In defense of food : an eater's manifesto / Michael Pollan.
Pollan, Michael.
2008
RA784 .P643 2008 (Mapit)
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Title
In defense of food : an eater's manifesto / Michael Pollan.
Author
Pollan, Michael.
ISBN
9781594201455
1594201455
Publication Details
New York : Penguin Press, 2008.
Language
English
Description
244 p. ; 22 cm.
Call Number
RA784 .P643 2008
Dewey Decimal Classification
613
Summary
"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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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Table of contents only
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pt. 1. The age of nutritionism.
From foods to nutrients
Nutritionism defined
Nutritionism comes to market
Food science's golden age
The melting of the lipid hypothesis
Eat right, get fatter
Beyond the pleasure principle
The proof in the low-fat pudding
Bad science
Nutritionism's children
pt. 2. The Western diet and the diseases of civilization.
The Aborigine in all of us
The elephant in the room
The industrialization of eating : what we do know : From whole foods to refined ; From complexity to simplicity ; From quality to quantity ; From leaves to seeds ; From food culture to food science
pt. 3. Getting over nutritionism.
Escape from the Western diet
Eat food : food defined
Mostly plants : what to eat
Not too much : how to eat.

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