http://theshot.coffeeratings.com/2006/02/libido-coffee/ Rants and Raves on Espresso Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:33:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 http://theshot.coffeeratings.com/2006/02/libido-coffee/#comment-640 Espresso News and Reviews - TheShot.coffeeratings.com » The New Food Science - and Where Coffee Sits Wed, 31 Jan 2007 01:02:57 +0000 http://theshot.coffeeratings.com/?p=86#comment-640 [...] The crux of his argument is that, in the past few decades, eating healthy foods in moderation has been upstaged by the deconstructionist science of nutritionism (i.e., presuming that the good or bad health effects of foods can be explained by their minute compositions in deconstructed isolation), food lobbyists who have shaped government policy through political influence, food marketers who have shaped consumer tastes through new “food product” introduction, and a much more powerful media market for health (dis-)information and consumer influence. [...] [...] The crux of his argument is that, in the past few decades, eating healthy foods in moderation has been upstaged by the deconstructionist science of nutritionism (i.e., presuming that the good or bad health effects of foods can be explained by their minute compositions in deconstructed isolation), food lobbyists who have shaped government policy through political influence, food marketers who have shaped consumer tastes through new “food product” introduction, and a much more powerful media market for health (dis-)information and consumer influence. [...]

]]> http://theshot.coffeeratings.com/2006/02/libido-coffee/#comment-333 TheShot.coffeeratings.com » Healthy Coffee? Wed, 01 Nov 2006 02:39:08 +0000 http://theshot.coffeeratings.com/?p=86#comment-333 [...] I promise not to go off on my usual tirade about mainstream media’s sorry state of science and medical reporting. But I’d like to tackle the more general issue of how food-as-medicine thinking can create a sorry world of over-anxious people and sterilized, unenjoyable edibles (and drinkables). [...] [...] I promise not to go off on my usual tirade about mainstream media’s sorry state of science and medical reporting. But I’d like to tackle the more general issue of how food-as-medicine thinking can create a sorry world of over-anxious people and sterilized, unenjoyable edibles (and drinkables). [...]

]]> http://theshot.coffeeratings.com/2006/02/libido-coffee/#comment-80 TheShot.coffeeratings.com » Starbucks Announces Media Marketing Initiatives; Australian Researchers Announce Persuasiveness of Caffeine Tue, 02 May 2006 00:04:57 +0000 http://theshot.coffeeratings.com/?p=86#comment-80 [...] Which brings us to the second article. As regular readers of TheShot know, I normally refuse to post on the medical blather du jour about caffeine and coffee — largely because unfiltered health information is the legacy of a scientifically ignorant mainstream media (and is one of the industry’s most painfully obvious embarassments). [...] [...] Which brings us to the second article. As regular readers of TheShot know, I normally refuse to post on the medical blather du jour about caffeine and coffee — largely because unfiltered health information is the legacy of a scientifically ignorant mainstream media (and is one of the industry’s most painfully obvious embarassments). [...]

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