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Originally Posted by wannabee
Beppe, I'm with you. In a recent book I was doing. I had to translate the amount of people being diagnosed diabetic by Australian standards to USA standards. It's ridiculous. In the states some one is diagnosed with diabetes every 9 seconds. When I told my colleagues they were dumbfounded. (we are closely following)
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I do not have that problem myself, but I know how it is important. I read recently a very interesting book about nutrition. In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan.
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SUMMARY:
"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." These simple words go to the heart of food journalist Pollan's thesis. Humans used to know how to eat well, he argues, but the balanced dietary lessons that were once passed down through generations have been confused and distorted by food industry marketers, nutritional scientists, and journalists. As a result, we face today a complex culinary landscape dense with bad advice and foods that are not "real." Indeed, plain old eating is being replaced by an obsession with nutrition that is, paradoxically, ruining our health, not to mention our meals. Pollan's advice is: "Don't eat anything that your great-great grandmother would not recognize as food." Looking at what science does and does not know about diet and health, he proposes a new way to think about what to eat, informed by ecology and tradition rather than by the nutrient-by-nutrient approach.
I have started to put on the table only real food, like home baked bread from whole wheat that has been stone milled. Thinking mostly to give to my little daughter the chance to get accustomed to the real thing, including having fun with it and enjoying the conviviality of eating.