From Today's Wall Street Journal

[cylegoddess]

Youd have to drink( from my calculations using the charts developed by a Canadian health Minister, for his countrys Health care system)


about 45 bottles to even meet the amount youd need to fight off daily enviromental toxins( that create more free radicals.)
One of the main reasons that NO ONE seems to know about ( wait ten years and It will be out, it tales ten years for any new science to break into popluar culture), is that

The food pyramid used by most of the world, had been tinkered with by the grain, dairy and meat boards.
The biggest level should and IS verggies and fruit.You need 6 to 11 serves of them. No wonder everyone is overweight in Western countrys. Grain should be the next step, not the bottom.
If you supposedly couldnt live without having 6 to 11 serves of grain a day, id be dead!!

[Jolt]

Good article. When are people going to wake up and realize that the answer is to eat real food, not processed garbage that has "healthy" additives?

[channlluv]

I think a lot of it is poor education on what constitutes a serving, too.

This article makes me wonder if the "all natural" chicken I buy at the alleged health food store is really pumped with salt water. Hmmmmm.... I asked the butcher once if it was anti-biotic free and all that and he said yes, they get it from Foster Farms. It's not labeled Foster Farms, though. I wonder.

And is farm-raised salmon healthy for you? There's a little sign on the meat cooler that says the fish are fed color-enhancing substances simulating their natural diet in order to make the meat pink. That was enough to turn me off, but I can't afford the wild salmon. Alas.

Roxy

[OakLeaf]

I think a lot of it is poor education on what constitutes a serving, too. And is farm-raised salmon healthy for you?

Ixnay on farmed salmon. The Monterey Bay Aquarium's seafood factsheet is highly regarded.

Don't you have a farmer's market or local butcher where you can get chicken?

I disagree about "poor education" on serving size though. People shouldn't have to go to school to learn what the food companies mean by a serving. Granted that serving sizes have increased by 30 to even 50% in recent years, but when the companies define a "serving" as 1/4 or 1/5 of what an ordinary person would put on their plate, that's not right either.

Then there's the other extreme. On the rare occasion when I open a can of soup or nuke a frozen dinner, I expect it to be a whole meal, as a couple of bowls of homemade soup or a plate of food would be. But it's 200 or at most 300 calories. What's up with that?

[Karma007]

It's the foods you shouldn't that advertise themselves as healthy. I'm starting a Carrots Are Your Friend fund...

[Eden]

You really to watch the hydrogenated oil thing too - they are thinking up all sorts of fancy names to hide it these days - calling it interesterfied, fractionated or modified

[Tuckervill]

Good book that I read entirely while sitting in Barnes & Noble this weekend:

http://www.amazon.com/9-Inch-Diet-Ex.../dp/157687320X

Plates have gotten bigger. For every inch average size plate has grown, American butts have grown 1.5 inches!

Karen

[Susan Otcenas]

You really to watch the hydrogenated oil thing too - they are thinking up all sorts of fancy names to hide it these days - calling it interesterfied, fractionated or modified

Also High Fructose Corn Syrup. I pretty much won't buy anything that has HFCS in it. You'd be amazed at what is sneaks into, too. I've become a very avid label reader.