Comments on: In Defense of Food http://criticalmas.com/2008/07/in-defense-of-food/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=in-defense-of-food Blog for Michael Allen Smith of Seattle Fri, 10 Feb 2012 17:20:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: Thinking About Supplements | Critical MAS http://criticalmas.com/2008/07/in-defense-of-food/#comment-5101 Thinking About Supplements | Critical MAS Wed, 01 Dec 2010 03:24:23 +0000 http://criticalmas.com/?p=617#comment-5101 [...] Are all supplements bad?  I don’t know.  My guess is there is more about nutrition that we don’t know than what we do.  There is a long history of supplements that were the rage that we now know are worthless.  Remember in the early 1990s how chromium picolinate was going to make us lean? Everything mankind has needed to survive has been found in food.  I don’t believe we are as smart as Mother Nature.  I’m not alone in this belief.  Michael Pollan wrote an entire book on this topic called In Defense of Food. [...] [...] Are all supplements bad?  I don’t know.  My guess is there is more about nutrition that we don’t know than what we do.  There is a long history of supplements that were the rage that we now know are worthless.  Remember in the early 1990s how chromium picolinate was going to make us lean? Everything mankind has needed to survive has been found in food.  I don’t believe we are as smart as Mother Nature.  I’m not alone in this belief.  Michael Pollan wrote an entire book on this topic called In Defense of Food. [...]

]]> By: MAS http://criticalmas.com/2008/07/in-defense-of-food/#comment-421 MAS Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:12:06 +0000 http://criticalmas.com/?p=617#comment-421 Stay out of the aisles I believe was a tip first put out in the Zone Diet book. Even though Dr. Sears got the caloric levels way too low, I believe he was one of the early pioneers to bring focus back on healthy food. At least for a while until they started their own food line and "nutrition" bars. Stay out of the aisles I believe was a tip first put out in the Zone Diet book.

Even though Dr. Sears got the caloric levels way too low, I believe he was one of the early pioneers to bring focus back on healthy food. At least for a while until they started their own food line and “nutrition” bars.

]]> By: dhammy http://criticalmas.com/2008/07/in-defense-of-food/#comment-420 dhammy Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:33:54 +0000 http://criticalmas.com/?p=617#comment-420 My favorite part of the book is the first part where he exposes nutritionism, nutrients, and nutritionists for the fraud that it all is. It still angers me when I see all those absurd labels on the boxes of packaged foods. One practical tip worth remembering to pass on to friends... when you're shopping at the grocery store stick to the outside isles. That's where the produce/meat/dairy are. Avoid the fraud of the inner-isles. My favorite part of the book is the first part where he exposes nutritionism, nutrients, and nutritionists for the fraud that it all is. It still angers me when I see all those absurd labels on the boxes of packaged foods.

One practical tip worth remembering to pass on to friends… when you’re shopping at the grocery store stick to the outside isles. That’s where the produce/meat/dairy are. Avoid the fraud of the inner-isles.

]]> By: Joe McCarthy http://criticalmas.com/2008/07/in-defense-of-food/#comment-419 Joe McCarthy Sun, 27 Jul 2008 16:48:38 +0000 http://criticalmas.com/?p=617#comment-419 Michael: thanks for the excellent review! I'd been trying to decide which of the two Pollan books to get for my wife; I now know to get the more recent one. I also appreciate your differentiation of motivations - it reminds me of Gerry Jampolsky's classic book "Love is Letting Go of Fear" in which he says we are always operating from one of two perspectives - love or fear. Others have used labels such as "abundance" and "scarcity". In any case, it's helpful [for me] to think about those two poles in the context of nutrition. Michael: thanks for the excellent review! I’d been trying to decide which of the two Pollan books to get for my wife; I now know to get the more recent one.

I also appreciate your differentiation of motivations – it reminds me of Gerry Jampolsky’s classic book “Love is Letting Go of Fear” in which he says we are always operating from one of two perspectives – love or fear. Others have used labels such as “abundance” and “scarcity”. In any case, it’s helpful [for me] to think about those two poles in the context of nutrition.

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