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Post #336,372 by mhuber 11/29/10 1:02:51 PM Reply	Thanks Sources are a little difficult (I synthesized from several, but Taubes is the main one) but maybe I should take the time just to refocus myself. --------------------------------------- I think it's perfectly clear we're in the wrong band. (Tori Amos)
Post #336,376 by drook 11/29/10 3:14:53 PM 11/29/10 3:15:29 PM Reply	Reading Taubes is sort of a double-edged sword On the one hand, you really understand just how much shit "science" is out there regarding food. (And I suspect regarding most subjects.) On the other hand, you end up sounding like a broken record or a fanboi when you try to refute the crap: "Well, as Taubes wrote ... According to these 17 studies that Taubes identified ... You know, you really should read Taubes, since he's already covered all this ..." BTW, Box is completely right about the "weevil" line I'm also a fan of "food-like substances, and beer". -- Drew Edited by drook Nov. 29, 2010, 03:15:29 PM EST Expand All History
Post #336,443 by Andrew Grygus 11/30/10 11:52:27 AM Reply	All this science stuff is entertaining . . . . . but is it meaningful? Large populations subsist mainly on white rice. Are they overweight and diabetic? If not the science is little more than a curiosity. The same with potatoes. Are Peruvians who subsist mainly on potatoes overweight and diabetic? I think, right now, with "science" slowly losing saturated fats as the "great evil", potatoes have been appointed to that role. Ya gotta have the boogeyman to explain away your failures.
Post #336,449 by drook 11/30/10 1:08:27 PM Reply	Have to reintroduce racism Not surprising that a culture that has existed on rice for thousands of years might have adapted better to it than a culture that has mostly grown wheat. And that gluten intolerance might be more prevalent where wheat was less common. All this interbreeding has got to be playing hell with our natural defenses. -- Drew
Post #336,458 by Andrew Grygus 11/30/10 3:26:24 PM Reply	Yes, but white rice . . . . . has been widely available for only a couple hundred years - not enough time for much evolution.

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