Thanks for your post! I enjoyed reading the article.
The author does have some good points. Some people fret about every meal and every ingredient. It can turn into an obsession sometimes. Or we get polarized and eat "healthy" in huge quantities, still wondering our weight keeps increasing.
However I do disagree when the author calls the melamine situation in milk a "scare". It was an intentionally added toxin that has killed a number of infants. It does not belong in any milk for any reason. Some "scares" are real things which really will hurt us if we as consumers don't act.
Maybe we'd worry less if as a country we were more educated to begin with? I got very little of my food education from the public school I attended. They talked about food pyramids and eating my veggies, but that wan't really helpful. Unless we take an active role in searching out information, we're going to blindly buy whatever food is on the market as look as the box says "healthy". There is alot of fraud in the food industry. What I mean by that is that companies don't think twice about calling a horrible choice "healthy". I've seen "double cheeseburger with bacon w/low carb bread" on menus as "healthy"?! Our food is so refined, preserved, and enginnered it's not even "food" anymore.
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