#food myths

[sidewalkchemistry]

Why are Caffeine & Energy Stimulants So Common? {or How to Stop Being Stuck in Cycles of Fatigue, Brain Fog, and Insatiable Hunger/Cravings for Sweets}

Relying on energy stimulants (coffee, energy drinks, caffeinated tea, protein supplements/bars/snacks/shakes, candies, chocolates, etc) to get through a day or workout is a sign that your cells are lacking energy. Don't let your cells suffer like that 😥 (these stimulants also hamper nutrient absorption and harm organ tissue). Fuel yourself with fruit*.

Every cell in the body generates energy from simple sugars. It's most efficient to consume fruit for energy - they are nutrient dense, fast digesting, and packed with simple sugars. When we don't, that's when the depleted feelings and/or sugar-y or starch-y cravings set in. The body tries to get accessible sugar in some way. High-fat and high-protein require a lot of energy to create a good amount of cellular energy. Intuitive eating protocols neglect to realize that cravings for high-carb foods & sweets is the body's message for more energy (preferable via fruit).

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Ripe** fruit is the best option especially for breakfast & snacks. Have it in abundance***. Cells quickly convert them to useable energy. And they don't cause the withdrawals, sudden energy drops, or harm to your organs that stimulants do. Those who eat adequate amounts of fruit do not consider these stimulants (as shown above).

For the best energy: eat until thoroughly satisfied & don't mix fruit meals with anything but fruit (especially if you have digestive issues, but also because it slows the digestion process & time until the cells receive the glucose molecules for cellular respiration/ATP production)

Some Recommendations: smoothies/smoothie bowl, homemade popsicles, dates, baked fruit (like baked apples or pears sprinkled with cinnamon + nutmeg), frozen or fresh grapes, melons, raisins, berries, cold-pressed fruit juice, dried figs, applesauce, or whatever your current seasonal favorite is**** (luscious persimmons, pomegranates, and oranges in winter; mangoes, pineapples, and papayas in spring; watermelons, peaches, and blueberries in summer; figs, grapes, and apples in fall)

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*if you are on prescription medication, check first if there are any fruit that are contraindicated. Choose other options. There are thousands of fruit in the world to choose from.

**this channel has a lot of good guidance for selecting properly ripe & tasty fruit (she overviews a bunch at once - from apples to mangoes to tomatoes to dragonfruit - in this video)

***if you have blood sugar issues, a lower fat whole food plant based diet can resolve those issues long term. I recommend working with an experienced & trusted health practitioner to be sure you safely make the adjustment. I definitely recommend it because fruits are the cell's best & most nutritious fuel and it doesn't serve the body to restrict them.

****seasonal fruit may vary depending on location. seasonal fruit tend to have the best flavor profiles & price points

#txt #true nourishment #food centric herbalism #healthy eating #frugivore #chronic fatigue #brain fog #food myths #diet culture #carb cravings #hclf #holistic leveling up #leveling up #fitblr #sweet tooth #wellness journey #intuitive eating #that girl #green juice girl #vegan #vegetarian #whole food plant based #nutritarian #fruitarian #raw vegan #mucusless diet healing system #health is wealth #anti diet #pro holistic health #sidewalkchemistry

[virtualyric]

Remember that time that Jeffrey Steingarten told Sakai Hiroyuki that bay leaves are poisonous?

#food #food myths #iron chef #food critic #jeffrey steingarten #sakai hiroyuki #iron chef sakai

[healing-elle]

#fitblr #healthblr #food myths #graeme tomlinson #thefitnesschef #Youtube

[is-the-snake-video-cute]

Snake Myths: Pet Snakes Eating Cats/Dogs/Children

For this series on snake myths, I'll be going through the results of this poll in order (and please feel free to suggest other topics!).

The myth: everyone who owns a pet snake has probably heard this one. You tell someone about your pet ball python or cornsnake, and you get something like "aren't you worried about your cat/dog/toddler?"

