Stoa Philosophon

  I've been looking at food lately and the idea that some foods are "non-foods", usually if they are ultra-processed. We're talking about a lot of the packaged foods we see in supermarkets. One contention among many is that the ingredient lists that contain a lot of processed chemical ingredients (those we don't eat in and of themselves) are being emulsified into a stable product that is unnatural and thus interferes with our microbiome profile. Another is that we have a serious excess of protein with little to no fibre, the excess protein being metabolised in exactly the same way as carbohydrates (sugar-equivalents), into harmful excess body fat. Philosophically interesting is the distinction drawn between two different object values: Food-value and pleasure-value. The food-value of an object is determined by nature, ie. Our bodies. The aim of our bodies is to come into oikeiosis with (or assimilate) the food that we choose, so food-value is obvio...