Reduce your rice intake

[How to be wise]

Rice is a major source of arsenic. Make sure you don’t eat too much of it.

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/arsenic-in-rice#TOC_TITLE_HDR_4

https://www.food.gov.uk/safety-hygiene/arsenic-in-rice

[How to be wise]

Rice also contains high levels of lead!

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/imported-rice-may-contain-dangerously-high-lead-levels/

[Windappreciator]

Already done.

Eat brown rice rather btw.

it depends on where it has been grown, but mostly yeah it contaminated with shit from bad farming.

Edited February 4, 2022 by Windappreciator

[PurpleTree]

are organic potatoes a good substitute?

[Windappreciator]

11 minutes ago, PurpleTree said:

are organic potatoes a good substitute?

i don't know it depends on what organic in the farming practice.

but if you peel them most is out.

so they say

Edited February 4, 2022 by Windappreciator

[PurpleTree]

25 minutes ago, Windappreciator said:

i don't know it depends on what organic in the farming practice.

but if you peel them most is out.

so they say

my great-grandparents apparently ate potatoes every lunch

they became 95 and 96 yrs old

but who knows what kind of, pesticides etc. were used at the time and if there was less metal toxicity

Edited February 4, 2022 by PurpleTree

[Windappreciator]

10 minutes ago, PurpleTree said:

my great-grandparents apparently ate potatoes every lunch

they became 95 and 96 yrs old

but who knows what kind of, pesticides etc. were used at the time and if there was less metal toxicity

It really depends on the lands they are grown on, how it has been treated.

but you should be fine, just peel.

Edited February 4, 2022 by Windappreciator

[PurpleTree]

how about lentils.

they're surely a healthy, delicious food?

also a great source of protein, i could eat lentils almost everyday.

are they also killing the tree?

[Yarco]

3 hours ago, PurpleTree said:

are organic potatoes a good substitute?

how about lentils.

Potatoes should be good since they grow under the ground. Even if the plant gets sprayed with something, they won't directly get pesticides and stuff on them.

Lentils grow in pods. Generally stuff that you have to peel like oranges, etc it's safer to eat unorganic than stuff like apples where you eat the skin. But rice plants also have a covering on the rice that you have to thresh it out of, so it might still pull chemicals out of the soil just like rice, idk.

Also the potatoes you buy at the store are generally grown in North America where we have more strict standards, vs rice and lentils grown overseas in countries with less health and pollution regulations.

People from Okinawa live longer than anywhere in the world on average and they eat lots of purple sweet potatoes, so that'd be what I'd go with.

Edited February 4, 2022 by Yarco

[happyhappy]

nothin better than popeye's spinach

 

[PurpleTree]

7 minutes ago, Yarco said:

Also the potatoes you buy at the store are generally grown in North America where we have more strict standards, vs rice and lentils grown overseas in countries with less health and pollution regulations..

not for me, i'm from europe and potatoes are obviously grown here

i buy every vegetable organic, rice too but that's usually from asia

[Yali]

On 2/4/2022 at 8:08 AM, Michael569 said:

All of those contain significantly less Arsenic

this is false. Brown rice has more Arscenic than white. @Michael569

check your facts mr. nutritionist

Edited March 26, 2022 by Yali

[Yali]

@Michael569

i can't message you , did you block me?

[Yali]

@Michael569

I'll ask my question here:

Is organic food worth buying if the nutritonal content is the same as conventionally grown food?

The quantity at which pesticides are found in conventionally grown food is not dangerous 

 

Edited March 27, 2022 by Yali

[Juan]

18 hours ago, Yali said:

check your facts mr. nutritionist

@Yali be more respectful towards @Michael569. ??

[Jonac]

I think as a general rule, avoid eating any kind of grain as much as possible. The first settlements of agriculture were found about 10000 years ago, when we as species star gathering as societies. Before this we ate mostly meat, some fruits a little bit of vegetables. So for the most part of our evolution we didn't touch grains, not at all. 

[Yali]

3 hours ago, Juan said:

be more respectful towards

I don't respect nutritonists in general.  @Juan

Much of their advice seems to be based on belief rather than direct expierence which I find highly problematic. 

Edited March 27, 2022 by Yali

[Juan]

8 hours ago, Yali said:

I don't respect nutritonists in general.  @Juan

Much of their advice seems to be based on belief rather than direct expierence which I find highly problematic. 

@Yali well, still, he is not calling you with any names right? Nutritionist people are doing their best to help humanity at large anyway so. I just think that we should threat others they way we wanted to be threatened too, depending the circumstances of course. If I don’t like somebody’s take, I move on, ignore it, if not then I see if I can expand awareness on the subject asking certain questions, either questioning somebody’s knowledge/belief system (maybe to help him out, you name the example) or try to move forward the conversation. 
 

I know for a fact that @Michael569 has done A LOT for the forum. But hey man, at the end, you do you. ??

Edited March 27, 2022 by Juan