“Don\u0092t take the silence of the yams as a sign that they have nothing valuable to say about health.” (NY Times Article — requires free registration) Check out the “Unhappy Meals” article linked above. “All tomatoes are not created equal.” Michael Pollan makes some excellent points about the difficulty scientific involvement in our food chain has caused.<\/p>\n
The essence of the article is stated up front: “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” He caveats the definition of food with the injunction that it must be something your great-great grandmother would have recognized as food.<\/p>\n
He supports his argument well, and this article complements The China Study<\/em> with some additional useful information. I particularly found the discussion of Omega-3 and Omega-6 fatty acids illuminating. His “flagrantly unscientific” rules of thumb (which contain the two quotes in the opening paragraph) are also useful.\u00a0 I hope you find something of value.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" “Don\u0092t take the silence of the yams as a sign that they have nothing valuable to say about health.” (NY Times Article — requires free registration) Check out the “Unhappy Meals” article linked above. “All tomatoes are not created equal.” Michael Pollan makes some excellent points about the difficulty scientific …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1126"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15327,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1126\/revisions\/15327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/pmtoo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}