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Do you believe that nutrtion spiked food could be unhealthy?
Posted by goshopper1 • 8/25/09 • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: research, spiked food, study, unhealthy
Candy bars, cereals, juices, dairy products water,soft drinks and sport bars are some of the food products with added nutrition.
According to a research study released last Thursday, consumers are willing to pay premium price for them, even in a weak economy.
Some critics are saying that this may be unhealthy after all. They may encourage overeating.
At the same time health experts are recommending nutritional food to stay healthy.
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It is a lazy way to get nutrition, so in that sense I think it promotes and unhealthy approach to eating and food choices (or lack thereof).-
I was just gonna comment on the laziness of it all. To be healthy people need to get off their asses and get active and eat healthy. Healthy = natural foods, produce, less fat, etc. That stuff exists naturally, why look for the fake version of health? -
You know what gets me? These health injected foods are much more expensive than the healthier real foods, so if you are on a budget, what sense does it make to buy the fake stuff?
And, I'm tired of these low fat foods, like low fat wheat thins and crap like that. If anyone thinks a deep fried wheat thin is healthy, whether "low fat" or not, then don't be complaining about not being able to lose weight or the lack of energy. If anyone gives me a wheat thin and tells me it's healthy, I'll throw it on the ground and stomp on it!
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I am always wary when chemicals or a chemical process is interjected into otherwise normal, healthy foods. I do not want my orange juice to be spiked with added vitamin D etc and so forth.
But in general, I agree with Jafa. -
Some critics believe that overeating could be a problem which is not healthy. Some supplements have also been considered a health risk to certain groups of people. For example too much folic acid.
Are people really overeating because it is nutrition spiked or will they overeat anyway?
Read the report here:
wellingdigital.wordpress.com/2009/08/26/nutrition-spiked-food-criticized/ -
Fortified foods have been used for decades to combat nutrition-related diseases. Milk has been fortified with Vitamin D to combat rickets and bread is fortified with folic acid to prevent neural tube defects from occurring in fetuses.
I see nothing wrong with it, especially in a society that does not educate its populace regarding the most basic nutritional requirements of the human body.-
I think the issue we are talking about is the misapplication and marketing strategy that has led people to think eating a "candy bar pumped with caffeine and B vitamins, marketed as an "energy boost," is good for you.
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32484012/ns/health-diet_and_nutrition/ -
Not all people make that distinction...indeed, there are an awful lot of people around who think their food should be the way Mother Nature made it in the old days (from no genetic modification right up to and including no cooking) and put absolutely no faith in even the kind of fortification I mentioned.
Sadly, if one of these women gives birth to a child with spina bifida or her toddler develops rickets, I doubt they will acknowledge responsibility for failing to provide adequate nutrition since they think, by spurning modern medical technology, they are already doing that. -
I know but I dont' think that was the issue by the OP. sadly I think people are so ignorant about health and nutrition that they are not able to make a distinction you mention.
My uncle had rickets, so I am familiar with the subject, and had a good education in school about nutrition. there is a difference in understanding the importance of fortified milk and fortified candy bars and surgery drinks and cereals, yes? -
Yup. I also had a good education on the subject and I do free lance research and other work for a dietitian, so my knowledge is current. (I set up an indexed and cross referenced filing system for her last year...more than 2500 documents...and I had to at least skim each and every one so they could be correctly indexed and cross referenced...boy, did I learn a lot from that!)
But as you say, too many people are ignorant about health and nutrition and are not able to make these distinctions. But because of all of the junk science and specious logic (and wild-eyed conspiracy theories that foster distrust of the very institutions that do the research that tells us what is good and what is bad regarding foods out there, a lot of them THINK they know what is healthy for them and their families when, in fact, they are painfully ignorant and misled. To them, they are all the same and are therefore against them all, a very unhealthy and potentially dangerous approach. -
I get your point about dismissing them all!
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It seems then what should be communicated is "These functional foods are better than the non-functional ones" and not an alternative to health eating.
After all the consumers may be the same people who would binge on candy bars, pops and the high sugar food.
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