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• dainel commented on Neuroscience of junk-food cravings, researched in a Chili's dumpster
  What are we going to do about it? Stimulate the brain directly. Feeling hungry? Zap. Craving chicken? Zap. In this coming world, we would all eat a bland tasteless paste that contains all the nutrients we need. It comes in giant 20kg bags of powder that you mix with hot water. There's only 1 kind, but it costs $1 per bag. Using our own personal portable brain zapping device, it would taste like anything you want it to be....
• Kyle Armbruster commented on Neuroscience of junk-food cravings, researched in a Chili's dumpster
  @#4: That is preposterous. Cooking shows teach you how to cook. The problem is not and never has been cooking. It has been eating shit like what the author found in the Chili's dumpster. All this nonsense about "don't use oil," "don't use lard," "butter is bad"... We didn't have serious weight problems until we gave up our traditional diets (i.e. home-cooked, delicious foods) for packaged or restaurant crap. For millenia, we have been safely eating lard and butter without everyone turning into lard and butter. Cook at home. Don't eat packaged/processed shit. Make your food by hand, and you...
• Ranessin commented on Neuroscience of junk-food cravings, researched in a Chili's dumpster
  @36: All this nonsense about "don't use oil," "don't use lard," "butter is bad"... We didn't have serious weight problems until we gave up our traditional diets (i.e. home-cooked, delicious foods) for packaged or restaurant crap. For millenia, we have been safely eating lard and butter without everyone turning into lard and butter. Indeed, not to mention that for example geese lard is 70 % unsaturated fatty acids. Even saturated fatty acids aren't created the same - some are bad others harmless as recent research in Germany has shown. Even transfatty acids aren't all bad - there are many natural...
• LeavingHalfway commented on Neuroscience of junk-food cravings, researched in a Chili's dumpster
  I was going to beg forgiveness on the Food Network solely because of Good Eats, but I see someone beat me to the punch. I love you, Alton Brown....
• thechicgeek commented on Neuroscience of junk-food cravings, researched in a Chili's dumpster
  Alton Brown! He's the one saving grace for the Food Network. Informative, entertaining and tasty treats! This dude knows his stuff. He also is the only reason I watch Iron Chef (occasionally)....