{"id":1659,"date":"2010-08-21T14:13:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-21T14:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bodynsoil.com\/blog\/?p=1659"},"modified":"2015-03-02T08:15:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-02T13:15:00","slug":"mark-bittman-on-whats-wrong-with-what-we-eat-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bodynsoil.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/mark-bittman-on-whats-wrong-with-what-we-eat-2\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s wrong with what we eat"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\">What&#8217;s wrong with what we eat<\/h2>\n<p>I have listened to <strong>Mark Bittman&#8217;s talk on what is wrong with what we eat<\/strong> a few times. I really like the message he is sending. \u00a0In this talk he details:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The current health crisis<\/li>\n<li>How eating foods in their natural state helps improve health<\/li>\n<li>That industrialized foods are not beneficial to health.<\/li>\n<li>About animals for food consumption increase green house gases<\/li>\n<li>The food\u00a0pyramid and the history of food consumption over the course of the last 100 years.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Between 1950 and 2000 the world population doubled but meat consumption increased five times.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who is eating all that extra meat product and what is the environmental impact? \u00a0Mark&#8217;s describes the meals his mother made for her family which made me think of our family who didn&#8217;t eat that way yet oddly I was envious of my playmates for their family meals. \u00a0Now that I am old enough to know better I am happy that we ate a clean home-grown diet and continue to eat that way as an adult.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5YkNkscBEp0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The common complaint of consumers regarding locally grown foods and organics is that is it more expensive. \u00a0Unfortunately non organics, which are mass-produced, might be more cost-effective but mass-produced foods are proven to be void of the full range of nutrients that organically raised foods contain. \u00a0 \u00a0This concept of lower priced mass-produced equals lower nutrient value products over higher priced organically raided nutrient filled products is\u00a0definitely\u00a0a &#8220;You get what you pay for&#8221; situation. \u00a0If you playing a game show and had a choice of paying $5 for an empty box or $8 for a box packed with all kinds of goodies inside which package would you choose? \u00a0Most people would spend the $8 and get the goodies and yet when it comes to the foods we eat people don&#8217;t make that choice and instead go for the $5 box with no content. Cutting corners with nutrition is\u00a0devastating\u00a0to growing children and is a direct link to many future health issues many of which are very costly to manage and\/or cure. \u00a0If you applied the same theory of paying for insurance to help offset the cost of potential accidents than wouldn&#8217;t the same be true for the foods you eat, shouldn&#8217;t you be willing to pay a little extra for healthy food to thwart the potential for costly illnesses.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s wrong with what we eat I have listened to Mark Bittman&#8217;s talk on what is wrong with what we eat a few times. I really like the message he is sending. \u00a0In this talk&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[79,88,783,178,243],"class_list":["post-1659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nutrition","tag-farming","tag-food-inc","tag-mark-bittman","tag-organics","tag-ted-com"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1qEFP-qL","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6165,"url":"https:\/\/bodynsoil.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/brazil-10-simple-dietary-guidelines\/","url_meta":{"origin":1659,"position":0},"title":"Brazil&#8217;s 10 Simple Dietary Guidelines","author":"Bodynsoil","date":"September 10, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Brazil's 10 Simple Dietary guidelines immediately caught my eye. 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