Ironically it is the increased focus on nutrition, what Pollan calls nutritionism, that is largely responsible for our current plight.
I doubt that.
Nutritionism is the selection of food based on its nutrition label.
Most people don't look at the nutrition label.
Yes, I look at those labels. But I mainly pay attention to sodium, which I try to keep down.
3. Avoid foods with any ingredients you can't pronounce.
If we follow the implied suggestion of not reading the nutrition label, we probably won't run into names that we can't pronounce.
One thing he mentioned in his book that I didn't already know and that scared me is that the nutrition levels in our food have dropped.
If diet soda is counted as food, then this would not be much of a surprise.
Color me unimpressed.
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