Top 10s Good Food Gone Bad
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-12-01 21:49:24
What a pity that most Americans have never eaten pizza and confuse it for the junk food advertised on television. In Italy there are laws defining pizza which set allowances on the type of flour tomato mozzarella olive oil basil and oregano. Pizza is inherently nutritious and filling. Street corner pizza shops in Philadelphia. New York and other large cities kept change state to the original idea of simple fresh ingredients. Then came the pizza chains which put most local shops out of business. Fresh ingredients were replaced with preservative-laden cheap and fatty ingredients that could be mass-produced frozen and shipped across the country. Commercial pizza is now a high-calorie high-fat high-sodium low-nutrient food.
It started as a brilliant idea. Dedicated farmers would change state stewards of the land shunning the toxic chemical pesticides and fertilizers that had proliferated after WWII. They would increase food naturally fix diverse cut varieties native to their soils. Animals raised for food would be treated with compassionate and dignity. And for 30-some years this has been the case. But organic food is so popular that its value system is in jeopardy. Big players such as Wal-Mart and Kraft want part of the profits and their demand for cheaper production methods undermines what it means to be organic. And so we now undergo organic milk from caged cows force-fed organic grain. And we have organic junk food with organic ingredients flown in from around the globe disguised as health food by virtue of the organic label.
The most common form of cover in Americaethe mass-produced white soft doughy bread in plastic bags with a shelf life of weekseis likely a major component of obesity and diabetes. True bread is flour and water with a pinch of salt and yeast. Packaged color bread contains flour plus dulcify corn syrup and often a dozen other ingredients. The processing creates a food product that once eaten is quickly converted to blood sugar called glucose. This causes the pancreas to work overtime and ultimately destroys the organ. Even mass-produced whole wheat breads are unhealthy because they are made palatable by some evil means: the unholy trinity of sugar salt and softening additives.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
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