Nutritional "advice" entering the Twilight Zone?

[Mrs Miggins]

I have seen 2 things in the last 24 hours that have really started to make me wonder what the hell is going on with our relationship with food. Ms Gwyneth Paltrow and Mr Pete Evans are currently espousing the benefits of foods that I hardly even recognise as food. I used to consider these people harmless crackpots but I am starting to find their pronouncements more sinister as I feel it has a lot more to do with conspicuous displays of wealth and status than any kind of sound nutritional advice. And it is starting to make me angry.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

I think I am more angry with Pete Evans who is apparently a "Weight Watchers Ambassador". We can easily dismiss Gwyneth as a daft Hollywood loon but Pete Evans is actually putting this menu up as something to aspire to. Who has the time or money to faff about sourcing all that bollocks never mind making it all? And who in their right mind would actually want to eat like that? It feels like it is designed to make people feel even worse about themselves rather than better.

 

[Corax]

Paltrow's been a dangerous fuckwit for ages.

Make sure you steam your yoni before bed.

 

[sealion]

Emu meatballs

 

[Mrs Miggins]

And don't even get me started on the lunacy of "alkalised water" plus cider vinegar.

 

[Corax]

And don't even get me started on the lunacy of "alkalised water" plus cider vinegar.

I want to know how you 'activate' an almond. Do you feed it some 'phet?

 

[Corax]

Seriously though, these people are profiteering from hypochondria and deception by placebo. They're con artists, no better than 411 scammers ripping off y'nan by email.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Seriously though, these people are profiteering from hypochondria and deception by placebo. They're con artists, no better than 411 scammers ripping off y'nan by email.

I agree and they need to be stopped. There are enough people who really need help with their health or with weight loss and putting this shit up as a "healthy diet" is just insanity.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

Just an almond isn't good enough any more - oh no - it has to be an "activated" almond. Vegetables? Pah! What are you thinking?

 

[Corax]

I'm going to try a diet of activated quavers and alkalised twix.

 

[alan_]

Emu meatballs

Actually emumeat balls

 

[alan_]

Also, I don't get up till about 3.00pm so already saved half those calories

 

[High Voltage]

No core items listed in either of those "breakfasts" what the suffering fuck are they going on about

 

[Supine]

"Place the nuts, water and salt in a bowl and leave to soak overnight. If you are using cashews or macadamias, you will only need to soak them for about 4-6 hours. Rinse off the nuts and spread out onto a baking tray and pop into the oven on the lowest possible temperature for 12-24 hours"

Activated almonds LOL

 

[iona]

I want to know how you 'activate' an almond. Do you feed it some 'phet?

It's summat to do with soaking them in cold water then letting them dry, iirc. Supposedly it does ... things

I usually see activated almonds recommended as a kind of running joke on r/fitness

 

[danny la rouge]

I'm a cultured veggie.

 

[DotCommunist]

one teaspoon macca?

'no ta love I'm sweet enough'

 

[danny la rouge]

I looked up Pete Evans because I didn't know who he was. He's an Australian chef. I wouldn't go to his restaurant.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

I looked up Pete Evans because I didn't know who he was. He's an Australian chef. I wouldn't go to his restaurant.

He's pretty high profile in Australia and New Zealand and presents TV shows as well as being a chef. I don't think I will be able to watch the next series of the cooking show he is a judge on because I will keep wanting to punch the television.

 

[DotCommunist]

He's pretty high profile in Australia and New Zealand and presents TV shows as well as being a chef. I don't think I will be able to watch the next series of the cooking show he is a judge on because I will keep wanting to punch the television.

I hear australia has mad beef with NZ now because of this dual citizenship furore fucking with australias government of the day lol and they have crap tv chefs, thats probably an underlying reasin

 

[purenarcotic]

All this 'wellness' stuff massively pissess me off, it's dangerous and silly. Ruby Tandoh has written some good articles about it and how the language used around wellness is similar to disordered eating.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

I hear australia has mad beef with NZ now because of this dual citizenship furore fucking with australias government of the day lol and they have crap tv chefs, thats probably an underlying reasin

Yeah that is quite the scandal at the moment and nobody really knows yet just who started asking questions or why. Fucking ludicrous if you ask me.

You should see Masterchef Australia. It's a mental shitstorm of overly dramatic music and overenthusiastic description of what you can already see happening. With your eyes.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

All this 'wellness' stuff massively pissess me off, it's dangerous and silly. Ruby Tandoh has written some good articles about it and how the language used around wellness is similar to disordered eating.

I might look those up as I am starting to feel the same. My neice is now suffering with anorexia which I am sure has been caused, at least in part, by this kind of crazy food culture. She eats all this kind of nonsense.

 

[DotCommunist]

Yeah that is quite the scandal at the moment and nobody really knows yet just who started asking questions or why. Fucking ludicrous if you ask me.

You should see Masterchef Australia. It's a mental shitstorm of overly dramatic music and overenthusiastic description of what you can already see happening. With your eyes.

they do seem an excitable lot. I read someone waxing wroth about how the ANZAC spirit forged in battle was being dishonored and etc etc. The best/worst bit is that when barnaby has entered pariliament the oppo are giving it 'baaa-narby'. Sheep shagger jokes? really. people in glass houses...

 

[purenarcotic]

I might look those up as I am starting to feel the same. My neice is now suffering with anorexia which I am sure has been caused, at least in part, by this kind of crazy food culture. She eats all this kind of nonsense.

She's done blogs too but this was quite a good one:

Bad fad – Ruby Tandoh on how clean eating turned toxic

 

[felixthecat]

'Moon dust of choice'

You can choose which moon it comes from?

 

[pug]

I never knew there was a sea in the himalayas.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

She's done blogs too but this was quite a good one:

Bad fad – Ruby Tandoh on how clean eating turned toxic

I just read that one - very good. I may pass it on to lovely neice. She needs some perspective. She bloody loves spirulina and all that jazz.

 

[Mrs Miggins]

My sister knows some people who run a little wellness empire in Aussie and has started to call them out on some of their more outrageous health claims. I think I'm going to join her but it feels like a drop in the ocean.

 

[UnderOpenSky]

I do like food and am a bit guilty of liking some of these new food trends, but I'd not even heard of alkalised water.

Im far from practising it, but heard recently about how the bulk of you kcals should come from plants, beans, wholegrains, nuts and seeds, which makes some kind of sense without having to source endless poncy ingredients.