Eat Food

[firenze11]

This was a really great article. A lot of the info was really fascinating. It's so hard sometimes to wade through all the health information out there and make sense of it. I think (well, I hope) deep down we all know that we should be eating real, whole, unprocessed, honest-to-goodness food. I think I will make this part of my New Year's resolution: no "diet," eat food, eat well.

[margo49]

I have thought for many years that you can't go far wrong eating like the peasants. I'm into good, fresh, home-prepared food eaten at a set table.
'Course I got cancer *anyway* but I reckon I woulda been in a much worse condition if I dint have a healthy life-style and nutrition

[jobob]

Thanks for posting this, Zen!

[salsabike]

Yes, very commonsensical. Always good to see something like that on this topic, which seems to be subject to more heat than light, sometimes.

[OakLeaf]

I blew my MIL's mind the other day. She knows me to be health-minded, so she offered me some of the vitamins she was taking. "Want some folic acid?" "No thanks, I had a big plate of spinach for dinner." "Want some Vitamin D?" No thanks, I was out running in the sunshine this morning."

You could almost see her head explode.

[anakiwa]

For anyone interested in these issues I'd highly recommend reading Omnivore's Dilemma (by Michael Pollen the author of the article) or Animal, Vegetable, Miracle (by Barbara Kingsolver). They've changed the way I eat.

[Dianyla]

Another Michael Pollan fan, checking in! Loved his book "The Omnivore's Dilemma". Thanks for the link to the article.

[firenze11]

I blew my MIL's mind the other day. She knows me to be health-minded, so she offered me some of the vitamins she was taking. "Want some folic acid?" "No thanks, I had a big plate of spinach for dinner." "Want some Vitamin D?" No thanks, I was out running in the sunshine this morning."

You could almost see her head explode.

That's so funny. Last year I had some blood taken and my folic acid came back really high. My doctor said "Wow, you must eat a lot of leafy greens." At the time I did (I need to eat more now). Later I saw my neurologist and told him about those results and he couldn't handle it. He kept saying I needed a folic acid supplement b/c I was a woman of child-bearing age. But mine was already really high just from what I was eating. I think I saw his head explode a bit too

[tulip]

Pollan's newest book is "Eat Food. Not Too Much. Mostly Plants."

That about says it all.