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In Defense of Food : An Eater's Manifesto

ISBN: 9781594201455 | 1594201455

Edition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The
Pub. Date: 1/1/2008

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Summary Table of Contents Author Biography

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 journa... MORE

Introduction: An Eater's Manifesto	p. 1
The Age of Nutritionism	p. 17
From Foods to Nutrients	p. 19
Nutritionism Defined	p. 27
Nutritionism Comes to Market	p. 32
Food Science's Golden Age	p. 36
The Melting of the Lipid Hypothesis	p. 40
Eat Right, Get Fatter	p. 50
Beyond the Pleasure Principle	p. 53
The Proof ... MOREin the Low-Fat Pudding	p. 58
Bad Science	p. 61
Nutritionism's Children	p. 78
The Western Diet and the Diseases of Civilization	p. 83
The Aborigine in All of Us	p. 85
The Elephant in the Room	p. 89
The Industrialization of Eating: What We Do Know	p. 101
From Whole Foods to Refined	p. 106
From Complexity to Simplicity	p. 114
From Quality to Quantity	p. 118
From Leaves to Seeds	p. 124
From Food Culture to Food Science	p. 132
Getting Over Nutritionism	p. 137
Escape from the Western Diet	p. 139
Eat Food: Food Defined	p. 147
Mostly Plants: What to Eat	p. 161
Not Too Much: How to Eat	p. 182
Acknowledgments	p. 202
Sources	p. 206
Resources	p. 229
Index	p. 231
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Michael Pollan is the author of four previous books, including The Omnivore's Dilemma and The Botany of Desire, both New York Times bestsellers. A longtime contributor to The New York Times, he is also the Knight Professor of journalism at Berkeley.

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