What are we eating???

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Jonny Two Shoes

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I guess this belongs under the science section?

I've just grown a little curious with regards to the things we are eating.

Take for instance Avocado. I seem to have no difficulty buying this throughout the year. I consult the elderly ones who say that they had to constantly adjust their diet for each season according to what was available. Not so anymore it seems.

I also just recently heard of what they do with oranges. The best source of vitamin C you can get is picked while it is still green and put in something with a type of flashing strobe light for a considerable amount of time. The result is that you still get yellow/orange oranges but with something ridiculous like 0-3% of the Vitamin C.

I wouldn't be surprised if this were true.

What else are they doing? Red potatoes?

Surely this is not healthy? Accompany this unhealthy lifestyle with some really strange weather patterns we are experiencing as well as a growing amount of stress in SA and I'm not surprised we have this alarming rate of absenteeism.

Surely something is not right with the things we are eating, or am I just imagining things? Do you think it's time to start growing my own veggies? :)
 
Vitamin supplements bru. And walk around with a surgical mask and don't touch your face with your hands ... ever. I guarentee you won't catch a cold that way.
 
Supplements should work. How then do you avoid all the shyte and hormones etc that they allegedly put in these things to make them grow faster and withstand poorer weather conditions?

Lol I'm not surprised the youth of today (younger than me:p) are so retarded :/ add all the lead we breathe in consistently and you get a bunch of ADD freaks :/
 
Woolies avos, in off season, are imported from Spain. They are the hard-shelled ones, I don't like them.

Pick n Pay seem to have the soft-shell ones, wonder where they get them.
 
Well the next time you dig into a sunday roast, think about how long it took to get the chicken that big. Less than 2 months, 40 odd days if I remember correctly.
 
Cadavre777 said:
Well the next time you dig into a sunday roast, think about how long it took to get the chicken that big. Less than 2 months, 40 odd days if I remember correctly.
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On a slightly different note it also begs the question as to why KFC are just "KFC" and no longer Kentucky Fried Chicken :p somehow I doubt that was a simple marketing decision :D

Has anyone seen Jamie Oliver make KFC pops? Apparently he did it a long time ago as a demonstration against fast food. :sick: :sick:
 
Some studies have found that supplements work only 15-20% (if i remember right) as well as eating to get the DRA (dialy recomended). No idea if this is true but i can believe this. Look it the illnesses that we contract these days.....

* cancer -> all the ***** in the air, food and water.

* other malnutrition related illnesses -> because we eat food thats not as nutritional as we are lead to believe

Also they say by 2014 obesity will be the biggest world wide killer.

All the prossesed foods and the cardbord foods like mcdonalds with no nutrition are very dangerouse if you eat it more than 4-6 times a week, anyway we are lucky we still get food thats less genetically modified foods then other countries.
 
Cadavre777 said:
Well the next time you dig into a sunday roast, think about how long it took to get the chicken that big. Less than 2 months, 40 odd days if I remember correctly.
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I were talking with a collegue recently and we were talking about all those growth hormones they put into chickens lately and then she also said remarked that she wouldn't be surprised if that's what is leading to young school girls to physically mature more quickly than in past years.

I wouldn't condone an extensive experiment in this regard but what is your immediate thoughts on this matter ... the growth hormones - not the girls maturity!!! :eek:
 
Recently started investigating "alternative"* foods - so far I have been surprised.


* soy products being the main one.
 
Picard said:
I wouldn't condone an extensive experiment in this regard but what is your immediate thoughts on this matter ... the growth hormones - not the girls maturity!!! :eek:
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Observational "experiments" would lead to some conclusions - no need to "inject" people! For example, find a few hundred people who eat Checkers Chickens and those who only eat free range organic ones, and so on.

Not "hard experimenting" but will give some conclusions.
 
I also read somewhere that you get GM crops that can produce their own pesticides? I can't quote now because I lost the page but that is also somewhat interesting :/

I wonder if they test the effects of these things properly.
 
Jonny Two Shoes said:
Has anyone seen Jamie Oliver make KFC pops? Apparently he did it a long time ago as a demonstration against fast food. :sick: :sick:
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You are assuming we all saw it. I didnt and I have no idea how Jamie Oliver making KFC Pops could be a demonstration against fast food? Do you have a link or could you elaborate a bit?
 
Devill said:
Some studies have found that supplements work only 15-20% (if i remember right) as well as eating to get the DRA (dialy recomended). No idea if this is true but i can believe this. Look it the illnesses that we contract these days.....
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Supplements might not always include something called a cofactor. To explain, an enzyme will utilize a vitamin when the cofactor is present. Without the cofactor the enzyme won't process the substrate (in this case a vitamin) or won't process the substrate as quickly. Not all enzymes appear to need a cofactor. Not all vitamins will need a cofactor to be processed.

Now don't go reading the label on all your vitamin bottles to see if the "necessary" cofactor is present. Biochemists know that cofactor/enzyme systems exist. They have not however classified all the enzymes and their respective cofactors

So what I'm trying to point out is that taking vitamin supplements only is probably not a good idea. You might need the cofactor found in the fruit/veg that is the natural source of the vitamin to take full advantage of that vitamin.

There is so much biochemical activity in our bodies that we still do not understand or even know of.
 
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Nice post :)

Thanks for the info, learned about that in fisiology and matric Biology.

And i agree 100%, eat atleast some fresh sources of vit. & minerals
 
I know some of the lichies we get here are treated to make them look the right colour. Not too sure whether its light or chem based, but I've seen the machines that do the job.:(

Soy milk is OK for putting on breakfast.

Soy yogurt = Fear Factor material:sick:
 
Soon we will all grow our own greens in a glass box ewith regulated air and water :)

Damn the food industry imho hasnt done enough research on all these new and improved ways to mutate you greens :(
 
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