Good Food Quote, Research Study in NYT

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From today's (1/28) New York Times Magazine -- there is an article on food and I

haven't

yet read it in its entirety, but wanted to share this great quote:

 

" ...a health claim on a food product is a good indication that it's not really

food, and food

is what you want to eat. "

 

-- Michael Pollan

 

The introductory headline reads:

 

" Thirty years of nutritional science has made Americans sicker, fatter and less

well

nourished. A plea for a return to plain old food. "

 

Another headline: " Nutritionism, which arose to help us better deal with the

problems of

the Western diet, has largely been co-opted by it, used by the industry to sell

more food

and to undermine the authority of traditional ways of eating. "

 

The article also states that medical & science studies have recently shown that

loads of

fiber does not lessen colon cancer rates, a low-fat diet does NOT ease breast

cancer rates,

and Omega 3s may not, according to at least one major study, reduce coronary

diseases.

In my personal opinion, from reading of other research reports (my Ph.D. is in

education,

not nutritional science or the medical field), and some anecdotal evidence,

cancer is

caused by emotions & trauma, not necessarily food. Poor food consumption could

be an

efficient assistant to the process (both in causing & healing), but there is

much, much,

more to the picture, according to many researchers & quantum physics.

 

Today's article also reports that some studies, such as the China Study,

suggests it's the

animal protein, not the fat, that is the culprit to American's ill health. The

article also

discusses how we've taken the diets of healthful cultures out of context from

their

lifestyle. What we know about the Meditteranean diet is from a study of Crete in

the 1950s

-- along with the diet that has been touted, the people studied performed more

physical

labor than Americans, they fasted regularly, and consumed far fewer total

calories.

 

Anyway, if you get a chance to read this artcile, it would be worth your time.

There are

discussions of how " we " have come to rely on grains but that critical

micronutrients are

much easier to get through greens, and how omega 3s, which industry has people

believing are good to get from fish are easier to get from algae. After all,

that's where the

fish get 'em.

 

Melanie