maybe we're using the word "imflammation" to describe too much stuff?

I mean, we name viruses & bacterias by their category/shape/etc, so shouldn't we do something similar to inflammation? eg. blue, vege-inflammation, red inflammation, pink-diamond-shaped inflammation inflammation-from-burn, etc?

surprisingly, yes :)

Let's say you're eating some wheat. You have no issues with it.

One day, you eat wheat that was contaminated with something, call it thing X. It causes a reaction. Yet the reaction now targets wheat and thing X, and so wheat is now troublesome.

Unsure on the validity of this.

True but saturated animal fats quickly become an issue if you don't restrict yourself to fish and lean poultry and other lean meats such as rabbit.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ortolan_bunting#Culinary_use

I like my food to wail in pain.

Not really, there are autoimmune conditions that can be triggered via external stimuli in which gluten causes mayhem to your body, even tho you are not sensitive to it per se.

Typically the vegetables are also dead when you eat them. "Don't eat dead things" is a moronic statement dreamed up as an attempt at shock value. It doesn't mean anything and can be safely ignored.

Beans and nuts for protein?

>Few claim to be lactose tolerant in adulthood, but how lactose tolerant are they? Really it is not a physiological tolerance, but a mental one, an acceptance that odd rashes and a digestive tract that works less than perfectly is normal, when it isn't.

This threw me off. I don't know anyone ethnically local to my area that is lactose intolerant except for one grandma and it indeed becomes more common with age. Nobody else has odd rashes or digestive tract issues linked to it. We know perfectly well how some populations have adjusted to being capable of properly digesting it so your claims seem wild. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactase#Genetic_expression_and...

> Few claim to be lactose tolerant in adulthood, but how lactose tolerant are they?

This is such an odd claim that I struggle to even find a good way to approach it. Have you seen, as an example, all of Northern Europe? I don't think I even know anyone who is lactose intolerant, dairy is a major food group for practically everyone here, regardless of age. I'm guessing you must come from a very different cultural and regional background.

>Few claim to be lactose tolerant in adulthood, but how lactose tolerant are they? Really it is not a physiological tolerance, but a mental one, an acceptance that odd rashes and a digestive tract that works less than perfectly is normal, when it isn't.

That's highly dependent on your ancestry. Practically all of non-mediterranean Europe has no problem digesting milk.

> if you eat enough plants, you will get enough protein unless it is processed

You'll get a lot of total proteins, but you'll have a very unbalanced amino acid intake unless you're going heavy on soy. Which most societies had no access to until recently.

> In Rome the heat made that dangerous due to bacteria that get to the milk first, but the Celts had built a lifestyle around milk and they became lactose tolerant, to some degree.

Interesting thing: in a lot of hot climates (Greece, India, Middle East as a whole) heat and bacteria worked together with milk to give us a pretty interesting food product: yogurt. And the bacteria in yogurt is often considered to be beneficial.

> stay off the processed foods and stick to the government guidelines for nutrition.

In the US at least, until recently, the government recommended 11 servings of grains a day. 3 servings of dairy as well.

I think the only real conclusion to make here is: we don't know anything about what foods are healthy, and probably won't in our lifetimes. Everything is fad driven to some extent. Saturated fats were evil and sugar was good. Then sugar was evil and oils were healthy. Now cooking things with solid blocks of beef fat is being done to Make America Healthy Again(tm) because a single serving of seed oils will give you cancer. In a few years the idea of a Malaysian tribal diet will be mainstream and the true solution to becoming healthy again. Then we'll find out, like all diet studies before it, that there's some odd compounding factor and it turns out diet really had nothing to do with the difference.

Open the news any given day and there's an article about red wine and coffee being great for your health. The next day there's an article saying a single sip is disastrous to your health. The day after that, 6 glasses of wine and 4 pots of coffee are the minimum daily intake necessary to stay healthy. The following day, having ever been near wine will ruin your health forever and you are doomed.

Eat what doesn't make you feel or look like shit. We all have different bodies. If what you're eating makes you tired or you're getting unexpected weight gain, try something else. If you feel energized and comfortable in your body and you're at a healthy weight, you're probably okay.

> Few claim to be lactose tolerant in adulthood, but how lactose tolerant are they? Really it is not a physiological tolerance, but a mental one, an acceptance that odd rashes and a digestive tract that works less than perfectly is normal, when it isn't.

I was nodding in agreement until this. I’m from the UK and although I don’t know my dna history, I’d say I’m likely of European heritage and possibly even a Celt, based on my family history.

I don’t know a single lactose intolerant person and speaking from personal experience I do not suffer from rashes or digestive tract issues of any kind. The only possible inflammation related issue I have is relatively mild psoriasis, which doesn’t go away when cutting dairy out of the diet (I’ve tried for extended periods).

Lactose is just another sugar, there’s no reason to believe that certain ethnic groups can’t build up a tolerance to it. Especially when you consider the timeframes. It has been ~10,000 years since humans started creating cheese, presumably we’ve been drinking animal milk for much, much longer.