To eat or not to eat - on dietary advice for real people

To eat or not to eat - on dietary advice for real people

Eating has become so much more than a way to get nutrition. What you eat can be a stand for a better world for people as well as animals, for home-grown products or a national agriculture. world, or for home-grown products and a national agriculture. Food can also be a way to build the perfect body and maximize muscles or get more beautiful skin and hair. What you eat, or even better what you don't eat, is an identity builder.

Lena Andersson's entertaining and accurate essay is about the individual's lonely struggle, at best with, at worst against, his or her own body and health, and about the state's impossible and probably increasingly erroneous mission to get us all to eat properly.

To eat or not to eat - dietary advice for real people - Lena Andersson (pdf)

Lena Andersson on her essay

Breakfast discussion with Lena Andersson on dietary advice etc.

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