{"id":509,"date":"2018-04-15T01:21:57","date_gmt":"2018-04-15T01:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/?p=509"},"modified":"2018-04-15T01:21:57","modified_gmt":"2018-04-15T01:21:57","slug":"eating-nutrients-instead-of-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/2018\/04\/15\/eating-nutrients-instead-of-food\/","title":{"rendered":"Eating Nutrients Instead of Food"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the last 50 years, the amount that the world knows about what comprises food has grown exponentially with each passing year, but I don\u2019t think anyone knew what exactly would happen because of it. It is easy, for me at least, to imagine when people only ate foods because they knew that for some reason or another they kept them alive better than a different item. Today, especially in advertising, it seems that companies are selling their own versions of specific foods and meals that have been \u201cidealized\u201d in a lab to contain the perfect number of macronutrients and such to make the person eating it healthier. I thought that it was interesting how quickly America, and to some extent the world, went from eating what they always had, to needing to know exactly what was in every bite of food that they put in their bodies.<\/p>\n

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Along with the change in knowledge came a change in production, with over 60% of the US population being involved in farming to less than 2% in the same time frame that all of these new parts of foods and the human diet were being discovered. I believe that this is possibly due to an increase in food manufacturing in place of classical agriculture and farming practices once people realized they could more or less grow things exactly how they wanted to in a lab or factory now that it was known what makes up any given food object, instead of relying on natural processes to grow anything. Along with changing how agriculture functioned, farmers now engineer diets that result in more favorable macros and qualities in meat from livestock. In the end, it is important to notice how misleading scientific reductionism can be to uninformed people, especially since the labels of products have to weave around specific regulations to be legal to print but still say what the producers think will sell the most.<\/p>\n

Here is a short video about how to navigate a grocery store, properly read labels, and pick the best foods for you! https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qr3PraBPKOU<\/p>\n

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