Jamie Oliver's TED Prize wish: Teach every child about food

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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