Matt recently blogged about his thoughts on the first section of Michael Pollan's newest book In Defense of Food. He starts by talking about the first part of the quote "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants". Matt reinforces Pollan’s argument that people should eat food; by "food" he means real food, not processed or unnatural foods. Matt agrees with Pollan on the issue of the western diet, that Americans eat way too much of these bad foods. Matt continues blogging about how this problem developed in America. When the government started going against these new processed foods, it caused chaos within the food industry. This caused the warnings to the public to be less specific and more scientific.
Matt justifies Pollan’s views on this issue by talking about his experiences. He confesses that he buys products based on what is said on the label, choosing foods with claims of high fiber and antioxidants. Matt has a link to “Six Meaningless Claims on Food Labels”. I strongly agree with the views expressed in this article. Food makers are making claims like “a good source of fiber” when the fiber is coming from an unnatural source. Many other health claims that food producers make can be considered as spinning the truth. This kind of false labeling should not be allowed. I think that one should not pay attention to such health claims. The list of ingredients is a better way of deciding if a food is healthy or not. If there are a lot of ingredients that you don’t know of or can’t even pronounce, it’s probably not considered a real food and should not be consumed.
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