Organic Food Isn't More Nutritious

Re:Organic Food Isn't More Nutritious by jrockway on Friday August 14, 2009 @11:03PM (#764292)

Indeed. We still don't understand enough about food to say that organic food is not better. If you stopped eating real food and only ate lard, soy protein, cardboard, and a vitamin pill, you would probably not do too well. But that is all we use to understand the nutritional value of food. (Vitamins, minerals, fat, carbohydrates, and protein.)

(Admittedly the American food system is getting close to this. Corn is soooo good for you(r wallet), after all.)

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Re:Organic Food Isn't More Nutritious by stcredzero on Friday August 14, 2009 @11:45PM (#764332)

We still don't understand enough about food to say...

Here here! The notion that we pretty much understand what's going on with food, digestion, and metabolism is as widespread as it is harmful. We have only scratched the surface.

I remember seeing a diagram of human metabolism during a talk. It was huge and messy! Spaghetti-coded-Rube-Goldberg-intertwined-messy! And it's only a diagram of what we do understand -- there's even more in there! Biology at the cellular and molecular level was not "designed" to be understood by a human intelligence.

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