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Food Matters: A Guide to Conscious Eating with More Than 75 Recipes
From the award-winning champion of culinary simplicity who gave us the bestselling How to Cook Everything and How to Cook Everything Vegetarian comes Food Matters, a plan for responsible eating that’s as good for the planet as it is for your weight and your health.
We are finally starting to acknowledge the threat carbon emissions pose to our ozone layer, but few people have focused on the extent to which our consumption of meat contributes to global warming. Think about it this way: In terms of energy consumption, serving a typical family-of-four steak dinner is the rough equivalent of driving around in an SUV for three hours while leaving all the lights on at home.
Bittman offers a no-nonsense rundown on how government policy, big business marketing, and global economics influence what we choose to put on the table each evening. He demystifies buzzwords like “organic,” “sustainable,” and “local” and offers straightforward, budget-conscious advice that will help you make small changes that will shrink your carbon footprint — and your waistline.
Get Your Teeth Into It
Keep your teeth in good condition. Another good reason to eat better food!
Sugar is the #1 enemy to good teeth. It gets stuck on your teeth, along with the plaque and becomes a breeding ground for all the nasty bugs that want to attack your teeth, gums, and enamel.
Eating fibrous foods, on the other hand, means more chewing. More chewing means you produce more salivia, and that helps to keep your mouth clean, simply by washing the food particles out, and down into your stomach where they belong.
So, eat more vegetables and fruits, avoid sugary foods and drinks, and remember to brush, floss and rinse your mouth (and tongue) after meals. You will be on the road to healthy, brilliant teeth!
More Processed, Less Satisfying
Take fresh fruit for example. Oranges are more filling than orange juice. Apples are more filling than apple juice. Why?
It’s generally had much of the fiber taken out, which means too, that many of the nutrients gets lost too.
Perhaps though, the best example is rice. Whereas wholegrain rice contains fiber and nutrients, it’s been shown more than once (and specifically during World War Two in POW Camps), what a diet of just polished white rice does. One ends up with Beri-beri due to an absence of Vitamin B, which is removed along with the husk.
For the same reason, whole grain bread is more filling than white.
So you end up eating more of it, and getting less nutrient, less fiber, and just more calories in the form of extra carbs.
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