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- hiroshi, on 10/12/2007, -8/+25This article contains a lot of inaccurate and harmful information. unpublished studies? not very reliable or scientific, just old wives tales. In fact, Mythbusters did a segment on the cornflake box test. it does NOT contain more nutrients than the corn flakes themselves. also, giving kids unpasteurized milk is extremely dangerous! I would definitely check out the individual claims before believing them. But the porridge thing is almost right, it is very nutritious if done properly. The Good Eats episode on oatmeal explains it in the "Overnight Oatmeal" recipe I think.
1 cup steel cut oats
1 cup dried cranberries
1 cup dried figs
4 cups water
1/2 cup half-and-half
In a slow cooker, combine all ingredients and set to low heat. Cover and let cook for 8 to 9 hours.
Stir and remove to serving bowls. This method works best if started before you go to bed. This way your oatmeal will be finished by morning. - jpyun, on 10/12/2007, -1/+13Amen. I got about 1/3 of the way through the article before I got tired of all the wild claims being made without evidence.
- yevkasem, on 10/12/2007, -1/+12so what the ***** are we supposed to eat? i can only grow so much where i live, we have a rather short growing season, and i have a very small backyard. on top of that, my grain silo burned down last week.
- mutantspoon, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14"The startling conclusion of this study is that there was more nourishment in the box than there was in the corn flakes."
Didnt they prove this false on mythbusters? - LRoy12, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Breastmilk for life!
- NoHandle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10"The startling conclusion of this study is that there was more nourishment in the box than there was in the corn flakes."
Probably not accurate studies, but that alone was worth my time reading this :) - ActiveMatx, on 10/12/2007, -3/+11Dont believe everything u read on the internet.. expecially inaccurate articles like this one.
- JesusFaction, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9I was eating cereal when i starting reading this :(
- b403, on 10/12/2007, -6/+13this person is a f'ing wackjob; some valid points hydrogenated with *****.
- anath47, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10"It takes a few thousand years for a species to adapt to different food sources"
Are you kidding? We eat everything! We're a voracious species. We'll eat bugs, plants, animals, plankton. Even the stuff we're not adapted to eat like cow dairy products we can eat and derive nutrition from. It's our easy adaptability that makes us top survivors on this blue marble. - zubi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7As far as local artisans being extinct the thing that I do is always try and support local fresh food and products from small independant stores. It may cost more but the more people support them the less expensive the products become.
- mateo60, on 10/12/2007, -4/+11"what the hell is up with all the ***** up animal rights/vegan propiganda ***** on digg latley."
Did you even read the article? There was nothing remotely involving that. - mateo60, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6I love that Good Eats oatmeal recipe. There is another one they talked about on that show that I eat nearly every day. It's awesome.
1 tablespoon butter
1 cup steel cut oats
3 cups boiling water
1/2 cup whole milk
1/2 cup plus 1 tablespoon low-fat buttermilk
1 tablespoon brown sugar
1/4 teaspoon cinnamon
In a large saucepot, melt the butter and add the oats. Stir for 2 minutes to toast. Add the boiling water and reduce heat to a simmer. Keep at a low simmer for 25 minutes, without stirring.
Combine the milk and half of the buttermilk with the oatmeal. Stir gently to combine and cook for an additional 10 minutes. Spoon into a serving bowl and top with remaining buttermilk, brown sugar, and cinnamon. - Kimera, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8I was reading this, and it made me realise everything i eat came from a packet, no matter how healthy it is, its processed and packaged.
There is nothing really short of being able to get around this other than growing your own food, but thats hardly sustainable in the average garden.
All the food you buy in a store or supermarket is processed and packaged.
Its just kinda sad, and i wish the standards where raised on food produce so they where not as cold hearted and captalistic as everything else, our nutrition IS important.
And i bet there is some truth behind these factory habits and short cuts causing obesesity in our children, and maybe it is causing sterility too?
It takes a few thousand years for a species to adapt to different food sources. - Chive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7It's not true that all the food available in a supermarket is processed and packaged.
