{"id":295,"date":"2011-02-10T10:15:22","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T15:15:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hewins.org\/dhh\/?p=295"},"modified":"2011-03-02T15:27:30","modified_gmt":"2011-03-02T20:27:30","slug":"erf-or-ef-ntm-mp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hewins.org\/dhh\/2011\/02\/10\/erf-or-ef-ntm-mp\/","title":{"rendered":"ERF -or- EF.NTM.MP."},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s possibly strange that, even though I haven’t (yet) read The Omnivore’s Dilemma<\/a><\/em>, In Defense of Food<\/em><\/a>, or Food Rules<\/em><\/a>, I have taken a deep interest in what I know of the overarching concepts within them. I have heard Michael Pollan<\/a> on the radio and have also recently read a couple<\/a> of posts<\/a> on the New York Times website by Mark Bittman<\/a>. There is something in their messages that really strikes a chord with me, and that’s summed up in what Bittman would like to be our food acronym, ERF: Eat Real Food<\/strong>. This is also nicely put by Pollan when he suggests that we eat only what our great-grandparents would recognize as food. These foods can be found along the outer edges of a typical grocery store: fruits, vegetables, meats. Real food or whole foods. Another guide for eating is a simple three sentence suggestion by Pollan that is the other acronym in the title of this post: Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The key there, and implicit in the first part of that suggestion, is that a lot of what we find on the shelves of our grocery store is not really food. I mean, yeah, we eat it, but it’s not real<\/em> food. Another thing that I am thinking about whenever I am deciding what to eat is to avoid “processed” food. But what that means, I don’t fully have a handle on yet. One thing I try to go by is something I can remember comedians joking about even 20 years ago. Don’t eat something that has ingredients that you can’t pronounce. But are noodles “processed?” Or is butter “processed?” I guess they are somewhat processed since you don’t harvest noodles from the field and butter doesn’t come out of a cow’s udder but there is a limit. How much processing is too much processing? That’s where I’m trying to get to eventually.<\/p>\n

We will be glad that the food scientists of the 50’s and 60’s developed the preservatives we use these days and we will be glad to have non-perishables and canned food when there are emergencies like a nuclear attack or a blizzard that closes the grocery stores for a week, but until then, I’m going to try to stick to real food.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s possibly strange that, even though I haven’t (yet) read The Omnivore’s Dilemma, In Defense of Food, or Food Rules, I have taken a deep interest in what I know of the overarching concepts within them. I have heard Michael Pollan on the radio and have also recently read a couple of posts on the … Continue reading ERF -or- EF.NTM.MP.<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[60,64,59,62,63,61],"class_list":["post-295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","tag-bittman","tag-farming","tag-food-2","tag-mark-bittman","tag-michael-pollan","tag-pollan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hewins.org\/dhh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hewins.org\/dhh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hewins.org\/dhh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hewins.org\/dhh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hewins.org\/dhh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.hewins.org\/dhh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":311,"href":"http:\/\/www.hewins.org\/dhh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295\/revisions\/311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hewins.org\/dhh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hewins.org\/dhh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hewins.org\/dhh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}