In the lecture he gave on August 2, 1924, Rudolf Steiner mentioned the
following:
« The potato takes little care of lung and heart. It reaches the head, but
only, as I said, the lower head, not the upper head. It does go into the lower
head, where one thinks and exercises critical faculties. Therefore, you can
see, in earlier times there were fewer journalists. There was no printing
industry yet.
Think of the amount of thought
expended daily in this world in our time, just to bring the newspapers out.
All that thinking, it is much too much, it is not at all necessary, and
we have to thank the potato diet for that!
Because a person who eats
potatoes is constantly stimulated to think. »
So, dear readers, forget about
the increase in population, as well as the technological development that
allowed the communication and information industry to intensify an impressive
way, because according to Rudolf Steiner, the real reason why there are now
many more journalists than before, it is because now humans eat potatoes...
Which, apart from being
ridiculous, is also false because science has discovered that the main energy
the brain needs to function is glucose, which comes mainly from eating
carbohydrate-rich foods such as fruits and cereals. While potatoes contain
mostly starches, which serve more as an energy reserve.
That is, the consumption of
potatoes does not stimulate thinking as Rudolf Steiner asserts, but on the
contrary, an exacerbated consumption of potatoes would slow down the ability to
think because starchy foods are transformed very slowly into glucose.
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And this is one more example of how Rudolf Steiner said much nonsense
without any serious knowledge on this subject.
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