What is Real Food?

I'm reading this very thought provoking book by Nina Planck. Chicken with skin, potatoes with butter and milk --is this the diet that nature intended? I hope so because I love eating real food!

Here is an interesting study that she follows: In 1939, a Canadian dentist named Weston Price published "Nutrition and Physical Degeneration," a work of nutritional anthropology that purported to show why isolated cultures had no tooth decay and less arthritis, diabetes, cancer and heart disease than people living in industrialized nations. All 12 communities that Price studied - including dairy farmers in Switzerland's Loetschental Valley, Maoris in New Zealand and Indians in Peru - had one thing in common: They ate whole foods uncontaminated by sugar, refined flour or hydrogenated oils. Its an interesting read. As I learn more I will share more.