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Top Foods You’re Not Eating

Helen (968 x 648)

Helen Lucy Burke, Restaurant and Food critic with The Dubliner magazine joined George to run through the New York Times list The Top Foods You’re Not Eating.

Below is the list of 11 Foods:

1. Beets
2. Cabbage
3  Swiss Chard
4. Cinnamon
5.  Pomegranate Juice
6.  Dried Plums
7.  Pumpkin Seed
8.  Sardines
9.  Turmeric
10.Frozen Blueberries
11.Canned Pumpkin

Helen was more taken with another list from The New York Times..
1. Avoid food products that come bearing health claims
2. Especially avoid food products containing ingredients that are a) unfamiliar b)  unpronounceable c) more than five   in number or that contain high fructose corn syrup.
3. Get out of the supermarket whenever possible.
4. Pay more, eat less.
5. Eat mostly plants, especially leaves
6. Eat more like the French. Or the Japanese. Or the Italians. Or the Greeks. Confounding factors aside, people who eat according to the rules of a traditional food culture are generally healthier than we are
7. Cook. And if you can,, plant a garden.
8. Eat like an omnivore.

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  1. Great tips, thanks for them.

    March 27, 2010 at 8:59 pm

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