We, Americans at least, consume an incredible amount of processed food. Over the past year I’ve noted that many food items are made with genetically or bioengineered ingredients; nothing is sacred, not even our food. I’ve tried to eliminate them from my diet, or use sparingly.
Moreover, as a child in the 60’s and 70’s, fast food was not on every street corner and there were no shopping malls with the fast casual restaurants. We had a downtown, corner stores and family owned restaurants. I try to avoid chain restaurants still, but it is a challenge.
When my daughter was diagnosed with a gastrointestinal disease, she could mostly tolerate homemade bread. I suspect because there were no preservatives in it.
I think the food processing industry crept in corruptly and got the DfE to abolish Food and Nutrition and Home Economics in favour of ridiculous Food Technology, thus dooming children whose mothers no longer had time to teach them to being unable to cook. I loved Food and Nut O level, made a change from academic subjects. My mother was an amazing cook, and grew masses of veg, so food in our house was delicious, but I was at boarding school where it wasn't and not too much of it either particularly at prep school. We resorted to eating grass. It is very complex, but so much to do with not understanding what we are being fed by industry, over consumption, all the misery. I'm having to tackle it again, after a hard winter. If I don't stay on top of it, I don't fit my favourite dresses. Post menopause, 5 years of tamoxifen make it difficult - but not impossible.
We, Americans at least, consume an incredible amount of processed food. Over the past year I’ve noted that many food items are made with genetically or bioengineered ingredients; nothing is sacred, not even our food. I’ve tried to eliminate them from my diet, or use sparingly.
Moreover, as a child in the 60’s and 70’s, fast food was not on every street corner and there were no shopping malls with the fast casual restaurants. We had a downtown, corner stores and family owned restaurants. I try to avoid chain restaurants still, but it is a challenge.
When my daughter was diagnosed with a gastrointestinal disease, she could mostly tolerate homemade bread. I suspect because there were no preservatives in it.
I think the food processing industry crept in corruptly and got the DfE to abolish Food and Nutrition and Home Economics in favour of ridiculous Food Technology, thus dooming children whose mothers no longer had time to teach them to being unable to cook. I loved Food and Nut O level, made a change from academic subjects. My mother was an amazing cook, and grew masses of veg, so food in our house was delicious, but I was at boarding school where it wasn't and not too much of it either particularly at prep school. We resorted to eating grass. It is very complex, but so much to do with not understanding what we are being fed by industry, over consumption, all the misery. I'm having to tackle it again, after a hard winter. If I don't stay on top of it, I don't fit my favourite dresses. Post menopause, 5 years of tamoxifen make it difficult - but not impossible.