Be careful what you eat.

[Bighead]

I've become quite a health nut, and since I've returned here to EmuTalk for awhile, i figured I would share this disgusting information to those who may find it a concern.

Carbon Monoxide in Meat?!?!
Making our Fruits and Veges even more Yummy
Antibiotics - Blessing or Scurge?

For a while, I've eaten only "organic" foods, and let mmy immune system do the rest. There is a huge difference in how you feel after awhile.

[ScottJC]

Yes, theres "things" in our food, i think we got that by now - only problem is most people blow them way out of perportion, take salt for example... mcdonalds used to have a lot more of it on their food as I remember it tasting a hell of a lot better when I was younger, it pisses me off that people who go on about health have to constantly make things bland and tasteless.

Thats not all, pretty much a large percentage of foods are now governed by this crap, low salt low fat... please... my mother and father are about 50 now and they've ate it all their lives, and my grans are now past 70 and they were far worse with Fat and Salt. I refuse to believe this nonsense about Salt and Fat in foods being too high, its a load of f**king hogwash.

I for one don't go to fast food places to eat healthily for a start so I don't want to be given healthy food, I just want a burger dripping with fat and with loads of salt - is that so much to ask?!

Maybe i'm blowing this out of context but I genuinely believe that people who take all this crap too seriously should be shot at dawn. or seperated from the main population so they can eat all the healthy foods they want

As for organic, don't get me started on organic... wow foods that are identical to those that are not organic and double the price, with bugs and all... I seriously doubt you feel any better soley on the basis of just eating that alone. Pestisides are put in things to make them not go off as quick, I feel plenty fine on eating things that aren't organic, in fact i've never felt better in my life. so I challenge that claim. and I eat nothing but fat and crap. I've even ate an organic banana before, I didn't see the big deal - it didn't taste any different to me.

Well my main argument here is I'm fine with people eating healthily really, I just wish that all my favourite foods weren't subject to change because of it. I'm pretty much of the opinion that I should be able to eat like a fat slob without people cramming it down my throat that its unhealthy. Ignorance is bliss.

I feel more strongly on this subject than most hence the rant. There is always two sides to every argument anyway and mine is the against (obviously)

I am more concerned with what mobile phones do to our brains than what food does to my stomach, if the food was really that bad we'd all be extinct by now.

[Bighead]

you make it sound like im trying to be a health activist. nah, i am not that much of a health nut. its not like I have a bowl of carrots in the morning instead of sugary cereal. i eat greasy food all week, the dripping grease just makes it all the better. that doesn't concern me.

organic food is food that contains no additives: pesticides, growth inducing hormones, carbon monoxide, etc... think about young girls growing hair and developing boobs at such young ages. although it is nice, it is from the junk they put in cows to make em grow fat. pesticides cause cancer, carbon monoxide alters your bodies genes.. an organic burger will still have grease.

im not a bunny petting health nut, i just like to be aware of the crap that's in our food. i love my greasy pizza topped with extra everything and my salty fries that will cause my future heart attack. it's everything else that we should avoid. fat can be burned, but cancer and deformations are a little harder to fix. go ahead and park your car into the garage, and let the carbon monoxide from the gas pipe fill your house. would you put hamburger up to your tailpipe to keep it red a few more days?

[ScottJC]

well its not you really, its just all these food ads lately about salt, and jamie oliver in the past showing you whats in a chicken nugget, and lately its "whats in your christmas dinner" - I just think enough is enough, and thats when I start to rant because things just bother me... perfectly good place to vent

In short I hate goddamn food activists - on to the other thing, I do not really approve of carbon monoxide but companies have always done things like this to our products, used tricks to fool us, like filling our bacon with water to make it heavier, its just another one of those ways that companys like to cheapskate on.

Problem is though, unless there is proof that a significant amount of eating this meat is dangerous (carbon monoxide thing) - i.e. you eat it every day for years. they won't stop doing it.

There is a difference to filling your house with massive quantities of the gas and tiny amounts to make a bit of meat red and chances are the gas is gone by the time its packed and cooked anyway. if it wasn't why would they be allowed to sell it?

Pesticides, well they keep food longer, and there are pros and cons to both veggies (among other things) with and without it, its mainly the cost of which that puts most people off buying organic.

Last thing, anti-biotics are not food so why is it listed in this thread?

[Azimer]

Life is too short and hard to worry about this bull. Stay away from any nobrainers and you will be fine. Live life to the fullest. Why live to be 90 or 100 when you can live to be 70 or 80 and die happy? Will those extra 20 years really seem so special when everyone (including your children) die before you while you strain daily to remain active and not break a hip? Don't believe you only live once. What loving God would give you one chance before condemnation? This gets into religious beliefs and I will refrain from those arguments. There are too many lurking fish people swarming like piranah. So what's the point of living extra long unless you are trying to earn your way into Heaven?

Cheers! JMO.

[Bighead]

That was beautiful Azimer, that really opened up my eyes. You guys are right, I guess being too concerned about something so mediocre may just end up being a waste of time. Now that I think about it,I don't want to live past 70, then you can't do anything anymore except watch TV and pray for God to take you. My great grandma is still alive and she is 93.... and she asks my grandma (her daughter) why won't God just let me die? Sad to hear that, but I can understand why she would feel that way. It's sad watching her walk around, and I guess being to health conscoius will only lead us up to that point. I don't fear my chances at heaven, from now on a new Bighead is born from this day on.

[tye stik]

Will those extra 20 years really seem so special when everyone (including your children) die before you while you strain daily to remain active and not break a hip?

Well, if you ask me... if i'm just an biological entity void of a soul as science teaches us, then yeah... those 20 'extra' years are a hell of alot better than not existing at all!

Don't believe you only live once. What loving God would give you one chance before condemnation?

Maybe a God that dosent exist? I'm sure one that dosent exist wouldn't give a flying fuck if we live only once.

I'm no health nut, infact a gorge myself on fatty foods whenever i can... but what we eat has a direct relationship with how well our body works (or so i'm told)... when i was poor and on my own, all I ate was microwaveable noodles for like a month... believe me, you start to notice that your body isnt working as well as it should.

[ScottJC]

Well Tye Stik we'll see if you feel that way when you're seventy, when you won't be able to get around as well and slowly become more and more useless to the point where you become like you were when you were at an early age unable to take care of yourself... yeah thats the life of an old person, plus the risk of going senile and being put in a home... what a lovely way to live your life.

Unless you're extremely lucky thats what you have to look forward to matey! I don't believe in an afterlife either but i'll be damned if i'm going to live to the days where I will literally suffer.

[Allnatural]

we'll see if you feel that way when you're seventy, when you won't be able to get around as well and slowly become more and more useless to the point where you become like you were when you were at an early age unable to take care of yourself... yeah thats the life of an old person

Your over-generalization borders on cliché.

[ScottJC]

Yeah I know it sounded a bit single-minded, but a lot of that can happen to you as you get older, to me included, not nessicarily at 70 though... there are plenty 70 year olds that can get about and are not senile.

Problem is though i've heard my grans say they want to die loads of times so this leads me to believe even though they CAN get about - if they are saying things like that their lives can't be that bloody great.

I pretty much believe we aren't even supposed to live that long, we're not meant to get old but thats pretty much debateable and not on topic - i'm/we're way off topic here - i'll say one last thing about it though, none of us can know what its like to be old until we actually get there.

cliché is my middle name baby.