Thread by @MaritaHennessy

"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)

"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

"Biomarker reductionism" - bodily health reduced to a no. of quantifiable biomarkers (eg blood cholesterol, BMI) & biochemical & genetic processes, & out of the context of whole bodies

(p42) #Nutritionism

👇 (p43) #Nutritionism

Corporate capture of nutritionism/Corporate nutritionism

#CDoH

P49 #Nutritionism

"A calorie is a calorie" 😒 #QuantifyingNutritionism

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"Caloric reductionism"

(p59) #Nutritionism

You'd be forgiven for thinking this section referred to modern times...its late 19th century! 😏 🙈

(p61) #Nutritionism

Govts & public health orgs became drivers & promoters of nutritionism as they translated nutricentric scientific research into population-wide dietary guidelines; focus on nutrients (incl harms) rather than foods => shifted #nutritionism from margins to everyday discourses (p74)