Opinion of this food pyramid?

[opebo]

It is rather absurd to be so concerned about what you eat - after all everything is the luck of the genes anyway.

I use a pyramid like this:

Milk - never, except in coffee or tea, and then mostly sweetened condensed
Fruits - rarely, don't really like them
cheese - rarely, mostly because its hard to find here
Organs - love them!
general vegetables
muscle meats - quite a lot, particularly fish, chicken, and pork.. I would eat more beef but its so-so here
Green leafy vegetables - mostly ones I'd never seen till I came here
rice - I would say the amount of rice, green-leafies, and meats that I eat are roughly equal

This, combined with utter laziness and strict avoidance of the sun has kept me in fine fettle.

[opebo]

Why is it propaganda? Can't the second one also be propaganda to protect the cattle and dairy industry? What are you basing this on?

Come on, nobody feels good eating all that carbohydrate and so little protein, Sbane.

[opebo]

Come on, nobody feels good eating all that carbohydrate and so little protein, Sbane.

Yes, which is why they should cut the carbs and substitute with vegetables and sugars from fruits. And instead of animal protein, they should eat legumes, beans, lentils etc.

Are you serious?  What are you, a vegetarian?

[opebo]

Speaking of tasty inners......no dinner update in a while.

I just ate vegetarian last night, ironically!  I was starving in the bed all night.

Not really, and don't intend to become a "pure" one. But yes a large part of your diet should be coming from unprocessed plant sources. A little fish or turkey/chicken here or there is fine but red meat really should be cut out of the diet unless you specifically need it for some micro nutrient.

Oh good lord, no way!  What you want is a lot of animal fat - like eggs, fatback/lard, fatty fishes, chicken-fat or duck, and so forth.

Fat is what the body needs.  Fat, salt, and organs, such as livers and kidneys.  Think about what the animals eat as soon as they kill the Wildebeest.

[opebo]

But making a moral argument to you is a waste of time.

You got that right!

[opebo]

But making a moral argument to you is a waste of time.

You got that right!

sbane is finally getting it

And after all 'moral arguments' are weightless not just with me, but with everyone and in every way in the 'real world'.

[opebo]

opebo your dietary advice sounds like the prevailing wisdom of the 1950s.

I much prefer the 1850s in the culinary sense.

I should like to publicly announce to everyone that my vegetarian dinner of last night - like all vegetarian dinners - did give me gas.  (and when I eat my usual organs and fatback I am a guy who never gets gas).

[opebo]

I much prefer the 1850s in the culinary sense.

No you don't. I mean, you probably think you do. But, actually, you don't.

Dude, it was not meant to be taken literally.  I prefer the recipes I read from the 1890s and 1910.. and I presume they ate some traditional things quite similar in 1850.  Of course I mean only the diet of the very rich.  Also quite a lot of Thai dishes that I do love have a long history, and were I think probably not hugely different in the last century.