Chiropractic Blog

I’d seen it on the shelves before, but it wasn’t until contemplating my 33-hour flight to Perth, Australia last week that I picked up a copy of In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan. The author takes on the reductionistic thinking of our culture and the food industry, offering up a word that I had never heard before: nutritionism. What the food industry has done, according to Pollan, is to reduce food to its nutrient parts—selling its antioxidant qualities, Vitamin C content, low fat characteristic or any other component with sales appeal. The thinking behind nutritionism is not unlike the folly of the medical model which looks at the health of the body by studying deficient organs or systems rather than the whole person. In Defense of Food will affirm what you already know and give you a fresh new perspective when sitting down to your next meal.

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