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Thursday, July 21, 2011

Food Matters - What a Surprise This Was!

Yesterday afternoon I decided to watch a food documentary on Netflix. I wanted to take advantage of whatever they have on their 'instant watch' genre before everything disappears entirely!  I've seen many but wanted to watch what I thought was a documentary about Mark Bittman and his much acclaimed book, "Food Matters".  What I ended up seeing was in fact a documentary called, 'FoodMatters' that featured several so-called experts espousing some pretty crazy ideas about food!  Really crazy.  So crazy that I couldn't turn it off.  For instance, this group is a proponent of raw food (not bad if it stopped there), juicing and vitamin mega dosing (chiefly vitamin C and Niacin) to cure all disease.  They even suggest avoiding traditional treatments for heart disease, cancer and depression and opting for their raw food and vitamin therapies which are also known as 'Gerson Plus' therapies.  Never would I suggest to anyone to avoid treatment for heart disease or cancer just by taking huge amounts of vitamins!  What a shock this was to see food used as a  manipulation of health care so blatantly aimed at denouncing pharmaceutical companies. 

The good news is that Mark Bittman's book is widely available and full of perfectly sane advice about the consumption of food in this country! I would also suggest books by Michael Pollan  (Omnivore's Dilemma) and Robert Kenner who produced "Food, Inc.".   "Etre the Cow" by Sean Kenniff is gaining steam as a must read book and I have it next in line to read on my kindle!  If your interest lies in the history of how Americans have eaten in the past try, "The Food of a Younger Land", by Mark Kurlansky or "America Eats" a compilation of the WPA (Works Progress Administration) from out of work writers during the depression.  This book of articles about food habits across America was put together by Pat Willard. 

Here is Mark Bittman talking about his book with 'Cooking Up a Story'.  Visit http://www.cookingupastory.com/ - it's a great food site!  This is part of what I intended to view!




Michael Pollan has a great website about his books that you might like to visit!
He has some sage advice, "Eat food, not too much, mostly plants."

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