Posted on 11/01/2009 2:45:18 AM PST by myknowledge
I’ve had two Asian-American young women live in my home (I rent rooms to college students and recent grads), both Vietnamese. They both made a habit of cooking vast quantities of fresh vegetables and adding little bits of meat. The physical volume of the food they ingested was easily twice that of anyone else whose ever lived there (and I’m at well over the 100 mark on renters at this point), and yet it was perfectly clear that they were consuming way fewer calories than the young women with typical American eating habits, including several vegetarians. I don’t know about you, but if I tried to eat half a head of boiled cabbage at one sitting, my stomach would be stretched to near-bursting — and that would represent all of 50 calories, before the little scraps of meat, little bit of vegetable oil, and spices were added.
And, of course, lots of rice. My wife is Vietnamese.
And the rice noodles.
Are soy products only supposed to be bad for boys? My sister was on soy milk for the first year or so because the doctor sent her home with my grandmother and kept my mother for six weeks. She immediately developed excema and the doctor put her on soy, saying that if my grandmother didn’t follow his instructions, she would develop asthma by the time she was three. She turned out fine, a bit of tom boy, but ok. My brother and I, on the other hand, both have allergies, and I developed asthma. My brother and I were both breast fed.
Well, that's a good hysterical reaction to poor news reporting, but passes for informed opinion in the day of the driveby media.
If you would please, name one significant species that has become extinct in North America during your lifetime.
Or reverse osmosis, or a deep well.
Certain people are prolly more sensitive to soy than others. Same as it goes with other food sensitivities.
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