Eat food. Pollan's invigorating and eloquent manifesto shows us how we can begin to make thoughtful food choices that will enrich our lives, broaden our sense of what it means to be healthy, and restore the joy of eating. A remarkable volume. captivating. Pollan offers those prescriptions that Americans so desperately need. A natural history of processing - the culinary education story of our most trusted food expert
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In Defense of Food shows us how, despite the daunting food landscape Americans face in the modern supermarket, we can escape the Western diet and, in doing so, escape most of the chronic illnesses caused by the diet.
We can relearn which foods are healthy, develop simple ways to curb our appetites, and put eating in its proper context – out of the car and back to the table.
Michael Pollan's invigorating and eloquent manifesto shows us how we can begin to make thoughtful food choices that will enrich our lives, expand our sense of what it means to be healthy, and restore the enjoyment of eating.
Because in the so-called Western diet, food has been replaced by nutrients, and common sense by confusion - most of what we consume today is no longer the product of nature but of science eating.
The result is what Michael Pollan calls the American paradox: the more we care about nutrition, the less healthy we see ourselves becoming.
In Defense of Food, Pollan offers a new (and very old) answer to the question of what we should eat that boils down to seven simple but liberating words: "Eat food. Not too much.
Mainly plants. Pollan's invigorating and eloquent manifesto shows us how we can begin to make thoughtful food choices that will enrich our lives, broaden our sense of what it means to be healthy, and restore the joy of eating.
