Advice for take a healthy food

Here are the advices.

Top five reasons I love the advice given by Mark Bittman in the book Food Matters:

1. Realistic
2. Easy to follow
3. Provides reasons to eat better that will appeal to people who care about their health, their weight and appearance, the environment, sustainability on local communities., government involvement in the food supply and/or animals and industrialized farming.
4. Provides amazingly simple and delicious recipes
5. Awesome statistics highlighted in the margins that you can remember and quote to other people such as:

• It takes 2,400 calories worth of energy to produce one bottled water.
• The America Food Pyramid recommends a higher intake of dairy than vegetables (and we know how I feel about this) and seven of the 13 committee members that developed this pyramid have ties to food and/or drug companies.
• Every American eats, on average, one cup of sugar a day.
• If conventional (factory farmed) meat had an ingredient label on it, it would include the following: dried cattle manure, blood meal, coffee grounds, chicken fat, hydrolyzed feather meal, ground limestone, cooked municipal garbage, potato waste, dried poultry manure

I’ll meet you at the MickyD’s drive through. Quarter ounder with cheese please! Barfarrific.

Additionally, he asks his reader some very good questions when posed with the whole local versus organic quandry. “Can a head of lettuce that travel 3,000 miles still qualify as ‘organic’?”. No Mr. Bittman. No it can’t.

Bittman break it down and makes you just want to eat better, or as he refers to it, eat sanely as if food matters. And since you are reading my blog, I know that you think it does. He throws in some great guidelines like eating mainly plant based foods, meat on occasion, having treats but good ones, and avoiding the processed and packaged as much as possible- and provides solid, rational, well researched reasons for all of the recommendations.

The information is inspiring, but how do you then put it into practice? You do so with the delightfully simple collection of over 75 veggie and non-veggie recipes that round out a great book for the natural and non-natural-but-needing-some-change eater. And we all fall into either one of those categories, or likely somewhere in the middle. The recipes are straight forward and for the most part health supportive, though I tend to keep my food a little cleaner. They are great for the food transitioners who aren’t quite ready to accept a big bowl of steamed veggies topped with hemp seeds as a complete meal (that’s what I had for dins tonight with my momma).

And if reading just isn’t your thing, book mark this post and come back when you have twenty minutes to watch Mark Bittman’s talk at TED.