Finished it!

I finished reading "In Defense of Food: The Eater's Manifesto" by Michael Pollan. As with "The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals" I strongly think that everyone should read it. Um...and in order will help A LOT.

There's a lot of info contained such few pages, like how we Americans consume some 300 MORE calories a day than in 1985 and that's all super refined carbs and fats and sugars and just junk. And just the quality of what food we do have available is down, significantly. As in we have "to eat three apples to get the same amount of iron as you would have gotten from a single 1940 apple" and that to me is just so wrong. Especially when you consider that only 20% of American children and 32% of adults consume the recommended 5 daily servings of fresh fruit and vegitables.

Brings, AGAIN, to light that I really really really need to move out so I can have a workable kitchen. Granted I can safely admit that I'll still slip and consume stuff I shouldn't but it'll be okay, once I can get better FOOD in me.

This is the link to Michael Pollan's website. Depending on what all is going on with me and what his visit to Bastyr entails (there's no info now but date) I may go see him October 30.