why we stopped talking about food, and started talking about nutrients and.that much dietary advice offered today is based on little more than hypotheses.In this summary of In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan, you’ll learn: In this book summary, you’ll learn that it’s possible to escape the dominant dietary approach that nutritionism has become, and develop instead a more traditional and healthier way of eating. The result is that we need nutritionists to interpret the ingredients labels of the food products we fill our shopping carts with. The rise of nutritionism has also made it difficult for consumers to distinguish truly healthy foods from those that merely claim to be so. Indeed, the industrialization of food and the Western diet are the principal reason for the large number of chronic heart diseases in the Western world. The effect of this diet on our health has been nothing less than astounding. This led to what we now call the Western diet – a diet made up of mainly processed foods, stripped of their original nutrients, and repackaged as “healthy” alternative food products. In the past 50 years or so, a whole industry has developed around the idea of nutritionism – an approach to eating based not on food, but on nutrients. Why would we need any help in choosing which food to put into our bodies? We all recognize food when we see it.
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