Saturday, February 16, 2008

Michael Pollan was right

I recently finished Michael Pollan's In Defense of Food in which he surmises that 'food' is now second to nutrition, or as he calls 'nutritionism.' Nutritionism is the notion that "scientifically identified nutrients in foods that determine their value."And according to Michale Pollan, this nutritionism has changed the way food is made, market and consume all to the detriment to our health. I ran into this at our local grocery store when I was able to reach for a quart of orange juice and realized that orange juice is no longer just orange juice. I can purchase it with Vitamin D, with Calcium or Vitamin AND calcium. Ouch! and that was just the beggining...I noticed now you can purchased orange juice with Omega-3 fatty acid...yummy, nothing like fishy orange juice.

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