Learning Thru Jeremiah's Eyes: The Truth About Food (How Culture & Business Impacts Your Diet)
Jeremiah Pouncy
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Hey y’all ??? I’ve been reading ‘In Defense of Food’ by Michael Pollan, a professor at Harvard (alum of Stanford), who researches and writes about the intersection of nature and culture; Mainly within our diets, farms, gardens, and the built environment. Nonetheless, it’s been a great time learning from him & I’d love to share some of what I read & learned over the past week + some thoughts through my eyes!!
In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
Why is it So Hard to Eat Healthy
A seemingly easy solution to that though, as he says, is to ‘Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.’ Here in America, the large majority of the population, whether by choice or force (more likely a mix of both), is eating on a ‘Western Diet’ though.
The Western Diet
Consists of:
Leads to Western Diseases:
So, We Must First Eat Food
Rule #1: Don't eat anything that your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize
Ex: GoGurt, she'd probably think it was toothpaste & you'd have to explain it and then convince her it was actually edible. It probably isn’t the best for you if this is the case.
Also, even though research is coming out saying dietary sugar plays a higher role in heart disease than dietary fat, make sure that you do your own research
Last Fun Fact:
'In countries where people eat a pound of more of fruits and vegetables a day, the rate of cancer is half of what it is in the US’
Hopefully this helped somebody, at least a little bit, and I’ll drop more book notes next week :) Hope you enjoyed ???
2025 National VBMA President, DVM Candidate 2027, Cornell University CVM
2 周All very true! The other hard part is the often insane prices linked with eating healthy! The Western diet is full of processed sugars but for just 3x the price you can have natural sugars in fruits..Great read!
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3 周I recently just finished a book called “Ikigai” (reason for living in Japanese) which talks about the blue zones in the world where life expectancy is a lot higher in those areas than in your average community. One chapter covered certain foods and fruits specifically in Japanese culture that harness an abundance of nutrients. I personally would like to see the world abide by the eating habits of those blue zones to enhance the ability of inviduals to reach optimal health.