Following the trend of the past few weeks today’s links are health/diet related:
Soaking grains/legumes:
Traditional Preparation Methods Improve Grains’ Nutritive Value
by Stephan Guyenet (one of my favorite blogs, although it can get quite deep at time) is one of the most rounded and well-researched articles I have read about why and how we should soak grains and legumes (although the bit about oatmeal has me confused). Since soaking, sprouting and grinding flour for bread is a bit much for me, we mostly eat Ezekiel Bread.
You get what you pay for: Good Food is Not (Only) a Class Issue at Simple, Good and Tasty is a nice write up on how Americans in general feel about food. My favorite quote:
“When it comes to most things, we believe we get what we pay for. Shoes, clothes, cars … but when it comes to food, we don’t believe that. Most of us have a more intimate relationship with our hair cutter than we do with our farmer.” – Joel Salatin
We’ve come to think of cheap food as our right, and the idea of paying more when we could pay less seems silly, almost un-American. We’re saving our money for the things we think are really important, like cable TV and betting on football games.
Not saying we need to get out an become friendly with area farmers (although that probably wouldn’t hurt) but we need to put a higher value on the food we put in our bodies. There are so many good points in the article – go read it now.