Fucking health food people.

[logansrogue]

Sometimes it's helpful to go on the net and find a preponderance of positive information about health food.  I find it incredibly frustrating when I need to find specific, unbiased information on, say, which meats have the most iron and lowest fat (helpful to me because I have a hard time absorbing iron so I need to consume much more of it).  If it's not the meat industry blowing smoke up meat's ass, its militant vegans telling you not to eat it at all.  No halfway point.  No unemotional, simple break down of what the FUCK is in the meat.

Then there's brown rice.  It's like brown rice is Jesus.   Except I hate the stuff.  I had some tonight, it tasted wonderful but OH MY GOD the gut cramps!  Holy SHIT I was in some fucking agony!

So I tried to look up the exact effect that brown rice has on sensitive bowels, and could I find it?  No.  If you have IBS, apparently you should FILL UP on this shit.  Which is exactly what a nutritionist told me not to do.  Not that I place a huge stock in nutritionists, but they seem to know a thing or two about how to avoid gut cramps.

I just wish I could eat something tasty without it bothering me.  I loathe the health food industry.  It's full of charlatans, crooks and con artists.  People aching to charge you ridiculous amounts of money for simple fucking food that didn't take them anywhere near that amount of money to prepare.  FUCK YOU, jerks, for milking me dry just so I can avoid stomach cramps and agony!  FUCK YOU.

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[angriest.livejournal.com]

My IBS doesn't go so well on the brown rice. Pasta yes, noodles yes, brown rice NO!!

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

It's hell on earth, isn't it? I had dinner, and I had shooting pains in my pelvis, up and down the centre line of my abdomen and in my diaphragm. And that's when the penny dropped, cause I rarely have endo pain past my navel. I was sitting there on the couch with Mum and I was like, "Oh my GOD! Of course! The brown rice!" Like, I thought that the nutritionist might have been overreacting about my problems with insoluble fibre. No, no she wasn't. She was very, very right about that one. So I have to not eat brown rice. And get my fibre from those lovely soft psyllium husks.

[lauredhel.livejournal.com]

Stupid stomach cramps. For alternatives, does well-cooked pearl barley have the same effect on you? I Have Heard that it's a 'softer' fibre, but I suspect reactions are likely to be deeply individual.

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

I can't have barley, it's got gluten in it. My digestive system has teamed up with my uterus to make my life utterly miserable, it seems.

[greteldragon.livejournal.com]

I also loathe the health food industry. I take great pains to ignore it, and any health advice, I haven't read up on, really extensively. Mostly because a lot of 'militant' I guess meat eaters keep trying to tell me what I should and shouldn't be eating 'to be healthy'.*

From a vaguest memory (obviously this isn't relevant to my interests) I remember hearing good things about kangaroo meat in terms of iron vs fat levels. And I remember goat being really lean (dads mate gave our family a heap at one point). If that helps. No idea how accurate it is.

Of course my favourite way of stocking up on iron involved baked beans on toast, as many times as you can get away with it. :P Fortunately it doesn't make me fart as much as wholemeal pasta does.

*Not aimed at you, just some certain people I may have lost it at recently on my lj.

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

I can't eat toast - gluten. Wheat is right out.

It's funny, you know... it's pretty clear that there are certain omega fatty acids that are needed to absorb iron the most efficiently. The body has alternative ways, having those fatty acids is just the most efficient way, the best way for the body to do it. Eating meat isn't necessary, a person can take fish oil pills if needed (but an animal still has to die for those).

Most people are fine with high iron vegetables and iron pills. Me, I'm not one of those people. I'd die without meat, and I get very fucking stroppy at people insinuating that I'm a murderer because of my biological need for meat. (You're not one of these people, you're one of the most respectful people I know). So I know how you feel, there are jerks on both sides of the fence, I think. (I fucking hate those meat ads with whatsisface and the orangutan - which prefer fruit and vegetable matter in their diet and only rarely eat meat).

Point being, there are plenty of healthy vegetarians. Most of them are far healthier than I am!

[gemfyre.livejournal.com]

I don't think Orangs eat meat at all.

He should have been with a Chimp. They ruthlessly hunt, kill and eat Colobus Monkeys when the opportunity arises. And they are closer DNAwise to humans.

*also dislikes the red meat ads*

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

Orangs might eat insects or very small mammals or birds - rarely. I was fairly sure they were entirely vegetarian but I had a look online and in some books and it seems they do have a very small portion of meat in their diet. Negligible, really.

Erg. This reply got _looong_

[greteldragon.livejournal.com]

Hm. I forgot that GF free bread tends to suck arse. Or at least I've never come across tasty versions of it.

If it cheers you up, Chris loves baked beans on potato... which _he_ thinks is the greatest thing ever. :P

Definitely dicks on either side of the fence thing. Which is frustrating.

Yeah, different people need different things. I _do_ get annoyed when people assume that most people can't live without meat, when in a lot of cases its very obviously they don't know how to eat healthily*, as opposed to genuine difficulties, which people (like yourself) really do have.

But I get annoyed fairly easily really, and its the constant insinuation that because they can't do it, I mustn't be able to, and must be secretly withering away or some shit, that actually bugs me.

I can't handle those iron tablets though, they make me feel as sick as anything. :P

*Having an seriously obese, office worker, lecture me about how men 'need' there meat not vegetables otherwise they won't be big and strong, was more than a little concerning, given he didn't look like he could walk up stairs. This is an example of someone just being a shit, not having actual problems.

[commanderteddog.livejournal.com]

SO WITH YOU ON THIS ONE.

It frustrates me when I'm on a fandom forum and other posters go off-topic and start gushing about health food products or, the big one, the Whole Foods grocery store chain. Don't get me started on Whole Foods. So, have you found the people freaking out about where they buy the meat? "You CAN'T buy it there! You need to buy it HERE!"

My trigger is that it's we're developing a two-tier food supply over in parts of North America. The "health food" is sold at a high markup, often times with stores only in the nice neighbourhoods. And then, you have the normal grocery stores, but don't you DARE tell a health food nut that you shopped there. It's lots of fun when they start taking pity on you, let me tell you...

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

Hipster wankstains. It's privilege of the worst kind, complete and utter snobbery.

You know what I get mad about? Healthy simple food becoming a hot commodity on the market and becoming far too expensive for regular people to eat.

Soylent Green is becoming real, man, and it makes me fucking sick.

[hotclaws.livejournal.com]

I cannot eat brown rice or wholemeal pasta.I'd rather try to digest a brick.

[logansrogue.livejournal.com]

I've never had a problem with tofu and my tummy. I can't eat too much tofu though, because it has those faux-estrogens in them that set my endo off. :T