In Defense of Food, Ch. 6-10
extraneous but unavoidable factors that influence a comparison study.
Confounders are _______________________________________
as food producers.
Consumers don't reap nearly as much benefit from nutritionism _______________________________________________.
is the same reductionist view as the other exclusionary diets (lipid hypothesis).
Gary Taubes described carbohydrates as the cause of obesity, heart disease, diabetes, etc., which _____________________________________________
the number of confounding factors affecting the study.
In a scientific study, reliability refers to ____________________________________________
it takes the nutrient out of the context of the food.
One problem with studying one nutrient at a time is that _________________________________________________
ideological taint.
Pollan claims that nutrition scientists are not free from __________________________________________________.
the idea that the low-fat diet reduced heart disease.
Pollan is skeptical about _____________________________
counterintuitive
Replacing fats with carbs leads to weight gain, an idea that is _________________________________ because fats contain more calories than carbs.
may lead to weight gain.
Shifting from fat to carbohydrates
when it's removed from the trial diet, it's replaced by something else, which introduces another variable.
Studying the effect of a single nutrient in the body is difficult because _____________________________________________________.
Scientific reductionism
The idea of isolating variables from the whole in order to analyze it is known as __________________________
the epidemic of obesity and diabetes began to rise.
The outcome of the introduction of the low-fat diet was that _______________________________________
someone responds to a treatment or intervention regardless of whether they are actually receiving it.
The placebo effect occurs when _________________________
it ignores the effect of the relationships among foods.
The problem with isolating crucial molecules from the context of the food they are found in is ____________________________________________________________.
Americans have a tendency to eat on the run.
The sheer abundance of food in America has bred "a vague indifference to food". What effect does this "indifference" have?
interfere with insulin metabolism, which increases hunger.
The theory presented in Hu's paper is that refined carbohydrates ________________________________________
eliminating aesthetic diversity and sensory pleasure.
To "Americanize" food means _____________________________
empty them of their ethnic content and history.
To make food choices more scientific is to _____________________________________________________.
The justification for encouraging food companies to manufacture new products is Nutritionism because it promotes the idea that eating more "good nutrients" is healthy.
What is a good paraphrase for this sentence? The ideology offers a respectable rationale for creating and marketing all manner of new processed foods and permission for people to eat them.
