Talking about perfectly nourished babies when let them decide what was good for them (my article 10 days ago) I would like to add a second part about Nutrition: how can it be that the toddlers in the 1930s from the case study were different about what they ate and the children today? Why could Americans stop themselves from overeating in the 1960s and why can’t we stop stuffing ourselves today? The flavor’s relationship to food has changed! Think about it. Do you remember when you ate a carrot 30 years ago directly from your Grandma’s garden? It was so delicious and tasteful. Now our crops and livestock become more productive, affordable and disease-resistant, but they also keep losing flavor. Tomatoes, strawberries, chicken – all taste like cardboard these days. With flavor diminishing, so does nutrition. Modern tomatoes have HALF as much calcium and Vitamin A as they did in the 1950’s ( Journal of American College of Nutrition) – did you know that? We compound the nutritional insult by drowning bland food in the only things that can make it taste good – ranch dressing, whipped cream, ketch up and barbeque sauce. And in the modern food system’s most crazy twist, we now take the very flavors that are disappearing on the farm and produce them in factories, sprinkling them on potato chips or fizzling them into soft drinks. Today’s junk food isles are overflowing with the very flavors that gone missing in the produce aisle.What can we do? Spend money on the good stuff. Vote for real flavor with your pocketbook and let the free market work. ORGANIC is the magic word.
The Best Diet is Deliciousness
