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What to Eat
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Marion Nestle is a nutritionist and professor. What to Eat is a nicely segmented book of nutrition advice. A lot of the heady political issues are ones I've read before in Fast Food Nation, The Omnivore's Dilemma and others. Nestle has simple overall advice: "eat less, move more, eat lots of fruits and vegetables, go easy on junk foods."
Some other neat bits I picked up from the book:
-avoid farm-raised fish.
-7 eggs a week is pretty much the max
-frozen vegetables are good
-homogenizing milk is a weird process
-Driscoll's pretty much owns the berry market.
-people marketed milk as a weight-loss food.
-margarine's cheap, but pretty much awful
-soy is in everything, but it's so bitter that Americans find it unpalatable. Almost most all oil made of vegetable oil is made of soy.
-organic meat is really hard to find.
-salmonella in eggs only really became an issue in 1980.
-nutrition labels don't have a daily requirement for protein (THIS MAKES NO SENSE!)
-12 ounces of juice is really all you should have in a day.
-the government considers "juice concentrate a sugar.
-I wish our food labels showed glycemic indexes.
-cold cereal is pretty worthless. I love it anyway.
-don't believe health claims and endorsements.
-olive and canola oils are probably the ones you should use.
-bottled water, especially Coke and Pepsi's brands, aren't any better.
-Sweet & Low really shouldn't be on the market.
-look for bread with the fewest number of ingredients.
-the size of your plate and closeness food is to you physically will affect how much you eat.
Some other neat bits I picked up from the book:
-avoid farm-raised fish.
-7 eggs a week is pretty much the max
-frozen vegetables are good
-homogenizing milk is a weird process
-Driscoll's pretty much owns the berry market.
-people marketed milk as a weight-loss food.
-margarine's cheap, but pretty much awful
-soy is in everything, but it's so bitter that Americans find it unpalatable. Almost most all oil made of vegetable oil is made of soy.
-organic meat is really hard to find.
-salmonella in eggs only really became an issue in 1980.
-nutrition labels don't have a daily requirement for protein (THIS MAKES NO SENSE!)
-12 ounces of juice is really all you should have in a day.
-the government considers "juice concentrate a sugar.
-I wish our food labels showed glycemic indexes.
-cold cereal is pretty worthless. I love it anyway.
-don't believe health claims and endorsements.
-olive and canola oils are probably the ones you should use.
-bottled water, especially Coke and Pepsi's brands, aren't any better.
-Sweet & Low really shouldn't be on the market.
-look for bread with the fewest number of ingredients.
-the size of your plate and closeness food is to you physically will affect how much you eat.
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July 1, 2007
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July 26, 2007
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July 26, 2007
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July 26, 2007
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Sounds like more people should read it :)