Pass the Pork please, I wanna eat healthy.

[Raziaar]

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/03/0327_060327_pig_fat.html

Hope it hasn't been posted. But scientists have... well, just read the link. Heh.

Now if they can make chocolate bars as healthy as rice cakes.

Can you imigine such a technologically advanced world, where the things that taste the BEST, and that we find the most desirable, are the healthiest things for us?

Think it could ever happen?

 

[UltimaApocalypse]

Could happen, but we don't know of the same effect works on other animals. Cows, for example.

 

[Raziaar]

Could happen, but we don't know of the same effect works on other animals. Cows, for example.

Well, ideally we could create artificial foods that completely taste like the real thing, but are both ultra healthy for us, and cheap.

Talk about a dreamland! I'm gonna dream about this tonight!

 

[Danimal]

Then the cows would get hugged to death instead of quickly and messily butchered! ^-^

 

[CrazyHarij]

well I dunno, most things that taste good in the objective sense are fat, salt etc, it's fats and oils that taste good, since we are genetically programmed to want to eat lots of it. back in the stoneage it was vital and healthy to get a hold of every bit of fat and protein etc you could, like animals do.

nowadays we just have way way too much of it and thus it isn't healthy at all. you can train your taste buds though into liking alternatives, learn to appreciate good tasting food with less calories, like really low-fat milk instead of the regular stuff. after that overly fat stuff just tastes appauling. though people think i'm weird when i snack on hardbread.

 

[Raziaar]

I snack on rolled oats. Not the processed kind. But whole rolled oats. Sometimes they can taste very good, sometimes they taste like sawdust.

But what i'm asking is, you think technology could ever produce mind boggling delicious food, yet it be health food?

 

[Insano]

Now a solution for the global warming and I'm satisfied.

 

[CrazyHarij]

But what i'm asking is, you think technology could ever produce mind boggling delicious food, yet it be health food?

Hm.. i dunno really.. guess the saying "never say never" fits in pretty well here. I mean, I'm not sure how exactly they'd do it, maybe if they extrapolated what exactly (i'm talking atom level) the tongue receptors interpret as delicious out of stuff like oils and fat and insert it into synthetic 'empty' or just low-cal and low-fat food or some kind of healthy synthetic/salad hybrid.

 

[15357]

Possibilities are endless.

 

[CrazyHarij]

Possibilities are endless.

Yeah but imagine the downside. everyone will be eating, all the time. people will be eating regular meals for hours, snack all the time. it'll be a new drug. and what will this synthetic food be made o f?

and i think people will sacrifice normal food for gorging on this synthetic food, which will be really bad for them in the long run. unless it's some kind of super-food that burns fat while containing all the vitamins and nutrition you could possibly need.

in which case again the drug-like problem arises. have you ever read dune?

 

[15357]

Yeah but imagine the downside. everyone will be eating, all the time. people will be eating regular meals for hours, snack all the time. it'll be a new drug. and what will this synthetic food be made o f?

In that case, laws will prolly be enacted to limit the amount of food that one can eat, and people will need a special card to buy food. :|
Than there will be protesting and riots and some extremists will grab nuclear weapons and destroy civilizastion as we know it. Then the zombie apocalypse.

But anyway, I wonder what this synthetic food will be made out of, too.

It has to be organic or otherwise it won't have very much nutrition in them.

 

[Raziaar]

Yeah but imagine the downside. everyone will be eating, all the time. people will be eating regular meals for hours, snack all the time. it'll be a new drug. and what will this synthetic food be made o f?

Science, of course!

But I don't see why people would be eating all the time, or why it would be such a problem. It'd require just as much self control as it does now, I would think, or relatively similiar.(self control, of which I have none of. LOL, but thats another subject).

I think it'd be a neat way to stop the killing of animals for food, while still giving those of us who love the taste of meat, meat. A food substance with the same texture,consistency, and flavor of the meat we once loved... although entirely synthetic, and 100% nutritious to the body.

 

[CrazyHarij]

yeah, nutritious. no downsides. It'll be made by the large companies so that you can eat LOTS of it becaue it'll be burnt fast. it'll be addictive as hell. imagine some kinda futuristic potato chips x2000 without the downside. ka-ching for food enterprises that use this new food, but it'll probably be devastating for the average joe in the long run.

sure, you and me will probably know better. but there are tons and tons and tons of people who won't.

 

[Raziaar]

yeah, nutritious. no downsides. It'll be made by the large companies so that you can eat LOTS of it becaue it'll be burnt fast. it'll be addictive as hell. imagine some kinda futuristic potato chips x2000 without the downside. ka-ching for food enterprises that use this new food, but it'll probably be devastating for the average joe in the long run.

sure, you and me will probably know better. but there are tons and tons and tons of people who won't.

If over indulgence wouldn't be harmful for the body, in any way shape or form, until the person became sated and full, then what's the problem when it comes to a food substance? I mean... sure, it'd be a far stretch from what we know as traditional foods, but maybe in the future it'd be just like your vegetables are today, healthy and ultimately beneficial, albeit with a great taste(I find some vegetables to be FANTASTIC in taste and smell).

Although the question wasn't really about the habits of the people eating them, but rather if it'd even be POSSIBLE for science to create such a thing. Currently we have no technology to create anything even resembling this. It's like the laws of the universe are written so that the majority of things humans find irresistably delicious to the taste buds, are generally not very good for us.

 

[CrazyHarij]

yeah it's true, it'd be too perfect.
eating food is one of the most powerful effects on the human body and mind, and even though maybe it wouldn't create direct problems, there'd have to be some sort of grand scale effect on the masses.

another solution would be to let evolution have its course and people end up finding salad and non-fat food great tasting. why we find unhealthy stuff delicious is because of leftovers from the stone age where it was incredibly rare and needed.

the cheeta has to chase gazelles until it's completely exhausted every single day or it and its children will die. imagine how great meat and fat must taste in that case.

you die without fat, and it's unbelievably good for longer periods of working hard.

the problem today is people don't work hard for longer periods of time these days because of the only human characteristic that's stronger than fear; laziness. we can basically live on a couch for our entire life.

But, unfortunately for all slackers, the body is incredibly effective and won't let any consumed fat go to a waste and thus store it, clogging up cholesterol and any other junk contained in what you stuff yourself with.

It's stuff like this that makes me think we're a dying breed because we're digging our own grave with the instincts that stick with us since the stone age. We weren't really meant to leave that period, or our instincts and psychology work really really slow. Whichever race that'll replace us will probably be more stupid.

 

[Jintor]

I thought this was going to be about jews : (

 

[kaf11]

Just saw this on The Daily Show.

 

[Raziaar]

Just saw this on The Daily Show.

So what did they say? I didn't manage to see it

I don't watch Daily Show regularly, but I do its hilarious.

 

[kaf11]

So what did they say? I didn't manage to see it

I don't watch Daily Show regularly, but I do its hilarious.

He had a good sarcastic joke after showing a clip of an expert who would rather encourage a healthy moderate diet. It went something like "But isnt it easier to genetically alter a pig at the cellular level?"