The Off Topic Topic

[Syt]

I went to a Mexican joint in Amsterdam and saw a couple sipping straight tequila.  Do folks in your neck of the woods understand you're supposed to schlamn it down?

People do the lemon (lime?) and salt thing, yeah.

I don't like tequila (except in cocktails). The smell makes me retch.

[The Larch]

That's a retarded way of looking at one's diet.

And yet, I am relatively healthy.  As long as I keep to discipline and maintain essential nutrient supplements--which I would have to do whether I ate candy or ate rice--I should be fine.  Or as fine as you expect a human aging to be.

If you had a balanced diet you shouldn't have to take any supplements at all. Taking them is admitting that your diet isn't balanced.

[Ideologue]

Of course it's not balanced.  I don't eat meat.  The supplement balances it for me.  I can't regulate my body temperature in freezing weather without a coat, either.  Stop hating science.

Now, if I didn't take a supplement, I'd probably be anemic.  (Or have to eat lots more broccoli, a dubious exchange.)

[The Larch]

Of course it's not balanced.  I don't eat meat.  The supplement balances it for me.  I can't regulate my body temperature in freezing weather without a coat, either.  Stop hating science.

Now, if I didn't take a supplement, I'd probably be anemic.  (Or have to eat lots more broccoli, a dubious exchange.)

Nor do you eat any kind of fruit or fresh vegetables, looking at the list you previously wrote. And chewable vitamins (wtf?) is not a food group.

[Ideologue]

Chewable vitamins are delicious.

I eat bananas sometimes.  It wasn't meant to be an entirely exhaustive list.

You did remind me to buy some apple juice with vitamin C though next time I'm at the store.

[Ed Anger]

Eat more Grapples.

Go look it up.

[Ideologue]

Fascinating.  Probably reasonably tasty.

You know, I should write a diet book.  I bet it would sell.

I can put "J.D." after my name and the dumb people who would buy it would probably think it's some sort of medical credential too.

[Habbaku]

Now, if I didn't take a supplement, I'd probably be anemic.

How do you know you aren't?  When's the last time you went to the doctor?

[The Larch]

Eat more Grapples.

Go look it up.

That sounds...bizarre...

[Ed Anger]

Fascinating.  Probably reasonably tasty.

You know, I should write a diet book.  I bet it would sell.

I can put "J.D." after my name and the dumb people who would buy it would probably think it's some sort of medical credential too.

Grapples are nasty.

[Neil]

Yes, we all know that Ide isn't healthy, and that his diet is a result of mental illness.

[Ideologue]

How do you know you aren't?

I guess I could.  But my overall iron intake is above RDA.

[mongers]

I love how my eating habits has become a cause celebre.

Al: I expressed shock that people thought every day was not so much normal as desirable, and that blowing up public toilets was equivalent to enjoying the solitude of one's own facilities.  I must shit in secret.

Larch: if candy isn't real food, why is it one of the better buys from a calorie/dollar standpoint?  Further, I do eat things other than candy.  Spaghetti, pizza, rice, potato chips, corn chips, other shaped corn products, cashews, fried vegetables of various stripes, chewable vitamins, toast, hummus, shrimp, scallops, pepperoncinis out of the storage bin, and apparently some kind of potato dish that involves pepper and some sort of unidentified marinade.  As you can see, it's a highly varied diet.

The problem with this is if you eat too much corn based products, you'll be getting some fairly substandard nutrition out of it, compared with other grains.

Indeed irrc there's some disaese you can develop from relying too much on corn, as it typically as such poor protein content compared to most other grains. Sometimes its as low as around 3g/100g, perhaps a third or a quarter of what wheat flour has.

[Eddie Teach]

Nor do you eat any kind of fruit or fresh vegetables, looking at the list you previously wrote. And chewable vitamins (wtf?) is not a food group.

What's wrong with frozen vegetables?

[Ideologue]

The vitamin sprites get cold and fly away.

I mean, apparently.  You people use some real magical thinking when it comes to food.