So, Oprah and her staff went vegan this week. The best part of the show was Michael Pollan:
Money section:
Pollan: When you hear the phrase “health care crisis” or “health care cost crisis,” that is a euphemism for the catastrophe that is the American diet. 75% of our health care spending is on chronic diseases linked to diet. That’s really what’s bankrupting us, and that has to do with the way we’re eating — way too many calories, too much processed foods, tons of refined carbohydrates.
Oprah: And by “refined carbohydrates,” what do you mean?
Pollan: White flour — things with white flour in it, and sugar. Soda.
Oprah: It’s all those things that are packaged in the boxes and that you just add water.
Pollan: Exactly. It’s all that processed food. So our diet has changed more in the last hundred years than in the last 10,000, probably, with the result that it is affecting our health.
I did see this show. Sadly I was so annoyed with Kathy Freston’s portion of misinformation and nasty meat stand ins I couldn’t focus. Not enough Pollan, too much Freston.
Lauren, I missed most of Kathy Freston because a good deal of the show was interrupted for a news report re Egypt! I would have DVR’d the replay at 1AM, but figured I would have been annoyed too ;).