Fearing food?
So the careful eating of the last week has gone well. My weight tends to oscillate quite a bit but if the average is to be beleived I've lost about 1.5 kilos in the last week, so I will attempt to continue apace. I don't actually see a difference on my body (how much should I expect to see a 2,5% drop in weight?), but I'm having fun playing with the numbers for now.
On the topic of food I just stole a fun little documentary called King Corn (www.kingcorn.net), which follows corn from farm to plate in an attempt to determine what the importance it has on our current diet. They are forthright with the fact that they are heavily inspired by Michal Pollan and his famous 'Omnivore's Dilemma' book, so if you've read that it won't necessarily give you any new information, but it was an interesting film to watch.
Since I live in Japan and don't really drink sodas anymore, I'm not sure how much of a presence corn has in my own diet, but I found it to be a cute film with some really revealing points. Probably my favourite point in the film is when they visit an elderly Earl Butz, the man credited with revolutionizing farm policy to focus on overproduction of corn and other products, rather than controlling grain prices. Leading up to this meeting I was worried that they would skewer a now very old man, but they give him a platform to explain his reasoning. He explains that the Americain family spends less than 20% of their take home income on food, leaving much more available to other pursuits then ever before. Now that may not be a good thing considering how we got to that point, but it was an 'aha' moment for me where I saw the motivation for the policy decisions made, beyond independant film documentaries' frequent foil of Government in Bed with Big Business. It rounded out the film and gave their main theme, that we were no longer eating well because of these policies, a lot more credibility.
This is definitely a film that will likely only interest people who already agree with it, but still does a decent job of it.
Shade
On the topic of food I just stole a fun little documentary called King Corn (www.kingcorn.net), which follows corn from farm to plate in an attempt to determine what the importance it has on our current diet. They are forthright with the fact that they are heavily inspired by Michal Pollan and his famous 'Omnivore's Dilemma' book, so if you've read that it won't necessarily give you any new information, but it was an interesting film to watch.
Since I live in Japan and don't really drink sodas anymore, I'm not sure how much of a presence corn has in my own diet, but I found it to be a cute film with some really revealing points. Probably my favourite point in the film is when they visit an elderly Earl Butz, the man credited with revolutionizing farm policy to focus on overproduction of corn and other products, rather than controlling grain prices. Leading up to this meeting I was worried that they would skewer a now very old man, but they give him a platform to explain his reasoning. He explains that the Americain family spends less than 20% of their take home income on food, leaving much more available to other pursuits then ever before. Now that may not be a good thing considering how we got to that point, but it was an 'aha' moment for me where I saw the motivation for the policy decisions made, beyond independant film documentaries' frequent foil of Government in Bed with Big Business. It rounded out the film and gave their main theme, that we were no longer eating well because of these policies, a lot more credibility.
This is definitely a film that will likely only interest people who already agree with it, but still does a decent job of it.
Shade