What to eat?

Never ending debate.

Don Layman is a Professor of Food Science and Human Nutrition at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He has spent the past 40 years investigating the role of dietary protein in muscle protein synthesis. In this episode, Don describes how his decades of research have shaped his thinking around protein, muscle, anabolic factors, metabolism, and more.

https://peterattiamd.com/donlayman/

Russia feeds itself well

With only a third of the year to boot.

“Currently, with 35 million families (70% of Russia’s population) working 8 million [hectares] of land and producing more than 40% of Russia’s agricultural output, this is in all likelihood the most extensive microscale food production practice in any industrially developed nation.

“According to official statistics, in 1999 more than 35 million families (105 million people, or 71% of country’s population) owned a dacha or a subsidiary plot and were cultivating it… The 35 million plots of these families occupy more than 8 million hectares and provide 92% of Russia’s harvest of potatoes, 77% of its vegetables, 87% of berries and fruits.”

https://blurt.blog/gardening/@northern-tracey/the-other-face-of-russia-and-the-ringing-cedars

Eat bugs Su-jerk-ski

These eco terrorists need to be extinct. I love my fresh, far away fruit.

“We cannot go on having a food chain that is 6,000 or 7,000 miles long,” he said. “We’re a northern country, why the hell are we able to buy fresh tomatoes and lettuce and fresh fruit 12 months a year? We’ve got to start living in a way that reflects the place that we live.”

https://www.cheknews.ca/david-suzuki-says-pipelines-will-be-blown-up-if-leaders-dont-act-on-climate-change-915197/