Eat food (mostly plants)

Hey all,

Eat food (mostly plants). This is the advice of Michael Pollen who is an advocate of whole foods and a journalist. His advice sounds simple, but food has transformed substantially in the past 60 years or even 20 years. Food has become more and more nutritionally deficient while the food industry claims that they are better for us. It's difficult to find a processed without some health claim or benefit. I was drinking a soda yesterday, and, above the nutrition label, it said: low sodium. As though this makes it healthy or even non detrimental. But, these health benefits can infused into foods, but this makes increasingly complex and full of regular, unhealthy food sources (I dare you to find a processed food made without soy or corn). As a matter of fact, I recently thought about purchasing some apple sauce because it was a tasty option for fruit. However, there was high fructose corn syrup in it. Apples are already pretty tasty, so I didn't think that delicious apples needed sweetening. Needless to say, I didn't purchase the apple sauce. Maybe this gets at the problem with food in America today. In effort to make food easier and in a quicker fashion while also being maintainable for long periods of time, we have modified it to become a complex, nutritionally deficient imitation of the real thing. It tastes better. We're told that there are excellent nutrients and health benefits from eating specific processed foods, but we continue to get larger and rates of disease continue to increase. While I don't think that nutrition deserves the sole responsibility for this, it has to change. What does everyone else think?