The Way We Eat Now by Bee Wilson review – strategies for eating in a world of change
over 5 years in The guardian
The 21st-century diet consists of ‘unhealthy food, eaten in a hurry’. How did we enter this ‘food hell’?
In recent years, how and what we eat has been transformed. “These changes are written on the land, on our bodies and on our plates,” Wilson writes. The 21st‑century diet consists of “unhealthy food, eaten in a hurry”; the product of an environmentally damaging food supply system that is out of control.
Hunger has been in decline: in 2006 the number of overweight people exceeded those who were underfed. The modern diet - now remarkably similar around the world - contains too much sugar and refined oils, but is deficient in micronutrients, such as iron. The result is an epidemic of obesity and diseases such as hypertension, type 2 diabetes and preventable forms of cancer: “The same food that has rescued us from hunger is also killing us.” Continue reading...
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