[LMB] OT: Diet/health

[Mark Allums]

paal at gis.net wrote:
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>> Azalais Aranxta wrote:
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>>> Meat should
>>> really be a treat or a side dish, but I'm not there yet and I bet
>>> few others are.
>> One should probably eat three oz. of meat once a day, and it doesn't 
>> have to be red meat. [0]
>>
>> MAA
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>> 0. Women, especially (the whole iron thing).
> 
> There are other sources of iron--spinach, almonds, etc. 
> 
> And, the FDA is NOT the all-knowing Authority... it seems to be in the
> process e.g. of revising the RDA for of Vitamin D.  The levels of
> Vitamin D typically found in the people who were studied in the
> USA/Canada turns out to be -low-, compared to healthy people in more
> tropical countries, by a factor or something like 5.  And MDs who have
> been prescribing Vitamin D supplements to bring their patient's levels
> of Vitamin D up to those of people in the tropics, have seen their
> patients' health improve.  The FDA has recently recommended upping the
> levels of Vitamin D givne to children. 
> 
> The FDA also is heavily influenced by the agribusiness and their
> goals... Wait Wait Don;'t Tell Me on the weekend show, had a clip
> regarding a lawsuit over whether Pringles was or wasn't a snack in Great
> Britain, because the taz situation is VERY different for snack food
> versus not.... 
> 
> The FDA does NOT do "pure science," alas.  The whole sorry sordid tale
> of how stevia was kept off the market as a sweetener for years by the
> makers of sucralose and other sweeteners is an example. 


I did not mention the FDA.  And they have nothing to do with this.

Spinach is not a source of iron.  The oxalic acid it contains inhibits 
the absorption of iron.

Though I mentioned iron, this was not about iron, nor did I mean to 
imply so, my comment about female iron requirement notwithstanding.  It 
was about meat.

Meat is a useful source of nutrition.  Eating it is optional.  If you do 
not think 3 ounces of it a day is something you want, suit yourself.

Mark Allums