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.
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