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Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:What to eat, what not to eat, and how to think about health: a manifesto for our times Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. These simple words go to the heart of Michael Pollan's In Defense of Food, the well-considered answers he provides to the questions posed in the bestselling The Omnivore's Dilemma, Humans used to know how to eat well, Pollan argues. But the balanced dietary lessons that were once passed down through generations have been confused, complicated, and distorted by food industry marketers, nutritional scientists, and journalists-all of whom have much to gain from our dietary confusion. As a result, we face today a complex culinary landscape dense with bad advice and foods that are not real. These edible foodlike substances are often packaged with labels bearing health claims that are typically false or misleading. Indeed, real food is fast disappearing from the marketplace, to be replaced by nutrients, and plain old eating by an obsession with nutrition that is, paradoxically, ruining our health, not to mention our meals. Michael Pollan's sensible and decidedly counterintuitive advice is: Don't eat anything that your great-great grandmother would not recognize as food. Writing In Defense of Food, and affirming the joy of eating, Pollan suggests that if we would pay more for better, well-grown food, but buy less of it, we'll benefit ourselves, our communities, and the environment at large. Taking a clear-eyed look at what science does and does not know about the links between diet and health, he proposes a new way to think about the question of what to eat that is informed by ecology and tradition rather than by the prevailing nutrient-by-nutrientapproach. In Defense of Food reminds us that, despite the daunting dietary landscape Americans confront in the modern supermarket, the solutions to the current omnivore's dilemma can be found all around us. In looking toward traditional diets the world over, as well as the foods our families-and regions-historically enjoyed, we can recover a more balanced, reasonable, and pleasurable approach to food. Michael Pollan's bracing and eloquent manifesto shows us how we might start making thoughtful food choices that will enrich our lives and enlarge our sense of what it means to be healthy. Synopsis:From the author of the bestselling "The Omnivore's Dilemma" comes this bracing and eloquent manifesto that shows readers how they might start making thoughtful food choices that can enrich their lives and enlarge their sense of what it means to be healthy. (Consumer Health) Synopsis:#LINK Michael Pollan's lastbook , The Omnivore's Dilemma, launched a national conversation about the American way of eating; now In Defense of Food shows us how to change it, one meal at a time. Pollan proposes a new answer to the question of what we should eat that comes down to seven simple but liberating words: Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. Pollan's bracing and eloquent manifesto shows us how we can start making thoughtful food choices that will enrich our lives, enlarge our sense of what it means to be healthy, and bring pleasure back to eating. >#About the AuthorMichael Pollan is the author of four previous books, including The Omnivore's Dilemma and The Botany of Desire, both New York Times bestsellers. A longtime contributor to The New York Times, he is also the Knight Professor of Journalism at Berkeley. Table of ContentsIn Defense Of Food Introduction: An Eater's Manifesto I. The Age Of Nutritionism One: From Foods to Nutrients Two: Nutritionism Defined Three: Nutritionism Comes to Market Four: Food Science's Golden Age Five: The Melting of the Lipid Hypothesis Six: Eat Right, Get Fatter Seven: Beyond the Pleasure Principle Eight: The Proof in the Low-Fat Pudding Nine: Bad Science Ten: Nutritionism's Children II. The Western Diet And The Diseases of Civilization One: The Aborigine in All of Us Two: The Elephant in the Room Three: The Industrialization of Eating: What We Do Know 1. From Whole Foods to Refined 2. From Complexity to Simplicity 3. From Quality to Quantity 4. From Leaves to Seeds 5. From Food Culture to Food Science III. Getting Over Nutritionism One: Escape from the Western Diet Two: Eat Food: Food Defined Three: Mostly Plants: What to Eat Four: Not Too Much: How to Eat Acknowledgments Sources Resources Index What Our Readers Are SayingAdd a comment for a chance to win!Average customer rating based on 3 comments:
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