Time for Change
Issue 22, Fall 2022
Be Rebellious, Choose Whole Food!
By Lisa Kilgour
O
ne of the most common questions I get asked is, “what should my macros be?”.
Or a variation of that, like “how much protein should I eat?”, or “can I eat carbs?”.
Today, I want to tell you why you can ignore macros completely. Yes. Completely. Why? Because it’s a form of nutritionism and is backed by political will instead of good-quality nutritional advice. Nutritionism is a term to describe how we look at food today. Instead of talking about actual food, nutritionism is a belief that food is simply a sum of its abstract parts, like carbs, fat, protein, minerals, etc. Nutritionism seems modern and scientific…but it’s actually a bit sinister.
By talking about abstract parts of food that are impossible to see or measure at home, you have to look outside of yourself for nutrition advice. Before nutritionism, we ate whole food, prepared in ways that were taught to us by our ancestors. Inside nutritionism, we need to look to health experts for advice, and sadly, many of our health “experts” end up being food manufacturers and advertisers telling us what to eat. KinesioGeek Magazine, www.gemskinesiologycollege.com 31
