Author: Alex Enescu

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Why Is Nutrition So Confusing? —  Part IV: There Is No Such Thing as Food In Nature

  By Alex Enescu (M.Sc. Candidate: Psychiatry Department, Faculty of Medicine). The concept of food, as a harmless and purely nourishing substance, is — in every respect — an undistilled cultural construct. Nature produces metabolizing, reproducing, living organisms. Not food. Some of these organisms are predators. Some are prey. Some are higher up the proverbial… Read More Why Is Nutrition So Confusing? —  Part IV: There Is No Such Thing as Food In Nature

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Why Is Nutrition So Confusing? —  Part III: Crazed Dieting: Keto versus Vegan

  By Alex Enescu (M.Sc. Candidate: Psychiatry Department, Faculty of Medicine). Dieting is ubiquitous. But this does not mean that everyone has willingly adapted, customized, or modified their way of eating. In fact, it means that different diets naturally—or through the governing forces of human tradition and habits—assert themselves within different cultural domains. For example,… Read More Why Is Nutrition So Confusing? —  Part III: Crazed Dieting: Keto versus Vegan

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Why Is Nutrition So Confusing? — Part II: Changing Eating Habits During The Twentieth Century

By Alex Enescu, M.Sc. Candidate in psychiatry research | Psychiatry Department | Faculty of Medicine |McGill University. Part I here. In the modern world, food has become a source of anxiety, identity, distrust and confusion. In our endless crusade for longevity, optimum health, better sleep, reduced levels of anxiety, improved cognitive performance, weight loss, self-fashioning, and… Read More Why Is Nutrition So Confusing? — Part II: Changing Eating Habits During The Twentieth Century

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Why Is Nutrition So Confusing? — Part I: The War on Saturated Fat

In the modern world, food has become a source of anxiety, identity, distrust and confusion. In our endless crusade for longevity, optimum health, better sleep, reduced levels of anxiety, improved cognitive performance, weight loss, self-fashioning, and eschatological ethics, we have become susceptible to a plurality of diets and curious eating habits. In general, diets tend… Read More Why Is Nutrition So Confusing? — Part I: The War on Saturated Fat

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