Hello world!
I am a new member of the community and this is my first post but I have been lurking for some time. I really love all of the great ideas floating around out there, kudos to all!
As I lurk, however, I have noticed a troubling trend. I hope some will back me up when I say that any food community should address the issue of healthy food choices. I understand from the community profile that most posters are from the US, where obesity is nothing less than an epidemic. As such, I am trying to radically change my own food choices to be more health conscious, and have made it a personal mission to encourage others to join me.
That said, I have a respectful and humble request of community members. Please do post any and every great recipe idea you have, far be it from me to judge. However, as a nod to the need for health-conscious reform, could we put those "less than healthy" recipes behind a cut? It will be a good reference tool for those of us trying to discipline ourselves!
While I'm at it, some great healthy food references:
http://www.helpguide.org/life/healthy_e
http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/lf_heal
/only a respectful request
//still loves cookies
ETA: GET A LIFE PEOPLE!!!
I am a new member of the community and this is my first post but I have been lurking for some time. I really love all of the great ideas floating around out there, kudos to all!
As I lurk, however, I have noticed a troubling trend. I hope some will back me up when I say that any food community should address the issue of healthy food choices. I understand from the community profile that most posters are from the US, where obesity is nothing less than an epidemic. As such, I am trying to radically change my own food choices to be more health conscious, and have made it a personal mission to encourage others to join me.
That said, I have a respectful and humble request of community members. Please do post any and every great recipe idea you have, far be it from me to judge. However, as a nod to the need for health-conscious reform, could we put those "less than healthy" recipes behind a cut? It will be a good reference tool for those of us trying to discipline ourselves!
While I'm at it, some great healthy food references:
http://www.helpguide.org/life/healthy_e
http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/lf_heal
/only a respectful request
//still loves cookies
ETA: GET A LIFE PEOPLE!!!
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Okay, I know you're not.
So... no.
Who is to judge what is healthy and what is unhealthy? If one is to argue that all things in moderation is better than low-fat, processed, starve yourself food, what becomes healthy or unhealthy?
Why do we need the food police in a cooking community?
[/devil's advocate]
And no more advocating for the Devil! :)
That and entitlement.
You're a special soul.
I need glasses, yet not having them entertains me.
If you don't want to see these horrible, unhealthy food choices other people are making, you can unsubscribe.
:)
Slippery slope. Welcome to it. Expecting a community to police itself to maintain what you feel is a "healthy" atmosphere when the described mission of the community is cooking--not the absence of healthy--is beyond ridiculous, and I hope you're prepared for the amount of flak you're about to get for such an asinine request.
On a personal note, you can enjoy your healthy food crusade. But I really don't want you telling me what I can and can't post without a cut here when you're not a mod, and your choices aren't my choices. You have a scroll button. Try using that instead of expecting this community to police itself to suit your personal dietary mission.
And all this time I thought it was because I was lazy and ate way to much!
A chocolate mousse can be a source of iron, cholesterol, protein, vitamin K, vitamin A and vitamin D, plus an antioxidant. Is it healthy? Or not?
...And someone already said this in other words, so count this as just another 'no' vote.
Maybe you should check out some other communities, rather than trying to change this one.
You promised to never post my picture!
I think you need just skip over it if you don't want to read it unless there is a monkey there with a gun to you head saying read it bitch
If you want to expose yourself to only healthy foods, go join an appropriate community or start your own.
The US also has a sad trend of people not taking responsibility for their own actions or choices and expecting others to protect them from themselves. Let's work on THAT one first. You show a little self-control and let others post what they want instead of trying to expect them to kowtow to your demands.
Unless this is your community, you don't make the rules.
Edited at 2008-06-22 02:29 am (UTC)
Yes!!
I bet you are one of those *gasp* people that take responsibility for what they choose to eat and don't think that we all have to pander to one person's desires. *tsk* *tsk* They are going to kick you out of the special snowflake union you know.
and since some people don't have a sense of humor (not you specifically) let me insert the disclaimer that I am one that tries to eat healthy but does indulge in "not healthy" choices from time to time.
I did not know you could get fat from looking at a screen. This explains a lot.
There are so many stories providing conflicting evidence. On one hand, you have people like Bette Davis who smoked five packs of cigarettes a day, washed them down with a fifth of whiskey, and ate whatever she wanted. She lived well into her 80's. On the other hand, there are people like Jim Fix who ran 10 miles everyday, yet collapsed in the street dead from a heart attack in his 30's or Ewell Gibbons who proclaimed that many parts of a pine tree are edible and encouraged us to eat Grape Nuts. He died of malnutrition. The single aspect of diet appears to have little bearing in these three lives, except for Gibbons, who may have taken the vegetarian "thing" a bit too far.http://denver.yourhub.com/Denver/St
I hope that in a hundred years people will look back on this fad-diet trend of the last half-century as something which is as ridiculous as bloodletting.
unhealthy cooking.