Gnostic Gnutrition
All I want to know is what I should eat. I eat vegetables, and lots of them. I eat meat. (Sorry. It tastes too good.) Beyond that, I'm pretty clueless. I know I should have complex carbohydrates—or at least I think I know that—so I went to Wikipedia to look up complex carbohydrates, seeking to know what I should eat to get complex carbohydrates. But technical stuff in Wikipedia is often written by technical people with no recognition that this information might be relevant to real-life situations. So the article left me with more questions, among them "What should I eat to get complex carbohydrates?" The entries on flour and bread were similarly vague.
Which left me puzzled yesterday morning, when I ran out of time for breakfast and grabbed the bag of rye bread as I ran out the door. I ate the bread at my desk, four or five slices, and regarded it glumly. Is it made with white flour? Yes, but the flour is enriched. Does that matter? No idea. It occurred to me, as I munched away, to wonder if the only real nutrition I was getting was from the caraway seeds. That seemed like the long way around the barn, somehow.
Which left me puzzled yesterday morning, when I ran out of time for breakfast and grabbed the bag of rye bread as I ran out the door. I ate the bread at my desk, four or five slices, and regarded it glumly. Is it made with white flour? Yes, but the flour is enriched. Does that matter? No idea. It occurred to me, as I munched away, to wonder if the only real nutrition I was getting was from the caraway seeds. That seemed like the long way around the barn, somehow.
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