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"Nutritionism - or nutritional reductionism - is characterised by a reductive focus on the nutrient composition of foods as the means for understanding their healthfulness, as well as by reductive interpretation of the role of these nutrients in bodily health." (p2) #Nutritionism 
👇 p13 #Nutritionism
- Preserves authority & interests of 'nutrition experts'
- Traditional & cultural knowledge of food, or people's sensual/practical experience with food is devalued
- Serves interests of food, supplement & wt loss industries (#CDoH)
- Preserves authority & interests of 'nutrition experts'
- Traditional & cultural knowledge of food, or people's sensual/practical experience with food is devalued
- Serves interests of food, supplement & wt loss industries (#CDoH)
"Nutritional gaze" - seeing food primarily as a collection of nutrients & in terms of a set of standardised nutritional concepts & categories so that it overwhelms other ways of seeing & encountering foods. (pp12-13) #Nutritionism
