Fat 2 Fit Show #54 – Defending Your Food
Written on January 29, 2009 – 9:57 pm | by Russ Turley
The book, In Defense of Food, has been on the New York Time’s bestseller list for quite a while. Jeff has heard quite a lot of good things about it, so over the last few weeks he gave it a thorough read. Its not really a diet book, its a book that really describes how our society has really messed up everything about food and how to fix it for the average person. Michael Pollen doesn’t claim to be an expert, he just wrote this manifesto based on research and what he calls “authority of tradition and common sense”. It’s a fairly readable book and it turned out to have a ton of great lines through-out it that really resonated with Jeff.
In the e-mail and comments section, Gillian wrote in about your friend and mine, Oprah Winfrey. She was wondering how Oprah is going to lose weight this time. In the past she’s tried everything under the sun. We found a clip from the Oprah.com site that explains what Oprah is doing to lose the weight this time. Just a hint, we were pleasantly surprised. We also answer an e-mail from listener Kalissa about the unreal weight loss happening on the tv show, The Biggest Loser. Also, we field an e-mail from AJ who wants to know if running 1000 miles in a year is too much.
And finally, two articles on The Web Report. One calls out the 6 worst diet fads of the year and the other is a list of 5 tips to keep office snacking from derailing your weight loss.
Links Mentioned in the Show:
Oprah’s new diet and exercise plan (video)
The Biggest Loser’s Nutritionist talks
The 6 Worst Diet Fads of the Year
Recipe of the Week:
Sun Dried Basil Tomato Couscous
Extra Recipes: Healthy Superbowl Recipes
Homework:
Take an inventory of the foods in your kitchen to see how much real food you are eating and how much is just food-like products. Look for the following: any product that has any health claims, lists any ingredients that you can’t pronounce or identify, or lists more than 5 ingredients. What percentage of foods that you eat through-out the day are not really food, but processed food-like substances?
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3 Responses to “Fat 2 Fit Show #54 – Defending Your Food”
By looloof on Feb 4, 2009 | Reply
Sometimes I wonder if Americans really like food or if they treat it like alcohol: as a guilty pleasure, something they like but feel they shouldn’t and so never enjoy it properly (which leads to binging a.k.a forbidden fruit syndrome).
By paxye on Feb 4, 2009 | Reply
This is something that I think is the most important factor in people’s diets….
Whole and natural foods do take a bit more time depending on what choices you make but the way you feel when you make that choice is worth it…
I feel like a truck hit me when I eat foods that are not natural and that are full of chemicals. I get headaches, I get sore, I have strange things happening in my body… things that I used to think were normal until I started eating clean…
I am very proud of what can be found in my kitchen now… of all the foods that I make from scratch and the choices that I make when I buy certain convenience foods…
Actually I just blogged about my choices recently
http://paxye.com/blog/shopping-and-processed-foods/
By Stacie on Feb 10, 2009 | Reply
I downloaded the book In Defense of Food on itunes. I have to say it was the most interesting book I have heard in a long time. I love the information it provided and how simple it was. I have started really looking at the food labels and noticed so many things I never noticed before. For example: Why is there High Fructose Corn Syrup in everything? Bread, Beef Jerky, Pasta sauce. That is insane. I have really made a conscious effort to try to remove the foods that are not so pure from my diet. I never realized how many food like substances we eat. So thanks for the recommendation. I really enjoyed it.
Thanks,
Stacie