Find a supermarket that has a sizable organic produce section (they are fairly common these days). Buy fresh vegetables, fresh fruit, organic eggs and milk, decent cuts of meat and bulk beans and grains. Add in some spices and simple bottled items like mustard and vinegar. Now learn how to cook using these basic ingredients.
Sure it's time consuming. But it's certainly doable. It's a relatively modern notion that food preparation should take the absolute minimum amount of time possible. If you want nutritious food you have to be willing to work at it a little. - stonebear, on 10/12/2007, -5/+11A real eye opener, thanks for posting it. May I add corn syrup to the list?
I'd just like emphasize the importance of drinking enough water (1 gallon per day) and getting enough fiber in one's diet, though the fiber thing happens pretty much automatically when processed foods are eliminated. The human body is very resilient, and can take quite a bit of poisoning if these two important needs are met. - twinklyJesus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7We won't be safe until we are beating our meals to death with rocks and cooking it over a fire in our caves.
Or just cooking pteradactyl eggs in volcanic steam vents. - BlurredWeasel, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I am reading a book right now called 'The Omnivores Dilemma' that covers where food comes from and how it is processed. Interesting read, I would recommend it to anybody interested in food.
- groo68, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5The article promoted meat, saying the body needs it to get nutrients. Without meat you get a lot less nutrients from primary foods. It also criticized soy and "green" food stores, adding that milk is a necessity.
- ChrisHB, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5The book Fast Food Nation has more information. It is very graphic when describing the meat packing plants and other food processors.
- Reziarfg, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5I must say, some of her facts are legitimate, however, her occasional religious fanaticism has me cautious to believe she doesn't have some underlying biases.
- snockhockster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Call me crazy, but considering the fact that the majority of food products contain unecessary additives and derivatives that are neither fully tested nor regulated is cause for great alarm. Hell, some of these do not even have to be listed on the package thanks to lobbying.
These products and the companies that produce them have one focus, and that is not health, but the bottom-line for their investors.
Extending the shelf-life of these products to prevent monetary loss at the cost of our overall health appears to be the status quo for now.
I'm not convinced the short-term monetary benefits will outweigh the long-term health costs. - diggidyd, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I love breakfast cereal. Lucky Charms, Golden Grahms, Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Cheerios in all their varieties, Quaker 100% Natural, Basic 4, Grape Nuts. Aahhahaha. I'm a cereal fanatic, and you're not going to make me stop! You can pry my cereal box from my dead, malnutreated hands.
- snockhockster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Yeah... and health costs are lower then ever too eh?
Obesity is finally under control after we eliminated all the other big health concerns such as cancer, Alzheimer's, and autism just to name a few.
Good thing none of these conditions are growing among the population. - imfm, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Eating is like the rest of modern life--all things in moderation. Eat the good stuff as often as you can, but a bowl of Lucky Charms (or in my case, half a dozen beers and barbecue ribs--heh) once in a while isn't going to kill you. In a perfect world, food would be what once it was, but we don't live in a perfect world, we live in the real one.
- Nick22, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Some reasonable points, but no sources, unpublished researches and the fact that mythbusters proved her wrong on the cerial box part.....
And WTF is up with the end of the article...i better stay away from my moms food when she is grumpy, dont wanna die of malnutrition caused from her anger! [/sacrasm] that last part of the article really destroyed this writers credibility. - CanceledCzech, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Man, I ***** eat cereal all the time, like, I sometimes have it both for breakfast and lunch. damn, damn, damn... One funny thing is, years ago I remember watching this video, or there was a children's show on or something, and they were talking about how much better processed milk was. Looks like you were wrong, tools...
- twinklyJesus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4You should only eat pictures of food.
- NikoKun, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I would gladly give up all these horrible foods... if there was cheap alternatives...
