get stuck in to these food and nutrition-related bits and bobs i've come across recently.
shock finding that nutritional value of your food affects your health!
wired snuck in a little article about magnesium which caught my eye. not so much the magnesium but the general thrust was that nutrition is the basis of health, which i've said for aeons, though nobody seems to take it seriously enough. summarised nicely in this quote, right at the end of the article, by one of the researchers into the effect of a lack of dietary magnesium on the human body:
We're very interested in the way that you eat on a day-to-day basis can catch up to you," he said. "You can make it through the day, but you cause stress to your organs, to your body, and eventually end up promoting long-term disease.keep up the good work, guys.
so much for the global economy. what the world eats: shocking.
next up, a stunning look at how the world eats. it's a time magazine photo-journal of a dozen or so families around the world, clustered around their dining table/kitchen counter/mud floor with a week's worth of food. amazing. a must see. so see it. here.
mouths are demanding better quality food
entertaining video up now, by a host of mouths demanding real food. yes, i know, sounds crazy. and it is :) on youtube.
brits are a bunch of wasters
this made it to the radio 4 news so presumably i'm not the only one to be appalled. 3.6m tonnes of food are thrown away in england and wales every year. that's a phenomenal amount. and a fair chunk of it is still edible. the implication in the bbc article is that people don't know how to store food properly, throw things away because they don't know if it'll still be ok and are just plain wasteful. and it goes straight to landfill, creating unsightly and unhygienic mountains of waste, producing methane, then there's all the energy gone in to producing it, transporting it etc all gone to waste, too. outrageous. and then they say we need GM crops to sustain us. no we don't. we just need to learn to use what we've got better. i hate mindless consumerism but i'm also amazed that people can afford to be so wasteful. thank god we can now compost most of our waste. makes me feel at least i'm doing my bit.
