Eating Healthy Options

[Hartmann]

I just finished "In Defense of Food" by Michael Pollan. He basically rips apart the idea of "nutrionism" pointing out that things like omega-3 pills are nowhere close to as good for you as just eating fish. How beta-carotene pills that were touted to prevent cancer actually cause it.

His whole point is that if we eat food we should eat mostly plants and not too much. He cites the French, the Italians, the Japanese and how their diets are completely different from each other but they're still healthier than us.

[Spectatrix]

I think the main downside to processed foods is all the extra sugar & salt that's typically added. Plus there's usually nutrient loss from high heat cooking/canning and sitting on a shelf for weeks/months. It's certainly not as simple as processed = bad, unprocessed = good, but I think you have to pay a lot of attention to the nutritional labels on packaged food.