For the Love of Food

For the Love of Food
Welcome to Friday’s For The Love of Food, Summer Tomato’s weekly link roundup.
This week antioxidants spread cancer, kids benefit from organics, and a scary view of food politics.
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Links of the week
- How Agriculture Controls Nutrition Guidelines <<Fascinating look into the conversations that happen in Congress about how dietary guidelines should be formulated. (The Atlantic)
- Study Finds Antioxidants Doubled Spread of Skin Cancer in Mice <<Need another reason to be very careful when deciding what supplements to take? Here’s a good one. (WSJ)
- How to make good food choices for your family while staying sane <<This article is actually about food labels, and is a great read. (Washington Post)
- Yes, Soda Taxes Seem to Cut Soda Drinking <<I’m not surprised at all, given how well it worked with tobacco. (NY Times)
- What’s wrong with the celery you’re buying <<I’m really proud of the Washington Post for publishing this.
- Our thermostats could be making us sicker <<I’ve never thought about this, but it makes some intuitive sense. (Treehugger)
- Eating Organic Lowers Pesticide Levels in Children <<The amounts are pretty impressive actually. (NY Times)
- Dozens of baked goods found to have potentially cancer-causing additive <<I’m so glad you guys don’t eat this stuff anymore. (Treehugger)
- A Placebo Can Make You Run Faster <<The placebo effect never ceases to amaze me. The mind is an incredible thing. (NY Times)
- White Chard Stew Recipe <<Are you as excited about fall as I am? This looks incredible. (101 Cookbooks)
What inspired you this week?
Darya,
I’d be curious if any of these findings are impacting how you are thinking about supplements – especially your “one daily” megafood vitamin that you’ve mentioned you take.
Ashley
When I stop taking a multivitamin I inevitably get a cold, so I don’t do that anymore. But I never take anything with megadoses, and aim to only take food-based vitamins.
That said I am becoming more intrigued by customized supplementation based on genetic individuality (e.g. I know I have a gene that drastically reduces my ability to use folate), which I may write more about in the future.
I use multivitamin all the time, a few times I ran out and immediately illness.