Andrew has very valid points throughout his blog. I agree home cooked meals do taste better and are healthier, but not just because they lack preservatives. Preservatives do exactly what they say they do, they preserve food. This makes the breaking down of food much harder which in turn makes the amount of nutrients absorbed by the body less. We can also link our “western” diet, as Pollan calls it, unhealthy because everything in our diet is bigger. If your food does not have enough flavors, add salt. Put butter on your veggies, bread, and potatoes.
Even if we eat home cooked meals we need to limit the excess additives and also cut down on our portions. Pollan points this out in his book, by saying something along the lines of, we do not eat out of necessity, we eat to socialize or to get a certain feeling from our food. As a society I believe we should only eat out of necessity. If we do so I believe we can be healthier as a nation and cut down on diseases that have popped up such as obesity and a rise in high blood pressure. If we look back at times where we ate natural, unprocessed foods we see that as a whole we were much healthier. http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/reprint/7/1/91.pdf. This pdf file shows how our diets have been growing over the last one hundred plus years. This increase has been directly related to rise in certain diseases. So I believe our bigger is better mentality needs to turn to just enough is great too mentality.
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