2000 years of cultural culinary momentum before the Industrial Revolution has helped parts of Europe to keep from doing what we did in the states.
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The flour used is so different, too.
I had to buy flour from King Arthur online, when we lived in the States, to keep from getting ill.
USDA developed gluten proteins, which hit and dominated the market in the 70s, are toxic, hard to digest, and terribly hard proteins that don't form soft, stringy glue, but rather, are extremely hard, more suited to industrialised bread making
they are also, not coincidentally, a lot more allergenic and foreign to human immune systems
I'd eat one sandwich and be constipated for a week. 😂
That's when I tought myself to bake 🍞 and 🍕.
yeah, that is bad... but wait until you hear about dextrins... that one is gonna bake your noodle
let's just say that i have suffered essentially a chronic toothache for the last 10 years because of this chemically processed starch, like someone else described it "as bad as MSG but without the bad press"
Oh, just looked it up. Why do they do stuff like that?
Starch is already starchy. Don't need to make hyperstarch.
turns it into pure diabetes
combine maltodextrins with sucralose and acesulfame and aspartame and you have an epidemic of glucose metabolic dysregulation and a perfect launching point for ozempic, and then the cure to ozempic face next, and later, the mRNA anti-cancer jab
I can't eat stuff like that because it makes me drowsy and nauseous.
I have to eat really well, or I get ill.
i never figured out the connection until i got such bad tooth pain i was forced to investigate
meanwhile it ruined my vision, wrecked my memory and sapped me of strength, all of which i didn't piece together until late last year
I'm so sensitive to bad food that my husband says it's a never-ending episode of "The Princess and the Pea".
yeah i can relate to being accused of hypochondria funny enough
yet the evidence keeps piling up that i'm one of these poor bastards who is just fucked up enough by the frankenfood to be useless but not killed by it
the years that have passed while i was in a constant state of disarray... basically the last 35 years or so
This is something many Americans still don’t understand.
The industrialized food systems are poisonous.
We got nearly everything delivered, when we were there, or went to farmers' markets.
Then the quality was the same as in Germany. But the normal supermarkts were a trial.
The Misses ground up some spelt this morning and I made some flatbread. I am slowly adding grains to my gardening; it’s more for education and resilience than efficiency. It’s good to know what grows in my area and it’s nice to be able to roughly calculate yields if there’s ever some hiccup in the supply chain. Try some small experiments and learn, it’s addictive.
I think the biggest problem with American grains is the glyphosate sprayed on it to ripen it all at the same time and to dry it out. It messes up people's guts.
I think it’s more.
We are Stone Age cavemen when it comes to understanding the microbiome, soil health, and the cyclic systems of creation.
Actually scratch that. Men from the past who lived in caves knew more about this than we do.
Example: Ivermectin is a molecularly isolated form of a soil bacteria. These are the kinds of things we kill with industrial farming techniques
It certainly does a ton of damage. But the gluten in wheat/rhy/barley literally atrophies all the villi off your gut walls, leaving smooth scar tissue, lowering your nutrient absorption rate from 98% to 3, 2, and 1%. And one wonders why people develop autoimmune diseases, white hair, thin skin and nails and all the rest.
Yes. And all that happens because we destroy the generational microbiome which digests those grains in the west. The people who blame it on the grains are also missing the bigger picture.
The glyphosate destroys the gut biome including the Ackermansia that causes a thick mucus covering of the gut wall exposing it to damage and causing a leaky gut. The glyphosate allows the gluten to cause more damage. They are both important, but together they are so much worse than either alone.