faddism

The organic movement, he said, "has an element of food faddism to it."

It's easy to get snooty about such faddism.

Critics have described some aspects of orthomolecular medicine as food faddism or even quackery.

Yet originality can become a fetish, and striving to be original at all costs can lead to faddism.

"Bad" science, on the other hand, had become what one industry news release called "a launching pad for a new generation of food faddism and quackery."

This helps account for the rampant intellectual faddism that already threatens to outpace the rate of turnover in fashion.

Diploma mills are not accredited, and frequently engage in "pseudoscience and food faddism".

Chillingly he reports on academic exchanges in which the meekest protests against faddism are shot down as fascist and racist.

We can laugh at this trendy shopping around for the custom-tailored designer god, but behind the faddism we find a powerful clue.

There were also descents into faddism and zealotry, with attacks on popular commodities, notably apples and coffee.

I knew more than faddism was involved when a friend, a large-dog person, sheepishly confessed that her next dog would be on the little size of small.

Like its sister restaurant in Midleton, this cafe has mastered the magic art of producing delicious meals without fuss or faddism.

In it, he attacked the "incipient faddism" of those unnamed Washingtonians bandying about terms like "empowerment" and "new paradigm."

'The Archbishop seems to be harking back to the politics of guilt and the socialist faddism of yesteryear.'

It is unintentionally derivitive of any number of plays about aging, a subject that has passed too quickly and glibly from negligence to faddism.

Characteristics of his writing included romanticism, an enthusiasm for natural environments, idealization of aboriginal lifeways, and health faddism.

Almost by definition it is in a constant state of evolution, a complex rolling skein of commerce, geopolitics, faddism and shifting belief systems.

"Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat" is a sarcastic satire on materialism, fashion and faddism.

ITT sold the company to Norton Simon, which was then bought whole by Esmark, whose name was itself a product of corporate faddism.

"The faddism over here is dangerous," said Stephen M. Meyer of the Massachusetts Instititue of Technology, an expert on Soviet defense and arms control.

It has been described as food faddism and quackery, with critics arguing that it is based upon an "exaggerated belief in the effects of nutrition upon health and disease."

That period marked the first golden age of American food faddism, though of course its exponents spoke not in terms of fashion but of "scientific eating," much as we do now.

The High Priest speculates on such topics as nonconformity, occult faddism, Nazism, terrorism, cannibalism, erotic politics, the "Goodguy badge", demoralization and the construction of artificial human companions.

At first, the industry dismissed her book as food faddism, but it sold more than a mil-lion copies, marking the beginning of a new awareness of the links between diet, health and planetary ecology.

Many pregnant teens are at risk of nutritional deficiencies from poor eating habits common in adolescence, including attempts to lose weight through dieting, skipping meals, food faddism, snacking, and consumption of fast food.