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Meat should be viewed more as a side dish than a main course. Eat fresh produce and meats and no processed foods.
 * Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants**.

Nutrients have been replacing "food" since the 1980's. Now the nutrients like "fiber" and "cholesterol" get larger type on the packaging than the name of the actual food. Eat more of the good nutrients and less of the bad and you will live longer. Early 19th century- William Prout discovered the "macronutrients"- fat, protein, and carbohydrates. End of 19-th century- Casimir Funk discovered vitamins. The Senate Select Committee on Nutrition made a document called the "Dietary Goals For The United States." While making it, they found that America had much worse heart disease rates than other countries with a more plant based diet. They also figured out that during WWII when meat and dairy products were rationed, heart disease rates decreased dramatically. It began rising again after that. They stated that people should eat less meats and dairy. This sparked a lot of opposition from people in the meat and dairy fields.
 * From Foods to Nutrients**

Nutritionism- assumed idea that the key to understanding food is the nutrient "French Paradox"- the french each many of the bad nutrients but are in many ways more healthy than americans The difference between different foods and the difference between whole food and processed food gets lost in Nutritionism
 * The Rise of Nutritionism**

After the dietary goals were laid out, americans began to avoid fat and started eating all of the new low-fat products that came out. the problem was that most of these were high in carbohydrates. so just when they thought they would started becoming healthier, they all began to gain weight. Americans began eating more meat as well. So, the fat intake didn't change much at all.
 * Eat Right, Get Fatter**

“The problem with nutrient-by-nutrient nutrition science,” points out Marion Nestle, the New York University nutritionist, “is that it takes the nutrient out of the context of food, the food out of the context of diet and the diet out of the context of lifestyle.” Even though they realize that nutrient-by-nutrient science isn't necessarily a good thing, it is really the only way they can study it. They must isolate the nutrient to learn anything about it. Everyone will digest things differently. You may not get out of the nutrients in the food what is advertised.
 * Bad Science**

People who eat like Americans do have a higher risk of cancer, obesity, heart disease and diabetes. We have to think of food as a relationship. If something goes wrong with one thing in the food chain, everything gets thrown off. Ecological relationships (reacting and evolving to food) are to whole food not to nutrients. Whole foods to refined: refining foods gives it a longer shelf life and makes everything easier and more efficient to digest. Complexity to Simplicity: chemical fertilizers in soil makes the soil simpler, therefore, making the foods grown from it lass complex and less nutritious. From Leaves to Seeds: Seeds are good for the environment and the food web but not for us. We need more fiber! From Food Culture to Food Science: with science, the culture side of food is gone. Nobody really listens to what culture tells them to do, but what the scientists say is best or them. 17,000 new food products are invented every year. In order for us to adapt to the new Western diet, we have to let the ones it sickens die, but health science is messing that up too by prolonging the lives of the sick.
 * The Elephant in the Room**

Tips: 1) Eat food. -not processed food but real food that your great-great grandmother would recognize as food 2) Avoid food products bearing health claims. -The health claims could be wrong -food is most likely highly processed. 3)avoid food products containing ingredients that are unfamiliar, unpronounceable, more than five in number, or that contain high-fructose corn syrup -they are most likely highly processed 4) Farmers market instead of super market 5)Better foods, cost more. So, pay more and eat less. 6) Go by cultures. Use other culture based diets to base your diet on. 7) Cook and grow a garden if possible. The food will be better than if you by it frozen. 8)Eat mostly plants, especially leaves 9) Eat like an omnivore. The more species in your diet the better.
 * Beyond Nutrionism**