Many people repeating this myth will swear up and down they've heard it's possible for your pet ball python to eat a large dog like a husky!

The origins: along with developing out of a fear of snakes, part of this myth is likely due to people not understanding how big snakes actually are. When people who have never seen many real-life snakes hear a snake is six feet long, they expect a snake as big as a person, and not...this.

The reality: no snake short of a true giant, like a reticulated python or Burmese python, is going to be able to eat a dog or cat (even a tiny chihuahua!). Even my biggest pet snake, my 9-foot boa constrictor, struggles with small rabbits.

Smaller and more common pet snakes, like ball pythons and cornsnakes, will never be able to eat anything bigger than a rat. It's safe to say that your dogs and cats are safe - in fact, the real danger if they ever met would be to the snake! It's very easy for dogs and cats to hurt snakes without meaning to.

And as for snakes eating kids...unless your kid happens to be a mouse or perhaps a rat, they're in no danger from your pet snake!

#not a rating #snake myths #snake food

[merriclo]

i love the idea that Wild is a big brother to basically all of the kids in his Hyrule. it’s such a good heacanon that i never see utilized.

#with their dads permission he’ll take Cottla and Koko on horse rides and they always have food ready for his horses when he comes into town #cottla wants to learn archery to be like him and he melts when he finds that out #all the kids in Hateno have been caught giving treats to his horses #this is a popular headcanon i think but him teaching the local kiddos how to sword fight so often times he’ll be found directing a horde of #children who’re all swinging treebaches around. he couldn’t look prouder of them. #imagine when he gets older and all the village kids r teens/young adults and all of a sudden the village has skilled hunters and foragers #and everyone’s like ‘wow what’s hateno doing’ and the answer is they all had a great big brother #by older i mean he’d be like. early thirties. but y’know ahsnfjks #wild’s impact should rest in the ppl i think. botw is all abt humanity’s strive to overcome hardship and find beauty in the misery #(well. it is to me anyhow lmao) #so i love the idea of his influence not resting in politics or myths or whatever #but within the culture and spirit of those he fought for #in my brain he definitely wanted to rescue Zelda at first and that’s the only reason he was going to fight ganon #but as his journey progressed he wanted to protect and cultivate the future more than rescue the past #i like this idea w zelda too. like not only will the future generation have great fighters but excellent scholars and leaders. #wow i am RAMBLING #anyhow. i like big bro wild. #linked universe #lu #jojo’s linked universe #linkeduniverse #lu wild #wild lu #wild linked universe #linked universe wild

[petermorwood]

How on earth did these goats get there?

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In reality the goats are lying on their sides on rocky ground, looking up at a crane-mounted camera. The photograph was taken some years ago, part of a series reconstructing Central European folk customs and traditions which have fallen from favour or are now prohibited.

This old-fashioned rural blood-sport was originally practiced in parts of Anatolia, Turkey, where the game was called keçi fırlatmak, and also in the Carpathian Alps of Romania, possibly imported during the Ottoman conquest. The name there was aruncarea caprei.

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The goats would have been coated in a strong adhesive traditionally distilled from pine resin.(represented pictorially here by darker patches of dye on the flanks) and were then thrown upwards towards a cliff or rock-face with makeshift catapults, often a primitive form of counterweight trebuchet assembled from wooden beams and weighted with rocks.

The game ended when the glue dried and lost adhesion, and the goats fell to their deaths. They were then cooked and eaten, their meat being valued like that of Spanish fighting bulls.

The meat of the last goat to fall (başarılı keçi or cea mai durabilă capră) was prized as a special delicacy and selected cuts from the legs of this particular “winner” goat were often smoked and dried into a kind of jerky.

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In his “Grandes Histoires Vraies d'un Voyageur le 1er Avril” (pub. Mensonges & Faussetés, Paris, 1871) French folk-historian, anthropologist and retired cavalry general Gilles-Etienne Gérârd wrote about witnessing a festival near Sighișoara, Transylvania, in 1868.

