No more quinoa!
- eefjegrinsven
- 29 apr 2015
- 2 minuten om te lezen
So don’t get me wrong, I am all about a healthy lifestyle. But please stop with overdoing it! You are not going to die if you let yourself go sometimes with chocolate or french fries.
Last week I wanted to cook for my friends, just an easy quick meal so I don’t have to stand in the kitchen all the time and miss all the fun. Only thing is, in this time the time that everyone is on a special diet, has an allergie, can’t have gluten there is no possible way to find a meal wich fits for everybody. Besides a salad and some tomatoes.
Then I read the article: Stop with giving your children only super food.
Parents are deleting foods of the menu like milk, bread and butter. But if you are a child in growth you need these things to grow up healthy. A child that eats too little, is not able tot hink clearly. We live in the west and now there is a problem of children who are underfed. Underfed while we waste tons of food. We have enough food for everyone and a suited diet is no problem but we got to be awared we don’t strikethrough.
An example of these superfoods is quinoa. Quinoa is a massive crop that for millennia has honed its extraterrestrial nutritional powers in the dizzying altitudes of the Andes. In recent years, this curious substance—like coke before it—has also become a major export for Peru and Bolivia.
Quinoa is known to Andean folks as the “lost crop of the Incas,” as well as a “miracle grain” for its near-holy amino-acid balance. But then, suddenly, rich people in other countries, including the Netherlands, some of whom have shifted their taste from white powder to this other intoxicant measured in grams, wanted to sample the latest Bolivian miracle. So we enriched many farmers by buying up the quinoa—and further impoverished the Andeans, by dooming them to malnutrition.
This is a good example of strikethrough. I think we in the west do not know our boundries. If we think we have the golden ticket we just buy everything out. It is so greedy to have the thought of having less. We need to get our foodchain balanced again so not only we profit from food out of other countries but also these farmers will have a profit out of our foodchain.

Source:
http://www.foodinspiration.nl/article/2015-01-30-fris-the-bacon-bar
http://www.upcoming.nl/ditisdesteven/10980/zo-zien-nederlandse-verpakkingen-eruit-als-ze-eerlijk-zouden-zijn-over-de-inhoud
http://nos.nl/artikel/2020561-gezond-eten-en-toch-ondervoed-raken.html
http://www.parool.nl/parool/nl/34/ETEN-DRINKEN/article/detail/3871688/2015/02/23/Foodsnobs-van-Amsterdam-trap-niet-in-al-die-verpakkingstrucs.dhtml
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=566791096793553&set=a.111023625703638.12706.100003880043999&type=1&theater
http://thecreatorsproject.vice.com/nl/blog/het-gluten-free-museum-is-het-antwoord-op-alles?utm_source=tcpfbnl
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