28
Jan
Eat Food. Not Too Much. Mostly Plants.
This is Michael Pollan’s recommendation in today’s New York Times Magazine. In this piece, “Unhappy Meals,” Pollan argues that a whole foods approach is healthiest, despite decades of politically-influenced nutrition science and the proliferation of processed foods making health claims. A good, provocative read!
Tags: sustainability
Peter Bixby
Pollen does an excellent job tracing some of our (I use the term “our” loosely) current American attitudes towards food and nutrition to a mixture of political, commercial, and scientific forces. He coins the term nutritionism to identify our nation fetish for breaking food down into individual nutrients that go through cycles of stardom and notoriety. While the nation obsesses about particular nutrients, the fact that whole foods are healthiest gets ignored because it is neither sexy nor profitable.