Change for Food |
 If we are what we eat, we need to make some improvements... food + culture + thought + action |
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Notes"If we want to be healthy, we need to stop worrying about how much we weigh and instead turn our attention to how our diet and exercise patterns influence the way our bodies function. Our weight is largely tangential to the more crucial relationship between our biology and our way of living."J. Eric Oliver, Fat Politics: The Real Story Behind America’s Obesity Epidemic
(reading this for class - an incredibly though-provoking critical assessment of the medicalization of weight and BMI promoted via doctors, health organizations, the government, and the media)
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Some years ago two nutrition experts went grocery shopping. For a dollar, Adam Drewnowski and S. E. Specter could purchase 1,200 calories of potato chips or cookies or just 250 calories worth of carrots. It was merely one example of how an unhealthy diet is cheaper than a healthy one. This price difference did not spring into existence by force of any natural laws but largely because of antiquated agricultural policies. Public money is working at cross-purposes: backing an overabundance of unhealthful calories that are flooding our supermarkets and restaurants, while also battling obesity and the myriad illnesses that go with it. It is time to align our farm policies with our health policies.
[More] Scientific American](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m2qk810e4X1qd3h99o1_400.jpg)
Some years ago two nutrition experts went grocery shopping. For a dollar, Adam Drewnowski and S. E. Specter could purchase 1,200 calories of potato chips or cookies or just 250 calories worth of carrots. It was merely one example of how an unhealthy diet is cheaper than a healthy one. This price difference did not spring into existence by force of any natural laws but largely because of antiquated agricultural policies. Public money is working at cross-purposes: backing an overabundance of unhealthful calories that are flooding our supermarkets and restaurants, while also battling obesity and the myriad illnesses that go with it. It is time to align our farm policies with our health policies.
[More] Scientific American
(via impulsivefarmer)
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Is The "Paleolithic Diet" Really Better?
Should we try to eat like an early hominin? And what did our evolutionary ancestors actually eat, anyway? GOOD talks to four experts.
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