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That eating should be foremost about bodily health is a relatively new and, I think, destructive idea-destructive not just the pleasure of eating, which would be bad enough, but paradoxically of our health as well. Indeed, no people on earth worry more about the health consequences of their food choices than we Americans-and no people suffer from as many diet-related problems. We are becoming a nation of orthorexics: people with an unhealthy obsession with healthy eating.
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food-science
nutrition
social-sciences
food
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Michael Pollan |
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The only debatable issue, it seems to me, is whether it is more ridiculous to turn to experts in social theory for general well-confirmed propositions, or to the specialists in the great religions and philosophical systems for insights into fundamental human values.
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religion
philosophy
social-sciences
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Noam Chomsky |
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"As my former Yale colleague Rogers Smith has put it: "Elegance is not worth that price."
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social-sciences
modeling
simulation
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John Lewis Gaddis |