new research debunks trad views on nutrition

[Molpet]

have you been to Devon?

Nope... but I was thinking about making cider and this recipe came up, might have been on byc
I don't think I will use that recipe

 

[RoyalChick]

My mother was a big believer in a dirty childhood being good for immunity.
I remember her mother-in-law (my grandmother) being horrified that she let me eat I had pulled out of the ground.

I meant to say a carrot. I wasn’t eating handfuls of dirt. But I did pull baby carrots and eat them.

 

[RoyalChick]

I think so. Real threats, or maybe the types of threats. My dad taught 8th grade, he used to tell his students who had acne (when they asked him), to go disc a field. Most of them were either farm kids or had relatives who were farmers. If they couldn't do that, a second best option was to eat a few carrots with some good, clean dirt on them. It was good for keeping the skin healthy and for the immune system.

But I think it is only part of reason so many people have immune issues. Exercise, enough sun, enough sleep, good sleep... And, the reason I still follow this thread - eating things that superficially resemble food but aren't food. And/or not eating enough food because we are eating such things instead.

That’s what my mother called it too: ‘good clean dirt’.
Subconsciously I think I still think that way!

 

[Perris]

I meant to say a carrot. I wasn’t eating handfuls of dirt. But I did pull baby carrots and eat them.

I think we probably all inferred a missing word, and that what you had pulled out the ground was a root crop of one type or another, rather than, say, a worm I mean, how many mums, even ultra-cool or hippy ones, would not intervene in that case?

 

[saysfaa]

That’s what my mother called it too: ‘good clean dirt’.
Subconsciously I think I still think that way!

Me too.

And not all dirt is good clean dirt. It is much harder to tell the difference when your family hasn't lived on the farm for 50 or 100 years so knows what has been spread or spilled where. And when.

 

[Perris]

Talking of which, those in the US might find this interesting/ informative/ alarming on how much contamination of what sort is allowed for various commodities
https://www.fda.gov/food/current-go...etary-supplements/food-defect-levels-handbook

 

[TexasBlues]

I listen to the poultry keepers podcast sometimes and whenever they talk about nutrition… they almost always say it’s not about protein % it’s about the amino acids. I haven’t heard them go into detail about where to source the important aminos. Methionine is one, but I can’t remember the others that are fundamentally important.
Edit: Lysine is the other important amino acid they look for in feeds

 

[RoyalChick]

Talking of which, those in the US might find this interesting/ informative/ alarming on how much contamination of what sort is allowed for various commodities
https://www.fda.gov/food/current-go...etary-supplements/food-defect-levels-handbook

I can’t. I don’t want to know!

 

[RoyalChick]

I listen to the poultry keepers podcast sometimes and whenever they talk about nutrition… they almost always say it’s not about protein % it’s about the amino acids. I haven’t heard them go into detail about where to source the important aminos. Methionine is one, but I can’t remember the others that are fundamentally important.
Edit: Lysine is the other important amino acid they look for in feeds

There are good threads on BYC with that info. I think @U_Stormcrow is the guy who has done the most to codify that kind of thing for chicken feed.
Similar principles apply to people feed.

 

[Molpet]

I listen to the poultry keepers podcast sometimes and whenever they talk about nutrition… they almost always say it’s not about protein % it’s about the amino acids. I haven’t heard them go into detail about where to source the important aminos. Methionine is one, but I can’t remember the others that are fundamentally important.
Edit: Lysine is the other important amino acid they look for in feeds

Yes poults are very susceptible to poor nutrition. Most people who post about leg problems in poults have been feeding chick starter instead of game bird or turkey starter.