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Because they're misinformed about the benefits of eating saturated fat.
So you're saying the yolks are good for me AND taste delicious?
Eating Healthily for $3 a Day
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#102My wife and I lived off $2.80AUD a day while she was finishing her last year of Uni.
It was really rough and Lucy end up developing iron deficiencies.
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#103I've mentioned it before, but anyone serious about this type of thing should get familiar with quinoa. It might be more expensive than rice, but it also contains a balanced set of essential amino acids - which is pretty rare for a plant. Most meals that call for rice can generally use quinoa instead, and you'll be much better off.
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Are you going to eat meat? Just try to capture a wild animal with your bare hands and eat it raw, you will look ridiculous. This isn't a practical option without technology. There is evidence that humans started eating meat about 2-2.5 million years ago. There is a theory that the addition of nutrient and calorie dense animal foods provided the opportunity to develop large brains which require significant energy to r…
probably by picking up small crawling animals and scavenging Emphasis on the word scavenging. There is no question that ancient hominids scavenged when they were starving. However, this obviously couldn't be a significant part of their diet because there are so many diseases that can transfer from one animal to another. And if meat was a significant part of our diets, cholesterol and atherosclerosis wouldn't be probl…
"And if meat was a significant part of our diets, cholesterol and atherosclerosis wouldn't be problems like they are now."
You're basing your argument on the assumption that cholesterol problems are caused by intake ofsaturated fat and jumping to a conclusion based on that assumption.
The assumption you're making is being pitted against a growing amount of evidence that cholesterol problems are caused by modern over-consumption of carbohydrates. The most basic form of evidence for this argument is that 75% of our cholesterol is manufactured by our own body as opposed to being caused by dietary intake.
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#106I am surprised the author did not mention eggs. A good source of protein, cheap, and they have a pretty good shelf life.
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Try living primitively, without technology, no stove, no refrigerator, no guns, no tractors, none of this stuff. What are you going to eat? Are you going to eat meat? Just try to capture a wild animal with your bare hands and eat it raw, you will look ridiculous. This isn't a practical option without technology. And even if you manage to capture it somehow or scavenge one that is already dead, there are tons of bacte…
Are you going to eat meat? Just try to capture a wild animal with your bare hands and eat it raw, you will look ridiculous. This isn't a practical option without technology. Watch and learn: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wI-9RJi0Qo
I don't know about you but I think I would rather pick fruit then spend eight hours in the hot sun hunting...
I also would rather eat fruits then the dead animal. Fruits are absolutely delicious to anyone whose taste buds aren't maladapted, and dead animals stink, are hard to eat uncooked, and carry diseases/bacteria.
Carnivores have 10 times the hydrochloric acid of humans so they can eat meat without worrying about pathogens such as E. Coli, Shigella, Samonella, Campylobacter, Toxoplasmosis, and Trichina Worms.
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#108Random tangential thought: There are many areas in the world where you can eat a lot more than this for $3 a day. I lived on $2/day in India for a year (was working in microfinance and wanted to live like my borrowers). I got full vegetarian meals made for me in a major city (Ahmedabad) at that price. Something to consider.
Yes, but farmers in America generally aren't content with living on the same income as a farmer in India, so we need to pay more.
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#109The post doesn't explicitly mention this, but this $3/day diet is also a vegetarian diet (with milk being the only non-vegan item in it).
But that's because the limit is too low. Meat is relatively expensive, but it's not necessarily unhealthy. If the limit was, say, $5/day then he would probably have included meat.
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#110My wife and I lived off $2.80AUD a day while she was finishing her last year of Uni. It was really rough and Lucy end up developing iron deficiencies.
Where where you living at the time?
I am from Sydney, and I have been told by friends from other states that the food prices here are much higher than anywhere else: even Melbourne (for non-aussies: a similarly sized city - 4 mil inhabitants vs 4.5 mil in Sydney).