File Format | PDF
File Size | 1.60 MB
Pages | 410
Language | English
Category | Nutrition
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Description: #1 New York
Times Bestseller.
Food. There's
plenty of it around, and we all love to eat it. So why should anyone need to
defend it?
Because in the
so-called Western diet, food has been replaced by nutrients, and common sense
by confusion--most of what we’re consuming today is 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 see 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.
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In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto