I had to take a health/nutrition class just for some lower division bullshit requirement.

In that class, some stupid girl started talking about how she read in some girly magazine that you should never eat anything that's beige, ever. She took it to heart so seriously that when we were shown a video about poor diets, she instantly darted her hand up and whined, "b-b-but, those foods are all beige!"

…I was stunned. I knew my entire life that the average American (or person of any nationality really) doesn't fucking know shit about nutrition, health or fitness, but this was amazing.

If "beige" foods are unhealthy, what does she think of soy products such as tofu? What does she think of whole grains? Nutritional yeast? Hummus? Nuts & seeds? Root products? Beige-colored fish? Coconut? Shit, I just ate a pear that was completely beige - beige coating, beige stem, beige seeds, beige flesh. By this bimbo's priceless analysis, I may as have eaten a bag of doritos, because the pear was no healthier. I could very easily compose an entire diet that's 100% beige, composed entirely of raw fruits and vegetables and other extremely healthy products that will keep a person in perfect health.

What an idiot.

Sometimes I really fucking hate living in America.

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If it makes you feel any better, people in other countries are apparently as a stupid as the "average American."

Nutrition doesn't exactly seem to be a perfect science. It seems like there are still a lot of unknowns and open questions out there. More work needs to be done before we get a solid and dependable guideline on human nutrition. I feel that the best way to figure this stuff out is to simply look at examples. Instead of relying on experimentation or theory, we might simply examine the dieting patterns of certain population groups. Find out which group tends to have the healthiest members, and figure out what they eat. The only problem with this is that genetic differences might distort the results. What keeps the Japanese healthy might not necessarily keep the Americans healthy due to genetic differences.

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