Spouse Paul drew this article by Michael Pollan in the New York Times to my attention yesterday:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/28/magazine/28nutritionism.t.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
It’s a very lengthy, though well-written, essay on food, food labeling, nutrition, and the growing difficulty the average consumer has in wading through the trappings of “nutritionism” in search of a healthy diet. I like his bottom line, with which, amusingly, he opens the article:
Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.