Tips for healthy shopping
Posted on 29 April 2009
On Monday I wrote about the nonsense of food labelling. Those entrusted to steer us to a healthier diet have contrived to propose and implement schemes which give, in my view, potentially distorted and misleading guidance regarding what is good and not-so-good to eat. Some of the comments that come after this blog post should remind us all that if you
Published April 29, 2009 . Filed under: Healthy Eating, Unhealthy Eating!
Damn right! I use the supermarket only because the floor is level and mother is too old to manage the hills in the town, and only buy stuff which can’t be obtained elsewhere.
The majority of our food comes from Real Shops (plus I walk into town and back, 21st Century hunter gathering). It takes a while though because I have to stop and chat with everyone, and discuss the merits of which local farm’s asparagus is better this week and whether the Red Poll or Dexter beef is superior. Who needs labels?
The only place I need to be careful is the Organic Shop though, all that starch!
April 29, 2009 @ 6:15 pm
“..all that starch! ”
but plenty of fibre, micro-nutrients and trace elements. Significantly better in all three catergories than non-organically farmed produce?
April 29, 2009 @ 6:46 pm
“fibre, micro-nutrients and trace elements”
I’m sorry, but it’s not clear what you are referring to. Bread?
I wish somebody could help me make a decision about bread. Is it to be whole wheat with wheat kernels and seeds, so called lower GI, higher in ‘fibre, etc’, soda bread, because yeast might exacerbate candida problems, what we buy at the moment, or normal white bread, done properly from stone milled organic flour preferably rye, and sour dough?
I just don’t know. I read that whole wheat might be even worse that white bread as the phytic acid is an anti nutrient, inhibits the absorption of many important minerals; that’s why one shouldn’t eat ‘cardboard’ bran for breakfast.
lectins, WGA, phytic acid, gluten
http://high-fat-nutrition.blogspot.com/search/label/How%20toxic%20is%20wheat%3F
I hope dr. Briffa reads these comments and has a look at one of these articles that challenges the Glycemic index paradigm:
http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/search/label/gluten
I don’t eat any bread for almost a year now, but I give a slice in the morning to my children and my daughter has a sandwich at school.
April 30, 2009 @ 1:45 pm
simona, you are quite correct to highlight that in my shorthand my comments were ambiguous.
for reasons of comments elsewhere I didn’t take trinkwassers comments to refer to bread. I could be mistaken.
I took the reference to an Organic Shop to refer to veg and fruit (produce), hence;
“but plenty of fibre, micro-nutrients and trace elements. Significantly better in all three catergories than non-organically farmed produce?”
trinkwasser will check in an let us know if this an incorrect interpretation.
April 30, 2009 @ 9:48 pm
And why does anyone think that fibre from grain is good for you? If you do think again. The human gut can’t do anything with cellulose – unlike cows we don’t have several stomachs nor do we ruminate. Fibre therefore passes through the gut unprocessed and unused BUT it speeds up passage of food through the gut and thus prevents nutrients from being absorbed. What is worse though is the damage it can do to the soft interior lining of the gut. Cereal fibre is rough and can do real harm, leaky gut being one of them. It also causes a lot of gas and this awful bloated feeling. Fibres from greenery do not seem to be so harmful. I have given up eating grains and cereals a year ago and since then my tummy has been at peace. No small feat after 50 years of bloating and gas all due to “healthy eating”.
May 2, 2009 @ 4:51 pm
THIRD attempt to reply, the two others got eaten.
Yes I was referring to the fact that there is as much “organic” food containing high levels of starch and glucose as there is commercial foodlike substances, and a high reverence for Healthy Whole Grains which as a diabetic don’t do me a whole lot of good no matter what they were fed.
Not a few of our farmers use principally animal manure to feed the soil rather than chemicals to feed the crops: fertilisers and pesticides are expensive, and expensive to apply so they minimise their use, which kinda blurs the organic/nonorganic distinction.
I get many micronutrients from non-starchy veggies, meat, fish and various fats, almost certainly far more than anyone who stuffs grains into their face as the main part of their meals (just like I used to do)
May 4, 2009 @ 7:12 am