Posted by kathryn in A Balanced Diet and Food & Health Myths

In last week’s Q & A Thursday, I included a link to a podcast interview with Barry Glassner. He’s the author of two books: The Culture of Fear and The Gospel of Food. One of Barry’s central ideas is that we worry about the wrong things. For various reasons, we get topics out of perspective and end up worrying about big scale problems and not seeing the day-to-day risks.

I see this every day in the health arena:

• where people worry about trans fats, when, here in Australia, saturated fats are much more of a problem.
• when there’s so much talk of superfoods and money spent on expensive items, when all you need to do is eat your daily vegie quota.
• when clients obsess about the minutiae of the diet, while still smoking a packet of cigarettes a day.
• when people worry so much about the right sort of exercise, rather than just getting out there and moving

Thanks again to Andrew, for originally forwarding the podcast URL to me.

21 August, 2007