09 June 2010

ANDI Scores are idiocracy.

I'm sure many of you have seen these ANDI scores at Whole Foods.  While I'm sure they help Whole Foods sell a lot of kale, they are absolutely scummy, much like the whole vitamin business.  A business is a business and selling more veggies and less olive oil has its rewards, but it can't help remind me of the movie Idiocracy, where the whole world starves because they water all the plants with Gatorade because it has electrolytes instead of water.  Nutrient loading and overloading will not reverse disease or prevent aging, but likely do the opposite and create imbalances.  

3 comments:

quarrygirl said...

wait, i'm seriously confused. can you explain more?

i thought kale was good! what's wrong w/ eating by those scores? i haven't even SEEN the scores....but i am assuming they are part of the HSH initiative? which i thought was good....?

HALP!

Lex said...

the HSH initiative also has feta cheese :) Its a compromise left up to individual stores. I'm happy for it, but the ANDI bit is pure crap. It makes no difference if you eat the lowest ANDI score plants or the highest. A healthy diet of starches has all the nutrients you need and more. There is no need to break the wallet buying expensive stuff under the guise that more nutrients = greater health, its purely not the case. Eating plant food over animal products = greater health. It isn't about what we put in our bellies, its about what we don't put in. I honestly think eating according to ANDI will result in nutritional imbalances from overloading on things we don't need.

quarrygirl said...

okaaaaaaay, i see what you are saying now!

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