v good takedown* of blogger foodbabe and general uninformed pseudoscience re toxic food
http://gawker.com/the-food-babe-blogger-is-full-of-shit-1694902226
by Yvette d'Entremont whose own blog is Science Babe, << check out. right now inaccessible, almost certainly bcs so m ppl fr gawker going to it.
The word "toxic" has a meaning, and that is "having the effect of a poison." Anything can be poisonous depending on the dose.
..It's a goddamn stretch to say that sugar has deleterious effects, other th stretch your lululemons..
The average adult would need to ingest about fifty PSLs in one sitting to get a lethal dose of sugar. By that point, you would already have hyponatremia from an overdose of water in the lattes.
* lots of v positive response:
-holy crap, what a thorough post this is. My impulse to snark is shamed into submission. And also thoroughly outclassed:
The other piece of writing that she unsuccessfully attempted to cleanse from the bowels of the internet claimed that microwaves are like small nuclear reactors, and they make water crystalize [in non-beautiful ways] the same way it does when you say “Hitler” or “[Stalin]” to it, because water has ears and a grasp of early twentieth-century European dictators.More posts like this, please.
-this is how you take someone down and thoroughly discredit them.
-http//:damn. = to Yvette d'Entremont 4/06/15 4:04pm
and this comment am copying here bcs, maybe since still 'pending approval', d n show up among my 'recommended' posts on my page 'blog' [wh I selected to show recommended posts & replies, via drop down upper right menu > manage..] -- though, okay good, does show up on private view, which I was pleased to find has list of all the posts I marked ('recommendations')
http://hathawaygreen.kinja.com/private/liked
nb just ~signed into kinja yesterday, via ggl, so cld star/'recommend'/like comments.
enjoyed being able to do that 'upvote' on Disqus wh signed into during TOB, also via ggl. /note got a page re ggl open id being discontinued or sth? may want go back to look at th, bkrmkd frfx.
meanwhile I tht for a moment th maybe this cmmtr had deleted this, and wished I had noted
bcs I think is a good fair ~defense, not of foodbabe but of ppl with these concerns:
- Replied to a Post by SillyMe8
Here's the thing about obsessing about food: it's
something to obsess about. And here's the thing about poo-pooing
people's fake "allergies": sometimes they aren't actual allergies, but
they can be intolerances. A gluten allergy means that you have an immune
response to gluten. A gluten intolerance might mean that you don't
digest it well, and there are some uncomfortable side effects to that.
Allergy tests will not reveal an intolerance. Intolerance might be
caused by all kinds of things, but usually with food, it comes down to
enzymes, so lactose intolerant people lack or don't have enough
lactose-digesting enzymes. My partner is a cellular biologist (and,
unlike the author of this post, an actual PhD engaged in medical
research) and he says of things food-related digestive problems, that,
in fact, there can be lots of things going on that are hard to pin down,
moreover, people's systems change as they age. You might have been fine
with milk all through you childhood and adulthood, then hit middle age
and bam, it gives you terrible gas. As someone who suffers from a mild
form (so far) of Crohn's, I can say that just about anything might
trigger a bizarre allergic reaction (inflamation and ulcers) in me,
often in totally random-ass places, like my salivary glands two years
ago. I absolutely sympathize with anyone who feels like shit and seeks
answers in their diet because at least we can control our diet. For me,
Crohn's episodes seemed to be triggered as much by everything else going
on in my life as by my eating habits (and, ironically enough, some of
my worst health has happened when I was eating a Pollan-approved diet. I
hear some Crohn's sufferers stick to wonderbread and hot dogs, cause
there's no fiber), but food is by far the easiest thing for me to
adjust and see what happens. Unfortunately, as my partner points out,
it's not always clear what the link is between a certain food and how I
feel.
It's easy to roll our eyes at food obsessives, but lots of people get
this way because they've struggled with fatigue, spastic colon, bad
gas, and all kinds of other maladies and hope that micromanaging their
diet will give them relief. Frankly, a lot of times it does, even if its
just a placebo. I spent years feeling like maybe I was just crazy
before my partner told me, "hey: the digestive tract is still pretty
mysterious, everybody's body is different, nobody knows your body better
than you do." My PCP scheduled a sigmoidoscopy for me, once, and during
the whole set up, stripping down in front of this strange
gastroenterologist, having her lube up my ass and then insert the
camera, I listened in shame as she told me that I was basically
imagining my symptoms, or seeing problems that weren't there. Then she
saw the ulceration and scars caused by years of immune responses and
concluded that, yes, something was up. I cried when she said that. I'm a sceptic about lots of things—as I've mentioned, the perfect Crohn's diet is sometimes the very anti-healthy diet of simple carbs and animal protein—but I've had enough people roll their eyes at symptoms that could be life-threatening, but even when not that bad, are still major bummers. If I believed living off of organic, wildcrafted, fermented aloe vera would "fix" me, you better believe I'd be doing that.
If your office mates are trying to push their diets on you, fuck them, but if not, what's it to you?
another reply I like in this thread:
Oddly
enough the toxin-obsessed starvation-"cleanse" people I've encountered
also refuse to give up their Diet Coke. Like, chicken has hormones and
fruit has pesticides and they can't eat gluten and bloo bloo bloo, but by you'll have to pry that Diet Coke from their cold dead fingers.
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