In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

by Michael Pollan

We are becoming a nation of orthorexics: people with an unhealthy obsession with healthy eating.*

Gyorgy Scrinis, who coined the term “nutritionism,” suggests that the most important fact about any food is not its nutrient content but its degree of processing.

In other words, instead of worrying about nutrients, we should simply avoid any food that has been processed to such an extent that it is more the product of industry than of nature.