[MUD-Dev] Re: Nutirtion and a Resource Question

[coder at ibm.net]

On 25/05/97 at 10:28 AM, Nathan Yospe <yospe at hawaii.edu> said:

>Grains: Mid range energy, minor nutrient content.

Better try that again.  Several grains have very high (if incompleat)
potein levels, and are very nearly a compleat food in themselves.
(Note: a 1:1 mix of grains a legumes gets a compleat protein).

>Fruits: Fast energy, large number of nutrients.

You'd be surprised how little nutrition there is in most fruits.  A
lot of sugards, some of the more interesting vitamins, almost always
light on the biggi vitamins (B complex, A, E, D, the various acids,
etc) little to no protein, often very low on the minerals.  There are
exceptions: avacado is damn close to really fatty meat, pumpkins and
other squashes can get up there in the A/D and protein levels, etc.

>Meat: Protein. Healing, building, and maintaining tissues. 
>Nuts: Protein. Similar to meats.

Also fats, lipids etc.  Cf the Dinka whose adult mails live almost
entirely on cow blood  (also a prime prototype for the cursorial
hunter PoV).

>You are missing:

>Vegetables: Raw nutrients, and digestive aid.
>Dairy: You need something for bone repair, etc.

Nope.  Most Homo Sap can no longer digest dairy products after age 2
or 3.  The majority of it gets turned in mucus instead and flushed via
snot, plem, and slimy shits.  Your best calcium sources as an adult
are cartiledge/soft bone/connective tissue (chew the soft ends off
chicken drum sticks) and vegetables (look at the calcium levels in
comfry etc).  Remember also that calcium is useless to the body
without equivalent levels of magnesium salts -- thus the great
relaxing (and muscle stress/pain reducing) effect of many of the
calcium glutonate/magnesium carbonate drinks.

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