While I'm against bovine hormones, what the hell is wrong with getting some fat and calcium? Children need both growing up in order to develop right. The whole "same calories as soda" thing is the most misleading. It's the shit like soda and snack food that's destroying bodies, as they have almost no nutritional value whatsoever beyond tons of sugar and sodium. Self-righteous dopes are such "health nuts" they've become blind to what's really healthy.

Try to drink an ice cold glass of water around a twenty-something city kid these days and watch as sparks fly because apparently a sip of water's temperature won't normalize in a 98 degree organic being's mouth or body, and your throat will collapse from the chilled drink you just had. The new laughable reasoning is that, and I've heard this several times, Europeans and Chinese don't drink ice water, so that means we're idiots who are going to die (bonus points: tell them that some Asian countries sell canned glutin). None of these people have to work in a 115 degree kitchen with minimal ventilation, but that's just me getting huffy. Don't get me started on freaking homeopathy.

Here's a tip to be healthy that's worked for me in the past year: calories don't mean shit. You need them, and when you balance it out well with the calories that you burn, there's nothing to worry about there. You need protein, calcium, carbohydrates, vitamins, etc., and can benefit from reasonable intakes of caffeine, alcohol, and other non-essentials. Just find a balance instead of jumping onto every bandwagon whose banner is a pretty infographic. Odds are the simplest answer like "don't do this one thing" are pretty much wrong.

LeshLush wrote:

Yeah Greg, but tell us how you really feel.

Yeah, there's a lot invested there. I'm just tired of of having 100 meals lined up in front of my in the kitchen line, then a table of five with fake-ass "lactose" and "gluten" intolerants who have no idea what those things are. They just know that the front page of the mini-magazines on the grocery checkout line said they might be bad so NOPE.

That, and as a pretty left-wing guy, I despise the kind of idiots on my side who say global warming is happening "because science" but insist on not immunizing their kids, or pushing homeopathy because those scientists work for the corporations, man.