Pandora's Lunchbox: How Processed Food Took Over The American Meal (2013) - Plot & Excerpts
Another book against processed food. It doesn't say anything new than other numerous books on the market have already said. I took one star off because of the tirate against vitamins which is so popular these days. The author generalizes vitamins usage and the supporting arguments mostly deal with "mega dosing". Ironically, people who eat mostly processed food are the very ones who benefit most from synthetic "inferior" vitamins. Even people who eat whole food diets may need the occasional supplement. If you're a frequent reader of healthy food books, you won't find a lot new here, but it's all interesting and well-said. It's a great introduction to the drawbacks of even "healthy" processed foods, and it inspired me to try making homemade KIND bars (not that KIND bars have all the bad stuff--they just have the bad price tag!).A few tweets I got out of reading:o Digesting a meal of whole, unprocessed foods raises your metabolic rate almost 50% over a meal of processed.o When Kraft started producing processed cheese, WI cheese makers wanted it called "embalmed cheese."o If soybean oil weren't bleached, it would be reddish-orange and contain beta carotene.o There are 2 ways to fix our omega-6/omega-3 imbalance: eat 6-10 ozs of salmon/day (until all the salmon are overfished and gone) or cut back on processed food.o Most of the 5000 food additives allowed are industry self-regulated and untested. (Basically a wait-until-somebody-gets-sick approach.)If you want to eat well and you want your family to eat well, the bottom line is that someone in the house should take a couple basic cooking classes and make meals from whole foods! If you can't afford organic, skip it! Home-cooked conventional food beats the stuff pre-made in the middle of the grocery store.
What do You think about Pandora's Lunchbox: How Processed Food Took Over The American Meal (2013)?
Great book to give you a basic insight into what is in our food.
—fire_sin
