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Posted in Cancer Fighting Diet, Whole Foods by Administrator
Mar 05 2010
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Whole foods grandma would recognize

 

From Michael Pollan’s Food Rules An Eater’s Manual 1

  1. Eat food.
  2. Don’t eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food.
  3. Avoid food products containing ingredients that no ordinary human would keep in the pantry.
  4. Avoid food products that contain high-fructose corn syrup.
  5. Avoid foods that have some form of sugar (or sweetener) in the top three ingredients.

Sticking to these rules (and they are only the first five, from Pollan’s Food Rules1)  will go a looong way toward maintaining a healthy (and healing) diet for you and your loved ones!

1Pollan, Michael.  Food Rules, An Eater’s Manual.  Penguin Books, 2009.  5-13.

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‘Medical Food’

Posted in Cancer Fighting Diet, Liquid Nutrition by Administrator
Dec 17 2009
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EnsureIf you’ve read Michael Pollan’s In Defense of Food, per my recommendation or otherwise, you’ll know this about what is considered FOOD:

  1. Don’t eat anything your great grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food.
  2. Don’t eat anything incapable of rotting.
  3. Avoid "food products" that are
a.   Unfamiliar
b.   Unpronounceable
c.   Contain more than five ingredients or
d.   Contain high fructose corn syrup
 
I strongly support all of these statements by Mr. Pollan and would like to point out that many “Medical Foods” prescribed for gravely ill patients or those battling life threatening diseases don’t satisfy one of Mr. Pollan’s well researched criteria of what food is.
 
These so called Medical Foods will indeed provide calories, but these “non-foods” as Mr. Pollan would call them, are in large part responsible for our state of disease in the first place! 
 
Calories from Medical Food may keep us alive a little longer, but what is absolutely needed to heal and thrive is the complex nutrition that only WHOLE FOODS can provide.
 
If you or a loved one has been prescribed this type of liquid nutrition for medical reasons, please PLEASE, research your (whole food) options. Visit The Holistic Kitchen.com for ideas.  Send us questions. Read our post entitled Making the Most of a Smoothie.
 
Here’s to your health!
Chef Nancy

 

 

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