Amen. When I’ve told people that I prefer cooking from scratch, and that yes, I buy most of my meat and vegetables at the grocery store, I’ve had organic food fans tell me I might as well eat TV dinners. If it’s not organic, locally grown, grass-fed, etc. etc. etc. then it’s no better than prepared foods.

*Not true.*

Cooking from scratch is almost guaranteed to be better for you than eating prepared foods. Sure, locally-grown organic veggies will be better. But how can anyone say a store-bought carrot is no better than a Twinkie?

One of the most interesting points here is that of society’s view of obesity. No one wants to see an overweight child made fun of in the schoolyard. But at the same time, if we are so afraid of hurting his/her feelings that we pretend that nothing is wrong, aren’t we doing that child a greater disservice?

A focus on being fit may be a good idea, depending on how we define “fit”. Forget about a scientific panel of metabolites. We can all tell just by walking up a hill with someone if they’re fit or not. If we start encouraging people to get in shape we won’t have to worry about telling them to lose weight. You don’t see a lot of obese people running 10Ks and marathons. There’s really no such thing as being fat and fit, not in real life anyway.