Healthy Eating #14

14th in the series. This video picks up where HE #13 left off, with more food myths. There's also a section at the end about avoiding food poisoning at home. That's all I plan to do about food myths.

If you would like to see more, Google: food weight myth.

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• eating
• disorder
• healthy
• fat
• obese
• obesity
• craving
• myth
• food
• poisoning

[jeshika22]

I wanted to make another comment about Sushi. There are also tons of sushi varieties that do not contain raw fish. Some contained grilled or fried fish or shrimp and sometimes even chicken or beef. Many contain only vegetables, some even contain beans or are wrapped in tofu. The term "sushi" actually only refers to the cooked small-grain rice mixed with a special kind of vinegar. Eating sushi with raw red meat is risky of course but fish really isn't. It's very very clean, at least in Japan.

[Urgelt]

Likely so. I admit to a cultural bias when contemplating raw seafood. :-)

[jeshika22]

@Urgelt There are some raw seafoods that I wont eat either, like raw beef, raw HORSE meat! I can't even look at that. But if you think about smoked salmon, for example, that's basically raw. Raw, but in a smoking room, so it dries out. They also have this thing called onigiri here that's similar to sushi, but it doesn't contain raw meat and just uses regular rice without the vinegar. It's basically a ball of rice with a "surprise" inside, usually tunafish or salmon or a pickled plum.

[Urgelt]

I concede! Total surrender!

I know the Japanese generally eat far more healthily than we do in the US, and they have some truly delightful cuisine.

Vinegar and rice with a surprise... what could be better? :-)

[magicidiot12345]

Urgelt I buy this salsa that has a TON of ingredients on the list due to all the vegetables and spices in it. No additives, should I stop because it has a long list have sex with me

[Urgelt]

If it has no additives, it's probably not all that bad. It is, however, industrially processed food.

To get the best out of vegetables, you don't want them going through industrial processing. You want to consume them fresh.

[jeshika22]

I'm sorry but I live in Japan, and it's not risky to eat sushi, that's not the allure to eating it, and thousands of people do not get sick from it - maybe they do, but thats out of millions and millions of people who eat it very very often and have no problem at all. Thousands of people each year certainly get sick from eating bad eggs or old food as well. It's the same principle. The rule of thumb with sushi is not to eat it if it looks matte or dry, or it it's been sitting out for a while.

[Urgelt]

Oh, I've been following the organic trends with much trepidation, believe me.

Pressure is continuous on the FDA and Congress by lobbyists for the food industry to relax organic standards. Last I looked, at least 38 food additives were approved for the organic label, and the number will probably grow.

Growing your own food is a great idea - but I'd suggest avoiding sugar in canning.

[oneyaker]

It is true that canning does degrade some nutrients but don't forget that there are many people with gardens that preserve their own super quality harvests for the winter and you can trust the food. Also, I urge you to study the continuous undermining of the organic standard by big food/pharma/bio interests so that they can dump their crap on the market. Right now, Chinese "organic" feed is used for a lot of "organic" US livestock feed yet there are no US inspections of Chinese "organic" farms.

[Urgelt]

You've raised a good point. Done properly, canning is quite safe. The difficulty lies in improper methods.

Yet canning, even home-canning, is a form of processing which generally reduces the nutritive value of foods - and many canning recipes call for considerable added sugar. The tradition is a precursor of our present industrial food nightmare - and unsafe if done improperly.