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In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
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What to eat, what not to eat, and how to think about health: a manifesto for our times
"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." These simple words go to the heart of Michael Pollan's In Defense of Food, the well-considered answers he provides to the questions posed in the bestselling The Omnivore's Dilemma. Humans used to know how to eat well, Pollan argues. But the balanced dietary lessons that were once passed down through generations have been confused, complicated, and distorted by food industry marketers, nutritional scientists, and journalists-all of whom have much to gain from our dietary confusion. As a result, we face today a complex culinary landscape dense with bad advice and foods that are not "real." These "edible foodlike substances" are often packaged with labels bearing health claims that are typically false or misleading. Indeed, real food is fast disappearing from the marketplace, to be replaced by "nutrients," and plain old eating by an obsession with nutrition that is, paradoxically, ruining our health, not to mention our meals. Michael Pollan's sensible and decidedly counterintuitive advice is: "Don't eat anything that your great-great grandmother would not recognize as food."
Writing In Defense of Food, and affirming the joy of eating, Pollan suggests that if we would pay more for better, well-grown food, but buy less of it, we'll benefit ourselves, our communities, and the environment at large. Taking a clear-eyed look at what science does and does not know about the links between diet and health, he proposes a new way to think about the question of what to eat that is informed by ecology and tradition rather than by the prevailing nutrient-by-nutrient approach.
In Defense of Food reminds us that, despite the daunting dietary landscape Americans confront in the modern supermarket, the solutions to the current omnivore's dilemma can be found all around us.
In looking toward traditional diets the world over, as well as the foods our families-and regions-historically enjoyed, we can recover a more balanced, reasonable, and pleasurable approach to food. Michael Pollan's bracing and eloquent manifesto shows us how we might start making thoughtful food choices that will enrich our lives and enlarge our sense of what it means to be healthy.
PRODUCT DESCRIPTIONS:
Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.2
EAN: 9781594201455
ISBN: 1594201455
Label: Penguin Press HC, The
Manufacturer: Penguin Press HC, The
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 256
Publication Date: 2008
Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The
Studio: Penguin Press HC, The
SIMILAR ITEMS:
• The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
• The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World
• Second Nature: A Gardener's Education
• Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (P.S.)
• The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite
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everybodu has to read it -
We have so much junk ''food'' in our store, this book will remind you what food really is for us!
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Great read that sticks in your mind -
This book enhanced the way I approach food. It emphasizes healthful eating with a vivid and logical argument of why this is important. The author's approach and reasoning makes a big impression: I read this book 8 months ago and still find myself gravitating more towards foods that are natural and portions that are modest. It has even influenced my shopping habits - I make a more concerted effort to shop the periphery of the grocery, buying the "raw materials" for meals that I make myself rather than being seduced by the snazzy marketing of mass-marketed junk food.
The genre of healthful eating books can get a little over the top, even evangelical in admonitions in what the reader must do. Refreshingly, it is not overly preachy, does not foresee apocalyptic consequences unless we collectively change immediately, and makes a very even-handed assessment of how we can better live.
It is a fun read: enlightening, entertaining and influential over my daily eating habits.
It's a bit dense, but worth the careful read.... -
Sinclair's "The Jungle" took an eye opening, in depth look at the meat industry in this country and led to sweeping changes in the way we produce and the process meat.
Here, we have an eye opening, in depth look at "Nutritionism" - that notion that processed foods are just as good as natural foods so long as the nutritional values are equal - and it's destructve effect on the American diet.
You get history here - some of it tedious (for example there are dates, and policy discussions) - but it's worth the read.
One can't help but plow through these two hundred pages and wonder whether there's a "conspiracy" afoot - that somehow the lobbyists and special interests are really so powerful, they can support destructive tendacies in the American diet and actually build policy to support that destruction. There are times when I think it's laid on a bit thick, but the warning message is a good one.
Unlike most diet books (and this is not one, mind you) this book does break new ground. It provides one of the first hard hitting looks at a destructive trend that should be reversed.
You could read the first page of this book and "learn" the message - the author seems fine with that...after all, he does stick his mantra in the opening line of the book. But, if you care to know more, know why, and read the defense of his position, the book is worth the time.
It is dense. But it probably needs to be. So, be forwardned that careful reading is probably necessary to capture the essense of the author's tone. For that matter, an audio version, which Publisher's Weekly says is very good, may be a better alternative for those that prefer lighter works.
But the payoff is good. I highly recommend.
Love it -
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Thoughtful, Thought-provoking ... -
I have been waiting for quite some time to read this book and I have another one of his books coming on the way. As a woman who has been looking for ways to change our family's eating habits, this book supports my position that we need to eat more plants and less processed food. A lot of the stuff Pollan mentioned in here is nothing new for me as I've read bits and pieces of it elsewhere in other articles and other books, as well as coming to my own conclusion from watching my extended family's eating habits.
Simply put, I do not care for "man-made" substances. I cannot tolerate man-made sweetners and even prescription drugs bother me. After reading Barbara Kingsolver's "Animal, Food, Miracle," I am shocked to realize that even though I am trying to eat more plants ... there aren't that many varieties of brocoli in the grocery store ... just one that produces great yield but not nearly enough nutrients. I knew about the soil leaching all the nutrients out, which is why farmers of old used to rotate their crops, but I didn't realize that plants do the same thing as well. Interesting.
This book is not an in-depth book on food like I had hoped for, but it is a great introduction on thought-provoking theories about the history of our eating habits in the last century. Personally, I feel a sense of relief that I am not the only one struggling with how to read a label these days ... I do get confused as to which is the "bad fat, good fat" and etc. Goodness knows, in this household, we love Oreo cookies and we know that it's not good for us ... but we love it anyways. But we don't gorge on it ... we try to supplement it with other good foods. Anyhow, that's not the point of Pollan's book. His point is, we need to change our way of thinking ... not just our eating habits, but the way we approach food. For some odd reason, Americans seem to think that eating is not pleasurable. And for some reason, no matter how much people diet, they still seem to get sicker every time.
This book presents interesting concepts and theories which are rather different from other "food" books that are out on the market. For me personally, this book has got me to look at my pantry a bit differently and trying to figure out how much more I can get away from processed food ... which I am already on the path of doing, and changing our eating habits to benefit the earth as well as for ourselves. There is an increased risk to heart disease and diabetes and the links are increasingly pointing to our eating habits. This book points a light at why it might be that way even if we're trying to eat better and healthier. There is a lot more to just eating ... there's food preparation, family get-togethers and more.
Definitely a book worth reading. It is definitely a stepping stone to exploring more options of finding out what our diet needs more of and a challenge to our way of thinking as well.
6/25/09
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