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Michael Pollan - Don't eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food · the Daily Quote - Positive Daily Inspiration and Motivational Quote of the Day

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  Dot com Welcome to the Daily Quote, a podcast designed to
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  kick start your day in a positive way.
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  I'm your host, Anna McGivern for October 29th.
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  Today is National Oatmeal Day, a celebration of one of the
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  world's most humble yet nutritious breakfast foods.
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  Observed annually on October 29th, this day honors a meal
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  that has been nourishing people for thousands of years, from
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  ancient civilizations to modern breakfast tables.
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  Oats were cultivated in ancient China as far back as 7000 BC.
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  Though ancient Romans initially dismissed them as weeds fit only
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  for horses, it was the Scots and Irish who truly embraced
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  oatmeal, making it a dietary staple.
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  When Scottish immigrants brought their love of porridge to North
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  America, oatmeal became an American breakfast classic.
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  The first commercial oatmeal mill opened in Akron, OH in the
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  1950s, and the Quaker Oats Company helped popularize
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  oatmeal nationwide with their iconic Quaker Man becoming one
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  of America's first registered trademarks in 1877.
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  What makes National Oatmeal Day special is its celebration of
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  simple, accessible nutrition. Oatmeal is loaded with soluble
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  fiber, can help lower cholesterol, provide steady
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  energy, and cost just pennies per serving.
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  It's comfort food that actually is good for you.
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  That brings us to today's quote from food activist Michael
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  Pollan, who once said don't eat anything your great grandmother
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  wouldn't recognize as food. Pollan's wisdom about eating
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  real, recognizable food captures exactly what makes oatmeal
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  worthy of celebration. Your great grandmother would
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  definitely recognize a bowl of oatmeal.
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  In fact, she probably ate it regularly.
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  Unlike many modern breakfast foods loaded with artificial
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  ingredients and unpronounceable additives, oatmeal is simply
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  oats. That's it.
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  One ingredient. Real food.
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  Think about what this means. In our world of complicated food
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  labels and processed everything, oatmeal represents a return to
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  basics, to food that doesn't need a chemistry degree to
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  understand. You can actually trace oatmeal
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  back to its source, a field of oats harvested and processed
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  minimally. Your great grandmother cooked it
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  the same way you do today. Add water or milk, apply heat,
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  and eat. Pollen's philosophy reminds us
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  that the best nutrition often comes from the simplest foods.
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  Oatmeal doesn't need to be fortified or enhanced or
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  engineered. It's already packed with the
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  nutrients nature put there. It's been sustaining humans for
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  millennia precisely because it needs no improvement.
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  National Oatmeal Day celebrates this return to real food, to
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  simplicity, to meals our ancestors would recognize and
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  approve of. So today, embrace the spirit of
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  National Oatmeal Day and Pollen's wisdom about real food.
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  Have a bowl of oatmeal today. Make it from actual oats, not a
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  packet full of sugar and artificial flavors.
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  Keep it as simple as possible, but also think about Pollen's
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  broader message. Where else in your life could
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  you benefit from returning to basics?
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  What modern complications could you strip away in favor of
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  simple, recognizable, time tested approaches?
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  Remember, your great grandmother's food wisdom kept
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  her generation healthy. Maybe there's something to learn
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  from the simple fact that a bowl of plain oatmeal has nourished
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  humans for thousands of years. That's going to do it for today.
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  I'm Andrew McGivern, signing off for now, but I'll be back
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  tomorrow. Same pod time, same pod station
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  with another daily quote.