tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6337202956439809776.post8701273578533034805..comments2023-10-12T04:15:48.935-07:00Comments on Nourishing Revolution: Food, depression and the disconnectIsahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13690870857568808886noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6337202956439809776.post-28081589816275572792013-05-17T20:39:34.217-07:002013-05-17T20:39:34.217-07:00Veganism is interesting. There is a strong moral i...Veganism is interesting. There is a strong moral imperative to walk lightly on the earth but it is also well within the territory of Western elitist privilege. I have met a handful of seemingly healthy vegans and several handfuls of those with pallid complexions and sunken eyes. I imagine it's tricky getting the right kinds of oils and fats as well as B complex and fat soluble vitamins. In my opinion eggs are one of the perfect foods, as is good quality chocolate: containing all three macro-nutrients as well as an vast assortment of micro and trace nutrients. Sprouts are also awesome although I never seem to keep up with them. I'm really feeling the need for soup lately with winter setting in.Isahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13690870857568808886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6337202956439809776.post-67363949066641505992013-05-17T00:54:27.474-07:002013-05-17T00:54:27.474-07:00Good fats are key. I was vegan/gluten free for yea...Good fats are key. I was vegan/gluten free for years and my body, particularly my skin, suffered as a result. I took to pouring olive oil over food before eating it. I now eat eggs and cheese and still a fair bit of olive oil, and do feel heaps better. <br />When I am depressed, I am much more likely to eat industrialised crap. When I am making soup for the week ahead, and have sprouts on the go, or have been in garden for the afternoon, then I feel good. And then I tend to eat well. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6337202956439809776.post-77791390981672987012013-05-15T20:57:41.488-07:002013-05-15T20:57:41.488-07:00I agree. Cholesterol is a very important substance...I agree. Cholesterol is a very important substance in the body but it gets a bad rap. It's essential for tissue repair and is a precursor to hormones among other things. A correlation between high blood cholesterol and heart disease being interpreted as dietary fat = heart disease is exactly the kind of reductionism that nutritional science is guilty of. Never mind that dietary cholesterol is broken down by bile in the digestive tract. Could it just be that the body, in a state of trying to repair itself, is producing more cholesterol or could it be more related to trans fats from oxidised vegetable oil? It is very hard to tell.<br /><br />I think that rather than zooming in on all these little details to find answers we need to start looking at the patterns on biological, individual, community and greater-societal levels to figure out what is going wrong and how to remedy it.Isahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13690870857568808886noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6337202956439809776.post-46367952741783014752013-05-15T00:29:00.540-07:002013-05-15T00:29:00.540-07:00Right on Isa, and I totally concur on the fat phob...Right on Isa, and I totally concur on the fat phobia that seems to have set in when I was still a kid (and loved my scrambled eggs cooked in bacon grease). In our house we only buy butter, not margarine. We go through the big 4L tins of olive oil, source our raw full-cream milk from a local organic farmer, and cook our roasts and steaks with the fantastic, grass-fed, omega-3-laden "wrapping" intact.<br /><br />Cholesterol is actually a critical dietary factor when babies' brains are developing up to at least 24 months. Omega-3 has been linked to well-being and consumption of lots of fish probably wards off seasonal depression among people who live in the far north. I definitely have felt more positive on the whole since coming to NZ and adopting my present-day eating habits. And I still weigh about what I did when I was a teenager.phil.aznzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12257220412080751024noreply@blogger.com