Re: Price eating patterns and quantities

[Guest guest]

Jonathon,

I have often wondered the same thing. . . I sometimes drive myself crazy trying

to make 3 supernutritious meals with lots of variety and then I think, were we

made to eat this much and for it to be so much work? I would like to know the

answer to that as well.

Kathy

--- In , " jonathanpearl108 " <jp2@s...>

wrote:

>

> Hello,

>

> I'm a lurker here and want to thank many here for so much commitment

> and sharing of knowledge on this board.

>

> We know Price wrote *what* cultures ate - does anyone recall if he

> mentioned anything about *when?* Or does anyone have any other

> sources for traditional eating patterns in terms of timing and

> quantity as well as substance? My copy of NAPD is out on loan at the

> moment and am reading posts about the warrior diet and in process of

> figuring out best eating schedule and nutrient ratios.

>

> Cheers,

>

[Guest guest]

>I have often wondered the same thing. . . I sometimes drive myself crazy trying

>to make 3 supernutritious meals with lots of variety and then I think, were we

>made to eat this much and for it to be so much work? I would like to know the

>answer to that as well.

>

>Kathy

I don't have any documentation on this, but the historical things

I've read and from the countries I've visited, the " norm " does

seem to be one main meal per day, though there seems to

be some disagreement about whether it is normally lunch

or dinner. In Spain it seemed to be usually a huge late dinner.

At the house I stayed at in

Switzerland, they started preparing dinner at 2pm and served it

at 6 -- there is no way they could do 3 meals a day at that rate.

They served coffee with milk in the morning, and maybe a roll,

and might have had a snack in the afternoon.

But what was really noticable was that there were NO snacks.

Nada. No vending machines either. Now this was 20 years ago,

and it has no doubt changed, but I read on WebMD that in France

it is still regarded as kind of crude to eat snacks. France also

has a low obesity rate. So even if they eat 3 meals a day,

which I doubt, they eat ONLY 3 meals a day.

The exception to this seems to be in n England, when

many people had a full-time cook and other servants. Then

they had breakfast, lunch, tea, and dinner. And a lot of fat

people too -- the 1800's were when we really started getting

chunky folks, it seems.

-- Heidi