DailyDirt: Is Eating Healthy Foods Getting Easier?
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Modern food processing and distribution methods have created an ecosystem that can feed millions of people, but some folks argue that the resulting food isn't very healthy. Do people have to give up on food technology -- or should we just wait for food innovators to create food that is economical, healthy and sustainable? Here are just a few interesting food developments.- Over 15,000 restaurants around the US are trying to offer more healthy kids meals. But will parents really be able to sell their kids on healthy meals instead of happy meals? [url]
- Human-based gelatin instead of animal-based gelatin could be commercially viable soon. There's always room for more human-based Jello... [url]
- Vegan ice cream from Germany doesn't actually sound that healthy, but it doesn't have any animal or dairy products in it. And it comes in just four flavors: Vanilla-Cherry, Strawberry-Mousse, Walnut Dream and Choco-Flakes. [url]
- To discover more food-related links, check out what's floating around in StumbleUpon. [url]
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Soylent Jell-o is Purple!
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opinion...
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No, it's harder than ever, and won't change soon.
Ultimately, no. Thanks to the prevalence of increasingly high sugar and low fiber in everyday foods, even staple foods, eating healthy is harder than ever. Furthermore with the amount of misinformation and archaic misconceptions of the public, combined with government subsidies on corn, it's not likely to change anytime soon.
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WTF
Um, WTF!?!?! We already have food that is economical, healthy and sustainable. They're called Whole Foods! Fruit, vegetables, nuts, seeds, etc. They are natural, have evolved with us and being part of our diet for, how long, millions of years?
For gods sake, we shouldn't even need the term "food technology". We're not living on Mars, are we?
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It's just marketing spin. Like salads and their 'wonders' - but good luck trying to find a salad dressing without sugar in it, unless it's oil/vinegar types.
It's like the 'green' BS - everything is 'green' now - I even seen 'green' bug spray at the store - are they serious? 'Green' bug spray? LOL - I don't WANT bug spray to be friendly to the environment because chances are it's also friendly to the bugs.
And as it stands, food is sustainable - otherwise, I suspect we would have ran out long ago. It's been sustainable for at least 8500 years or more I suppose.
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Shelf stability is the other side of the coin, and it is possible through extensive processing of foods after they're harvested. This involves removal of fiber, and addition of preservatives. So much fiber is discarded, in fact, that we've actually been modifying plants genetically now to produce less of it in step 1 as a part of their yield increase--less fiber, more starch and sugar.
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mmmmmmm Soylent Green Jello
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But with people shifting their focus to producing more of what they eat who knows in the future.
Some designs for the future.
http://www.tuvie.com/kitchen-nano-garden-serves-excellent-way-to-grow-your-own-vegetables /
http://www.tuvie.com/eva-indoor-farmer-green-alternative-to-the-traditional-compost-heap/
ht tp://www.tuvie.com/cn-urban-composter-recycles-your-wastes-into-compost/
http://www.tuvie.com/cap sulepot-your-mini-garden-in-a-capsule/
Next month is time to plant onions LoL
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http://www.zwnews.com/issuefull.cfm?ArticleID=4285
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Full diets plans
DiyetEvim
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I think so
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