Links for thought

Posted Wed, 06/02/2010 - 16:14 by Melissa

Nicolette Hahn Niman asks Can Meat Eaters Also Be Environmentalists? As if what a bunch of yuppies eat could save the world.

A feast of delicious grassfed meat= deathwish? Serious Eats takes on Momofuku's beef 7 ways feast and frets about how unhealthy it is. I was about to post a comment, but another Serious Eater beat me to it:

Beef and veggies, you can't go wrong! Looks phenomenal. That seared wagyu salad looks heavenly. MissBrownEyes is right, this is not unhealthy. If it had been served with Chang's fingerling potato confit, or a bunch of fried rice, or some greasy noodles, then yes. But this is almost ideal. The least healthful stuff served here is the peanut. I've been wanting to check this out, now it's on my must do list.

Hmmm....looks like there are some paleo foodies lurking on that site!

Prehistoric humans ate aquatic "brain food", AKA DHA, from turtles, alligators, fish, and other aquatic tasties much earlier in history than previously thought- 1.95 million years ago!!

British author John Lewis Stempel spent a year on foraged food.

Cortisol response to stress is much more elevated with ingestion of glucose than with protein or fat

Low muscle mass linked to type 2 diabetes

Christian at Modern Paleo muses on the role of palmitic acid

Could playing in the dirt make you smarter?

Is depression adaptive? 

I've been on an Indian kick lately and this cilantro chicken looks delicious!

Hunting for food? Lead may not be a good bullet choice

Fairweather vegan Mark Bittman enjoys super-fatty Mangalitsa pork

Comments

Thanks for these links. I

by Michael - 06/08/2010 - 18:57

Thanks for these links. I really enjoyed The Atlantic piece!

Using cattle to combat

by Anonymous - 06/07/2010 - 08:12

Using cattle to combat "desertification" wins the Buckminister Fuller Challenge, a prize for "big, sweeping solutions to seemingly intractable problems."

http://www.fastcompany.com/1655491/plan-to-turn-deserts-green-wins-2010-...

Hi Melissa. Very interesting

by Ned Kock - 06/05/2010 - 20:50

Hi Melissa. Very interesting the "brain food" article. And thanks for linking the "cortisol" article.

Interesting study on lead

by NorCal Cazadora - 06/04/2010 - 11:29

Interesting study on lead shot/bullet fragments in meat. I think the North Dakota study a couple years ago was more relevant because it tested blood lead levels in the people who ate game killed with lead ammunition. What they found was that the lead-ammo group had slightly higher blood lead levels than the people who ate little or no game in the same region, but that their elevated levels were not considered dangerous. (I recall, but can't find the reference at the moment, that these people's blood lead levels were lower than some other non-game eating people, suggesting that other sources of lead, depending on where you live, could be just as problematic.)

That said, it's getting easier and easier to use non-lead these days, so people who are concerned have options, albeit sometimes pricey ones.

"Prehistoric humans ate

by Primal Toad - 06/03/2010 - 13:21

"Prehistoric humans ate aquatic "brain food", AKA DHA, from turtles, alligators, fish, and other aquatic tasties much earlier in history than previously thought- 1.95 million years ago!!"

Thanks for the link! I just did a video discussing the hunter-gatherer study in the book "In Defense of Food". Loved how they ate mostly animals which included birds, fish, crocodiles, kangaroos - everything!

Will read the article today.