I agree!
Mushrooms. Specifically wild or “wild” mushrooms. Some people are getting into them for the money: a pound of morels can go for $35. Some people are getting into them for “medicinal” usage: cancer, pain, memory loss… there is at least one type of mushroom per touted to relieve the symptoms/cure you.
I’m grateful that many types of wild mushroom can be grown at home because, once commercialized, harvesting stuff in the wild goes fast like back when Goldenseal was the rage and the wild stuff was almost wiped out. Ramps/wild leeks are getting over harvested as well Ramps: How to Forage & Eat Wild Leeks
Personally, I like the taste (everything tastes better when cooked in butter) and the adventure of wandering the woods and finding free food.
I didn’t think this was all that recent. I seem to remember reading about this, oh at least 25 years ago in pulp media
Next Big Food and Diet Fad will be an ocean/water organism based diets and being sure to expose infants to all manner of sea life while rolling them in the dirt so they get exposed to everything and develop a properly socialized immune system.
My prediction is that this (the low carb / high protein / healthy fats diets) will continue to be the trend. I suppose you could call it a fad, but it seems to me that since 2001 when Dr. Atkins’s book was republished that this has been the go to diet, just packaged under different names. Whether it’s South Beach, paleo, keto, or any other recent ones, they’re basically all the same diet, with maybe a little wiggle room on what falls under the category of healthy fats. They are all basically low carb / high protein and healthy fats with fiber diets. They’ve been popular almost 20 years now, so it’s hard to call them a fad.
Excellent plan, but I need more detailed rules. Does “Another pasty” count? How about “One more samosa”?
Failing that, Huel: Huel - Wikipedia
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“Yes, I’ll have the 14 oz strip steakoid cooked medium, please.”
Good point.
From time to time a study will come out that seems to contradict a previously held (and over-simplified) notion about nutrition, (e.g., from “fats are the problem–any and all fats” to “maybe not all fats”). Then the media picks it up, and frames it as “Well, we had it all wrong!” Someone writes a book to capitalize on the this, and further frames it as a “new truth” about diet. The general public buys into this, and a lot of people adopt some new diet as their salvation, until another one comes long, and then people start to think that this is all just arbitrary trends (“food fads,” as per the OP), and anything might come next–it’s like fashion.
In fact, these are really incrementally increased understandings of nutrition that are more like slight readjustments of a general direction.
One of my friends pointed out during the “grams of fat” craze that if your diet consists entirely of things that have the grams of fat printed on the side of the package, you are not eating healthy.
She’s right.
This is one of the things that Pollan’s dictum “Eat food, mostly plants, not too much” was getting at with the “Eat food” part. Avoiding heavily processed foods was part of it, but also eating “normal” things, avoiding foods that are trying too hard to represent themselves as something wonderful. For example, during the era when avoiding all fat was the misguided obsession, foods marketing themselves as low-fat starting adding huge amounts of sugar instead.
I think the one thing to remember with nutrition is that it’s extremely difficult to do rigorous science, because we just can’t do the ideal experiments of making large controlled groups of humans stick to one specific diet consistently for decade-long studies. The best guidance is to avoid any kind of extreme diet advice, whether it’s to eliminate things entirely or to add large amounts of purported superfoods. There is never enough rigorous evidence to support extreme diets, encompassing all the potential implications over long periods of time. To do things in moderation is not just laziness, it’s the rational approach.
All carbs-no protein.
Definitely advise against whatever diet Huell follows
It’s not out of line with what my doctor has been telling me. He’s been saying for a while that sunlight has benefits beyond the SAD lights and vitamin D.
Though he also argues that Vitamin D supplementation doesn’t work all that well without the addition of Vitamin K, and he still gives it out. He just argues that sunlight should also be used, and that sometimes that can reduce or eliminate the need for supplementation.
The guideline they mention is also what my sister was always told with her skin issues, that she should go out, but avoid being burnt.
I do believe that stressing out over what you are going to eat every day will kill you a lot quicker than a bad diet.
I haven’t heard of that before. It looks like the British version of Soylent.
I have some. It tastes like the blandest oatmeal I’ve ever had. I add stevia and cinnamon.
Wow. That’s well put. Imma steal/borrow this.
Have we run out of miracle berries yet? I noticed the other day that my wife’s shampoo has acai berries in it. In the shampoo.
I am looking forward to the no carb, low protein, high fat diet. It will consist chiefly of the skin off roasted turkey and the fatty lip off a prime rib roast. And of course, acai berries. Should I write a book?
I suspect you have to switch to empanadas.
Just like Mom used to make … of course she was a chemical engineer for Olin Chemicals
[I can remember going to Ohio and hunting birds at an Olin Chemicals owned game farm … ]
This morning, the news channels all seemed to be touting this story, which claims that we all need to go on a diet, not just to make ourselves healthier, but to SAVE THE PLANET!!!