{"id":85,"date":"2018-01-14T16:56:58","date_gmt":"2018-01-14T16:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385w18\/?p=85"},"modified":"2018-01-14T16:56:58","modified_gmt":"2018-01-14T16:56:58","slug":"complex-and-expensive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385w18\/2018\/01\/14\/complex-and-expensive\/","title":{"rendered":"Complex and Expensive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gathering my thoughts about our first lesson, I am amazed by how <em>complex<\/em> food actually is. After having read Michael Pollan\u2019s <em>In Defense of Food<\/em>, it\u2019s surprising that even though there are things like the slow food movement and scores of people fighting for community gardens, the veil of nutritionism has not really lifted from the American psyche. Generally speaking, most Americans grow up familiar with the food pyramid and many of nutritionism\u2019s bite-sized aphorisms; avoid carbohydrates, don\u2019t eat too many sweets, and so on. It is terribly confusing to go through a grocery store with every label screaming out its health advantages, while \u201cwhole foods\u201d (as Pollan refers to them) sit quietly lining the walls. People still tout the healthfulness of so-called \u201ccleanses\u201d wherein people drink scarcely more than maple syrup, cayenne pepper, and lemon, and after it\u2019s done, go right back to eating all the food-like substances that were causing issues in the first place. These types of cleanses are at best ill-advised (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.webmd.com\/diet\/a-z\/lemonade-master-cleanse-diet\">WedMD\u2019s take on cleanses<\/a>, for example).<\/p>\n<p>How can people make changes toward a healthier diet when they\u2019re on a budget? I discussed food with a friend recently; she bought a $4 low fat Greek yogurt that she loved, but discovered that it contained massive amounts of sugar. She later tried the \u201cfull\u201d fat Greek yogurt (twice as expensive) and noticed that she needed less of it to be satisfied\u2014exactly what Pollan wrote about the benefits of purchasing whole foods. The problem, though, is a lot of people simply cannot afford to make the investment in healthy eating like Pollan suggests in a small list of rules at the end of his book. I hope as our course continues, we will explore more options for how a healthy diet can be maintained on a budget.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kara Mayer Robinson. \u201cThe Lemonade Diet\/Master Cleanse.\u201d WebMD, WebMD, www.webmd.com\/diet\/a-z\/lemonade-master-cleanse-diet. 18 Jan 2018.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gathering my thoughts about our first lesson, I am amazed by how complex food actually is. After having read Michael Pollan\u2019s In Defense of Food, it\u2019s surprising that even though there are things like the slow food movement and scores of people fighting for community gardens, the veil of nutritionism has not really lifted from the American psyche. Generally speaking,&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385w18\/2018\/01\/14\/complex-and-expensive\/\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,23],"tags":[41,43,42,44,36,19],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-takeaway","category-week-1","tag-diet","tag-food","tag-health","tag-in-defense-of-food","tag-michael-pollan","tag-nutritionism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385w18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385w18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385w18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385w18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385w18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385w18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385w18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions\/86"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385w18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385w18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.washington.edu\/ps385w18\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}