Book description
"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." These simple words go to the heart of Michael Pollan's In Defence of Food. 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…
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Pollan was an important guiding voice in the food movement of the early 2000s, both with Omnivore’s Dilemma and with this book, which got less attention, but which I think is so important for understanding how Americans’ current relationship to nutrition, dietary advice, and changing food fads has developed.
This book helped me understand how the food industry and food science have contributed to the widespread confusion about what foods we should and shouldn’t eat, what is and isn’t healthy for us.
Pollan points out how the mania for or against one macronutrient or another (Low fat! Keto! Low carb!…
From Anna's list on how Americans came to eat so much processed food.
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