On Jun 10, 2:40 pm, ta nc.rr.com> wrote:

Oops, that title should read *Nutrition* Science has hijacked our
meals and our health . . . .

Excerpt:

TMN: I want to finish with a big question. Over the last few weeks,
I've had the privilege to interview Lester Brown, founder of
WorldWatch, about his book, Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save
Civilization, a big-picture look at energy and environment. And Nobel
Peace Prize winner, Mohammed Yunus, about creating a world without
poverty through social business. And Laura Flanders, about the power
of the grass roots in the presidential campaign.

All of these share something: They look at systems and relationships,
at bottom-up and local rather than top-down and mass market. It makes
me hopeful that all this stuff is percolating, and it seems that it's
about a worldview. Rather than food, I could be having this
conversation with someone about the American healthcare system where
we focus on symptoms, we look for magic bullets, we suffer with side
effects ...

MP: That's a great example. The food issue and the healthcare issue
are seen as separate. Of course, they're not. When I was a boy in
1960, we spent 18 percent of our national income on food