The Case For Real Food

This article made the headline of the New York Times yesterday.

It shows how nutritionists have been studying isolated nutrients in foods in order to uncover their health benefits in our bodies. Recently however, several vitamin studies have shown that their benefits are not only limited, but also may cancel out each other when taken out of their whole foods context. A case for the nutrition community has been made to re-focus their studies on whole foods, rather than single nutrients, so that nutrient synergies within one food are better understood, and functional claims from the Food Industry are made more cautiously.