Frequent readers of my newsletter is not foreign for the tanks that, when a culture moves away from a traditional natural diet, diseases such as obesity, diabetes, hypertension, heart disease and cancer, inevitably seem to follow.
For review, I will list some properties to consider typical of the Western diet:
When you read about this list or drag, is it any wonder that 70 percent of Americans are overweight or obese?
It does not take much of a leap of imagination to come to the conclusion that the typical Western diet really only benefits large companies producing cheap food.
This is not a new idea, but Michael Pollan raises several interesting points about why you are led to believe that the food in their supermarkets are "healthy", when the result of eating these foods would seem to indicate otherwise.
Pollan calls on our Western food ideology "nutritionalism", which he defines as believing that nutrients are the most important component in food, and because the nutrients are invisible and not well understood, we must "experts" to tell us which foods are good.
Pollan argues that when we accept this ideology that "experts" tell us what is healthy, instead of eating whole, natural foods, as they exist in nature, are we destined for believing everything food manufactures tell us.
Why is this bad?
Because the largest employer of the "experts" is the food industry for yourself!
Today, it seems the same each item on your supermarket shelf "promotes good health"--you see claims on cereal boxes full of processed cereals and sugar, low fat desserts and snack foods filled with sugar and countless other products, all argue one so-called health advantage "discovered" by "experts".
The problem is to tell you the food producers only one side of the story!
Food manufacturers will tell, one ingredient in the product is "healthy", while ignoring all the other ingredients, not there!For example, according to Pollan has one yogurt that "experts" claim to be good for your digestive health Ounce for Ounce more sugar than Coca-Cola!
Study after study links sugar to a host of negative health consequences, but you can never find this information on the front page of yoghurt packaging.
When weighing the benefits versus the costs of any food, Michael Pollan has more suggestions can help you choose foods that are really good for your health:
Do not Eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food to avoid foods that never rot eat food so close to their natural state as possible
What scientists really know the nutrition and nutrients?
Not much, it strikes.
According to Pollan, is our current understanding of nutrients on as advanced as the art of surgery was in the middle ages. [citation needed] he claims, and rightfully so, in my opinion, that take individual nutritional components out of food and a synthesizing them not always leads to good results.
Rather than rely on the "experts", which in many cases just paid shrills to the food industry, is a much better alternative to eat a balanced diet filled with whole, natural foods, and avoid possible pitfalls Western diet.
In other words, eating a carrot, not a beta carotene pill!
Eat a balanced diet full of whole, natural foods is still the best way to promote good health. [citation needed] This is backed up by traditional communities around the world eat only food sources found near nature that displays none of the typical diseases found in the Western society eat diet.
By the way, it is a myth to eat healthy, natural foods are prohibitively expensive. Actually need to eat a healthy organic diet does not cost much more than a diet filled with processed foods and junk food.
Tips on which foods you need to buy organic, and which ones are worth the extra cost, please see this earlier article.
It is true that shopping in shops, trendy food can easily cost you your entire paycheck, but takes advantage of the sales on the healthy items and clipping coupons, as well as looking for fresh, locally grown food at a farmers ' market or in a CSA can all add up to big savings on your food bill.
Prepared foods can cost up to twice the unprepared bliksem p. ... versions, then buy the entire food, which you can do in the meals, rather than the prepared foods in a box can actually lead to big savings. And if you plan your meals ahead of time, you can get exactly what you want, when you need it, and to prevent yourself from buying too much and wasting some of it when things go bad.
If you still do not buy the idea that your family can afford to eat healthily, take a look at this breakdown of how your family can eat organic food at the same price as treated them.
And, of course, there are even greater, indirect savings that come with the whole eating food.
Consider, for example, the difference in the health care needs, between those who eat the whole foods, and those who eat processed and the factory farmed food containing MSG, carcinogenic or nerve poisons such as pesticides, trans-fats, enormous quantities of sugar, and artificial synthetic and friendly.
What little you might have to save right now by purchasing processed food, you'll end up spending many times over when your health fails.
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