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.

[impala454]

Eh I don't see how sitting on a shelf in a can or freezer subtracts from nutrition. And you also can lose quite a bit of nutrition from fresh foods at home via cooking, depending on how you prepare it. Sugar & salt added may or may not be significant, as you said, just read the labels. I.e. if I go buy some chunked chicken canned with water, and compare it against an equal amount of chicken that I just sliced off of a bird that was alive 10 minutes ago, is there any real nutritional difference? Of course there is a taste difference, as well as a convenience difference.