Currently, the prevailing diets, nutritional advice, etc. all emphasize intake of protein and the so-called healthy fats, and recommend avoiding various carbs - depending on the diet details - in return.
Back in the 90s all fat was bad, so at the time everything was low-fat or non-fat or reduced-fat. Anyone remember SnackWell cookies? “No fat!” Well, yeah, but same overall calories - you just replaced fat with sugar.
So what is the next big nutritional fad gonna be? Haul out yer crystal ball, Dopers!
A decade or so ago, egg *whites *were O.K. but yolks would kill you. Shrimp was considered the reason for high cholesterol. (Yep, we know better on that one now.)
These days, the “healthy” snacks marketed towards the higher-income and health conscious will likely include things like smoked salmon, pieces of aged cheese, and a wide variety of nuts or seeds. (Cite: recent Whole Foods flyer in my mail.) Such fatty decadence would have been the epitome of unhealthy several years ago.
I have to wonder what the uber-healthy folks with disposable income to spare will snack upon, twenty or thirty years from now. Perhaps kale will be viewed the same way that rice cakes are mostly disparaged now - as the last resort of a starving dieter, but nothing considered fit for humans to eat.
I think the next logical foodie snob step is only eating things you’ve grown, caught, or killed yourself. I doubt it would become a trend though because subsistence farming is a lot of hard fucking work.
Sure would ease a lot of white privilege guilt though.
I hope the next big movement is less about diet than toward a much greater concern for the quality of life and humane death of the sentient beings that we eat - both land animals and fish. And I hope it’s not a fad.
Hasn’t that already started, to a certain degree? I.e., people raising their own eggs in the city–and I’m not referring to people with rural backgrounds who’ve always been doing it to generate income. I mean rich Silicon Valley types.
I anticipate a never-ending barrage of “superfoods” - guaranteed to promote longer life, superior brain function, sexual prowess etc. etc., touted as coming from the wisdom of ancient peoples/remote tribes.
“Eat less, mostly plants” just doesn’t have the necessary pizzazz.
They’re getting pretty good. I’ve had the Impossible Burger sliders at White Castle and they’re decent. The newest version was being sampled at CES and reported to be amazing.
Was at the gym I go to the other day and their display shelf that you pass when you come in was entirely loaded with Elderberry Syrup in various sizes with brochures touting all its amazing powers.:rolleyes:
Vegie burgers have been around for quite a while, although from what I can tell, those guys are producing more meat-like flavor. However, the real next step is going to be vat-grown meat.
Perhaps the next fad will be a high-gluten diet, heavy on the wheat bread and seitan.
In any case, it will quite likely be something incredibly impractical for most people, and not necessary in almost all cases and outright harmful in a few (keto being a current example of this).
It may be ‘The High Quality All Chemical Diet’ manufactured and approved by the Dow Chemical Corp. and Exxon Mobil. Their slogan will be, “Hey, it’s cheap and good for ya!”
Back in the early days of “Late Night with David Letterman” (mid to late 80s), he had a Top Ten List of “Top Ten News Headlines From The Year 2000”, and I remember one of the items was “Oat Bran: The Silent Killer.”
I keep waiting for the day we see that one in real life.
People have been asking me for decades how I stay so slim. II tell them if they do these three things every day for a year, they couldn’t be fat if they wanted to:
Eat only when you are hungry
Eat whatever you want
Walk outside for at least an hour every day.
