Cooking Light picks 5 healthy food trends

by Bob Sassone, Posted Oct 2nd 2007 @ 2:34PM

I don't eat as healthy as I should (the entire bag of Dove milk chocolate I ate last night is proof of that), but I'm always looking at ways to make my diet a lot better.

Cooking Light has picked five healthy food trends that you might want to follow. I've heard of most of them, though Flexitarianism is a new term to me, even though I would say many American's follow this without even know it. It's when a person eats a diet that's mostly grains, vegetables, and fruit, with a little meat, fish, poultry, and dairy mixed in too. Functional Foods are foods that are enriched with more nutrients, such as orange juice with calcium. We know what Organic Food, Locally Grown Foods, and Vegetarianism represent, but are you familiar with Slow Food? I first heard this term a few years ago (and there have been books written about it and it's a growing movement). It's choosing locally grown food, cooking it in traditional ways and then eating it with family, something that a lot of families don't do nowadays. Whenever I hear the term I think "food that's not cooked in a microwave," though I doubt that's the real definition.

Filed Under: Trends, Stores & Shopping, Light Food, Health & Medical
Tags: flexitarianism, healthy diet, healthy eating, healthy food, HealthyEating, light food, locally grown food, LocallyGrownFood, organic food, OrganicFood, slow food, stores-and-shopping, vegetarianism

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10-03-2007 @12:47AM Adam said... For any folks that don't know it, here's a decent explanation:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_Food

Everybody has a different take on Slow Food, but I think the most important thing is to remember that our own actions are the biggest enablers to our food environment.

That is, if you hate the fact that local diners and interesting mom-and-pop places keep disappearing, make a conscious choice to take TGIFridays and McD's off your menu.

Vote with your dollars. Take an extra five minutes to buy local, organic, and unprocessed -- and see how quickly our wonderful free-market economy breaks the petroleum / chemical / factory farm stranglehold!
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