{"id":9303,"date":"2013-07-22T05:00:24","date_gmt":"2013-07-22T09:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/?p=9303"},"modified":"2013-07-21T09:29:52","modified_gmt":"2013-07-21T13:29:52","slug":"determinism-free-will-and-health-outcomes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/9303","title":{"rendered":"Determinism, Free Will, and Health Outcomes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/InDefenseOfFood.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9314\" alt=\"InDefenseOfFood\" src=\"http:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/InDefenseOfFood.jpg\" width=\"265\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This has been in my &#8220;to-blog&#8221; file ever since I went on sabbatical in Belgium in 2009-2010 and read <a title=\"In Defense of Food\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/In-Defense-Food-Eaters-Manifesto\/dp\/0143114964\" target=\"_blank\"><em>In Defense of Food<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Some food for thought from Michael Pollan:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;[I]t&#8217;s only natural to search for the causes of one&#8217;s misfortune and, perhaps, to link one&#8217;s illness to one&#8217;s behavior. One of the more pernicious aspects of nutritionism is that it encourages us to blame our health problems on lifestyle choices, implying that the individual bears ultimate responsibility for whatever illnesses befall him. It&#8217;s worth keeping in mind that a far more powerful predictor of heart disease than either diet or exercise is social class.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This has been in my &#8220;to-blog&#8221; file ever since I went on sabbatical in Belgium in 2009-2010 and read In Defense of Food. Some food&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/9303\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Determinism, Free Will, and Health Outcomes<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,26,65,45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-food","category-health","category-miscellaneous","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1gPg8-2q3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9303"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9308,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9303\/revisions\/9308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marcfbellemare.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}