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To: TimF who wrote (265163)	5/30/2008 9:52:10 PM
From: geode00	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

The availability of ethnic foods is not a product of the food industry but a product of global events like WWII, the ease of travel and immigration. Even with that, I doubt that the Chinese food in your local eatery is recognizable as Chinese food by the Chinese eating a traditional diet. Also, the ingredients that go into those various preparations are still the same which is Pollan's point. Food is an industrial product in the US for the most part. It may be changing as more people become frightened by just what they are eating and what they are feeding their children. He says to eat whole foods, east mostly the leaves of plants rather than the seeds, eat as close to the source as possible, don't eat any product with more than five ingredients, don't eat anything with high fructose corn syrup and don't eat too much. That is harder to do than it sounds. This is 'variety' but it is not an improvement over what went on before: menshealth.com