By Gyorgy Scrinis
ISBN-10: 1743434480
ISBN-13: 9781743434482
Nutritionism: The technological know-how and politics of nutritional advice
Gyorgy Scrinis
Allen & Unwin, 2013 - digital books - 368 pages
Demystifies the preferred obsession with 'good' as opposed to 'bad' foodstuff, displaying how this can be utilized by the nutrition to advertise processed meals with deceptive future health claims. Gyorgy Scrinis explores the origins of this reductive specialize in food, and the way it will probably undermine our knowing of what's fit and dangerous nutrition.
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Nutritional categories, such as protein and carbs, are themselves abstract concepts—they abstract from the characteristics of particular types of foods as they present themselves to our unaided senses. These abstract nutritional categories also cut across the distinctions among types of foods 64 and food groups, such as between plant and animal foods, and between whole and highly processed foods, in the sense that all of these foods are encountered as just different combinations of nutrients. While this more abstract nutrient level of engagement with food gives us new insights into food composition and quality, at the same time it potentially conceals other (more concrete) perspectives or levels of understanding and engaging with food.
These experts can be distinguished from the scientists and dieticians in the direct employ of food companies, 55 the promoters of popular weight-loss diet books, and other parties that either lack the requisite qualifications or have direct financial interests in promoting food products or dietary supplements. While nutritionism has been the dominant paradigm framing expert research and dietary discourses since the nineteenth century, nutrition experts do not equally adopt or embrace all aspects of this paradigm.
They have also directed the nutritional gaze at—and increasingly within—the body, which is encountered and measured in terms of a number of internal and external biomarkers, such as blood cholesterol levels, blood pressure, blood sugar, insulin, and body mass index (BMI). However, nutricentric individuals have also increasingly adopted the nutritional gaze, often employing this gaze when wandering down the aisles of a supermarket, scanning the nutrient-contents claims on food labels. Most of us are now nutricentric individuals to a certain degree.
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