Bluetit1802
Legend
I could eat a scabby donkey is the phrase used in this house.
Well at least that would be low carb.I could eat a scabby donkey is the phrase used in this house.
I would like to agree with your statement about, not many people in the western world have had malnutrition, but I can't walk a mile in my shoes then you can say this is true, and I am sure I am not alone, this is said from my point of view and the life I hadHunger is not what we think it is. Medically speaking, its characteristic symptom is contraction of the stomach muscles: "hunger pangs" that can cause considerable pain. These cramps are especially severe in children and young people but affect older people too. This is associated with malnutrition, which affects about 12 percent of the world's population. (Info is paraphrased from Wikipedia.)
So my guess is that the majority of people in Western countries and middle-income developing countries have never suffered from this kind of hunger. We may feel "hungry" but what we mean by that is that we have an appetite, are craving food, are feeling weak or irritable, .... etc. I personally cannot remember having violent stomach pangs caused by hunger. I have been fortunate that, even in financially hard times, my family always had enough resources to pay for food in the medium term (going without food, or without sufficient food, for a short time does not cause malnutrition).
I have been reminded of this when discussing my own hunger on this forum, and when other people talk about hunger, or about fasting. Many of us -- even on one, or another, restrictive diet -- are consuming more food than our ancestors could manage to hunt, forage or grow for themselves. To really "know" hunger would, I suppose, entail doing something like the Newcastle Diet or doing some extreme fasting?
I recall reading somewhere, that most of us in the Western world are not hungry but dehydrated and we get the signals confused 98% of the time. For diabetics, I seem to recall hearing a doctor say that most T1 and T2 are severely dehydrated due to the condition also. It is an interesting point though. Initially I had to learn how to rehydrate myself properly by drinking a 5 ounce glass every half hour - for the waking day rather than guzzling water down when I remembered. It seems a lot but its one of the ways of ensuring you don't have to run to the loo every 5 minutes, and that way you are actually replenishing the water loss that your body experiences on a day to day basis.
However, millennials don’t eat cereal – in 2015, a Mintel survey found that 40% of respondents said it was “an inconvenient breakfast choice” because you had to wash your bowl afterwards. (Presumably we’ll only get our hands dirty if there’s an avocado on offer.)
A word to boomers: we didn’t invent the avocado. You did. You embraced it so wholeheartedly that you yearned for bathroom suites in the same shade.
I think my two millennials, who have both left home in the last 14 months, are doing ok!......Ok, so millenials can be an easy target, but I've encountered quite a few who have no idea how to cook. Some even struggle to heat ready-meals. I'm not sure if cooking/home education is part of our modern education system, but if parents don't cook and school doesn't teach or encourage them.. We'll have a generation of millenials at the mercy of the fast food industry. And they'll probably experience more hunger as some of those meals probably have more useful nutrition in the packaging than the food.
But maybe it's unfair just to single out millenials.. I've known a few people who've happily dropped £20K+ on a luxury kitchen, but can't or won't cook.
Or the parents could teach them!Ok, ok, I apologise for gratuitous generalisations or stereotyping.. But the Guardian started it! And noodles are a right of passage, along with fishfinger sandwiches. Oh, and Koka noodles.. they're the best!
I still think cooking and some basic life skills should be taught at schools though. When I went, boys did crafts & technology, girls did domestic science (with a few exceptions). Combining those would help kids be healthier, more self-sufficient and save money.
Or the parents could teach them!
When I went, boys did crafts & technology, girls did domestic science (with a few exceptions).
I was the only boy in the typing course (UK secondary school, early 1970s). It turned out to be fortuitious, because having typing skills later became a mainstream necessity no longer restricted to "secretarial" careers.
My father being ex Navy firmly believed that every one should be able to fend for themselves, so from an early age I had to be able to iron cook, sew and anything else that was required so as not to be dependent on others for the necessities.
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Do you accept cookies and these technologies?
We use cookies and similar technologies for the following purposes:
Do you accept cookies and these technologies?