By: Grady Padgett

Grady Padgett — Tue, 02 Feb 2016 19:09:52 +0000

My tongue is my worst enemy…worse than my penis; wherever it finds something “tasty” I’m obliged to follow.

By: CJD1965

CJD1965 — Tue, 02 Feb 2016 16:30:43 +0000

So what if you have ancestors who ate totally different diets? One side was a bunch of European nobility or wealthy farmers/landowners and the other were feudal peasants working for their Polish and German overlords. One ate high off the hog and the other barely had anything to eat. One side was definitely somewhat malnourished where as the side was obese and had lifestyle diseases. Hard choice there.

By: Stephen Cobb

Stephen Cobb — Tue, 02 Feb 2016 11:45:50 +0000

It depends on how optimum is good enough for you: 80%, 90%, 99%? If you’re a world-class athlete, that extra bit of optimum nutrition might make the difference between gold and silver medals. The rest of us can get to 90% with fairly simple principles, like “Don’t eat pig food”, “Eat a varied diet”, and “Avoid free sugar (like in juice, not just added white sugar)”. I’m mixed race, but my southern ancestors ate similar things, and similar to what West Africans eat.

By: Stephen Cobb

Stephen Cobb — Tue, 02 Feb 2016 11:38:18 +0000

The article slams the Paleo diet (without defining it) while promoting an ancestral diet. Aren’t the two the same? The article skips around from a few generations ago to millions of years ago and back–Paleo advocates focus on a period of 10K years ago (start of agriculture) to 200K (cooking with fire). It turns out that there has been more genetic adaptation in this last 10K years than previously thought, so it is wrong to dismiss dairy and wheat completely, but this does not invalidate the Paleo approach, let alone the evolutionary approach.

By: Partridge

Partridge — Mon, 01 Feb 2016 18:18:01 +0000

Cheater! You skipped the end of the article.

In the 3rd to last paragraph – “for a daily diet, he suggests choosing a traditional cuisine—if not your own, because the idea of returning to boiled meat or copious amounts of cabbage is too awful, then one the family can get behind.”

By: bglow

bglow — Mon, 01 Feb 2016 16:51:43 +0000

I’m curious, then, about what is best for people of mixed heritage? What if you have many different groups of ancestors? Then what diet is best to eat?

By: lagatta à montréal

lagatta à montréal — Mon, 01 Feb 2016 00:16:11 +0000

One thing that annoys me to no end is raw foodism. I love vegetables, and that beautiful image of them in a market. But kale, which is very nutritious but also very tough, has traditionally been cooked, in Portuguese caldo verde, in Dutch stamppot and other homely dishes. And like many cabbages, it benefits from a frost that softens its cellular walls.

By: Mud Baller

Mud Baller — Sun, 31 Jan 2016 12:19:19 +0000

Exactly. We always get the carriage and the horse mixed up. The Scandinavians aren’t healthy because they eat like that. They eat like that because until recently they had no choice, and the healthy specimens we see today are simply those who evolved to be best adapted to that particular diet. Classic survivorship bias.

By: laurentian

laurentian — Sun, 31 Jan 2016 04:27:38 +0000

I had recently started wondering about this after reading about the latest ethno diet craze-the Scandinavian diet. It made me wonder if the reason Scandinavians supposedly do well on it is that they didn’t have a choice. The ones who thrived on it, and were most successful biologically, were the ones who were predisposed genetically to do well with whatever was locally available. Long life and good health for specific populations might be an adaptation to locally available foods.