Scary Facts

1. Today, 40% of the U.S population suffer from heart problems. A 100 years ago, it was less than 3%.

2. During the years 1935-2005, when people in Europe and North America started to excessively consume vitamin pills and supplements , diseases such as cancer, allergies and asthma rose extensively.

2. The consumption of a US citizen of processed food is 62%. In the UK it's 58%.

3. The typical consumption of fruit and vegetables by a UK citizen is less than 12%. That includes potato chips and fries, since potato is a vegetable.

4. Folic Acid which the media recommends pregnant women to take is not something which can be found in nature. It's completely synthetic and has actually been proven to increase the cancer risk within the mothers who take it.

5. Heart diseases is the number one death cause in the whole world. More people die from that than of starvation. We are officially dying by the symptoms of overweight instead of underweight for the first time in human history.




Source: Lecture by Dr. Joel Fuhrman at the Royal Institute in London.


PS. Yes I was there tonight.

PSS. Yes it was amazing.

Futuristic Lettuce

I have a food philosophy that goes a little something like this: If it's green and it grows on earth - it's good. If it's green and grows in a lab grown with technical equipments - it's bad. So you can imagine my confusion when I read this article. It's basically an article about a new Japanese invention called the "Chef's Farm"; a small vegetable plant which is capable of producing 20,000 heads of lettuce per year by planting lettuce seeds on nutriculture beds that includes long and thin metal frames.

Now, I don't really know what to think about this. On the one hand, this plant is producing salads which is good because we need some green weapons to fight of the fatty fries from the people. On the other hand....the salad is grown with 12 40W fluorescent lamps as lighting equipment in a little vegetable steel plant. That just sounds sooo...synthetic and too high-tech for a natural food worshiper like me. At the same time I'm not a conservative old hag that hates soy and wasabi and other "weird futuristic food".

Gahh. Inner dilemma. Should I Yay or should I Ney? What do you think?