Salt, We Misjudged You

Post by jcheng » Wed, Jun 06, 2012, 10:51 PM UTC

psykotic wrote: post #153

jcheng wrote: post #98

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You seem to know what you're talking about. Is there a book, author, or website you'd recommend for getting a primer on nutrition? Many of my friends are doing paleo diets, juice diets, no-carb diets and all of them have pseudo scientific sounding explanations and bestselling books espousing them. I don't personally need to lose any weight (in fact I could stand to gain a few) but I am still curious about how the foo…

Lyle McDonald is the best source out there. His website at http://bodyrecomposition.com has a near-endless wealth of articles. Alan Aragon's work ( http://alanaragon.com/ ) is on a similar level, and in many ways he's a kinder, gentler version of Lyle. However, his best stuff is only available as part of his subscriber-only Alan Aragon's Research Review. James Krieger is another one whose website at http://weightolog…

Post by Tyrannosaurs » Thu, Jun 07, 2012, 4:16 PM UTC

gurkendoktor wrote: post #162

Tyrannosaurs wrote: post #130

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There are so many varieties of vegetarian diet the term is a little meaningless in terms of understanding nutrition. I've been vegetarian for about 20 years, I eat a lot of fresh veg, not much fried stuff, not much processed stuff, try and make sure I mix things up and get some protein. Broadly speaking I think I've got a pretty good diet. But I also know vegetarian's who are massively overweight, eat crap (and too m…

Right. Studies about vegetarians could only uncover those deficiencies that would affect all veg*ns, but I've never seen any that did.

Post by ericdschmidt » Sat, Jun 09, 2012, 12:01 AM UTC

thenomad wrote: post #133

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Technically, MSG is supposed to be the "extra" taste area they didn't know about/ teach in school. So although it seems salty, it's actually the savory flavor. MSG is found in just about every single food you eat that has that "savory" flavor.

To the best of my knowledge, MSG isn't actually found in most sources of umami, but it's an excellent source of that flavour. Well-known umami-tasting foods include red meat, cheese and other fermented products, and tomatoes. None of these contain MSG directly (tomatoes get their umami from glutamic acid, according to umamiinfo.com). However, MSG can be used to add more umami flavour, which acts as a flavour enhancer…