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Meat: Eating whole fresh foods than processed food products are better for you Dietary fiber might not help prevent colon cancer Eating a couple servings of fish per week cuts your risk of dying from a heart attack more than a third Omega-3 fatty acids are poised to become the oat bran of 2007 The Year of eating Oat Bran is out-coming party for scientist All- terrestrial foods: breads, tortillas, milk, yogurt and cheese will have new health claims Fiber, cholerstol, and saturated fat Nutrients: Macronutrients: protein, fat and carbs Chinese Labors: Eat food is different from eating nutrients Chronic disease linked to diet= heart disease, cancer and diabetes Traditional diets based on plants had low rates of chronic disease Nutritionism: We eat to maintain and promote bodily health We mostly eat for pleasure or socializing People dont eat nutrients they eat food French Paradox: when we eat all sorts of unhealthful nutrients in ways healthier than Americans really are Nutritionist Ideology: Old think: avoid high fat food New think: food high in monounsaturated fat to be embraced With everything low fat the economy got fatter: Americans began binging on carbs to avoid the evils of fat: Americans would add more carbs to make u for the fat not being consumed Nutrient- by- nutrient: Nutrient Scientist: "reductionist science" Scientific Reductionism: X-factor: beta carotene, lycopene, vitamin E Fiber: protects antioxidant molecules from destruction by stomach acids early in digestion Beta: is one of a whole slew of carotene found in common veggies or i works as an antioxidant only in concert with some other plants chemical or process; it may behave as an pro-oxidant antioxidants: garden- variety theme Chemicals are broken down by your digeston Combination of foods: Zero- Sum relationship: if you eat alot of meat then your not getting enough veggies Diets high in meat have rates id coronary heart disease It is possible to reduce intake of saturated fat with out reducing consumption of animals protein Eat more plants and less meat Mediterranean Diet: Supplements: greater than normal interest in personal health Intervention Group: Changes its diet in some prescribed manner Control group: does not change their diet Long term clinical trail is suppose to be the good standard People lie about heir food intake all the time American eaters: "try to eat a little less of this nutrient, a little more of that" Western Diet: Health Ecological Relationships: Refined Foods: Nutrition Transition: can be deadly, such as coming from a traditional to American style of eating, such as fast foods
 * a little meat wont kill you
 * should be a side dish than a main dish
 * cut down on red meat and dairy products
 * reduce how much meat you eat
 * "choose meats, poultry and fish that will reduce saturated-fat intake"
 * presence or absence of these invisible substances confer health benefits to their eater
 * chemical compunds and minerals
 * very important to health
 * "eat more of the right ones, fewer of the wrong, and you will live longer and avoid chronic disease
 * died of beriberi
 * ate "polished" or white rice = "essential nutrient"
 * not the same as nutrition
 * not a scientific subject but an ideology
 * organizing large swaths of life and experiences under a shared but unexamined assumptions
 * trouble discerning qualitative distinctions between food
 * processed foods and whole foods disappear when your focus is on quantifying the nutrients they contain
 * takes nutrient out of the context of food
 * the food out if the context of diet
 * diet out of the context of lifestyle
 * break down into component parts and study nutrients one by one
 * ignoring complex interactions and contexts
 * takes mechanistic view of transaction, put in this nutrient and get out the physiological result
 * some populations can metabolize sugars better than others
 * understanding food or drugs maybe harmless
 * practice of reductionism can lead to problems
 * supplements in are bad for you because they don't work because once you take it out it might have the reverse affect
 * drink coffee with streak and your bod wont be able to fully absorb the iron in meat
 * limestone in corn tortilla unlocks essential amino acids in the corn that would other wise remain unavailable
 * one of the most healthful ways to eat
 * eat lots of olive oils and little meat
 * alot of physical labor
 * fasted regular
 * ate alot of wild greens
 * consumed fewer calories
 * deepening out confusion about nutrition
 * radical and rapid change in food relationships
 * instant gratification of sugar
 * Humans didn't use to drink co milk because it made them sick
 * Elaborate systems of communication goes up and down the food chain
 * knowing how to read biological signs (taste and smell, ripe or unripe)
 * eaters v. whole foods, not nutrients
 * Whole Food
 * important
 * determines the speed at which the sugars will be released and absorbed
 * Corn: our body doesn't know how to handle corn because it is a biological novelty
 * especially carbs
 * applied reductionism (flavoring flour and rice)
 * refining grains extends shelf life
 * makes it easier to digest
 * corn is refined into corn syrup
 * freezing food destroys the fiber that would slow sugar absorption