DIET 4415 Chapter Notes - Chapter all: Monounsaturated Fat, Western Pattern Diet, Michael Pollan
Document Summary
In defense of food, by michael pollan delves into the topic of nutritional orthodoxy at each time period. The nutritional science recommendations given are ever changing and contradicting each other as further discoveries are made. The food marketing scheme versus science developed by nutritionists makes it very difficult to determine what really is considered. To the extent that most of the nutrition advice given in recent years has actually been inaccurate and has made humans more unhealthy than before. This could be due to the fact that most of what we are eating is not really food anymore and is mainly composed of processed products. This could explain why many studies of other cultures have found the people to eat more freely than those of the western diet, but also to have much lower obesity and chronic disease rates than america does.
