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# Food for thought
- URL: https://www.lorcandempsey.net/food-for-thought/
- Published: 2004-08-08T11:39:47.000Z
- Updated: 2004-08-08T11:39:47.000Z
- Author: Lorcan Dempsey
- Tags: Misc

“Food is polysaturated with culture” says Steven Shapin in a review of several books on the Atkins diet. This is a reflective piece from the *London Review of Books*, noted here as many OCLC conversations seem to be like those observed by the author among his colleagues:

> Even asking the question elicited a torrent of second-hand expert commentary – on glycemic indices, net carbs, insulin-resistance and the effect of a high-protein diet on HDL and LDL-cholesterol. So this is one way, and perhaps one of the very few ways, in which Harvard resembles anywhere else in the world. \[[LRB | Steven Shapin : The Great Neurotic Art](https://www.lrb.co.uk/v26/n15/shap01%5F.html?ref=lorcandempsey.net)\]