Dining on super-foods, want to join us?
iPM listener Adrian Faiers isn't buying this goji berry and walnut message.
He thinks people are being misled into thinking that expensive, inconvenient foods with tags like local and organic are better for you than cheap, convenient foods like frozen veg.
This is Adrian's list of myths that he thinks are hijacking the healthy eating message:
'- Traditional, natural, organic, fresh and local automatically equate with healthy
- Organic food always tastes better
- Organic food is automatically higher in nutrients
- Frozen food is low in nutrients
- Microwaving is an unhealthy way to cook
- Traditional methods of cooking like baking, roasting, grilling and stir frying are healthy
- If you eat super foods at the expense of more ordinary foods, you'll be healthier
- You can't get too much sugar from eating lots of fruit and drinking lots of fruit juice'
So, in good iPM style, we've invited ourselves round for dinner at Adrian's - that'll teach him for contacting us..
But I'm thinking we should take a guest. Someone who knows a thing or two about nutrition and food policy...suggestions welcome, maybe it should be you joining us?
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Jennifer Tracey: what exactly if this bloke saying? Nobody in-the-real-world believes the passe promises of organic, or that microwaving is murder. We're in between, aren't we?
Evenmorelovely's rules-for-food:
1. Not-eating is the only unhealthy eating.
2.Tinned veg is better than no veg.
3.Munch 32 times.
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Dear iPM
One comment on this subject in 3 days?
You claim to be 'interactive'. Most of your stories, sadly, attract very little interest.
One story is more popular than all of the others you have suggested in the last month put together:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/ipm/2009/01/thought_for_the_day_a_genuinel.shtml
Your editor has already apologised online for the poor manner in which it was covered on the iPM show last week.
Please do the decent thing and dedicate this Saturday's show to covering this issue properly.
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'Super foods , Organic, Natural, Fresh and Local' .....all words thrown around by our supermarkets and food experts - The cheapest and most satisfying way to get 'Natural, Organic, Fresh and Local is to grow as much of it as you can.
These food experts are just passing on and expounding the current Fad or Fashion and it will surely change in a while to some other super food , be it some Mongolian, Chilean or Russian Cuisine .
Most food we can buy nowadays is of a good quality and nutritional value, the main thing is the quantity that we eat, as a nation we eat far more [whatever it is Frozen or Fresh] than we burn off working or playing.
Just eat carefully and wisely, and get the enjoyment of growing your own food.
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