IDOF - Intro

Question 1

What is the eater’s manifesto that Pollan puts forth?

Answer 1

Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.

pg.1

Question 2

Who benefits from complicated eating?

Answer 2

32 billion food marketing machine

constantly shifting ground of nutrition science

pg.4

Question 3

In Pollan’s mind, ‘nutritionism’ has convinced the general public of 3 myths. what are they?

Answer 3

1. institutional imperatives of the food industry
2. nutrition science
3. journalism
   pg. 6

Question 4

What is orthorexia? Have you witnessed this first-hand? What is the irony of orthorexia in North America?

Answer 4

meaning people with an unhealthy obsession with healthy eating.

american paradox: a notably unhealthy population preoccupied with nutrition and diet and te idea of eating healthy

Question 5

What is orthorexia? Have you witnessed this first-hand? What is the irony of orthorexia in North America?

Answer 5

meaning people with an unhealthy obsession with healthy eating.

american paradox: a notably unhealthy population preoccupied with nutrition and diet and the idea of eating healthy

pg.9

Question 6

What are 4 industrialized food practices does Pollan link to chronic diseases that kill humans?

Answer 6

1. the rise of highly processed foods and refined grains
2. the use of chemicals to raise plants and animal in huge monocultures
3. the superabundance of cheap calories of sugar and fat produced by modern agriculture
4. the narrowing of the biological diversity of the human diet to a tiny handful of staple crops (wheat, corn and soy)

the chronic diseases are: coronary heart disease, diabetes, stroke, cancer

pg. 10