Post by cab on Oct 3, 2014 13:33:20 GMT
Healthier than the average person in the Western world who partakes of no physical exercise at all? Yeah, maybe. And the capacity to use various food preservation methods to avoid starvation (which -will- kill you if you succumb) for food poisoning (which -might- kill you if you succumb) does tend to mean that the survivors are stronger!
But that doesn't mean that ignoring the simple biochemistry of how food preparation works is good for us - whether its using sugar or salt and relying on osmosis or if you're going a step further and ensuring that the right microbial community predominates (e.g. use of saltpetre, or by lactic acid bacteria fermenting), the traditional methodologies we have for food preservation tend to be kick-ass for keeping us safe.
And ultimately, we're not hunter gatherers - such nomadic peoples tend to have relatively simple (typically osmotic) means for preserving food. Once communities start becoming settled the nature of food contamination changes rather, and the kinds of food preservation become more complex.
imho its wise to avoid taking in TOO MUCH sugar, and certainly wise not to eat nothing but tasty salted things. But if your prime sugar intake is in fresh food and in preserved foodstuffs, its really quite hard to over-do the sugar. Or, in other words, I'd be more worried about the cake than the jam filling
But that doesn't mean that ignoring the simple biochemistry of how food preparation works is good for us - whether its using sugar or salt and relying on osmosis or if you're going a step further and ensuring that the right microbial community predominates (e.g. use of saltpetre, or by lactic acid bacteria fermenting), the traditional methodologies we have for food preservation tend to be kick-ass for keeping us safe.
And ultimately, we're not hunter gatherers - such nomadic peoples tend to have relatively simple (typically osmotic) means for preserving food. Once communities start becoming settled the nature of food contamination changes rather, and the kinds of food preservation become more complex.
imho its wise to avoid taking in TOO MUCH sugar, and certainly wise not to eat nothing but tasty salted things. But if your prime sugar intake is in fresh food and in preserved foodstuffs, its really quite hard to over-do the sugar. Or, in other words, I'd be more worried about the cake than the jam filling