#Things to consider
- Eat mostly plants, especially leaves
- Food is not about nutritionism, food is a web of relationships. A carrot is more than its sum parts.
- 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.
- 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.
#Food sits in a context
Food sits in a context, it works differently depending on how you consume it. The carbohydrates in a bagel will be absorbed more slowly if the bagel is spread with peanut butter. Eating tomatoes with olive oil makes the lycopene they contain more available to the body.