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The Industrialization of Eating: The Essential Transformations
- From whole foods to refined: a change toward increasingly refined foods (mostly carbohydrates)
- From complexity to simplicity: the industrialization of the food chain has involved a process of chemical and biological simplification
- From quality to quantity: not only we’re eating a whole lot more but we’re getting substantially less nutrition per calorie than we used to.
- From leaves to seeds: leaves provide a host of critical nutrients a body can’t get from a diet of refined seeds.
- From food culture to food science: the industrialization of food is deliberately undermining traditional food cultures everywhere.
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Eat The Food
- Don’t eat anything your great grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food
- Don’t eat anything that is incapable of rotting
- Avoid food products containing ingredients that are unfamiliar, hard to pronounce unpronounceable...
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Eat Mostly Plants
- Eat mostly plants, especially leaves
- Eat as many different kinds of plants as possible as they all have different antioxidants
- Plant foods—with the exception of seeds—are less energy-dense so you’ll likely consume fewer calories
- W...
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How to Eat
- Pay more, eat less. Better food costs more.
- Eat until you are 80% full. It takes 20 minutes before the brain gets the word that the belly is full. Eat slower and consult your sense of satiety
- Eat meals. Snack less
- Do all your
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Getting Over Nutritionism
To escape the Western diet and the ideology of nutritionism, we have only to stop eating and thinking that way.
- Instead of stressing over nutrients, just avoid any food that has been processed to such an extent that it is more the product of industry than of nature.
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The Continual Battle of One Nutrient Over Another
Nutritionism divides nutrients in food into healthy and unhealthy ones: good nutrients and bad. This ideology has a hard times making a qualitative distinctions between foods.
Fish, beef and chicken become in this case just delivery systems for varying quantities of f...
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The Rise of Nutritionism
- Nutritionism is not the same as nutrition. It is not a scientific subject but an ideology.
- Ideologies are ways of organizing large areas of life and experience under a set of shared but unexamined assumptions.
- For nutritionism
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