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Re:Jamie Oliver's TED Prize wish: Teach every child about food by DaniFong on Friday February 12, 2010 @07:24PM (#1122232)
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Re:Jamie Oliver's TED Prize wish: Teach every child about food by rdouble on Friday February 12, 2010 @07:56PM (#1122284)
Have you seen Joel Fuhrman's ANDI rating system? It's being used at Whole Foods.

http://www.examiner.com/x-672-Disease-Prevention-Examiner~y2...

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Re:Jamie Oliver's TED Prize wish: Teach every child about food by jrockway on Friday February 12, 2010 @08:20PM (#1122313)
What I get out of these "boiled-down" systems is that I should just eat a vitamin pill and some cardboard. Low sugar, low fat, high nutrients.
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Re:Jamie Oliver's TED Prize wish: Teach every child about food by DaniFong on Saturday February 13, 2010 @01:05PM (#1123258)
There might be a lot you're missing. Nutrition is hideously complex, but since we're evolved to eat whole foods and there are a lot of bioactive enzymes and or compounds that aren't well known or in vitamin pills you could be missing out on something crucial.
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Re:Jamie Oliver's TED Prize wish: Teach every child about food by jrockway on Saturday February 13, 2010 @07:02PM (#1123824)
That would be my point.
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Re:Jamie Oliver's TED Prize wish: Teach every child about food by DaniFong on Sunday February 14, 2010 @06:38PM (#1125547)
And so any labeling system needs to emphasize that it is incomplete, and that vitamins/minerals that we've located might simply be the markers of good food: not the sole constituents. It's like correlations versus causality.
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Re:Jamie Oliver's TED Prize wish: Teach every child about food by rdouble on Friday February 12, 2010 @08:29PM (#1122330)
Go for it.
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Re:Jamie Oliver's TED Prize wish: Teach every child about food by DaniFong on Friday February 12, 2010 @09:30PM (#1122417)
Yeah I think the ANDI system is fundamentally flawed and there's a much better way to do things.
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