Using Food as Information to Improve Health and Well-Being (opens in new tab)

Modern nutrition science has continued to see food through numbers. Calories, macronutrients, ingredient lists, and percent daily values have become the primary language of eating. This approach, often referred to as “nutritionism,” assumes that the effects of the food we consume can be understood by breaking it down into isolated components and optimizing those components. If More The post Using Food as Information to Improve Health and Well-Being appeared first on CounterPunch.org.