English B1A CLASS PACK - Bakersfield College

12. Next, Pollan gives you a preview of what is in each of the three sections of his book….A. The first section is “The Age of Nutritionism.”1. What is his basic premise in this section (6-9)?2. What are the three “pernicious myths” that scientists and food marketershave been “eager to exploit” (8)?GROUP 5 PAGES 9-12B. The second section is “The Western Diet.”1. What is his basic premise in this section (9-12)?2. What are four of the top ten causes of death that are linked to diet (10)?GROUP 6 PAGES 10-113. These chronic diseases can be “traced directly to the industrialization ofour food,” according to Pollan (10). What four items does he then list asthe sources of this industrialized food?4. What happens when people in other places “gave up their traditionalway of eating and adopted the Western diet” (11)?GROUP 7 PAGE 115. Pollan points out that “there have been traditional diets based on justabout any kind of whole food you can imagine” and that these diets haveresulted in a healthier population than the Western diet (11). What doesthis suggest? In other words, what is he trying to argue with this fact?6. Rather than returning to traditional diets, “nutritionism prefers to tinkerwith the Western diet” by doing what (11)?42