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Originally Posted by Azure
Obviously, less calories will often mean you won't be obese, but does it mean you're healthy? If you eat 1,500 calories of junk food every single day, you're still going to lack the essential vitamins/minerals/fats that your body needs everyday.
The reason low carb works is because you actually end up cutting out a lot of junk food, fast food, etc, etc, all which happen to be VERY high in calories as well.
Seriously?
Ever been to a feedlot? Ever seen a massive laying hen operation? Ever actually looked into the 'unnatural' environment those animals are in before they get slaughtered?
It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that a cow that can run free on the range and eat foods that they were MEANT to eat is going to have a healthier cut of beef than a cow that is crammed into a feedlot pen, doped up on antibiotics and growth hormone, and put through a slaughterhouse that would make most people puke.
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1) I pointed out that obesity is related to portion sizes, but health of diet is a different subject. Right there in my post.
2) Though I am certain I am not a rocket scientist, I am certain that we can't agree what cows were "meant" to eat. By evolutionary design, that could mean the cow was "meant" to eat whatever makes them most viable, which would actually include those antibiotics you complain about. If you mean by intelligent design, then I'll leave that for you to decipher for me.
Not to point to this post exclusively, but people need to give their head a shake about this whole "It's natural, therefore it's better" garbage. For instance:
-Tornados are natural. They kill.
-Poisonous berries are natural. They kill.
-Most antibiotics are synthetic. They have saved millions of lives
-The insulins we use now are synthetic. Millions of people would drop dead if we didn't have them
When choosing produce that is good for the environment, should we not then choose the produce that limits it's impact the most rather than simply go for something with a natural sounding name like "organic"? Genetically modified tomatoes that leave a small footprint vs. massive gardens to produce the same seems to me like it's maybe not the organic which is best. Eating only organic because you believe it's better for you or the environment is maybe a little naive. As with everything, the true answer for what is best likely lies in the middle. Time to think for ourselves maybe