Sentences with word «nutritionism»

Due to the rise of nutritionism, the ideology perpetuated by the FDA and supported by the processed food lobbies, the constituents of whole foods that are vital for healthy functioning of the human body have been reduced to a small handful of nutritional components — macro & micronutrients.

Armed with our carrot peelers and apple corers, supported by each other here (and on other great blogs like It's Not About Nutrition, 100 Days of Real Food, Real Mom Nutrition, and Red, Round or Green), let's continue to do what we can to teach our kids the pleasures of real «real food,» and try to resist the easy out that nutritionism offers us.

The idea behind the Paleo diet is pretty cool - to eat in a way that is more consistent with the evolutionary needs of our genetic make - up, rather than the forces of industry or Western nutritionism.

That theme is partly Michael Pollan's influence, and he's been very critical of what's called nutritionism, basically reducing foods into their parts, like vitamin C and calories and fats.

I imagine that nutritionism really got going during the «low fat» craze of the 1970's where we imagined that we could explain the effects of all foods based on 3 macronutrients.

Even the beginner student of nutritionism will immediately spot several flaws: the focus was on» fat,» rather than on any particular food, like meat or dairy.

On this site, I'm not a big fan of the nutritionism approach to health.

This myopic, «nutritionism» approach led to some truly bizarre results, like the regular inclusion of animal crackers (aka, cookies) in our school breakfast program, added to meet the USDA iron requirement via their fortified white flour.

I greatly disliked the nutrient standard method, formerly used by my district, because it seemed to create an odd «nutritionism» approach — as when Houston kids were actually required to take a package of animal crackers every morning at breakfast for the iron contained in the fortified flour.

I addressed another study's similar findings back in July and my take is this: school meals may well be superior to home packed lunches from a «nutritionism» standpoint, in that every nutrient in school meals is analyzed and accounted for.

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She talked to many excellent sources for this piece, such as Bertrand Weber, Karen Le Billon and Chef Ann Cooper — but clearly she went into the exercise laboring under a false premise: she seems to think that our «nutritionism» culture is what's producing subpar school meals and that if we'd just apply more common sense to our diet, we'd suddenly see France's salmon lasagne on American school trays.

People aren't engaging in mindless «nutritionism» here; rather they are rightly quite pissed off to learn that their hamburger (and could there be a more iconic, treasured food in this country?)

Knowledge is power and in «In Defense of Food,» Pollan pushes back against the rise of nutritionism and the «lipid hypothesis,» (fat causes heart disease — no scientific research has ever proven this to be true, though it has pervaded our culture for nearly 30 years!).

Dr. Ancel Keys has been accused of many great nutritional crimes, but his greatest blunder was the inadvertent triumph of nutritionism.

This is nutritionism's greatest blunder.

But this sort of nutritionism is how avocados became classified as a «bad» food for years due to its high fat content only to the reclassified today as a superfood.

The second major problem was the inadvertent use of nutritionism.

In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan gives a guided tour of 20th century food science, a history of «nutritionism» in America and a look at the marriage of government and the food industry.

And Chris Forbes - Ewan wrote a great article for The Conversation that explained how «nutritionism» — eating based on individual nutrients — has confused the healthy eating message.