This makes me think about Freud's book Civilization and its Discontents. This being, in how civilization is something which restricts man from its desire. In this context, the Western views on food can be seen as playing the role civilization, which stop man from eating as they wish and would naturally, in nature.

The making stuff about numbers in modern society, does not encourage good growth. Americans in making being healthy, about an ideal weight, create an unhealthy obsession which ultimately individualizes the way they think about food. No longer do they focus on the culture surrounding the food, but instead they think about how much they eat and the amount of calories or protein or fiber or sugars, a food has.

Though Maryfield seems to reject the ideas that Pollan proposes about going back to a whole foods diet and avoiding processed foods, both authors seem to concur on that solving the problem of unhealthy "nutrition/eating" has a solution which can be seen by looking at the food habits, that existed in the past.

Pollan also alluded to this idea in his writing about the food industry; the idea being that the food industry capitalizes off of the ambiguity surrounding certain products and ideas when it comes to food. There seems to be an agreement, on that capitalism has affected the "knowledge" surrounding food and its industry.