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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Diabetes / January 2008Michael Pollan on BBC TV
At the BBC2 TV Newsnight web page http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/newsnight/default.stm you can replay to Tv programme which contains an interview with Pollan (about 22mins in) and a couple of food scientists, and you can read an extract of his vews prepared by Pollan for the BBC. Pollan thinks the food industry and its apologist, modern nutritional science, have done us a great disservice. He claims that over the world are a great variety of reasonably healthy traditional diets which all have one thing in common: when the people start eating the modern Western diet they start suffering from the usual Western diet-related degenerative diseases. He advises us to eat nothing which our grandmother wouldn't recognise as food. He's not at all anti-science, very pro-science. He's just against modern nutritional science because he thinks it's crap.  SignatureChris Malcolm cam@infirmatics.ed.ac.uk DoD #205 IPAB, Informatics, JCMB, King's Buildings, Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ, UK [http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/homes/cam/] > At the BBC2 TV Newsnight web page > [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > He's not at all anti-science, very pro-science. He's just against > modern nutritional science because he thinks it's crap. Well he's got the game plan down cold. Write a book that basically says what doctors have been advising people to do for years and tell everyone that his is a new aopriach. By doing that one can sell lots of books! Kurt Kurt <kurtwheeling1965@hotmail.com> wrote in part: >> At the BBC2 TV Newsnight web page >> [quoted text clipped - 21 lines] > >Kurt Huh? His books are mostly about botany. -- Jim Chinnis Warrenton, Virginia, USA : > At the BBC2 TV Newsnight web page : > [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] : > He's not at all anti-science, very pro-science. He's just against : > modern nutritional science because he thinks it's crap. : Well he's got the game plan down cold. Write a book that basically : says what doctors have been advising people to do for years and tell : everyone that his is a new aopriach. By doing that one can sell lots : of books! : Kurt Are your doctors telling you to et organic foods, running around chickens who follow the cattle from field tofiled so they can eat he maggots in the dung and to not use fertilizers, etc? Mine don't, although hey encourage eating vegetables, etc, but have never mentioned how theywere raised. That really is a big part of his program, including humane treatment of the amnimals and not feeding the cattle on corn, which is subsidized by the government to the detriment of vegetable farmers who don't get those subsidies . Wendy >> At the BBC2 TV Newsnight web page >> [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] >> He's not at all anti-science, very pro-science. He's just against >> modern nutritional science because he thinks it's crap. > Well he's got the game plan down cold. Write a book that basically > says what doctors have been advising people to do for years and tell > everyone that his is a new aopriach. By doing that one can sell lots > of books! If your doctor has been telling you for years that the dietary advice of the ADA is crap, then why on earth have you been supporting it here? SignatureChris Malcolm cam@infirmatics.ed.ac.uk DoD #205 IPAB, Informatics, JCMB, King's Buildings, Edinburgh, EH9 3JZ, UK [http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/homes/cam/] |
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