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Do you think we'll ever get to a point where people make food choices and limit their intake based mainly on a rational weighing of available information? I lik
by gcheong 16y ago
Do you think we'll ever get to a point where people make food choices and limit their intake based mainly on a rational weighing of available information? I like to think we will but so far the track record is not too encouraging.
- johnny22 16y agoor we just make healthy food taste better.
- city41 16y agoThe other factor is cost. Healthy food costs more, often significantly more.
- mkr-hn 16y agoStuff labeled "healthy" tends to be, but you can make healthy food for cheap. You can make a lot of meals out of a couple dollars in ingredients. Example: http://imgur.com/RYSLX http://imgur.com/RYSLX [1] and http://imgur.com/xjJXR http://imgur.com/xjJXR [2] That could be made for a dollar or two, and it's easy to make stuff like that quickly and with different ingredients. I'd feel pretty content eating like that every day, and most of the parts are things you can freeze. [1] Tuna + slightly melted shredded cheddar + cucumbers + salad mix + hot salsa + boiled egg + pepper [2] Cabbage base, tuna, carrots, mozarella cheese, bell pepper
- ezy 16y agoHave you tried to eat this way regularly, and did you end up spending less? How long did you last?
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- Florin_Andrei 16y agoHealthy, cheap, and time effective. Pick two, at most two and a half.
- yummyfajitas 16y agoHealthy food costs more per calorie. But most people with unhealthy food habits are fat, and therefore eat more calories than they need. Clearly they are not optimizing for cost.
- ams6110 16y agoIf by "healthy" you mean the certified organic stuff, free range animals, yes that can be expensive. But you can do a LOT better than the typical junk food diet for the same money at any "big box" supermarket.
- martythemaniak 16y agoI think we need to make it cheaper (via subsidizing fresh produce instead of the corn and cattle industry) relative to processed food and the rest will take care of itself. Funny thing is, people will scream "social engineering" if you say this, yet they're perfectly content to ignore the current social engineering.
- baggachipz 16y agoThis, times 1000. The only reason it's so cheap to eat at McDonald's is because of subsidies given to industrial beef, corn, and soy.
- ams6110 16y agoIt's really not cheap to eat at McDonald's. You can buy a dozen eggs at the supermarket for the cost of one Egg McMuffin.
- jpr 16y agoI think it's shortsighted, naive and optimistic to expect that subsidization of "fresh produce" would produce any better results than the current system. After all, there's nothing inherently wrong with corn or cattle when they are produced in traditional ways, ie. corn that is not optimized for yield, sacrificing it's taste, and cattle is fed on grass, not on corn (which makes it sick).
- locopati 16y agoOr realize that healthy food actually tastes better than unhealthy foods
- houk 16y agohealthy good DOES taste better. you've just been raised on rubbish so therefor you think that is how all food should taste. I was the same. I hated peas, carrots, sweet potato, that sort of thing. A few years ago I was at a friends place and she grew all her own produce. It was the first time I had ever tasted fresh vegetables. Oh wow. If (in Australia) the major super markets that advertise "We're the fresh food people" I'm sure more people would be enjoying something other than lollies (candy). As it stands at the moment any vegetable you buy from our two major players (coles and woolworths) are terrible. Eating better? http://robbwolf.com/ http://robbwolf.com/ try him.
- pnathan 16y agoI used to think radishes were boring and sorta yuck. Then I grew a few at my own place, for a lark. Well, that was an explosion of taste I won't long forget. Pro tip: Fresh radishes are nothing like the dried up junk in salads.
- Florin_Andrei 16y agoIf a salad contains any dressing, it's not a salad anymore, it's a dish. The only exception I allow is vinegar + olive oil. That's pretty yummy salad dressing (especially with balsamic vinegar), and pretty healthy.
- demallien 16y agoUmmm, vinegar + oil is pretty much the composition of every dressing out there, sometimes with a small amount of emulsifier, such as mustard (vinaigrette) or egg yolk (mayonnaise). Is it the fact that you use olive oil that OS important? Or the fact that without an emulsifier the dressing is much thinner, and hence ends up on the plate, not the salad, so you eat less?
- Florin_Andrei 16y agoI just checked some random dressing in the fridge. It has 50% more carbs than fat. It has more sugar than fat. It tastes sweet. I should probably toss the piece of junk in the garbage, but then my wife would probably buy a replacement. :/
- mike_organon 16y agoBacon already tastes as good as it's going to get! (No, this is not sarcasm.)
- SkyMarshal 16y ago>or we just make healthy food taste better. The very easy way to do that is cut processed sugars and carbs out of your diet for a few months, healthy foods will start tasting better, and you'll never be able to go back without getting sick. I did that and the result is that Egg McMuffins - my old favorite - make me feel bloated, Girl Scout Cookies make me sick, and Wendy's burgers smell like cow manure.
- gjm11 16y agoThe track record for making any choices based on a rational weighing of available information is not too encouraging.
- mike_organon 16y agoThere is evidence that people have followed the advice of the "experts" in the past 4 decades: eat low fat, more carbs, industrial oils and margarine. The big problem is the experts were irrational and wrong.