Showing posts with label processed food. Show all posts
Showing posts with label processed food. Show all posts

Apr 29, 2013

Far fewer farmers in the late 20th century

I've been thinking about how healthy my farming grandparents and their families were, and the changes in our every-day diet since then. Ran across this chart, which shows the change in the number of farming communities in 1950 vs. 2000. Interesting...


Source: USDA Report

Apr 3, 2013

The number one problem with the American diet

Okay, so this group obviously has something to sell you (just like the diet industry they're calling out), but they do an excellent job of summarizing what's wrong with the way we eat:





(I'm neither paid by nor promoting this group. I don't know anything about their program. I'm just impressed with how well they've boiled the problem down to a very succinct message.)

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