http://www.slowfoodseacoast.org/category/blog/2007/01/eat-food-not-too-much-mostly-plants/ Educating about and celebrating good, clean, and fair food. Fri, 18 May 2012 04:09:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://www.slowfoodseacoast.org/category/blog/2007/01/eat-food-not-too-much-mostly-plants/comment-page-1/#comment-6 Peter Bixby Mon, 05 Feb 2007 20:32:00 +0000 http://www.slowfoodseacoast.org/2007/01/eat-food-not-too-much-mostly-plants/#comment-6 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. 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.

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