Monday, January 22, 2007

many carbohydrates

With modern food processing we've come a long way toward producing mass quantities of food. To be fair, this does include protein as well as carbohydrates, though the mass production of protein involves the massive raising of beef cattle, pigs and chickens in less than wonderful conditions. And to tell the truth this doesn't produce meat as healthy as wild meat or even that from cattle that roam freely and eat grass -- their meat has a lot more Omega 3. Feedlot raised cattle have way too much Omega 6.

But it's also true that given a choice we are eating way too many carbohydrates. We eat a lot of protein compared to times past, but even more carbohydrates. Meals still revolve around meat and carbs, but snacks tend to be entirely carbs, and unhealthy ones at that. We don't snack on cheese or apples, but candy bars.

And even with the meals where we do eat some protein, we eat a lot of highly processed carbohydrates with it. Bread, spaghetti and so on.

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