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What to Eat by Marion Nestle
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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.
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July 1, 2007 – Finished Reading
July 26, 2007 – Shelved
July 26, 2007 – Shelved as: non-fiction
July 26, 2007 – Shelved as: food

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message 1: by Alexandra (new)

Alexandra ...if this book taught you all that, it must be a great book. These claims all seem very real and effective to me, it took me many years and many other books to get to the same point.
Sounds like more people should read it :)



message 2: by P.J. (new)

P.J. Sullivan Canola oils are genetically modified. Does she really recommend them?


message 3: by Laura (new)

Laura Avoid farmed fish? What on earth for?? The recent studies all point to farmed fish and shellfish having the least negative (if not positive) environmental impact, and they can get proper certification, too.


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