Michael Pollan on Nutritionism

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Longish essay but well worth reading, I think.  Save a copy if you don't want to read it right off, it's the New York Times.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/28/magazine/28nutritionism.t.html

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Well, I think you're a freak case. Low carb foods didn't hit the market out of medical concern with your digestive problems but out of another nutrionist fad; that it helped you is lucky for you, but kind of random. He's concerned with whether the Atkins diet fad did what it claimed it could do, improve the cardiac health and life for most people. He might also posit that you were surrounded by high-carb choices before because of the prior low-fat fad. And that a more traditional food culture might have had a wider variety of low-processed foods for you to choose from.