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There are different ways of adapting to an environmental challenge: becoming less, or becom- ing more, reducing our needs, or increasing our abilities. The creative insights of individuals have accumulated as a culture, and the cultural generali- zations have provided adaptive advantages. Our bodies are constantly having experiences, and generalizing from them in the way they respond; these generalized responses can limit or expand our vitality. These generalizations are expressed in our anatomy, physiology, and ecosystems, with changes in immunity, metabolism, gene expression, and behavior.
There are different ways of adapting to an environmental challenge: becoming less, or becoming more, reducing our needs, or increasing our abilities. The creative insights of individuals have accumulated as a culture, and the cultural generalizations have provided adaptive advantages. Our bodies are constantly having experiences, and generalizing from them in the way they respond; these generalized responses can limit or expand our vitality. These generalizations are expressed in our anatomy, physiology, and ecosystems, with changes in immunity, metabolism, gene expression, and behavior.
The dominant reductionist philosophy o f science denies that generalization is an objective process, and has strenuously attacked the idea that intention or purpose guides biological, biochemical and genetic changes. To the extent that objective meanmg is absent, the ideology of Popperian methodological individualism can be imposed. Applied to the theory of food and nutri- tion, this ideology insists that our nutritional requirements are genetically determined.
The dominant reductionist philosophy of science denies that generalization is an objective process, and has strenuously attacked the idea that intention or purpose guides biological, biochemical, and genetic changes. To the extent that objective meaning is absent, the ideology of Popperian methodological individualism can be imposed. Applied to the theory of food and nutrition, this ideology insists that our nutritional requirements are genetically determined.
In medicine, through most of the 20th century, this meant that a pregnant woman's nutrition was said to be relevant only to her personal health, and not to the fate of the developing baby. When a woman's toxemic pregnancy produced a defective baby, the official explanation was that the baby's genetic defects caused the toxemia. The research that showed that the infant's brain development and its future health and longevity were determined by the quality of the mother's nutrition was ignored, denied, and suppressed by official, state licensed medicine .
In medicine, through most of the 20th century, this meant that a pregnant woman's nutrition was said to be relevant only to her personal health, and not to the fate of the developing baby. When a woman's toxemic pregnancy produced a defective baby, the official explanation was that the baby's genetic defects caused the toxemia. The research that showed that the infant's brain development and its future health and longevity were determined by the quality of the mother's nutrition was ignored, denied, and suppressed by official, state-licensed medicine.
It was in that pseudoscientific environment, with the guidance of corporate lobbies, that the dietary recommendations of the U.S. Department of Agriculture were developed, starting just before the beginning of the 20th century and culminating in the 1990s in the Food Guide Pyramid, which recommended, for example, 6 to 11 servings of grain, and 2 to 3 servings of milk, cheese, or yogurt. During the great depression, their income- ranked diets probably helped to prevent some deficiency diseases, but the main effect of the government's nutritional guidance has been to reinforce the medical establishment's view that disease is caused primarily by heredity and germs, and not by environmental factors such as malnu- trition and pollution.
It was in that pseudoscientific environment, with the guidance of corporate lobbies, that the dietary recommendations of the U.S. Department of Agriculture were developed, starting just before the beginning of the 20th century and culminating in the 1990s in the Food Guide Pyramid, which recommended, for example, 6 to 11 servings of grain, and 2 to 3 servings of milk, cheese, or yogurt. During the great depression, their income-ranked diets probably helped to prevent some deficiency diseases, but the main effect of the government's nutritional guidance has been to reinforce the medical establishment's view that disease is caused primarily by heredity and germs, and not by environmental factors such as malnutrition and pollution.
Defining the organism and the environment in accord with its ideol- ogy of mechanistic reductionism, official science has radically misrep- resented the nature of organismic adaptation.
Defining the organism and the environment in accord with its ideology of mechanistic reductionism, official science has radically misrepresented the nature of organismic adaptation.
At the end of the second world war, a neigh- bor of ours returned from the Pacific with malaria, and he found the symptoms were prevented when he drank goat milk regularly. To continue receiv- ing disability payments he had to have periodic examinations, and during one of his hospital visits he had an episode of fever. His family brought him the goat milk that he would have normally been drinking, but the hospital wouldn't permit him to drink it. The fever worsened, and he died in the hospital. A few years later, medical journals began investigating why people who drank milk were resistant to malaria; experiments showed
At the end of the second world war, a neighbor of ours returned from the Pacific with malaria, and he found the symptoms were prevented when he drank goat milk regularly. To continue receiving disability payments he had to have periodic examinations, and during one of his hospital visits he had an episode of fever. His family brought him the goat milk that he would have normally been drinking, but the hospital wouldn't permit him to drink it. The fever worsened, and he died in the hospital. A few years later, medical journals began investigating why people who drank milk were resistant to malaria; experiments showed