<![CDATA[In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto]]>

false <![CDATA[In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1203535494m/315425.jpg 315425 13 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-nutrient approach. 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. 3100234 book 2007 In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto total:11212|5:3678|4:4796|3:2253|2:431|1:54| 11212 45249 22143 3106 4 64 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Mar 04 17:32:29 -0800 2008 Tue Mar 04 17:45:45 -0800 2008 more...]]> 1 62 false false Mon Mar 31 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Feb 16 16:28:58 -0800 2008 Tue Apr 01 11:51:28 -0700 2008
Michael Pollan is right about some of the big stuff. Nutrition re...more...]]> 3 14 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 07 18:45:59 -0800 2008 Wed Jan 30 23:23:29 -0800 2008 more...]]> 2 15 false false Thu Mar 06 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Mar 04 14:04:05 -0800 2008 Thu Mar 06 20:10:23 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 8 false false Mon Mar 10 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Mar 01 19:59:18 -0800 2008 Mon Mar 10 16:08:22 -0700 2008 more...]]> 0 7 false false Thu Jan 03 07:18:27 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 13 17:58:24 -0800 2008
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Those are the first sentences of Michael Pollan's delightful little book In Defense of Food. In fact, as Pollan himself admits, there's not much more to it than that. So, how to fill up a whole book when those three first sentences tell ...more...]]> 4 5 false false Sat Jul 19 07:46:06 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 19 07:46:40 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 4 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 24 10:33:45 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 07 19:23:28 -0800 2008
This book was really eye opening. I think (or thought) of myself as having a pretty healthy diet-- I have the whole wheat blend flaxseed enhanced pasta, the total cereal with nonfat soy milk, the bran muffins and the fish oil capsules.

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Michael Pollan summarizes his latest book, published January 2008, on the cover and in just seven words: "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." He admits on the very first page that he has pretty much...more...]]> 5 3 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 20 17:52:31 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 20 17:53:29 -0800 2008 more...]]> 5 4 false false Sun Jan 11 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Dec 25 15:05:58 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 11 20:47:31 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 3 false false Mon Mar 03 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Aug 01 11:25:07 -0700 2008 Fri Aug 01 11:25:27 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 2 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sat Dec 22 06:31:33 -0800 2007 Fri Jan 11 14:17:42 -0800 2008 Nina Planck's Real Food, but Michael Pollan's take was quite different. He was more interested in how Americans got to this state of being so insecure abou...more...]]> 4 2 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Nov 09 20:44:00 -0800 2007 Mon Nov 19 16:14:32 -0800 2007 So begins In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto, Michael Pollan's informative, frightening, and ultimately inspiring new book. Pollan explores the dangers of nutritionism and traces how we became a culture of fat people eating "Heart He...more...]]> 5 2 false false Tue Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Apr 07 19:41:45 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 12 13:43:34 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 2 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Thu Jan 03 14:03:02 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 06 15:10:20 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 3 false false Tue May 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed May 14 13:47:51 -0700 2008 Tue May 20 06:27:54 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Jan 11 06:14:33 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 11 06:15:05 -0800 2009 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=315425