Sadly if u want the real stuff... the healthy stuff... its much more expensive... and then people tell you it has to much fat... XD - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Honestly unless this bitch has more then unpublished studies ,which she fails to name, to back up her wild claims she needs to SHUT-THE-*****-UP.
mordern food processing has made food safer and cheaper then it has ever been. the contents of our meals are now better labeled then in anytime in history and consumer have more rights and information then they know what to do with.
the second i saw her trying to draw a link between processed oranges and mad cow i knew she was a *****. this was further cemented by the fact she thinks "caring loving hands" making your food some how has an impact on your health.
i'd like her to consider that until we enforced modern food handling standards people routinely died from food poisoning.
she's the typical idiot that adovcates this nonsense, well off middle class without ever having been concerned with starving. this is the kind of person who is trying to make rules for everyone. - CornStarch, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Yeah nothing against the guys, but I wouldn't totally debunk someone based solely on the DIY experiments of some special effects artist.
- AriaStar, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5You know, since what we eat is going to kill us, since everything is full of chemicles and poisons, I guess the only way to escape it is to stop call a boycott on food for the rest of our lives. I guess starving to death in a couple months would be better than 80 whole years of processed foods!
Does anyone remember the Food-4-Less scandal in the late 80's (or was it early 90's) during which other animals were secretly mixed with ground beef to make a higher profit? My uncle was in on that, and let my parents buy it to feed to me and my brother. - Medusausi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3"Chemistry means the difference between poverty and starvation and the abundant life." - Robert Brent
- snockhockster, on 10/12/2007, -7/+10I feel assured... afterall you got your info from Mythbusters so it must be correct as opposed to the author of that article who works and collaborates with doctors.
- xtr3m, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4http://www.localharvest.org/
- daborg, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4"From the unofficial Mythbusters page:
Cereal Nutrition
Myth: The cereal box can have more nutritional value than the cereal inside."
No. They totally misunderstood what that was about. It wasn't that the cardboard had more nutrition. It was that it was LESS HARMFUL than the cereral. The rats that ate the cardboard lived longer because eating the cereal was more harmful than the cardboard it came it. It has nothing to do with the nutritional value of the cardboard.
They totally missed the point. They answered the wrong question, a question which is totally uninteresting. It is obvious and irrelevant that cardboard has little or no nutritional value. - jerbaker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Yes. Saturated fats are not nearly as bad for you as hydrogenated fats.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2 I think the article as a whole did that.
- RiverCocytus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3The conundrum is, each person sees their supermarket as representative of ALL supermarkets, especially young and/or unexperienced folks. Follow this guy's advice: find a supermarket with good organic, and budget permitting; buy organic and local to make sure you're stayin' healthy and keeping the local capital flowing.
Viva capitalism! - agentVivid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2yet another reason why i'm moving...
learning to can foods is important also :) - RiverCocytus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2You're not going to stop the profit motive. But you can encourage conscience by not buying makers who you suspect or know have lax procedures involving additives.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Sorry but the whole "30 days" was so rigged. It wasent that he ate at Mc Ds, it was the amount of food that he forced himself to eat there even if he wasent hungry. Look behind the movie sometime and take a look at exactly what he was eating, and no one is going to be suprised about how bad the effects were for him.
And processed food isnt new, its been around for decades now. Yet life expentacy continues to go up.....
Do the math. - jerbaker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2She's the kind of idiot that gives liberals a bad name in the public eye. Believe me, true POLITICAL and ECONOMIC liberals hate these stupid idiot losers as much as everyone else. The Republicans have their religious fundamentalists and the liberals have their wacked out hippy freaks.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4How does crap like this even make the homepage?
I like Digg less and less everyday. - NapoleonGold, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3How do you guys comment on an article that you do not read?
That is the definition of ignorant.
Agree or disagree; but for the love of god know what you are agreeing or disagreeing on. - mateo60, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2That's a great book!
- crashflow, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2she's praising the use of beef tallow in french fries? ok... transsaturated fats are bad, but replace them with saturated fats?
- markos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I agree that the article makes no sense when it talks about mad cow.
- markos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Darn right. Tastes better, less processed.
- markos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The Mythbusters guys only tested the hypothesis, "The cereal box has more nutrition than the cereal". But they would have a hard time testing the more important hypothesis, "The cereal has more toxins than the cereal box."
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