Brad's review
What to Eat by Marion Nestle
Brad's review
rating:
bookshelves: food, non-fiction
recommended for: foodies, fans of Michael Pollan
status: Read in July, 2007
rating:
bookshelves: food, non-fiction
recommended for: foodies, fans of Michael Pollan
status: Read in July, 2007
Marion Nestle is a nutritionist and professor. What to Eat is a nicely segmented book of nutrition advice. A lot of the heady political issues are ones I've read before in Fast Food Nation, The Omnivore's Dilemma and others. Nestle has simple overall advice: "eat less, move more, eat lots of fruits and vegetables, go easy on junk foods."
Some other neat bits I picked up from the book:
-avoid farm-raised fish.
-7 eggs a week is pretty much the max
-frozen vegetables are good
-homogenizing milk is a weird process
-Driscoll's pretty much owns the berry market.
-people marketed milk as a weight-loss food.
-margarine's cheap, but pretty much awful
-soy is in everything, but it's so bitter that Americans find it unpalatable. A...more
Some other neat bits I picked up from the book:
-avoid farm-raised fish.
-7 eggs a week is pretty much the max
-frozen vegetables are good
-homogenizing milk is a weird process
-Driscoll's pretty much owns the berry market.
-people marketed milk as a weight-loss food.
-margarine's cheap, but pretty much awful
-soy is in everything, but it's so bitter that Americans find it unpalatable. A...more
