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01-28-2010, 12:09 PM
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did anyone see oprah yesterday?
So last night i watched my yesterdays episode of oprah that was saved on my drv. it was about the documentary Food Inc. what an eye opener, i can't wait to watch the documentary. anyways it talked about how we spend less money on food now, about 9% of our income, but we are spending close to 20% on medical costs. 40 years ago that number was reversed. the more people buy packaged, processed food the worse off they are with weight issues. i think this diet is great because i've been eating so much fresh produce, but it definitley is expensive. then she intervied an author who wrote a book on healthy eating, i don't remember the name of the book, but shared some great tips. If your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize it as food don't eat it (the example he gave way yougurt tubes). If a third grader can't pronounce the ingredients don't eat it. You can eat junk food as long as you make it, so instead of having a twinkie bake a cake from sratch so you can use quality of ingredients. his idea on this was that it takes a long time to make these types of things, unlike opening a package of junk snacks, so its not something you will have everyday. Anyways if anyone saw this episode, what were your thoughts?
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01-28-2010, 12:26 PM
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Wow, i need to watch this! Sounds great, and it's available on Netflix!
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01-28-2010, 12:40 PM
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My husband and I watched Food Inc a couple of months ago, and I caught some of the Oprah episode yesterday.
We decided since we saw food inc that we would do our best to try to buy only organic food and produce. It's tough, and its expensive, but I feel really good about it when we do.
I know (hope) the free range chickens and eggs we eat come from animals that are not kept in the horrible dark airless houses so many do live in, I know (hope) the beef we eat is grass fed, and not raised in a feed lot.
I've also noticed that a lot of random pains I would have in my midsection have gone away. They weren't very common, but once or twice a day I'd have a random pain that wasn't linked to anything. I don't know if the reduction of chemicals has to do with this, but they went away about the same time.
The big point I took away from the movie was that every time you buy something you're voting. So if you buy processed Mac and Cheese, you're voting for more processed food. If you buy organic and USA grown veggies, you're voting for those. Eventually if enough of us vote for them, they'll get cheaper and be the best option out there.
Seriously, see the movie sometime. It was amazing. The same way SuperSize Me was amazing.
Last edited by cherbear; 01-28-2010 at 03:54 PM.
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01-28-2010, 01:50 PM
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I saw the show yesterday too. Living in Southern California the one thing we have is daily access to wonderful Farmers' Markets year round. I find organic produce does cost a bit more, but it stays fresh a lot longer, too.
Once you start filling up on vegetables with smaller amounts of meat or chicken, the price balances out. Sort of. But definitely you can do it just fix a budget and shop around. It really is a buyers' market out there.
Like yesterday, I don't usually eat meat, but I was curious and went to my Trader Joe's and found out the only meat they serve is grass fed. The extra lean hamburger was 3.99 a pound. So it can be done if you do a little detective work.
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01-28-2010, 01:54 PM
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The author is Michael Pollan and his new book is Food Rules.
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01-29-2010, 08:28 PM
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I am ordering Food,Inc. on Pay Per View tonight & I have the Oprah episode on dvr. We actually talked about it at our weekly Connections class. I think watching this will be a good motivator!
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01-30-2010, 02:24 PM
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Thanks for the great information.
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03-29-2010, 10:16 PM
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I need to read this also.
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03-29-2010, 10:19 PM
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I got this documentary through Netflix. Awesome info! Especially pertinent info. on the importance of knowing where our food comes from. Yes, eye opening to say the least. And I so, SO completely agree about making your own food and not relying on processed items--they are the devil IMO for weight and health in general.
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03-29-2010, 11:23 PM
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Yes, Michael Pollan is a great food writer and in addition to food rules, I highly recommend you all order/read "In Defense of Food". Food Rules is a simplified version of JUST the food rules that he developed while writing Omnivores Dilemma and In Defense of Food.
In Defense of Food covers the history and science around how we got to where we are, why our grocery stores are more filled with "food like stuff" than actual food and how apples in the 1940's had something like 3 times more fiber than the apples we eat now because of the lack of diverse crops we're growing.
He boils it all down to his thesis which is "eat food. not too much. mostly plants." Then he published Food Rules as a quick guide for how to eat well without having to dissect your food into nutritional parts. He's right that the science of nutrition is very young, so maybe we shouldn't believe everything they say about what to eat and why because they also thought the foods that brought us transfats were an improvement. Go oldschool, eat what your grandparents ate and don't buy food that makes 'claims' to improve your health. He has a funny part about how real food has no marketing team to do nutrition label campaigns that say "now with real cheese" or "now reduced fat".
In SOO many ways, reading these books help me stay on program since the program also follows a philosphy of cutting out processed foods and eating adequate fresh produce while combining them to get the best food synergy.
In a couple ways though, parts of the program are hard to believe in because I don't LOVE putting these HNS gels in my body or the meal replacement shakes.. they aren't food. But I also recognize that I put a lot worse in my body for a lot longer, and 5 months of MRC "foodstuff" isn't going to kill me and it will be the end of pre-packaged foods for me.
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