Human breast milk is the only naturally occurring food specifically designed for human consumption.
I’m waiting for somebody brave enough to promote the all-breast milk diet.
Don’t ask me how I know this, but some parts of the bodybuilding community have been known to pay lactating women a surprisingly high amount for their breast milk.
Iirc it’s not even ideal for body building as human breast milk has higher natural sugars and less protein than other animal milks.
Baby’s brains need those extra calories to develop as quickly as they do, hence the extra natural sugars.
How do you know that?
Haha, I said don’t ask!
It came up during one of my childcare courses that I took before I became a dad. You can buy colostrum and breast milk on the dark web, and in some inner-city hospitals it’s not uncommon for some women to sell all their breast milk and to give their baby formula for some extra cash. We were told by the midwife that ran the course not to do this…and naturally it resulted in more questions than answers.
Genuinely one of the only things I remember from that course.
Activision-Blizzard will gladly promote that.
Well, down vote me if you want, but, IMO, human milk should be an industry. I can imagine women having the ability to stay at home with their infant or young child and pump milk, and be paid for it.
At present, just about nothing humans produce naturally is something that a company will buy. Most countries don’t allow paying for bodily fluids, including but not limited to, blood, plasma, semen (for IVF, etc). Nor do they allow for payment for human organs.
What’s left? Hair? I know nobody wants your toenail clippings. Certainly nobody is going to pay you for what comes out your backside.
It’s just one of those markets that is completely untouched IMO.
And yes the USA will let people buy organs/blood/plasma, etc, but it’s fairly uncommon in the rest of the world.
In any case, I don’t think any country has any laws forbidding it, but nobody has done it, to my knowledge.
It’s just interesting to me.
Well, down vote me if you want, but, IMO, human milk should be an industry. I can imagine women having the ability to stay at home with their infant or young child and pump milk, and be paid for it.
Women wouldn’t get to stay at home, they’d be forced to pump milk at work to sell as part of a side hustle.
Well … it’s designed for you to buy at least
It helps to define what processed food is, specifically what constitutes “processed”
From Wikipedia:
Food processing is the transformation of agricultural products into food, or of one form of food into other forms.
Food processing takes many forms, from grinding grain into raw flour, home cooking, and complex industrial methods used in the making of convenience foods.
Tertiary food processing is the commercial production of what is commonly called processed food.[2] These are ready-to-eat or heat-and-serve foods, such as frozen meals and re-heated airline meals.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Food_processing
TLDR; anything you do to a food item besides picking it up and eating it raw is considered “processing” if you want to be pedantic.
Colloquially, “processed foods” as a marketting and culinary phrase typically means “Tertiary Food Processing” but thats too many words to say every time you want to discuss potato chips
You are literally designed to eat craps found on the ground.
This just made the best argument for how I’m going to plan my diet going forward. Nothing but fries and ice cream from now on. I’ll be a paragon of health.
If we want to max processed make sure you’re going for ice creams that cannot legally call itself ice cream, “frozen desserts”.
Your sodium, cholesterol, and blood sugar levels will earn gold, silver, and bronze medals for their Olympic-grade high jumps. And that’s how you know it’s healthy.
Worse part is that food is designed to make the most profit and there a lot of tasty and cheap things you shouldn’t eat that much.
