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we do not realize that the foods that provide these vitamins and minerals also contain small amounts of other unidentified nucronutrients critical to our body’s ability to process and utilize the first nutrients.
This orthodoxy receives reinforcement horn journalists and the food industry, the tatter quickly adding each recently identified valuable nutrient artificially as soon as it is discovered. We are now seeing omega-3 added to foods that never naturally contained it.
Ifollan goes on to describe the evolution of food in relationship to the consumer, with fruits and vegetables becoming tastier and more visible in order to attract the animal to eat them and thus disseminate their seeds. The consumer also evolved, with humans who herded cattle developing an enzyme that allowed them to digest milk as adults. He identifies two sea changes in our eating habits as a speck's: the advent of agriculture and the advent of the modem diet. The latter relates to the industrialization of food, moving along continually from whole to refined, from simple' to complex, from quality to quantity, from leaves to seeds and from culture' to science.
So what's a pe'rson to do? f\>llan advises, eat food, and them provides some supplemental rule's. First, don't eat anything your great grandmother would not recognize* as food. He encourage* us to imagine her by our sides as we peruse* the* grocery store—what would she think of a “go-gurtT Next, he says to avoid food products containing ingredfonts that are a) unfamiliar b) unpronounceable c) more them five in number, or that include d> high-fructose* com syrup.
He provide* more* guideline*, quoting We*ndell Berry that “eating is an agricultural act.” He provide* suppfome'iital rule* for his ”e*at mostly plunts” rule*, reminding us that whe*n we eat something we should consider what “it” has eaten. His rule* regarding “not too much” emphasize* pleasure anil quality over efficie'ncy and quantity. I loved this last group of gukk'Une* teat at a table*, don’t buy your fuel where' your car does, plant a garden, etc. >.
Ye*. “In Defense of Food” preach** to the choir here in Rappahannock County But we choir members ei\joy being preached to. Who doesn't like to be* atfirmed in his or her lifestyle choice* ... e*pevuilly by a bestseller that's well writte*n ami critically acclaime’d? So I highly recoratiM'nd “In Defense* of Food” to all my fellow lue-avures and foodie* in Rappahannock County. And our great -grandmothers would endorse* it also.
“In Defense* of Food” by Michae*! IVllan. The IVnguin lYess, Ne'w York : 2008.
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