Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.
An edition of In Defense of Food
(2008)
In Defense of Food
An Eater's Manifesto
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by Michael Pollan
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"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." These simple words go to the heart of food journalist Pollan's thesis. Humans used to know how to eat well, he argues, but the balanced dietary lessons that were once passed down through generations have been confused and distorted by food industry marketers, nutritional scientists, and journalists. As a result, we face today a complex culinary landscape dense with bad advice and foods that are not "real." Indeed, plain old eating is being replaced by an obsession with nutrition that is, paradoxically, ruining our health, not to mention our meals. Pollan's advice is: "Don't eat anything that your great-great grandmother would not recognize as food." Looking at what science does and does not know about diet and health, he proposes a new way to think about what to eat, informed by ecology and tradition rather than by the nutrient-by-nutrient approach. -- From publisher description.
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January 1, 2008
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Penguin Press HC, The,
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English
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Nutrition, nyt:paperback_nonfiction=2009-10-25, Food habits, New York Times bestseller, Food, Research, Cooking & Food, Medical, Nonfiction, Sociology, Natural foods, Large type books, Analysis, Diet Fads, Nahrungsaufnahme, Speise, Ernährung, Food and drink, Nutrition and dietetics, Voedingsgewoonten, Ernährungserziehung, Zivilisationskrankheit, Ernährungsgewohnheit, Nutritional Physiological Phenomena, Feeding BehaviorShowing 4 featured editions. View all 15 editions?
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Book Details
First Sentence
"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants."
Table of Contents
Introduction: An Eater'sManifesto
I. The Age of Nutritionism
One: From Foods to Nutrients
Two: Nutritonism 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 Do We Know
1) From Whole Foods to Refined
2) From Complexity to Simplicity
3) From Quality to Quantity
4) From Leaves to Seed
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
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Index
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 206-228) and index.
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