your daily routine

[Matt Picone]

Ron West wrote:
>>> Eat mostly California style food
>> This is good advice only if you live in California.
>>
>> http://www.michaelpollan.com/omnivore.php
> 
> you can't eat "fresh/organic stuff, salads, an occasional meat,
> cheeses, and good wines" if you live outside of California

You may eat anything you please. 

The diet above, however, would be unsuitable for many readers during many times of the year.

The point of the link was to say that one needs to make decisions about diet and health in the context of a broad framework including regional geo-characteristics, healthfulness, tradition, carbon footprint consciousness, personal preference.

That is, eat greens when they grow, meat when you can catch it, cheese if it suits your ancestry, and wine when you can stomach it (in all senses of the word). Nuts, grains, root vegetables, and legumes are conspicuously missing from the list.

As for the organic label, some serious consideration is warranted before jumping to conclusions based on the claims of today's liberal application of the term. For starters, much "organic" today is corporate schlock:

http://www.cornucopia.org/index.php/who-owns-organic/
http://cornucopia.org/dairysurvey/index.html

As for "fresh," if you grow it yourself, SUPER! If you choose the misted grocery-store goods, recognize there is more to freshness than meets the eye.  Research consistently find fresh and frozen vegetables to have comparable nutritional value, with frozen vegetables often gaining the edge because of how "fresh" food is transported long distances.


-m@