{"id":253,"date":"2017-07-03T04:26:21","date_gmt":"2017-07-03T04:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/?p=253"},"modified":"2017-07-06T06:20:11","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T06:20:11","slug":"got-milk-anyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385\/got-milk-anyone\/","title":{"rendered":"Got Milk, Anyone?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was a child of a single father whose signature dishes included boxed mac\u2019 and cheese with hotdogs and ramen noodle stir-fry. McDonald dinners were a regular occurrence. I carried this diet into my young adulthood. After taking a nutrition class during my first year in college, I was dismayed to find that most of what I considered food was actually a processed, Frankenstein-esque edible creation meant to mimic food. Artificial flavors and colorings enhance the appeal of meals laced with additives and preservatives to manufacture the sensation of a tasty dish. Thus began my quest to rebuke the diet of my childhood and eat healthy. The problem is that the definition of \u201chealthy\u201d eating changes constantly. Michael Pollan, author of In Defense of Food, <\/i>calls this confusion about what is or isn\u2019t good for the human body \u201cnutritionism\u201d. By reducing the definition of a proper diet down to finding the the right combination of nutrients, the distinction between real and processed food becomes irrelevant. Yet, as our societies fixation on nutritionism intensifies, so does the frequency of diseases related to diet like diabetes, cancer, and heart disease. As more people around us become ill, our search for the healthy food options becomes more frantic, thus creating a feedback loop that fuels the creation of more processed foods that hopefully hold the key to wellness.\u00a0 <\/span>Pollan argues that this \u201cage of nutritionism\u201d is profitable for many industries at the expense of the consumer. Because of this, the latest, supposedly scientific claims of what we should eat cannot be trusted without scrutiny. His solution to the question of the human diet is to \u201cEat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.\u201d\u2014sounds simple, right? I\u2019ll let you know how it goes.<\/span><\/p>\n

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National Milk Processor Education Program. Rebecca Romijn Stamos Times Square Milk Advertisement<\/i>. 1999. http:\/\/www.vintageadbrowser.com\/got-milk-ads-1990s\/7<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Pollan, Michael. In Defense of Food : an Eater’s Manifesto.<\/i> New York :Penguin Press, 2008. Kindle edition.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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