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It'd be 5 stars if a lot of it weren't "duh!" for me, but a lot of it was still eye-opening. All of it would be eye-opening for some folks I know and love, so ... yeah, a good book. A little repetitive in places, but still, very good and worth reading. Nutritionism is a slippery slope for the health-conscious!
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This book made me desperately want to start a garden and never shop in a supermarket again.
It gives a good set of "rules of thumb" for how to eat actual food (instead of food products), how to eat an appropriate amount, and how to go about eating "mostly plants." ...more
It gives a good set of "rules of thumb" for how to eat actual food (instead of food products), how to eat an appropriate amount, and how to go about eating "mostly plants." ...more
Grabbed this from the library after finishing _The Omnivore's Dilemma_. This one is a quick read, and to the point about its purpose: to convince us that "Scientific nutritionism" is a poor guide to what and how to eat. It's not a hard case to make. Pollan traces the approach to the nineteenth-century eras in which elements were being isolated and scientists hoped to discover the keys to the universe in individual compounds, ignoring the interlinkages that connect everything to everything else.
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It's like The Omnivore's Dilemma, but shorter and with less detail.
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Jan 06, 2009
Valerie
rated it
it was amazing
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learning-about-the-world,
changed-my-thinking
May 26, 2009
Tasshin Fogleman
rated it
really liked it
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Aug 22, 2014
Niall Glynn
marked it as to-read
