a perspective on food and nutrition

[cgs]

Unhappy Meals - Michael Pollan - New York Times

Anyone else read this? I thought it was pretty good.

Summary: Even though we know way more than we did about food decades ago, we still are pretty much grasping at straws. Food science is way way inexact at best. We try to engineer and process foods to include X and Y nutrient, but we should probably just sit back and trust nature.

[The Animus]

We try to engineer and process foods to include X and Y nutrient, but we should probably just sit back and trust nature.

This is primarily because many people rely on processed foods, so x and y must be added to those to mimic natural foods.

'Sit back and trust nature', even if you eat natural foods, may make for an adequate diet, but for an optimal diet, you need to do a bit more than that initially to secure the best nutrition regimen.


This article, as with most health articles written by journalist, is both made over-complex in his illustrations, and then over-simplified in his recommendations.

[shudek]

Food - like in real, unmanufactured food - what a concept! I think it borders on hubris that we believe we can outsmart Mother Nature. Because of the nature and economics of our food supply chain, many of us either don't have ready access to fresh foods, or they are more than we can really afford.

Bad food costs less per calorie than healthy food. So, people go for what they can afford now, and pay the price later with multple health problems.