When people doing studies don't think things through.

[Wiglaf]

Plague, crop failure, and witch-hunts have nothing to do with their diet, which was actually quite wholesome.

[Impaler[WrG]]

Dominated? I don't think so. That's hysterical overkill. I doubt many here have a diet 'dominated' by sugar.

The modern American diet is indeed dominated by Sugar particularly in the form of Corn Syrup which is put in practically everything. For example Soda alone is 11% of the average caloric intake.

[Aeson]

Originally posted by Cort Haus
Dominated? I don't think so. That's hysterical overkill. I doubt many here have a diet 'dominated' by sugar.

ME! Sugar

[Blake]

Peasant Diet .


The modern unhealthy western diet is sooooo gross and I hesitate to use the gross word because I don't really find much gross. But when you consider there's like a cup full of sugar in a 1.5L bottle of mountain dew...

:barf:

[Dis]

you aren't supposed to drink a full 1.5l bottle of mountain dew at once.

[Wernazuma III]

Originally posted by Wiglaf
Plague, crop failure, and witch-hunts have nothing to do with their diet, which was actually quite wholesome.

Poor medieval people. They didn't burn considerable numbers of witches but get the blame, while the big waves of witch-hystery were in the late 16th and in the 17th century.
And the Catholic church also always gets the bulk of critique (too bad that Henricus Insistor was a dominican madman) while witch hunts generally had a more geographical than confessional common ground (read: in, north, and east of the Alps)

[Dinner]

Now 1.5L of beer...

[Blake]

Eww Diss? But consuming that much sugar in a day is gross enough :barf:.

Now on this topic, what is especially cool is that food can be like labeled "97% fat free" and yet have a metric ****tone of sugar in it because sugar ain't fat.

Like I've read labels of soy icecream, and it's like:
99% fat free in bold print on the front.

And somewhere in some small print:
Only 80% of the calories of regular icecream.
80%?!

Now can anyone guess why there might be an obesity problem in society?


I seriously advise learning nutrition, whether or not you have a weight problem. Because taking in those kind of calories in sugary processed crap means you're probably not getting enough nutrients and your wellbeing suffers for that (meaning you get headaches or feel tired or whatever). Ignorance is not bliss, the benefits of being aware of what you eat vastly outweighs the time investment.

[Dinner]

The article does say that daily calorie intake has been falling in recent years. It seems the big problem is people are not doing as much physical activity.

[Zkribbler]

Originally posted by Wiglaf
Plague, crop failure, and witch-hunts have nothing to do with their diet, which was actually quite wholesome.

...and drinking from the place you poop. Sanitation was zero.

[Heraclitus]

I would say that overall our life is much much better than that of a medieval pesant, good diet or not.

[Heraclitus]

Originally posted by Wiglaf
Plague, crop failure, and witch-hunts have nothing to do with their diet, which was actually quite wholesome.

It realy depended very much on where and when.

[Dis]

soy ice cream

ya know, milk products won't kill ya. and fat won't kill ya. The anti fat craze in the 90's was horrible. Everything was loaded with sugar to make up for the fat.

[DaShi]

It's misleading the way that the research is presented. They should simply say that people ate healthier in medieval times than westerns do today, especially given there lifestyles.

[ZEE]

i love MSG and sugar!!

yummy!

and jus look at lil ol' ME! Im not fat im petite!