Big industries are exploiting the desire for consumers to want to eat healthy by adding health claims to most of their products. Nutritionism gets people to think if something has a certain nutrient they will need to eat that product. If people think something has fiber, and they need fiber for their diet, they will not see the difference between a Fiber One bar and a pear. They both have fiber, so why not go for the Fiber One bar instead? The reason you should not go for the Fiber One bar is because it is a processed food, an edible food like substance, while a pear is not. A pear is real food. Nutritionism is getting people to forget about the actual nutrients in a product, and hence people are not able to distinguish the differences between the types of