There he claims to have seen catapults improvised from jeunes arbres, très élastiques et souples - “very springy and flexible young trees” - which were drawn back with ropes and then released.

Bets were placed before the throw, and marks given afterwards, according to what way up the goats adhered and for how long. The reconstruction, with both goats upright, facing outward and still in place, shows what would have been a potential high score.

The practice has been officially banned in both countries since the late 1940s, but supposedly still occurred in more isolated areas up to the end of the 20th century. Wooden beams from which the catapults were constructed could easily be disguised as barn-rafters etc., and of course flexible trees were, and are, just trees.

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Gérârd’s book incorrectly calls the goat jerky “pastrami”, to which he gives the meaning "meat of preservation".

While pastrami may be a printing error for the Turkish word bastırma or the Romanian pastramă, both meaning “preserved meat”, at least one reviewer claims that Gérârd misunderstood his guide-translator, who would have been working from rural dialect to formal Romanian to scholarly French.

Since this jerky was considered a good-luck food for shepherds, mountaineers, steeplejacks and others whose work involved a risk of falling, Gérârd's assumption seems a reasonable one.

However, several critical comments on that review have dismissed its conclusion, claiming "no translator could be so clumsy", but in its defence, other comments point out confusion between slang usage in the same language.

One cites American and British English, noting that even before differences in spelling (tire / tyre, kerb / curb etc.) "guns" can mean biceps or firearms, "flat" can mean a deflated wheel or a place to live, "ass" can mean buttocks or donkey and adds, with undisguised relish, some of the more embarrassing examples.

This comment concludes that since the errors "usually make sense in context", Gérârd's misapprehension is entitled to the same respect.

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The good-luck aspect of the meat apparently extended to work which involved "falling safely", since its last known use was believed to be in ration packs issued to the 1. Hava İndirme Tugayı (1st Airborne Brigade) of the Turkish Army, immediately before the invasion of Cyprus in July 1974.

Nothing more recent has been officially recorded, because the presence of cameras near military bases or possible - and of course illegal - contests is strongly (sometimes forcefully) discouraged, and the sport’s very existence is increasingly dismissed as an urban or more correctly rural legend.

The official line taken by both Anatolian and Carpathian authorities is that it was only ever a joke played on tourists, similar to the Australian “Drop-bear”, the Scottish “Wild Haggis” and the North American “Jackalope”.

They dismiss the evidence of Gérârd’s personal observation as “a wild fable to encourage sales of his book”, “a city-dweller’s misinterpretation of country practices”, or even “the deliberate deception of a gullible foreigner by humorous peasants”.

And as for those paratroop ration packs, Turkish involvement in Cyprus is still such a delicate subject that the standard response remains “no comment”.

#goats #mountain goats #climbing #falling #good-luck food #rural myth #pinch of salt #A day in April

[redbootsindoriath]

Happy Hobbit Day! (I almost forgot and it's technically well into the 23rd where I am right now, but I haven't gone to bed yet since waking up on the 22nd, so we'll say it counts.)

I think if Boromir had survived he should be allowed special permissions to go into the Shire to see his friends in their native habitat after everything is over.

Transcription:

Shire border security guard: "Sir I don't think you can bring those out with you..."

#boromir #the man the myth the legends #one shiny #canon is great and all but what if #/end classification tags #just letting y'all know i'm alive also #i survived the move and stuff has been happening #i got a kitten to keep the calico company since she was getting lonely #i know i vanished for a while there but in fairness i've been gone for longer of periods of time before #anyway i didn't do much for hobbit day personally but i did go for a walk with my best friend and went shopping for food so #those are both hobbit-adjacent activities

[elliegoose]

getting drunk and having an existential crisis about how i wish i were fatter

#i don't know what emotion i'm feeling right now but it's a lot #wish that there was a guaranteed way to make yourself fatter and that reliably fattening foods weren't just a fatphobic myth #elise.rtf

[soracities]

just wanted the source of that lobsters holding hands quote and im literally always thinking about this now (from lierre keith, the vegetarian myth: food, justice, and sustainability)

#quotes #lierre keith #the vegetarian myth food justice and sustainability #without tenderness we are in hell #life everlasting #a beast is pulsing in my heart #m #x

[kaizenin21stcentury]

Between the certainty I have of my existence and the content I try to give to that assurance, the gap will never be filled. Forever I shall be a stranger to myself.

