MARCYINCNY1's CalorieKing blog
Thursday, Apr 3 2008 - In Defense of Food
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"Much of what lines supermarket aisles is not food. It's merely foodlike, and it's making us sick."
"Avoid [eating] anything your great grandmother wouldn't recognize."
-two recent comments from Michael Pollan
( "In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto" )
I am so very, very lucky to have been born and raised a food snob. I'm just beginning to realize that this is a fundamental reason I've been able to lose so much weight this past year.
Unfortunately I've come to this realization in part from following the experiences of other CK members who aren't so lucky and now at this point I'm finding it painfully depressing to read a lot of the blogs.
I can understand over-eating and failing to get enough exercise but I just can't understand the kind of self-loathing it takes to put a goddamned Oreo in your mouth or any of the other crap that people repeatedly binge on. What is with the Oreo obsession? Crisco and sugar and salt? I haven't had one in ages but I can still remember the horrid mouthfeel. Sorry but I just don't get it.
"Avoid [eating] anything your great grandmother wouldn't recognize."
-two recent comments from Michael Pollan
( "In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto" )
I am so very, very lucky to have been born and raised a food snob. I'm just beginning to realize that this is a fundamental reason I've been able to lose so much weight this past year.
Unfortunately I've come to this realization in part from following the experiences of other CK members who aren't so lucky and now at this point I'm finding it painfully depressing to read a lot of the blogs.
I can understand over-eating and failing to get enough exercise but I just can't understand the kind of self-loathing it takes to put a goddamned Oreo in your mouth or any of the other crap that people repeatedly binge on. What is with the Oreo obsession? Crisco and sugar and salt? I haven't had one in ages but I can still remember the horrid mouthfeel. Sorry but I just don't get it.
3 comments so far.
3.
a decade ago
You're absolutely right: garbage in, garbage out. People can get "addicted" to the garbage they eat, though. An endorphin boost, a physiological high on the sugar/fat combo. I shop carefully, buy organic, whole foods as much as possible, but I still crave sweets. I am trying to break that habit. But it's been years since I had an Oreo, I have to admit.
by CATWALKER
2.
a decade ago
I am a new convert to Michael Pollan's thinking and he is right. As a country, we are killing ourselves with all this processed "food". I love the line, "don't eat anything your great grandmother wouldn't recognize". Words to live (and eat) by.
by JANEQE
1.
a decade ago
i enjoyed michael pollan's book. yes, this thing is really much easier for those with a taste for "real food" . I think that a lot of it is cultural, though- as you say, it has to do with the circumstances- and economics- with which one was raised. Bad food is cheap. Real food is expensive! I was lucky enough to be brought up in Bolivia, where natural foods are practically free and processed food costs a pretty penny. Blessings to count, i guess....
by NEIMANMARXIST