Nutritionism is not the same as nutrition. It is not a scientific subject but an ideology. Ideologies are ways of organizing large areas of life and experience under a set of shared but unexamined assumptions. For nutritionism, the widely shared but unexamined assumption is that the key to understanding Food is the nutrient; foods are essentially the sum of their nutrient parts.

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