tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2475656114866718366.post7508745908404340102..comments2023-04-10T04:47:36.651-04:00Comments on Roots-n-Shoots: Nutrient DenseFrank Lhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02703468758526562774noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2475656114866718366.post-88310881550337842632008-03-19T23:46:00.000-04:002008-03-19T23:46:00.000-04:00First of all Frankie,I loathe organs at least anim...First of all Frankie,<br>I loathe organs at least animal organs. Point blank.<br>Second, I agree that there is a place for non whole grainyness......cheesecake comes to mind.<br>Other than that, I tend to agree with your food philosophy.<br><br>By the way, I like this post- I am enlightened (I learned something) and it has helped me to focus on my nutrition- once again. <br><br>I jestingly suggest that you just might be a modern day food prophet.Erinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14970100007927872296noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2475656114866718366.post-38991988534491600102008-03-20T14:27:00.000-04:002008-03-20T14:27:00.000-04:00Stabilized rice bran is one of the most nutrient-d...Stabilized rice bran is one of the most nutrient-dense foods available. I think it is worth while to review it's health/nutrient value as an inclusion to a healthy lifestyle.Michael Beliniwww.riceplex.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2475656114866718366.post-27145368000480161412008-03-20T17:25:00.000-04:002008-03-20T17:25:00.000-04:00Here's some more background on why it's go...Here's some more background on why it's good to eat naturally, stressing the same things you were saying.<br><br>Scientific studies generally focus on one or two variables at once. Science tries to take problems apart, learn as much as possible, and then put things back together. This is a slow, painstaking process, and science is just in its infancy when it comes to studying nutrition. As we study each nutrient we can isolate, it will take a very long time before we get the big picture of what is good nutrition.<br><br>From what we've found out so far, though, in the vast majority of cases the best nutrition comes from food grown as naturally as possible and with as little 20th-century refinement or industrial processing as possible, and we don't exactly know why. There's more likely hundreds or thousands of nutrients important to our health that science doesn't know about yet. Separating them out (e.g. lycopene pills) probably doesn't work as well or at all because the nutrient is no longer in its original state, or because there's many other vital nutrients that always accompany lycopene in nature and join together to provide the health benefits we can see, but we don't know what all those other nutrients are yet.<br><br>And going further... if you focus on getting a nutrient through a less than natural source, you're second-guessing hundreds of thousands of years of evolution of our bodies and digestive systems. We didn't evolve to eat vitamin pills... if you can get your vitamins though natural sources as best as possible, you'll be getting the full benefit of whatever it is we've evolved to get from those specific vitamins.Scott Teresihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01548107075072066071noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2475656114866718366.post-54188908576256554732008-03-21T01:56:00.000-04:002008-03-21T01:56:00.000-04:00Michael Pollan's book "In Defense of Food...Michael Pollan's book "In Defense of Food" has really made me appreciate the importance of eating non-refined foods. The basic problem with fortifying foods is that it assumes that the value in the food can be found in some small set of nutrients that can just be pumped back into the food. This is the fallacy of what Pollan calls nutritionism (a form of reductionism that sees food as simply a delivery mechanism for some small set of nutrients).<br><br>White rice and white bread are just inferior to brown white and whole grain bread.<br><br>But Pollan's book is kind of depressing, because so much food is lower in important nutrients than they used to, thanks to breeding for yield and thanks to poor soil diversity, among other things. A apple you buy at the store has less nutrition than it did 70 years ago.Mystical Seekerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10828225180668865911noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2475656114866718366.post-3682496202077388502008-03-21T08:52:00.000-04:002008-03-21T08:52:00.000-04:00Yet... people are living longer today than they di...Yet... people are living longer today than they did back when everyone was eating all these nutritious foods. I, myself, am not too worried about it. I ride my bike like a freak in the summer, doing long road bike trips (60-100 miles on the weekend). I'm personally not THAT worried about my health.<br><br>True, I would prefer a fresh grown tomato over the crap you get at the store... However, due to my cycling schedule (and other social activities), I just dont have the time to produce my own garden. (I can barely keep up with my house cleaning!)<br><br>I think it's great that you guys are really into this health conscious stuff like this... I just dont feel it's as IMPORTANT as you guys stress. But that's okay because everyone has their own things to obsess over. I obsess over exercise, and spend about an hour and a half exercising a day...Mars Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11403414048823693159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2475656114866718366.post-78227925142150489352008-03-21T10:56:00.000-04:002008-03-21T10:56:00.000-04:00MG: It's a common assumption that our ancestor...MG: It's a common assumption that our ancestors didn't experience "modern" diseases because they just didn't live long enough to develop them (or that they died quickly and without the cause being known).<br><br>My take on it (and Scott's too, I believe) is that more research needs to be done, but there is already compelling evidence that this is not the case. It seems like our modern society has eradicated many ailments only to givs us some additional ones in their place.<br><br>I will try to dig up some sources and post about this in the near future.<br><br>Food and nutrition has always been a passion of mine. Even when I was very young, I would study the "four food groups" and other nutrition charts. It <i>can</i> be a narcissistic enterprise based on self-preservation. It’s a tough call. Sometimes I think its weird to have a blog devoted to spirituality as well as health--self-preservation is fine, but when taken to obsessive extremes it can seem incongruous with spirituality. But health and sustainable environmental practices are good things. Sometimes it’s hard to distinguish between what is obsessive and what is simply a passion.<br><br>I got cancer once. After an experience like that, I realized that "an apple a day keeps the doctor away" contains much more wisdom than I ever gave it credit for. It was like: "Ooooh, <i>that's</i> what they meant!" And I wasn't eating any apples.Frankhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02703468758526562774noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2475656114866718366.post-14009908029111323392008-03-21T14:29:00.000-04:002008-03-21T14:29:00.000-04:00No, I think it all fits together: sustainable livi...No, I think it all fits together: sustainable living, spirtuality, environmentalism... It all feeds into each other. Love God, love yourself (whom God has made), love the planet (that God has given you). Take care of all. I agree with all that totally.<br><br>Maybe I was being a bit harsh. I have read _Fast Food Nation_ and pretty much got disguested with government control of the farming industry (and really lazy industry standards). And I do understand the importance of free-range food (ie, I drove through some beef farms in Nebraska and was really disgusted by not only the small from the cows walking in their own crap, but the fact that they were penned up with nowhere to go but their own crap and I did think about how low of quality this makes our meat).<br><br>So I agree with you on these points. Maybe I just feel bad because I cant attack nutrition myself in this way. I dont have the time to go seek better places from which to get my food or grow my own...<br><br>I used to sardonically joke that when archeaologists of the future unbury us for study, all the preservatives in our food will find us fully intact...Mars Girlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11403414048823693159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2475656114866718366.post-67288282538789008692008-03-21T15:22:00.000-04:002008-03-21T15:22:00.000-04:00I feel I should mention, Frank was responsible for...I feel I should mention, Frank was responsible for helping me look toward evolution as a way to find out what the best foods are for humans to eat, especially through the research of Weston Price, and also to be more skeptical of scientific studies focused only on individual nutrients isolated from their natural forms. I have to give credit where credit is due!Scott Teresihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01548107075072066071noreply@blogger.com