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Quotation of the Day for November 12, 2009"People respond to the economics of food choices. Lab scientists aren't able to handle this concept--for them, talking about the price of food is taboo--but it's extremely important. Americans spend about three dollars and seventy-five cents a day on food that they eat at home. They can eat pizza at about a thousand calories a dollar, or Oreo cookies at about twelve hundred calories a dollar. M&M's, at about three thousand calories per dollar, are a huge bargain. Spinach is about thirty calories a dollar, not a bargain. And don't even think about lettuce or cucumbers or tomatoes or, heaven forbid, strawberries--by comparison, those foods are a rip-off! Nutrition educators tell us how to eat, but they don't give us the money to change our behavior. Given that people don't really want to spend more on food, I don't see that they have any choice here . . . the choice is really made for them. Rats in a lab have a choice. But humans are constrained by costs." - Adam Drewnowski, Director of the Nutritional Sciences Program and Professor of Epidemiology and Medicine at the University of Washington in Seattle. Drewnowski was quoted in The Hungry Gene by Ellen Ruppel Shell. Submitted by: Terry Labach Nov. 9, 2009 |
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