Filed under: Food and Nutrition Is a healthy food just about the nutritional label? Many would say “yes,” but a group within the non-profit Prevention Institute says “no.” In it’s hot-off-the-press report, Setting the Record Straight: Nutritionists Define Healthful Food , the organization offers up a new working definition of healthful food, and it has nothing to do with those ‘low-fat’ labels in the grocery store. Over at Food Politics, nutritional expert Marion Nestle recently explained the new definition operates around three principles — namely, healthful food should be: Wholesome Produced in ways that are good for people, animals and natural resources Available, accessible and affordable Makes perfect sense to me, but how can this definition transfer to real policy change to re-tool the food industry, or influence how we shop in the grocery

store? I shot off an e-mail to Nestle with a similar question. She sees the new definition as “the opening salvo in the anti-processed food movement.” Nestle explained in an e-mail that the new definition requires us to rethink food choices, tying what we put in our mouths to climate change, environmental degradation and poverty. Yet tossing solely Wholesome choices in the grocery cart isn’t always possible for my family — three to four nights a week, I’m handing the kids off to my husband and rushing off to grad school, work or Scouts. While I primarily cook with Wholesome ingredients, a frozen/processed rectangle is slid into the oven on occasion. Continue reading Healthy Food – A New Definition Health | Health | Health | Health

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