Eating 3 Square Meals A Day Is Actually Racist

Mother Jones ^ | 3/04/2015 | Kiera Butler

[PeteePie]

Full headline: Huh? Mother Jones Explains Why Eating 3 Square Meals A Day is Actually Racist.

According to an essay by Mother Jones Senior Editor Kiera Butler, eating three meals a day is “anti-science, racist, and might actually be making you sick.”

Butler’s astounding proclamation that three square meals is “racist” is supported by her interview with Historian Abigail Carroll, who wrote the book Three Squares: The Invention of the American Meal:

When European settlers got to America, they also imported their meal habits: a light meal—maybe cold mush and radishes—in the morning, a heavier, cooked one midday, and a third meal similar to the first one later in the day.

They observed that the eating schedule of the native tribes was less rigid—the volume and timing of their eating varied with the seasons. Sometimes, when food was scarce, they fasted.

The Europeans took this as “evidence that natives were uncivilized,” Carroll explained to me in an email. “Civilized people ate properly and boundaried their eating, thus differentiating themselves from the animal kingdom, where grazing is the norm.”

Butler goes on to urge her readers to abandon the racist, European invention by forgoing the three meals-a-day tradition.

[MeshugeMikey]

I sense the authoress is suffering from an extreme case of Middle Class Affluence Guilt!!

she has strange romantic notions :about “barely surviving’....

[JOHN ADAMS]

Here’s a small piece of good news, maybe — the comments on this ridiculous Mother Jones article are actually a more healthy (!) mix than I expected. Some actually rational people, making fun of the perpetual cry of racism over every damn thing in the world done by white males.

Having said that, I noticed that the article focused on the metabolic impact of eating meals but not on any other impact — like the emotional and (dare I say it) spiritual impact of eating a meal while sitting at a table, together with other human beings, especially your family, and what that experience does for kids, spouses, etc. But I suppose that suggesting positive health impact from people living as a family with a mother, father and children would be far more than Mother Jones could bear.

[Forward the Light Brigade]

Everything White People (or Hispanic Whites or Jewish whites) do is racist—breathing is racist—The only thing people of color want is for white people to die out—the hate is clearly seen in the black on white crimes and attacks. sadly, if they get their wish they will have a terrible nation worse than any in Africa today.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

I believe this obligitory post should suffice...

[clamper1797]

Any white person taking even a breath is racist ... according to the perpetually offended. Racism is under every rock.

[clamper1797]

I wonder if these people ever heard the story about the boy who cried wolf

[lwd]

Over in Thailand (and other Asian countries) they snack all day and eat small main course meals. That’s how they stay so skinny. It keeps your metabolism going.

[Dr. Ursus]

Except if you tour. They assume we ate chicken and pork twice a day. Our guides in Cambodia call tourist season the fat season,sine they eat with us.The off season they all lose the weight that they gained.

[onedoug]

Sometimes they even ate other people.

[Capt. Tom]

If I had the time, I’d divide my daily food into 5 or 6 small meals. Right now it’s 4. No long stretches of hunger, no feeling stuffed or tired after a large meal and it seems easier to control my weight.

In High School, over 60 years ago I had a Health Teacher who said eating a reasonable amount of food 5 times a day was better for you than eating 3 meals a day, because it reduced sugar spikes.

I eat 4 times a day and have been able to keep my weight down for years after losing 55 lbs. - Tom

[Jeff Chandler]

Breakfast

Lunch

Dinner

THE AMERICAN DIET

[PeteePie]

Privileged racist that I am, I find myself plagued by that nagging pang that overtakes me about this time every morning, in between the Egg McMuffin and the In and Out

“Ba da da da da, I’m Lovin’ It!”

[tophat9000]

By this logic.. time and clocks are racist.. no one is imposing when you eat but because we organized our day in to windows of time, meals fall in to thise windows. so it time and clocks and anything organized around them that is racist.... so remember.. its that damn KKKlock

[catnipman]

Not only is eating obviously racist, but I’m pretty sure climate “scientists” have proved that eating causes global warming, oops, I mean “climate change” as well!