Exploring ideas

 Gershon (2021) reports that in the past, several Europeans believed that the dietary structure was centred on four humours which were assumed to dominate the human body. These humours were blood, yellow bile, black bile and phlegm. This is the nutritionist model.  Rebrovick (as cited in  Gershon, 2021) claims that the perspectives of food choices implications in European and white American society deviated steadily from a structure reliant on bodily humours to that of nutrition, a holistic and an ecological viewpoint consecutively. Ideas evolved when a prominent chemist called Justus von Liebig described food into its constituents which is either digested or consumed for energy. This led to the fading of the belief that the dietary framework is based on individual attributes and circumstances. In around 1960, the Europeans and Americans perspectives on food began to change to an eco-dietetic discourse. This was a result of the criticism of the nutritionist model. Referen...