{"id":656,"date":"2018-04-15T04:56:46","date_gmt":"2018-04-15T04:56:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/?p=656"},"modified":"2018-04-15T04:56:46","modified_gmt":"2018-04-15T04:56:46","slug":"how-has-nutritionism-impacted-the-way-i-eat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/2018\/04\/15\/how-has-nutritionism-impacted-the-way-i-eat\/","title":{"rendered":"How Has Nutritionism Impacted the Way I Eat?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During one of the first quiz sections we discussed the question, how has nutritionism impacted the way you eat? To put it shortly, it hasn\u2019t had any real effect on the way I eat. My parents emigrated to the U.S. from South Korea before I was born, thus, I grew up eating traditional Korean meals. Luckily, there was a large enough Asian community here in Washington so they could find the ingredients necessary to sustain our traditional eating habits. Going through the American school system I did learn about nutrients and what not in health classes, but it never really factored into my personal life as I wasn\u2019t the one cooking or buying groceries.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_663\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-663\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-663\" src=\"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Takeout-300x181.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"181\" srcset=\"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Takeout-300x181.jpg 300w, https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Takeout-768x463.jpg 768w, https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Takeout-1024x618.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Takeout-624x376.jpg 624w, https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385s18\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Takeout.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-663\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: Topic Images Inc.\/Getty Images<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Coming to college, you would imagine that my degree of caring about nutrition would increase as now I am in a situation where I need to cook and buy groceries for myself, but that wasn\u2019t\/isn\u2019t the case. The reason is that, since I grew up in a situation where nutrients and nutritional values weren\u2019t expressly discussed\/emphasized, I came to recognize whole foods as being healthy (or unhealthy) rather than looking and judging by the nutrition information provided.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, after learning about nutrition (prior to this class) my position on the field has been that it is really just a guideline to use as reference if I wanted to change my eating habits not something to build my eating habits off of. This position has been reinforced even more after reading Michael Pollen\u2019s, <em>In Defense of Food, <\/em>as he severely critiques the nutrition field throughout the book.<\/p>\n<p>In a broader context, I certainly think that what nutritionism sets out to do is important. However, I strongly believe that emphasizing singular nutrients, with minimal understanding of the whole food, is not the way to achieve what nutritionism sets out to accomplish.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During one of the first quiz sections we discussed the question, how has nutritionism impacted the way you eat? To put it shortly, it hasn\u2019t had any real effect on the way I eat. My parents emigrated to the U.S. from South Korea before I was born, thus, I grew up eating traditional Korean meals. 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