“Eat Food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” These words to live by from the award-winning author Michael Pollan resonate at the heart of his newest work, “In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto.” He considers what science does and does not know about diet and health, proposing a new way of thinking about food that is informed by ecology and tradition. Pollan is Knight Professor of Journalism at UC Berkeley. Series: Voices [5/2008] [Health and Medicine] [Science] [Show ID: 14209]
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July 15th, 2010 at 11:40 pm
Agar, dextrose, …
Agar, dextrose, cornstarch, powder milk, kelp are all used as additives in dairy etc but not off the shelf milk in the store!Off the shelf milk in Canada for instance has one additive……Vitamin D added because canadians dont get enough vitamin D from the sun during winter months
July 15th, 2010 at 11:40 pm
I generally agree …
I generally agree with you but there is nothing wrong with good, real, food that has been fried, baked, sauteed etc… Trans fat from frying would require that it either be hydrogenated or heated above, I believe, 400 degrees F. You can fry at 350-375 in olive oil and have 0 trans fat. Pot? No one smokes High CBD, low THC weed. It’s ditch weed. If you like Pot, smoke it… just drop the “for my eyes” routine.
July 15th, 2010 at 11:40 pm
@capnvideo2006 That …
@capnvideo2006 That isn’t true. Coming from a family that is part of the dairy industry. Agar, dextrose, cornstarch, powder milk, kelp are all used as additives in dairy. Dextrose is used, for instance, because milk is less sweet in the winter. Powdered milk because skim milk is actually slightly yellow once it is that heavily processed and the bluish tinge is from the powder milk that is added a product which is filled with oxidized protein. Mmmmm, milk.
July 15th, 2010 at 11:40 pm
Keep the crap ( …
Keep the crap (toxins) out of you such as… fast food, processed foods, SUGAR, aspartame (artificial sweetners), fried foods (trans fats), flour, table salt, enriched anything, over the counter drugs (like tylenol), prescription drugs, alcohol, etc.
think NATURE – eat WHOLE foods. mostly plant based. Fruits, veggies, Nuts & seeds. Meat if eaten should be clean. Grass feed beef, wild fish (not farmed), etc. Marijuana-Cannabis-Pot (whatever) for MEDICINE.
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July 15th, 2010 at 11:40 pm
What did Michael …
What did Michael Pollan meant by competition in the beginning of this video?
July 15th, 2010 at 11:40 pm
milk is heated up …
milk is heated up to a temperature that kills e-coli……..and vitamin D is added
…that is all the processing that is done.
….cream is skimmed off but I would not call that processing to make it an unatural product
July 15th, 2010 at 11:40 pm
Lastly, although I …
Lastly, although I think milk is a worthy nutritional option in moderation, I think confusing it with other animal products is a little too much of a stetch. We have been eating meat, which is rather different substance from milk, far longer than the hypothetical 9 millenia.
Meat does not have the excess hormones and fat, for example, that cows produce in their milk to facilitate the rapid growth of a calf. We have adapted to meat, not milk, in the evolution of our species.
July 15th, 2010 at 11:40 pm
Confusing diabetes …
Confusing diabetes and heart disease with something like lactose intolerance is rather superficial, too. Heart disease and diabetes have always been possibilities for humans for overindulge and have not been weeded out by natural selection because overabundance has been rare. Adult lactose tolerance, on the other hand, is something that needs developement of genes which happens over a long period of time.
July 15th, 2010 at 11:40 pm
For a mammal it is …
For a mammal it is natural to stop digesting lactose after infancy. Many Asians, Africans, and yes, a sizeabvle minority of Europeans are lactose intolerant because not every diet included milk until very recently. Please look around and don’t be so ethno-centric with your history and biology.
Domesticating and animal also doesn’t mean you drink its milk – Asian cultures for example used the oxen as a work animal, not a milk producer.
July 15th, 2010 at 11:40 pm
To close, saying …
To close, saying milk or any animal product is not meant/fit for human consumption is a woefully inadequate and entirely unrealistic statement. We’ve been doing it BEFORE recorded history, and all throughout it, and we will continue to consume animals because that is what we need to survive.
July 15th, 2010 at 11:40 pm
and in addition to …
and in addition to that, the 7,000 B.C.E. figure is for worldwide domestication. There are many large civilizations which domesticated animals far before that.
9,000 years is more than enough time to make any evolution. People are starting to show more signs of genetic predisposition to diseases that are directly dietary in nature, such as diabetes and heart disease, within 2-3 GENERATIONS, let alone 9,000 years.
July 15th, 2010 at 11:40 pm
That depends …
That depends entirely on the milk which you buy.
For the most part, most europeans have been accustomed to milk since the middle ages. In fact, it’s considered common for very poor individuals, often serfs, to live on nothing but simple foods like milk and potatoes for years and it is entirely possible to do.
Could you please point me to the entire ethnic groups you speak of? I’m not aware of any demographic which in their entirety cannot digest milk?
July 15th, 2010 at 11:40 pm
The thing is, the …
The thing is, the goodness of milk is devided along racial lines. Most of the world’s population have been exempt from the 9000-year evolution which enables Europeans and some other ethnic groups to digest milk beyond infancy. Not even all of us Europeans have those genes, myself included.
What the poster means to say I think is that milk we can buy today is highly processed and nothing like what comes out of a cow’s tit.
July 15th, 2010 at 11:40 pm
How is milk …
How is milk terrible for human consumption?
We’ve been domesticating animals for consumption since around 7,000 B.C.E.
Don’t you think we would have seen the negative effects of this over the last 9,000+ years?
July 15th, 2010 at 11:40 pm
I like what Pollan …
I like what Pollan is saying but at the very end he mentions that aside from Milk and water, everthing in a gas station market is processed. MILK is processed, it is terrible for human consumption. If anyone watching wants to check out more about what he’s saying about nutrition and soil towards the end I highly recommend Nutrition: The dirt facts by Paul Chek. It’s a 16 part lecture here on youtube.
July 15th, 2010 at 11:40 pm
Culture is the …
Culture is the perfect way to put it.
IT really is the way to live. Especially when it comes to food
July 15th, 2010 at 11:40 pm
i agree completely. …
i agree completely. this is a great book that exposes so many hidden dangers of our “western diet.” I have been strictly eating natural foods since reading the book.
July 15th, 2010 at 11:40 pm
It a must read!
It a must read!
July 15th, 2010 at 11:40 pm
A must see and a …
A must see and a must read. Whether you agree or not, it will change how you eat and how you shop. Michael: thank you for this perspective on food!
July 15th, 2010 at 11:40 pm
Fantastic analysis!
Fantastic analysis!