By going to the "Fast, Cheap, and Good" cooking demonstration today, it is (surprisingly) easy to see how to make nutritious food with few difficulties. Almost all of the dishes made at the demonstration had fewer than ten ingredients. This is in line with Pollen's advice on choosing what foods to eat and that is "Don’t eat anything your great-great-grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food." I thought it was interesting how he points out food that touts its health benefits often is not as health as many people think and is primarily used to sell more products. He also points out how the meat and dairy industry's influence is so pervasive that even well-meaning politicians that want to change the food industry to improve Americans' health are essentially driven out of office by smear campaigns.
Before this article, I never really paid too much attention to food products that claim to be healthy because of all of the "added nutrients" and "low-fat" labels placed on the packaging. In the future, I will be on the looking out for misleading advertisement on the food that I purchase. The gist of Pollen's article is that if people want a healthy lifestyle they should just eat simply.
The quote that I took away most from this article was about Thomas Jefferson's advice: "treat(ing) meat more as a flavoring than a food." Do you think it is possible that the average household could achieve a lifestyle like this? Especially because we place such an emphasis on meat being the center dish (ex: grilling with the family, a dinner date, a typical dinner, etc.)
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