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In one of the on line groups I am honered to be included into, a physician pointed out something very interesting on how swine were fattened back in the old days.
It appears that skim milk plus grains contribute to obesity in swine so sayeth The Farmers Cyclopedia of Livestock.
Skim milk is one of the most valuable adjuncts of the farm for fattening swine. Used with corn, kafir corn or any of the common grain by-products an almost ideal ration is formed. Hogs like it, and relish rations mixed with it. As a result of five years’ work in feeding skim milk at the New York station at Cornell, it is concluded that the most economic returns are secured when the milk is fed with corn meal.
And by returns they mean the much desired hog fat.
As we all know, the American food supply is riddled with corn and skim milk, meaning starch and sugar. In fact, the 2010 USDA nutritional guidelines are essentially hog fattening guidelines. Corn and sugar – all part of a nutritious breakfast!
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LOL, Fred! What a coincidence — I was just telling my husband at breakfast (a hamburger steak and eggs) how eating our meaty and fatty meal, regardless of how filling it is, is not going to make us fat and that farmers have always known how to fatten their livestock by feeding them just the opposite — it’s just as you describe! Now our ignorant government is in the business of fattening our human population.
I am 59 yo and when I think back to my parents’ and my grandparents’ generations, I scarcely remember an elderly overweight person. Compare that to this current senior citizen generation — it’s just the opposite. Almost every one of them is significantly overweight and many are downright grossly rotund… and I am sure taking diabetes/ HB/”high” cholesterol, or some other type of med to “correct” what is basically a metabolic problem; a metabolic problem that has resulted from bad diets — that is, the high-carb, low-fat, limited-meat diet. This current senior citizen generation was the first group of adults to literally swallow the USDA’s “heart-healthy” advice “whole-hog” for nearly their entire adulthood from early middle-age on …. and look at the results! If that isn’t proof in the pudding! (made with sugar and skim milk of course!)
Hi Fred,
This is off topic but I’ve lost your contact details. I thought you’d like to see this news article about children doing weight lifting in Clermont l’Hérault, France (where we have a little house):
http://clermontherault.blogs.midilibre.com/archive/2010/07/20/sports-futsal-et-halterophilie-pour-les-petits-vacanciers.html
all the best,
Anne
Hi Anne – FHahn@seriousstrength.com is my email.
I can’t read the French but it looks like Olympic lifting which I don’t recommend. I do like the sport and the kids will get benefit from it but it is also more dangerous than need be to derive benefit from resistance training. IOW, it is an unsafe way to strength train compared to Slow Burn with no additional benefit.
Someone should tell them about your book for kids, I see it is available on Amazon.fr Maybe next time I’m there ?
Thanks!
This is exactly the reasoning why I want my wife and kids to stop eating cereal in milk. I’ll definitely make my wife read this.
A wise idea Eric. Its poison. And raw milk is much better. http://www.uddermilk.com is a good source if you are in the NY area.
Hey Fred,
I’m a little late to the comments for this post, but better late than never…
Many years ago, I worked at a convenience store/gas station. Of course, we stocked all the junk foods, including pretty much all the Hostess products (cupcakes, etc.). You know, the stuff we couldn’t get enough of as kids, but now make us sick to our stomachs. One day, I’m talking to the delivery man, asking him what they do with the unsold items…they went from the convenience store to their “day old” store where they were sold at a discount. Items that didn’t sell there, were sold to a pig farmer who fed them to his pigs.
Just in the news today, http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/31/health/research/31muscle.html?src=me&ref=general
It’s an article about doctors seeking new ways to treat muscle loss in seniors. Of course, they’re talking about using drugs, but what if there was some effective muscle building exercise program that was low impact, easy to learn, didn’t require lots of equipment, or require injury-inducing heavy lifting? (Doesn’t sound very profitable, so they’ll probably not look too hard to find it.)
Hi Larry –
I wouldn’t feed that stuff to my pigs if I had pigs. Terrible.
Doctors = drugs. It is how they think. You can’t expect much more from most of them.