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Ok, the attitude of the mum rules the response of her babies to food and everything, with the rare exception of a very strong-willed child.
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I think you missed the part of my description where 'mum' was trying to get baby to
eat meat and that 'mum'
likes meat and thinks it's a good thing. So...please explain to me how my negative attitude towards meat influenced my 6 month old to the point where she refused meat.
Obviously she prefers the taste of veggies over most meats
despite the fact that I've tried to influence her tastes towards a wider range of protein sources. Her tastes have nothing to do with acculturation but rather with what she finds tasty and doesn't. Her older sister has been raised on the same foods and she likes a lot more meats than her sister...go figure.
Veggies cause colic...not in my experience. My daughter did have colic alright, but only for the first 3 months of her life when she was being bottle fed exclusively. She outgrew it after that and never had a problem with eating solid foods.
It takes up to 28 months for amylase production to hit
full production in babies, but infants as young as 4 months do produce enough to handle some fruits and veggies (those without skins are best). Obviously, these foods are largely supplemental in the first year, not the mainstay of their diets and my experience is that neither of my kids had a problem with it.
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Okinawans, like all Japanese people eat LOTS of fish and rice, rather than vegetables, they do not differ greatly from other Japanese, except for the ratio of fish availability to population demand makes more fish available to them, cheaper.
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Not sure when you've last traveled to Okinawa to observe what they eat, but
this site gives a very different account:
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And what do Okinawans eat? The main meat of the diet is pork, and not the lean cuts only. Okinawan cuisine, according to gerontologist Kazuhiko Taira, "is very healthy—and very, very greasy," in a 1996 article that appeared in Health Magazine.19 And the whole pig is eaten—everything from "tails to nails." Local menus offer boiled pigs feet, entrail soup and shredded ears. Pork is cooked in a mixture of soy sauce, ginger, kelp and small amounts of sugar, then sliced and chopped up for stir fry dishes. Okinawans eat about 100 grams of meat per day—compared to 70 in Japan and just over 20 in China—and at least an equal amount of fish, for a total of about 200 grams per day, compared to 280 grams per person per day of meat and fish in America. Lard—not vegetable oil—is used in cooking.
Okinawans also eat plenty of fibrous root crops such as taro and sweet potatoes. They consume rice and noodles, but not as the main component of the diet. They eat a variety of vegetables such as carrots, white radish, cabbage and greens, both fresh and pickled. Bland tofu is part of the diet, consumed in traditional ways, but on the whole Okinawan cuisine is spicy. Pork dishes are flavored with a mixture of ginger and brown sugar, with chili oil and with "the wicked bite of bitter melon."
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It seems to me that their diets are quite varied and if a higher proportion of the population is living to the age of 100 or more than any other, I would think that they are doing quite well consuming their veggies and not being poisoned by them at all. Perhaps they have some gene that prevents them from producing insulin or maybe normal amounts of it aren't as damaging as you believe?
Quite frankly, I don't care if you are anyone else never eats a vegetable for as long as they live; it obviously works for you at least (then again, booze and cigars worked pretty well for George Burns...maybe he was onto something?
), but honestly, you don't need to justify it by claiming them to be poison, either. The experience of millions of people who consume them and live long healthy lives overwhelmingly contradicts that and I hope you don't mind if I lean more towards the diet of the Okinawans (minus the rice and noodles) cuz...well...there's lots more of them living to be 100 than there are of you.
- CR societies oldest member is 103 almost 104 and still active and he only started cr at around 60 
look ..Bear did not desert us..
Vegetables don't seem to be doing them any harm 
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