The Next Big Thing: Real Food!

[so lucky]

There was a news item on CBS Morning show saying that more than half the food we eat is not even real food. (By "we", I am speaking of average Joe, not gardeners) So now the news makers are telling us we need to start eating food that is simple and has few ingredients! Have you ever heard of such a thing? Do you mean to tell me this highly processed, chemical laden, bleached, hydrogenated, artificially colored and flavored gob of chewy food-like substance is not food?? Waah!

 

[thistlebloom]

That is quite a news flash! I wonder if fast food joints will be trending toward real real food now.

 

[ninnymary]

Why is this news? Nothing new here.

Mary

 

[majorcatfish]

and i loved taco bell before you posted this...pink foam extender for everyone....
thanks mary.....

 

[digitS']

This thing about high-glycemic foods and lung cancer ... after all the bother I went to giving up tobacco?

Heart disease, diabetes and lung cancer ... actually, we already knew about highly processed foods and colon cancer. Those foods will be implicated in all cancers, you just watch!

I'm just thankful that there are cuisines that outfits like the American Diabetes Association advocate: the Basics of Mediterranean-Style! I'm ready!

Steve

 

[seedcorn]

I still love Taco Bell..... So sue me.

I'm going to die. Let me go eating what I like. I don't want yo live eating what I don't like. If not eating Kale costs me a year, guess I'll die a year sooner......not eating green cardboard.

 

[thistlebloom]

I still love Taco Bell..... So sue me.

I'm going to die. Let me go eating what I like. I don't want yo live eating what I don't like. If not eating Kale costs me a year, guess I'll die a year sooner......not eating green cardboard.

I don't understand the problem with cardboard, (haha! that's funny, I meant to type kale!) I'll leave that typo...but really, you don't have to pluck it off the plant and gnaw on it in the garden Seed! There's lots of ways to prepare it, just ask....somebody! I slice mine in skinny strips and throw them in a stir fry, or more commonly, throw it in a green smoothie and chug it. No the smoothie isn't tasty, but it's quick and gives me a virtuous glow.

 

[seedcorn]

@thistlebloom I'm happy for you. I'll leave the glow for you. Let me enjoy my last meals......if it be Taco Bell or a parfait at Mcdonalds, so be it. Now I do eat out of my garden-mainly because I love the flavor. Plus I get a weird satisfaction at killing weeds.......

 

[thistlebloom]

Okay Seed, I'll let you enjoy your food. What if they started mixing kale in the taco meat? Would you be scandalized?

 

[digitS']

I bought three diabetic cookbooks from the ADA and gave them as gifts a few years ago.

It was difficult! Recipients almost had to pry them outta my hands!

Actually, I wrote a newsletter article about 10 years ago on the Mediterranean diet and that Nurses’ Health Study (Harvard).

That Harvard article is likely new stuff since then but there is a link in it to more complete diet info. I didn't adopt it wholeheartedly but it did give me an excuse to enjoy salmon more often and to drift over to the tilapia shelves at the soopermarket. I also always have olive oil on hand since then. These are good things !

Steve