Somehow Michael Pollen decided he needed a whole book to say: Vegetables are good, too much meat is bad for you and that you should stay completely away from processed foods. Yeah because processed foods are extremely dangerous because they are ‘fake food’ because they contain certain preservatives that prevent my food such as my yogurt from being a big blob of fungus mess when I take it out of the fridge in the morning . This ‘fake food’ is also the absolute culprit in diabetes, obesity, heart disease, cancer, chronic hypertension. Things like, exercise, social class, occupation, and genetics don’t matter. That’s because the doctors, nutritionists, medical researchers, farmers, corporate America, and the federal government are all in a conspiracy to murder me just so they can siphon my money from me while I am dying. Yes Mr. Pollen, you hit the nail right on the head.
When you start looking into why corporate America and the government hate you so much, the truth becomes obvious. No the government is not out to murder its own citizens. And neither is corporate America or your doctor. The fact is that Michael Pollen thinks he has connected the dots and has unveiled this whole conspiracy in which food companies and medical journalists and pretty much everybody else that deals with food is out to get you because they have decided that food with preservatives is in fact ‘real’ food. Pollen, on the contrary, thinks that food with preservatives is not ‘real food’ and this is what is making Americans die. The fact of the matter is that there were not dots to begin with. What Pollen failed to realize in his grand conspiracy was that the scientific studies done on nutrition were independent of government influence. In fact many other nations conducted their own nutrition research independently and reached the exact same conclusions regarding nutritional health. So the government did not falsify the scientific nutritional data that they published on leading a healthy dietary life because the trials were replicated and repeated and produced the same results. But that fact would not make much difference to Pollen, because he openly says his book is not based on any kind of science, more just what he ‘thinks’ an individual should do to lead a healthy lifestyle.
Pollen relates nutrition today to what surgery was back in the 1600’s. His contention is that we (nutritionists, doctors, medical scientists) pretty much don’t understand anything about nutrition. To him, our scientific knowledge about diet and nutrition that we have accumulated over hundreds of years doesn’t seem to explain why someone feels a pain in their chest when they eat 3 bacon double cheeseburgers every day for 15 years. In his eyes, nutrition is a very crude field without precision set up by governmental lies.
He also proclaims that it is the preservatives in food that make Americans get all the ailments that plague us today from obesity to cancer and everything else. What else will he say next, preservatives give you AIDS? Preservatives are added in food to prevent decomposition by microbial growth and other undesirable chemical changes. Now I am not saying that consuming all these preservatives is totally perfectly healthy for you as not consuming them , but the fact is preservative food additives do much more good than bad when you look at the big picture. Smoking even one cigarette is many times worse than every single preservative that is out there combined all into one meal. And how many people have died from smoking just one cigarette? Food with preservatives is still food, not some ‘toxic’ sludge that belongs at a nuclear power-plant and should never see the light of day.
Mr. Pollen you had it right when you said that people who eat mostly fruits and vegetables live a healthier life. The science doesn’t lie. The science also does not lie either about the fact that people who eat food that comes in a package that my great-grandmother would not know how to open will not die a morbid death or be afflicted by obesity, and heart disease or high blood pressure. What again you have failed to realize in your grand theory of nutrition is that all these ailments mentioned above are not the product of any one single factor, they are a product of a multitude of factors such as race, gender, social class, and genes etc. According to fitness.gov, most of the diseases that you describe can be completely reversed by exercise if one is at risk. That’s a no-brainer just like how you say eating vegetables makes you live a healthier life. Cutting out these so called ‘processed toxins’ as you view them, will not change the fact that diet is not the sole part to leading a healthy life. But again that’s not a fact to you, because you are convinced that the whole system is out to get us just for ‘corporate greed’.
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