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In Defense of Food
Oftentimes when I go to the supermarket I find myself wandering around, looking at things thinking Are you serious? That's food? Like the time I went looking for aluminum pie plates and discovered they have pie plates with the bottom crust already in it. I'm still not over that one. And why is there even such a thing as artificial cheese?
Well, Mickael Pollan figures that's not really food. The highly processed stuff, made sugar and simple carbs and additives even I can't pronounce,* that's a food product. "Eat food," he tells us. "Not too much. Mostly plants." And stop obsessing over diet advice. Which meshes pretty well with my personal food philosphy:
Don't eat things if you don't know what they are
Don't eat things that don't rot (if mould can't live on it you probably can't either)
Don't eat so many carbs that are white (white flour, white rice, white sugar...)
Eat things that are coloured (artificial colours don't count, naturally)
Eat every day
If you're going to eat junk food, go for the real stuff (low fat cookies just shouldn't exist)
Don't eat trans fats (also just shouldn't exist)
It's so relaxing reading books that tell you you're right. Although reading about the evils of processed food kind of makes me crave some Oreos and Doritos.....All things in moderation.
*And I have some experience wrapping my tongue around chemical names.
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