Chia seeds, the latest fad.

[SagaLore]

Isn't it funny how chia started out like this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzY7qQFij_M

And then all of the sudden its the new health food? Why did it take so long for someone to realize the health benefits of it?


I started noticing "chia" when we were buying baby packets and one of the ingredients was chia. In the last year I've seen a lot more competition for drinks with chia seeds floating in them, and now its being sold in bulk at whole foods.

That isn't what amazes me though. What amazes me is this is yet another superfood that was farmed by Mayans/Aztecs. Along with:

- Quinoa
- Amaranth
- Cocoa
- Corn
- Spirulina


What I don't understand is with all the full proteins they had available, why did Aztecs often resort to cannibalism?


So back to my original point. Why did it take so long for chia seeds to become a food rather than a toy?

 

[Smoblikat]

Back when there were Ames............

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

That isn't what amazes me though. What amazes me is this is yet another superfood that was farmed by Mayans/Aztecs. Along with:

- Quinoa
- Amaranth
- Cocoa
- Corn
- Spirulina


What I don't understand is with all the full proteins they had available, why did Aztecs often resort to cannibalism?

If they were so smart to eat all those foods, they must have known something we don't about cannibalism :hmm:

 

[BudAshes]

If they were so smart to eat all those foods, they must have known something we don't about cannibalism :hmm:

Yeah maybe we are the idiots for not practicing cannibalism.

 

[KaOTiK]

What I don't understand is with all the full proteins they had available, why did Aztecs often resort to cannibalism?

Because meat is freaking delicious.

 

[bunnyfubbles]

What I don't understand is with all the full proteins they had available, why did Aztecs often resort to cannibalism?

they didn't have the luxury of pork until the Spaniards came, they had to get their bacon on somehow

 

[xavier es]

i remember my aunt who was always a health food nut eating chia sprouts in 1960