I would like to add: don't eat anything with one of the main ingredient corn syrup. Also, eating fresh, unprocessed food does not mean you need to spend more money than when you load up on TV dinners, chips and soda.
I've done it and actually saved a lot of money by buying either fresh or dried vegetables, fruit, some meat and replaced soda with tab water. I saved a lot of money and my health improved.
I am SO tired of hearing people complain that eating healthy is expensive. Eating ORGANIC is expensive, but buying and eating lots of fresh produce and cooking at home is much cheaper and better for you than processed, fat&sodium laden crap that is turning the poor/middle class fat. Fast food is a convenience - if you take a *little* time to cook real food, you'll find that it doesn't break the bank and will do wonders for your health. Yes, this can be difficult for those working two jobs or just otherwise stretched to the max, but there are PLENTY of people who aren't so overburedened that they can't cook a simple meal.
I'd like to argue that cows that are grass-fed, grass-finished, as just as good tasting as corn finished. It's also better for the cows, because feeding them grain, such as corn, is stressful to their systems - it also diminishes the omega-3 content they gain while eating grass.
I've found a good brand recommended by Eating Well magazine, called La Cense Beef. They recently sent out an email to their customers letting them know about a giveaway their doing I thought I'd share the site:
www.winagrassfedcow.com
He actually said "great-grandmother," not grandmother. And he doesn't mean to exclude things like sushi--it's made of fish and rice, which is obviously food. What isn't "food" are basically the items referred to in #2--things that aren't whole foods.
CVilleBilly, low income families tend to gain weight because the affordable foods are calorie-dense and nutritionally-empty. Please read more on this issue before making such insulting remarks. Thanks.
I'm all for grassfed, no CAFO meats. If you have had pastured chicken and turkey, naturally-raised pork and really cooked the right way with grassfed beef, you know what I mean. It tastes meatier. You want fat with your steak? Top it with some bleu cheese. If you ever read how commercial meats are raised (Fast Food Nation) or themeatrix.com, you'll understand.
Okay, as a general guideline I like the rules. I think that they would be very difficult to adhere to all the time, and perfectly, as they are written, but they're generally decent rules. There is one exception, and it's as much about the other comments as the rules. Everyone is very keen to help "The Poor" eat healthier - get more fresh foods, less processed foods, etc. In principle, I'm bang alongside that. In practice, that won't necessarily help. Having a refrigerator stocked to the brim, for free, with good things won't be all that useful to a lot of the working poor. If you're working two jobs, trying to get your kids to and from school, possibly caring for a sick relative, etc, food is just going to slip to the bottom of the priority list. (I have a very good friend going through all that right now). You're going to pick up convenience foods that probably taste like feet, but fill you up and get you out the door quickly. Given that there will always be a certain segment of the population that is dependent on convenience foods, perhaps there needs to be more focus on making those foods less harmful than on eliminating them from use.
What a bunch of nit-pickers. Get with the spirit of the rules. We could all pick them apart with picayune exceptions, myself included. But generally-speaking, even making an attempt to follow these rules will have people eating quite a bit better. Geeze.
re #10: I brought my potted jalapeno into the house this fall (we live in New England) and it recently started flowering. I've got two little peppers on the way! Peppers are self pollinating, so one plant is enough, but I would think two would be better. We have been using tufts of dog hair as a sort of paint brush to move pollen from one flower to another since we don't have bees in the house. So, it is possible to grow a little bit of food indoors in the winter.
Seyo, some soy products aren't "fake" anything, they're real soy foods. There's a long-standing tradition for tofu, okara, yuba, tempeh, etc. - that totally fits with the rest of these so-called commandment.
Regarding #1, in the book he says your great-grandmother, or if you're middle aged or older, your great-great grandmother. And the point is that it's a decent mnemonic for discerning what's food and what is a food product, not a literal rul to live by.
KISS in the post above meant in this sense , of course.
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