#Things to consider
- Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. That, more or less, is the short answer to the supposedly incredibly complicated and confusing question of what we humans should eat in order to be maximally healthy.
- The belief that a food can be divided into its constituents. These could then be categorized as good and bad nutrients. Through this lens it’s not the actual food that’s good or bad, but rather the nutrients it consists of. It’s questionable whether the ideology of nutritionism is actually any good for you.
- Food is not about nutritionism, food is a web of relationships. A carrot is more than its sum parts.
- The history of modern nutritionism has been a history of macronutrients at war—protein against carbs, carbs against proteins and then fats, fats against carbs. Nutritionism has organized most of its energies around an imperial nutrient—protein in the nineteenth century, fat in the twentieth, and it looks like carbs will occupy our attention in the twenty-first.
- Foods that lie to our senses are one of the most challenging features of the Western diet.