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From vitamin-spiked Diet Coke, to whole-grain Pop Tarts, from misleading labels on Tyson chicken, to McDonald's salads laden with high-fat salad dressing, marketing claims abound. Additional Article Information: =============================== 533 Words; formatted to 65 Characters per Line Distribution Date and Time: 2008-04-23 10:24:00 Written By: Mark Hyman, M.D. Copyright: 2008 Contact Email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Mark Hyman, M.D.'s Picture URL: http://www.ultrametabolism.com/files/images/drhymanbio.jpg For more free-reprint articles by Mark Hyman, M.D., please visit: http://www.thePhantomWriters.com/recent/author/mark-hyman,-m_d_.html ============================================= Special Notice For Publishers and Webmasters: ============================================= If you use this article on your website or in your ezine, We Want To Know About It. 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In Michael Pollans new book In Defense of Food, he argues against nutritionism, or removing nutrients from whole foods and putting them into processed food or taking them as supplements for their health benefits. Dont let these ploys fool you. Be suspicious of any food that comes in a package, box, or a can. Most of these products just arent real food. Let me tell you about one of my patients. Hes a food scientist who invents new foods in the lab by mixing chemicals. I call them Frankenfoods. But working with these chemicals all the time was making my patient sick. We tried hard to lessen his exposure to them. One day, he brought me an industry journal called Food Business News. I found it shocking. The publication was filled with marketing ploys to help the industry give their poor-quality foods the appearance of being healthy. One ad was for Food Ingredient Solutions, a company that makes food dyes to color junk food with natural pigments. Another was for Tyson Foods, which cleverly labels their chicken as produced without antibiotics that impact antibiotic resistance in humans. That means they did use antibiotics -- just not ones that cause problems in humans. Another article focused on a company called Fitch Ratings, which said that innovation in the food industry will continue in areas of perceived health and wellness, convenience, and ethnic products. Thats right. Its only perceived health and wellness -- not actual health and wellness. That means that you just need to make people believe they are eating or drinking something healthy. Whether it is actually healthy doesnt matter. And there were also advertisements for whole-grain Lean Pockets, which are the same old processed pocket sandwiches with some flecks of fiber added to make you think youre eating healthy food. I also saw an ad for something called Vegi Pure, a cholesterol-lowering product that adds plant phytosterols to junk food. As you can see, the food industry is doing all it can to convince you to choose its junk foods disguised as healthy foods. Instead, take a cue from Michael Pollan. He says, Eat food [meaning real, whole food]. Not too much. Mostly plants. So what should you eat? Choose food that comes from a farm, not a lab - and then you wont have to think about what all these claims mean. Youll be eating healthy food, naturally. Here is some more information about what to eat: * Whole, real food such as vegetables, fruits, beans, nuts, seeds, whole grains, lean animal protein like small wild fish and poultry, and whole omega-3 eggs. * Small amounts of grass-fed, antibiotic- and hormone-free beef or lamb. So dont believe food scientists attempts to make you believe you need special ingredients to stay in good health - Choose whole, real food instead! 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