I listened to an interview with Michael Pollan on NPR a couple of days ago and found him fascinating. Pollard is a lecturer in Environmental Journalism at UC Berkeley, a writer for the NY Times Magazine and an author of several books. He was discussing his most recent book, In Defense of Food, in which he makes some intriguing claims.

What I found interesting was Pollard’s discussion of what he calls “nutritionism.” Nutritionism, according to Pollard, is not a science, but an ideology laden with presuppositions and axes to grind. Continue Reading…