{"id":242,"date":"2017-07-02T06:46:01","date_gmt":"2017-07-02T06:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/?p=242"},"modified":"2017-07-02T06:46:35","modified_gmt":"2017-07-02T06:46:35","slug":"is-it-possible-nutritionism-is-not-a-health-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/is-it-possible-nutritionism-is-not-a-health-movement\/","title":{"rendered":"Is It Possible Nutritionism is Not a Health Movement?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In Michael Pollan\u2019s book <em>In the Defense of Food<\/em>, his observation that people have become more sickly, more overweight, and less healthy since the inception of the social craze of nutritionism (81) is incredibly interesting. The opposite is suggested by the concept of nutrition, so how could this have happened? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">With a heavier focus on nutrition in society, or at least on how to divide foods into groups, it\u2019s as though compartmentalizing macronutrients into \u201cproteins\u201d, \u201cfats\u201d, and \u201ccarbs\u201d has assisted people in feeling as though they are living healthier while the opposite may be true (Pollan, 30). They may take in relatively the same amount of carbs and fats in a given day or week, yet think they are healthier because they don\u2019t realize how their bodies metabolize these groups . The way foods are metabolized must be considered when evaluating nutritional value of a food, and is different for everyone. While organizing food into groups of nutritious versus not nutritious, or even toxic, sounds like a good idea, it\u2019s quite possible that \u201ca whole food might be more than just the some of its parts\u201d (Pollan, 111), or a food that may not be suitable for one person is entirely appropriate for another\u2019s body. With that said, there are general rules to follow around eating, and no one should be inhaling sugars or simple carbs. Instead, we could focus on foods that give sustainable energy and not refined and processed foods that can be found in the middle of the supermarket. A return to a more traditional diet is Pollan\u2019s seemingly quite simple solution to a myriad of health concerns that have arisen in popular Western diets that, ironically, obsess over optimizing nutritional value. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Pollan, Michael.\u00a0<em>In Defense of Food<\/em><em>.\u00a0<\/em>Penguin Press. 2008: 30-111.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Michael Pollan\u2019s book In the Defense of Food, his observation that people have become more sickly, more overweight, and less healthy since the inception of the social craze of nutritionism (81) is incredibly interesting. The opposite is suggested by the concept of nutrition, so how could this have happened? With a heavier focus on nutrition in society, or at&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/is-it-possible-nutritionism-is-not-a-health-movement\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,21,22,23,7,5],"tags":[73,72,78,71,70,77,74,76,75,68],"class_list":["post-242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biodiversity","category-consumption","category-farming","category-food-movements","category-public-health","category-social-movements","tag-carbs","tag-fats","tag-lifestyle","tag-macronutrients","tag-michaelpollan","tag-processedfoods","tag-proteins","tag-refinedsugars","tag-supermarket","tag-westerndiet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":244,"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242\/revisions\/244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}