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A review by raehink
Whole: Rethinking the Science of Nutrition by T. Colin Campbell, Howard Jacobson
4.0
What happens when you eat an apple? The answer is vastly more complex than you imagine. (jacket)
If this book does nothing else, I hope that it convinces you that we need to change the way we think about health. We must recognize nutrition as a cornerstone of our health-care system, not a footnote. We must also recognize the limitations of our reductionist paradigm and learn to accept the validity of evidence beyond what that paradigm allows us to perceive. If we are truly to understand the meaning of nutrition, its effect on the body, and its potential to transform our collective health, we must stop seeing reductionism as the only method by which to achieve progress and start seeing it as a tool, the results of which can only be properly evaluated within a wholistic framework. And we must be willing to embrace wholism beyond the realm of nutrition. The body is a complex system; bodies gathered together in societies are even more complex; and human life, interwoven with all of nature on this planet, is complex beyond our imagining. We cannot afford to ignore this complexity any longer. (285-286)
Although I do not agree with or feel anxiety about everything in this book, I do agree that we need to adjust our eating habits and make them more (w)holistic and spiritual in nature. Doing this is easier said than done. For me, anyway. An enjoyable and enlightening read.
If this book does nothing else, I hope that it convinces you that we need to change the way we think about health. We must recognize nutrition as a cornerstone of our health-care system, not a footnote. We must also recognize the limitations of our reductionist paradigm and learn to accept the validity of evidence beyond what that paradigm allows us to perceive. If we are truly to understand the meaning of nutrition, its effect on the body, and its potential to transform our collective health, we must stop seeing reductionism as the only method by which to achieve progress and start seeing it as a tool, the results of which can only be properly evaluated within a wholistic framework. And we must be willing to embrace wholism beyond the realm of nutrition. The body is a complex system; bodies gathered together in societies are even more complex; and human life, interwoven with all of nature on this planet, is complex beyond our imagining. We cannot afford to ignore this complexity any longer. (285-286)
Although I do not agree with or feel anxiety about everything in this book, I do agree that we need to adjust our eating habits and make them more (w)holistic and spiritual in nature. Doing this is easier said than done. For me, anyway. An enjoyable and enlightening read.