Nikola Tesla Quotes
There is no doubt that some plant food, such as oatmeal, is more economical than meat, and superior to it in regard to both mechanical and mental performance. Such food, moreover, taxes our digestive organs decidedly less, and, in making us more contented and sociable, produces an amount of good difficult to estimate.
Tesla, Nikola. "The Problem of Increasing Human Energy." Century Illustrated Magazine, vol. 60, no. 2, June 1900, p. 177.
When nutritionists like Dr. Ludwig advocated for whole grain food in the diet, and American consumers started eating more of it, food processors and manufacturers started using the term for a wide range of food that involved grains, many of which were unhealthy. The FDA regulations were too lax and soon the term "whole grain" was being used for very healthy and very unleathy food--a little whole grain and a huige amount of sugar for example was margeted as "whole grain" but was very unhealthy. Often whole gran in small amounts were combined with the traditional milled flour and called "whole grain".
When nutritionists advocated for whole grain food in the diet, and American consumers started eating more of it, food processors and manufacturers started using the term for a wide range of food that involved grains, many of which were unhealthy. The FDA regulations were too lax and soon the term "whole grain" was being used for very healthy and very unleathy food--a little whole grain and a huige amount of sugar for example was margeted as "whole grain" but was very unhealthy. Often whole gran in small amounts were combined with the traditional milled flour and called "whole grain".
An often cited quote from his original article “Unhappy Meals” (see citation) published in the New York Times Magazine in 2007. The article spawned a subsequent book entitled “In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto“ in 2008.
Nikola Tesla was a Serbian-American inventor, electrical engineer, mechanical engineer, and futurist best known for his contributions to the design of the modern alternating current (AC) electricity supply system.
