Thought for the day

"Don't buy any food you've ever seen advertised....Or any food that comes with a health claim. If you're worried about your health, that is not the healthy food. Healthy food is in the produce section. It's sitting there very quietly. Without budgets to do this research. Without budgets for marketing. Without packages to print health claims on them. " -Michael Pollan

"Eat food, not too much, mostly plants." -Michael Pollan

"When it came to nutrition science, the deeper I went, the simpler it got. And by the time I had spent two years studying what we know about nutrition and health, I realized that, you know, all the—that you could dismiss so much of this sketchy science, and as long as you ate real food, and not too much of it, and emphasized plants more than meat in your diet, you would be fine, and that the over-complication of food by industry, by government, is something really to be avoided.
And so, the challenge is, though, how do you identify food? Because now the market is full of these edible food-like substances, the ones that carry the health claims, the—

AMY GOODMAN: What do you mean, “edible food-like substances”?

Well, these are products of food science. These are the stuff in the middle of the supermarket, the stuff that doesn’t go bad for a year, deathless food, immortal food. You have to think, well, what does it mean to say a food has got a shelf life of six months or a year? It means it has been engineered to resist bacteria, pests of all kinds, fungi, mold. And what does that mean? Well, it has no nutritional value for those things. The insects, the bacteria, they’re not interested in the Twinkie, because there’s nothing of nutritional value in it." -Michael Pollan