nutritionism

This chapter on eating patterns provides a nice counterpoint to the reductionism -- what Michael Pollan calls "nutritionism" -- of scientific discussion of diet and health.

The Media Consortium: Weekly Pulse: 911 Is a Joke (Because It's Broke) The Media Consortium 2011

This chapter on eating patterns provides a nice counterpoint to the reductionism -- what Michael Pollan calls "nutritionism" -- of scientific discussion of diet and health.

The Media Consortium: Weekly Pulse: 911 Is a Joke (Because It's Broke) The Media Consortium 2011

This chapter on eating patterns provides a nice counterpoint to the reductionism -- what Michael Pollan calls "nutritionism" -- of scientific discussion of diet and health.

The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com The Media Consortium 2011

In his In Defense of Food, Michael Pollan pretty much debunked the tenets of what he called "nutritionism" - the idea that human nutrition could be reduced to a set of macronutrients (vitamin A, the B vitamins, etc.), which could then be isolated and fed to be people to keep them healthy.

Grist - the Latest from Grist 2009

What really galls me about Healthy Choice is what it represents: the triumph of "nutritionism," that dubious dietary trend skewered by Michael Pollan in his bestseller In Defense of Food.

Kerry Trueman: Nutritionism: The Numbers Game That Doesn't Add Up To Good Health 2009

In these humble lumps of protoplasm, Pollan sees salvation from the tyranny of "nutritionism" — the reductive science of identifying nutrients and adding them one by one to "fortify" industrial food products.

Finding Meaning in Each Mouthful 2008

Echoes of Michael Pollan's warning against the evil of "nutritionism," the ideology that sees food only as the sum total of its nutrients.

RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2008

We have come to look upon "nutritionism" as a valid means of determining (healthy) value in our diet; food has been reduced to its composition of good and bad nutrients, but are we really eating healthier?

WN.com - Articles related to Food addiction 101: What is food addiction? 2010

The most starkly illustrative point Pollan made about the art of "nutritionism", as he called it, is that it is such a relatively new discipline:

TreeHugger 2010

What really galls me about Healthy Choice is what it represents: the triumph of "nutritionism," that dubious dietary trend skewered by Michael Pollan in his bestseller

EATING LIBERALLY - 2009

“Food as fuel” -- the phrase can be a warning signal that what you're about to hear or see or be sold is “nutritionism,” the reduction of food to its macro- and micro-nutritional components.

"Food as Fuel": On Energy Gels Audrey Watters 2024