Guest guest Posted August 22, 2002 Report Share Posted August 22, 2002 hi all, i had dinner with a fellow NTer last night (erica feldman) and her new husband. my best friend, a fellow NTer and the guy i'm dating (a SADer) were also present. erica and i were talking about how we feel like freaks among the mainstream at this point. how, some of our friends, family and other people in our lives see us as oddballs because we are so interested in nutritious traditional foods, and go to some lengths to procure them. at the end of the evening the SADer referred to us (in a friendly way) as a 'sub-culture.' that got me to thinking that, in the narrow context of this sickly contemporary american society (in which the majority of americans will die of a chronic degenerative disease), we are indeed just that. but in the much broader context of human history, it_is_the_opposite. We, who spend a good amount of our energy and time working to procure nutritious foods, and fix them using traditional methods to enhance the nutritional value and reduce the anti-nutrients and toxins, are, in fact, the NORM. Spending much time and energy procuring nutritious foods and preparing them so as to maximize nutritional value (fermenting, soaking, sprouting, pounding, etc) is what homo sapiens have been doing for our entire history, up until the advent of mass produced foods - starting approx. 150 years ago, but becoming really widespread probably at the beginning of the 20th century, right? So, what...for 99.9?% of our history, that is what we ALL did - spend time and effort procuring nutritious, life giving and sustaining foods. and in this much larger context, the contemporary SAD diet, is in fact, an anomaly - an abnormality, where food is chosen merely for convenience, taste, or as a result of effective advertising, and without much thought to nutritional value, nor how it was prepared. and the food itself is nutrient-deficient, often toxic, often disease-causing and ultimately, deadly. everything depends on perspective. from a narrow perspective of contemporary mainstream american society, WE are a sub-culture. But when you broaden that to a global and historical perspective, WHO really, is the subculture? Suze Fisher Web Design & Development http://members.bellatlantic.net/~vze3shjg/ mailto:s.fisher22@... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You are posting as a guest. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.
Note: Your post will require moderator approval before it will be visible.