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Nutrition science is where surgery was in about 1650, you know, really interesting and promising, but would you want to have them operate on you yet? I don’t think so.
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"In Defense of Food: Author, Journalist Michael Pollan on Nutrition, Food Science and the American Diet". Democracy Now!. 2008-02-13. Retrieved on 2009-04-15. 

 

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