What to eat

I'm doing lots of reading on nutrition and health. In a world where food, vitamins, so called "neutraceuticals" or "medical food" can make health claims, it's hard to know even what to eat!

How has this come to pass? In a world full of information we are at a loss to even know what to eat. What have people done for the last 1,000 milennia? Well, I suppose they ate food. Only now, with so much information --and money--at stake have we become confused about what to put in our mouths.

We seem to band together around the get-rich-quick model, in this case a kind of eat-quick, no-muss-no-fuss style of filling our bellies. Why? Why have we lost the connection between our food supply and our kitchens?

My old joke is "it's a marketing world." We are so inundated with information, much of it unfounded claims, but so firmly stated, that we begin to believe it. This juice is high in anti-oxidants, that berry will enhance your immune system.... always a silver bullet.

But the fact is, we get our best nutrition and vitamins and trace minerals and yes, antioxidants, from paying attention to the food supply. Better food! Not more additives! Not more vitamins and supplements. Better food. It is, in fact, as simple as that. Unfortunately, obtaining better food is another matter entirely. And that will be the subject of the next series of posts. Watch this space to get ideas about what to eat.