Michael Pollan - In Defense of Food

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Paperback - As new

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4.1/5 Goodreads

Synopsis
Because in the so-called Western diet, food has been replaced by nutrients, and common sense by confusion-most of what we're con- suming today is no longer the product of nature but of food science. The result is what Michael Pollan calls the American Paradox: The more we worry about nutrition, the less healthy we seem to become. With In Defense of Food, Pollan proposes a new (and very old) answer to the question of what we should eat that comes down to seven simple but liberating words: Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. Pollan's bracing and eloquent manifesto shows us how we can start making thoughtful food choices that will enrich our lives, enlarge our sense of what it means to be healthy, and bring pleasure back to eating.

"Michael Pollan [is the] designated repository for the nation's food conscience." - Frank Bruni, The New York Times
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"A tough, witty, cogent rebuttal to the proposition that food can be reduced to its nutritional components without the loss of something essential... [a] lively, invaluable book." - Janet Maslin, The New York Times