Dcomedieta has read and today reviews for you the book of the journalist Sabrina Giannini. Sent for the Report program, and now host of the television program “Guess who’s coming to dinner”, Sabrina Giannini has just published a book, ” The revolution in the plate ” (published by Sperling), where she reveals what lies behind many of the foods that we bring to our table every day.

And it does so by addressing some topics.
Because industrial food makes us addict; what lies behind the success of palm oil; the truth about the aromas of industrial products; the pollution of Italian rice fields; counterfeit honey; the conditions of salmon farming in Northern Europe; the conditions of the farms that have only the name of sustainable; the egg product; the problem of hybrid seeds, used to give us fruit and vegetables that are palatable to the eye but unhealthy.

A book that in my opinion should be read, to be informed about what we bring to our tables every day and about food fraud. But also a book that has aroused many perplexities. Here I explain what I think.

THE REVOLUTION IN THE DISH
THE CHOC BOOK OF THE JOURNALIST SABRINA GIANNINI

The book is really very interesting, but already from the first pages I read a sentence that leaves me perplexed.
In fact, Giannini writes:

It does not matter if a Harvard research shows that a sample of women monitored for forty years has
a higher frequency of hand fractures directly proportional to the consumption of milk. What
matters is to evoke any study, so it is not the practice to ask the expert on duty who financed that
research.

Interested, I’m going to read this Harvard research. And I am left baffled because the 1996 Harvard research, which is funded by the United States Department of Agriculture, does not say that in women there is a link between fractures of the forearm (not the hand) and consumption of milk. He says that in women there would be a link, inferred from not too accurate questionnaires (in some years there was a questionnaire every two years), between the consumption of proteins and a greater number of fractures in the forearm .
Particularly in women who consume 5 or more servings of meat per week.
Going to see the nutrients the women were taking in according to the researchers, even when the women were getting more calcium, they also ate an overdose of foods that contained phosphorus.
Which in the study was found to be more than double the calcium taken daily.

So if anything it’s the other way around. These women did NOT consume a lot of dairy products, as from milk to each dairy product, there is a greater intake of calcium than phosphorus. And in general it is important that the calcium in the diet is always equal to the phosphorus.

Among the foods rich only in phosphorus and not in calcium, we find white fish, seeds, breakfast cereals, cereals and legumes. But let’s go ahead and see the discourse on addiction to industrial foods, which to entice the consumer, are made up of sugar, fat and salt, in such a way as to increase their palatability