Make America Healthy Again
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Funny thing about salt and vinegar but back in the day these were essentials of Roman troop rations.
But the difference is they were very raw and very unrefined.
Legionary Rations by Paul Elliott If I were to spend a day in camp as a legionary of the 4th century, what would I be eating? In the legionary fort the soldier would eat as well as any civilian - if not better, supplied from a storehouse (horrea) inside the fort. Bread was the staple food, with vegetables and beef both proving popular additions. In northern Britain mutton was also popular, probably due to the prevalence of sheep in the locality. Pork was used across the Empire as a basic legionary foodstuff. There are books on Roman cookery, and that isn't what I'm interested in here. I want to know what a legionary carried with him to war, or out on patrol. What was camp cooking like? The Literary Sources The Codex Theodosius (7.4.11) dating from 360 states that troops on the move should receive hardtack biscuits (buccellatum), bread, ordinary wine (vinum) and sour wine (acetum), salted pork and mutton. It seems that hardtack and acetum would be consumed for two days, and on the third day the decent wine and bread would be eaten. Troops were ordered to collect twenty days rations from the state warehouses before a long campaign, and carry these rations themselves. We have other sources which tell us how bleak the marching diet was. Vegetius remarks that soldiers should have "corn (ie. wheat), wine, vinegar and salt at all times". That wheat ration will have come as hardtack biscuits. The Emperor Hadrian lived the life of a regular soldier for a while (SHA, Hadrian X, 2) and enjoyed "larido, caseo et posca", which was bacon fat, cheese and sour wine (also called acetum). Ammianus (xvii) also mentions buccellatum. Avidius Cassius, a general who rebelled against Marcus Aurelius, ordered his troops to carry nothing except "laridum ac buccellatum at que acetum", ie. bacon fat, hardtack and sour wine (Avidius Cassius, v, 3). Creating A Menu What kind of a menu can I create, then? Obviously, buccellatum (hardtack or wheat biscuits) will feature quite highly, as will bacon and lard. Using just those ingredients Northern troops in the American Civil War concocted "skilleegalee", hardtack crumbled into bacon and ho
Buy some pink unrefined Himalayan Salt Use it on all my foods
Amen Corporate American is killing Americans by a slow death
Rural America needs to be revived
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Now do Growls' sources, including all the times he's linked CNN stories.Look at this ignorant sheep linking to cnn.
You rightfully blaming this on the Biden admin for letting millions of unvaxed disease ridden flea bitten people in the nation and giving them full Healthcare?
No, I'm blaming the radical anti-vax nutjobs on the Right and an HHS who tells the public to take cod liver oil instead. Why isn't he screaming from the mountaintop to get all children vaccinated immediately? We had eliminated it and now it's roaring back because of anti-vax idiots.
You can't blame this on other countries who have very high levels of vaccination - Mexico for example has a 97% vaccination rate against measles.
I'm old enough to remember when Michelle Obama wanted healthier school lunches for school children and y'all called it tyranny.
Never in the history of humanity has a political movement been driven by such stupidity.
Never in the history of humanity has a political movement been driven by such stupidity.
Agree on the school lunches. Same with Bloomberg trying to limit jumbo sodas. Everyone should support healthier diet, food supply, lifestyle and a movement that obesity is not okay.
Ok. I can't wait to hear this.
He claims they will do research studies in 5 months that will show a single cause for autism?
I tend to think there has to be a line somewhere due to personal freedom, etc, but agreed.
100%. This is why I think there should be penalties for voluntary obesity. You absolutely can eat and drink all you want. Go nuts! But you pay the proportional share of your cost in the risk pool.
If the actuaries say an obese person is likely to incur 6X the medical spend of a normal person, then their premiums should be 6X. And there should be a Medicare surcharge as well.
Zero infringement on personal freedoms. Just pay your fair share.
Yeah, I internally struggle some due to food deserts, healthy food very often costs more, or spoils faster, etc. And so in practice, it is somewhat of a vicious cycle. But you definitely have people like you're describing that it isn't due to those factors but only a choice. Just saying I struggle some at the policy level. There are also legitimate genetic factors at play. But I agree with the principle.
Now, I would fully support WIC/SNAP etc removing some obvious options that aren't nutritious. Hamburger helper isn't exactly brimming with vitamins and nutrition, but is a meal, etc. But no one needs soda to live, so don't think it should be covered, etc.
Yea I agree. If I were to draw up a comprehensive plan, it would also include investments in food deserts, mandatory nutrition education at all levels, banning harmful additives in foods, subsidizing healthy food production, premium increases on lifestyle-induced health issues (ex obesity), Medicare surcharges for that as well, banning soda, candy and unhealthy food/drink from SNAP/WIC, etc etc.
We should aggressively attack the issue from all angles.
Can get behind all that. This feels like an area I actually believe more money up front actually saves us more money in the long term.
