Annotations

Annotations for “In Defense of Food”

Introduction (1-17)

4. Argument, “Today in America the culture of food is changing more than once a generation, which is historically unprec- edented—and dizzying”. Our food is changing more rapidly then our generation for the worse.

8. “As long as humans have been taking meals together, eating has been as much about culture as it has been about biology”

9. Argument, “We are becoming a nation of orthorexics: people with an unhealthy obsession with healthy eating”. We are blinded by focusing on our physical appearances rather then the nutrients in our foods that are making us unhealthy.

10. Counter argument, “Maybe it's time we confronted the American paradox: a notably unhealthy population preoccupied with nutrition and diet and the idea o f eating healthily”

10. Evidences that supports the change in our food system. “Four of the top ten causes of death today are chronic diseases with well-established links to diet: coronary heart disease, diabetes, stroke, and cancer”

10. These changes have given us the Western diet that we take for granted: lots of processed foods and meat, lots of added fat and sugar, lots of everything—except vegetables, fruits, and whole grains.

13. letting the scientists decide the menu would be a mistake. They simply do not know enough (13). Implying to reduction scientists.

The Age of Nutritionism (19-81)

CH 1: “From Foods to Nutrients” (19-27)

19. Foods disappearing from supermarket, replaced by so called nutrients, which aren’t the same thing.

20. Evidence provided, Liebig’s develops the first baby formula, consisting of cows milk, wheat flour, malted flour, and potassium bicarbonate. Doctors began to notice its missing nutrients.

22. Evidence provided, In 1977 reports of an alarming increase in chronic diseases linked to diet—including heart disease, cancer, obesity, and diabetes.

23. First dietary guidelines introduced which encouraged Americans to cut down on their...