I’m not going to disagree with you on that remark. I pay attention to the supermarket shelves and it does seem a lot of snacks are taking room previously available to basic food items.
Protein bars, protein powders, granolas, dehydrated this and that, nut mixes, etc.
The real food is going. Somewhere. I can feed myself out of this, in a pinch, but I hardly consider it food.
I abused the word there. Pica, in my language, is often used colloquially to address someone that is constantly eating, not out of need but by impulse.
Grazing sounds like a sure way to gain weight and fast. By not putting in on one sitting a full meal, capable of sustaining for a given amount of time, we’ll constantly adding to our mouth this and that. It makes harder to tally how much is eaten in one day.
And not eating between meals can not be considered intermitent fasting? We have a meal and abstain from eating until the next. It is quite intuitive, as far as I understand the notion.
My personal take?
Funneling.
This was a class on Social Psychology and even the books for the class were not to be read in full. Instead, only excerpts were to be consulted.
That creates a huge context gap. Drills in narrow concepts. Does not foster thinking and relation of concepts and ideas.
The teacher was creating a low effort class, easily manageable, with little to no opposition to her methods and ideas.
Mid morning, mid afternoon… I resembles pica or just boredom eating.
It’s about stopping and making a proper break from the whatever we might be doing. Stop to read a book, when at work, talk a bit with my family. Just stop to exist, I think.
Intermittent fasting? Grazing?
Please elaborate.
I had a teacher forbidding Wikipedia as a study source and a class formed by over 80 students quietly aquiesced. It took one question of why wasn’t Wikipedia a valid source for general context to help in forming a broad stroke idea on a subject to nearly make the teacher go into a fit on how it was inacurate and unproperly revised. Wich was not the point.
So, according to this comic, every single human is, by default, destructive.
Climate. We don’t need AI, we need people with decent jobs and fair wages. Plant trees, create preserved areas and lets stop destroying our collective home.
My entire argument is subjective, like any other, as it stems from my personal views, thoughts and experiences.
Try again but now making a genuine effort to not sound cryptic and obtuse.
Words spoken without the intention to be clearly understood by the majority listening are just empty sounds formed by warmed air escaping ones mouth.
That’s not a doomer in my understanding. The doomer is the person that does not care, simply put; they’re the guys rooting for disgrace and misery, waiting for the “I told you so” moment. You’re more of an prepared pessimist.
Depends on who you ask and the background of your question.
Yes
It is undeniable in current day the horrors industrial farming creates and inflicts on millions of sentient beings to sustain a business that was originally fomented in order to supply food for a post-war world where several countries were rendered with little or no usable land for farming.
The traditional model of farming, where animals were an integral part of a production chain that kept the land itself alive and reduced waste to a minimum was destroyed to give place to a highly destructive model where lowest cost, hight profit margins and speed of production is absolute.
In this process, thousands, if not millions, of landrace animals, along with heirloom seed varieties, went extinct and were lost. Petroleum products and by-products entered the daily life, from food, to clothing, to essentially anything imaginable. Not because those were better but because it was cheaper and protected interests.
Knowing this and still leaning heavily on an animal protein based diet with no concern for its toll on our collective ecosystem and the suffering it creates is nothing short of regrettable.
No
Meat is cheap. Artificially cheap but still. Processed foods cheaper; with meat in it, even more.
Many people throughout the world do not have access to the means to have a fully exclusive or at least heavily based vegetable diet, either because of the environment they live in or simply because they lack the means to afford it. Many people in developing countries still depend on cattle to provide food and raw materials, if not on hunting, trapping and fishing. Even more people, in rich, developed countries, don’t have the money to afford a proper diet, even less a vegetable based one.
These people are as worthy of living as any other. It can not be taken against them wanting to survive.
Maybe
Some people aren’t aware how much their personal decision can have a meaningful impact.
Others don’t have the time or hability to extract from vegetables meals that can truly satisfy them and don’t want to resort to ultraprocessed foods. Others are simply too deep into a cultural mindset that blocks them from experimenting.
It is just another type of barrier. There is a degree of lack of interest and effort in this stage but we can’t (shouldn’t) hold against people their personal circumstances, which adds poorly when it comes to changing minds, habits and cultures.
Take your pick.
ORS - Oral Rehydration Salts
Found some reading on it both on UNICEF and WHO websites.
Thank you.
Can you share the link for that resource? Seems like an incredibly important one. And do you have any similar recomendations?
I respect that feeling but quitting is not an option, is it? The same with putting down those trying to make a difference, no matter how small.
Temperature. You had really low temperatures followed by a sharp hike. That induced thermal shock. Are you having cooler nights with some humidity?
And you are right; those are in the nightshade family; they enjoy full sun.
They seem to be getting sun burn; I’d change the watering schedule to the late evening and allow the plants to get more sun gradually, especially in the morning.
Give the plants a supplement to encourage new foliage development.
Heat shock. I know those leaves from afar.
What you’re describing in closer to what muslim endure during Ramadan, which is fasting, by definition.
If you feel fine with such regimen, good, but how adequate for common practice can it be?
My own anecdotal observation tells me the “grazer” (not a word I enjoy using) tends to put on a lot of weight. That constant eating is putting unnecessary calories into the body, regardless they eating “healthy” snacks.