Michael Pollan — On the Mistaken Belief of Nutritionism

From the archives: journalist and author, Michael Pollan, explains how Americans have come to view food through the lens of nutritionism that he references from his book, "In Defense Of Food". As Pollan explains in this 2008 talk, we often think of food from a single perspective, our personal health, but there are other reasons equally important that we sometimes forget. As he points out, there are other odd things about our relationship with food, our familiarity with nutrients like omega-3 fatty acids or resveratrol, as examples. Why do we know so much food chemistry when in almost all other aspects of our daily lives, we know so correspondingly little? Pollan is a master at revealing deeper meaning in ordinary things we take for granted.

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