- Albert Camus, Myth of Sisyphus

#food for thought #quotes #philosophy #quote #human #life #think #book #life lessons #book quotes #albert camus #myth of sisyphus #kaizen #poetry #existence #absurd #absurdism #existentialism #good reads

[nickysfacts]

The Mayans were obsessed with corn!🌽

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#history #corn #maya #maize #mesoamerica #native american history #mayan mythology #mexico #creation myth #central america #mayan history #indigenous people #native americans #food history #princesscore #body modification #ancient history #mayan culture #head bonding #ancient maya #latin america #indigenous history #food #native american culture #mythology #nickys facts

[milkywayan]

I love this guy, and everything he says is true! Please watch this (and also take a look at his other videos, they are fun and educational and he is living the life i want to have)

#medieval #medieval europe #medieval myths #medievalcore #personal #his food videos are great also #knightcore #literally he is a knight

[hadesypersefone]

Who ate the ham and cheese?

Persephone: All right, who ate the ham and cheese that were in the fridge's door? Makaria: It wasn't me. Melinoe: Neither do I. Persephone: Hades? Hades (eating a ham and cheese sandwich): It was Hermes.

#food #hades and persephone #ham and cheese drama #makaria #melinoe #hade #persephone #greek myth #greek mythology #hermes

[mycupofstars]

Nothing will destroy your faith in healthcare faster than having lunch in the same break room as nurses

#they have been passing around food myths for 30 solid minutes #oh my god all of this is so debunked #oh my god you went to SCHOOL for this #they are so obsessed with diet culture and so wrong #personal #work

[fem-lit]

Women, advertisers know, are feeling undernourished, physically and emotionally. We repress our hunger—to acknowledge it would be a weakness. But our nutritional deficiency shows in [makeup ad] copy that dwells on forbidden richness or sweetness, the honey of the Holy Land, the mother’s milk of Mary: Milk ‘n Honee, Milk Plus 6, Estée Lauder Re-Nutriv, Wheat Germ n’ Honey, Max Factor 2000 Calorie Mascara, Skin Food, Creme, Mousse, Caviare. The woman feeds her skin the goodness she cannot take without guilt or conflict into either mouth. In a New York Times article entitled “Food for Thought,” Linda Wells writes that “the latest skin-care ingredients … could be mistaken for the menu at a glitzy restaurant”; she lists quail’s eggs, honey, bananas, olive oil, peanuts, caviar, sturgeon’s roe, and passion fruit. The hungry woman allows herself only on the outside what she truly desires for the inside.

— Naomi Wolf (1990) The Beauty Myth

#even 30 years later #you still see this in makeup btw!!! think of all the lip products named after fruit #and all the milk adjacent products: milky cleanser milky moisturiser etc #mixing food and beauty really is such a winning strategy #hunger #restriction #anti beauty industry #naomi wolf #the beauty myth #radfem #radical feminism #radblr

[iwasbored777]

My cat started bringing dead animals (mostly mice and rats) that she hunted and she leaves them on my terrace or in front of my house almost every day and I already knew that it's a sign of affection but I found out that it's also cuz she's apparently worried cuz we don't hunt like she does and she wants us to eat more and learn how to hunt so she does this for us. I love this baby girl so much 😭❤️!

(It's not lovely to look for your shoes and stumble upon a dead animal but it's in the name of love and it's not inside of my house so I don't mind. I just hope she doesn't bring anything alive)

#she knows i call her my daughter so she's like i will take care of my mother and bring her food #i love this fluffy baby so much #I can't believe there is a myth that cats don't love you this one was addicted to me when she was a baby and she loves us so much #cats #personal post #pets #i love my cat