Comments on: New Trends in Natural Foods http://sandyhufm.com/archives/22 Sun, 20 May 2012 18:17:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=1.5.2 Comment on New Trends in Natural Foods by: zelda gordon http://sandyhufm.com/archives/22#comment-6 Sat, 03 Dec 2005 17:08:06 +0000 http://sandyhufm.com/archives/22#comment-6 There is a lot of good and pertinent information here. Reading quickly, I got mixed messages when I perused the heart paragraph. My first take was to think of the physical heart, and healthy foods went through my head; I am so conditioned to heart-healthy. Then I realized it was a different heart-- the one which needs comfort foods. Well, it made me think. Having been in the food promotion business for over twent-five years, I have seen the emphasized charcteristics of individual foods go from "delicious" to "healthy", in so many instances. Eat sardines for Omega-3, strawberries for folic acid, prunes for fiber, for examples. For many years now, the promotion of foods is often (usually!) based on what the darlings are currently in the health and nutrition areas. Interesting! Just try to keep up with the changes in opinion from one week to the next. There is a lot of good and pertinent information here. Reading quickly, I got mixed messages when I perused the heart paragraph. My first take was to think of the physical heart, and healthy foods went through my head; I am so conditioned to heart-healthy. Then I realized it was a different heart– the one which needs comfort foods. Well, it made me think.

Having been in the food promotion business for over twent-five years, I have seen the emphasized charcteristics of individual foods go from “delicious” to “healthy”, in so many instances. Eat sardines for Omega-3, strawberries for folic acid, prunes for fiber, for examples. For many years now, the promotion of foods is often (usually!) based on what the darlings are currently in the health and nutrition areas. Interesting! Just try to keep up with the changes in opinion from one week to the next.

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