Comments on: Why I Never Plan to Go to Africa http://aslightapocalypse.wordpress.com/2011/10/15/why-i-never-plan-to-go-to-africa/ Raving Madly On the Tubes of Doom Tue, 19 Jun 2012 12:32:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Loki Aesir http://aslightapocalypse.wordpress.com/2011/10/15/why-i-never-plan-to-go-to-africa/#comment-2685 Mon, 17 Oct 2011 11:54:08 +0000 http://aslightapocalypse.wordpress.com/?p=805#comment-2685 Please do. While not a topic I would usually be interested in, knowing the author gives me the necessary modicum to wish to read any article not overly long on most subjects. :)

]]> By: Jon Octavius Kleiven http://aslightapocalypse.wordpress.com/2011/10/15/why-i-never-plan-to-go-to-africa/#comment-2683 Sun, 16 Oct 2011 20:00:54 +0000 http://aslightapocalypse.wordpress.com/?p=805#comment-2683 Yes, I’ve heard that as well. Some camps proclaim the reason must be that they were vegetarians because it was beneficial to have some measure of protective fat, and it’s very hard to actually gain weight on non-processed foods (bread products, beer & honey being the only thing that conceivably over-eat to some extent). Other camps take the more accepted argument of the supposed health-benefits of vegetarianism to be the cause.

I might write up some of my current thoughts about diet on the blog in the coming days.

]]> By: Loki Aesir http://aslightapocalypse.wordpress.com/2011/10/15/why-i-never-plan-to-go-to-africa/#comment-2682 Sun, 16 Oct 2011 18:40:25 +0000 http://aslightapocalypse.wordpress.com/?p=805#comment-2682 I am only really interested in what people used to eat to the extent it can help me justify eating or not eating whatever I want… But I hear someone on the Discovery Channel recently stated that it has been revealed that gladiators were vegetarians. That was somewhat interesting.

]]> By: Jon Octavius Kleiven http://aslightapocalypse.wordpress.com/2011/10/15/why-i-never-plan-to-go-to-africa/#comment-2681 Sun, 16 Oct 2011 08:53:47 +0000 http://aslightapocalypse.wordpress.com/?p=805#comment-2681 That cinches it, then.

Truth be told, I probably want to go to Africa at some point. It’d be fun to see the jungle, savannas etc, and the Pyramids are in Egypt, so… But Weston A. Price surely made it sound pretty bad in the 1930′s!

Actually a pretty fun book, all in all. It’s sort of weirdly racist, in that Price is obviously writing from a world where race politics are quite different then today. It also offers a neat insight into what people were actually eating before they got modernized (a big interest of mine lately).

]]> By: Loki Aesir http://aslightapocalypse.wordpress.com/2011/10/15/why-i-never-plan-to-go-to-africa/#comment-2680 Sun, 16 Oct 2011 00:49:25 +0000 http://aslightapocalypse.wordpress.com/?p=805#comment-2680 Yeah, that, and, also, you know, I hear the collective transport offers down there are below any reasonable standard!

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