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In Defense of Food : An Eater's Manifesto
ISBN: 9781594133329 | 1594133328
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Christian Large Print
Pub. Date: 5/21/2009
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From the author of the bestselling "The Omnivore's Dilemma" comes this bracing and eloquent manifesto that shows readers how they might start making thoughtful food choices that can enrich their lives and enlarge their sense of what it means to be healthy. (Consumer Health)
| Introduction: An Eater's Manifesto | p. 9 |
| The Age of Nutritionism | p. 29 |
| From Foods to Nutrients | p. 31 |
| Nutritionism Defined | p. 42 |
| Nutritionism Comes to Market | p. 49 |
| Food Science's Golden Age | p. 55 |
| The Melting of the Lipid Hypothesis | p. 59 |
| Eat Right, Get Fatter | p. 73 |
| Beyond the Pleasure Principle | p. 77 |
| The Proof ... MORE | p. 84 |
| Bad Science | p. 88 |
| Nutritionism's Children | p. 112 |
| The Western Diet and the Diseases of Civilization | p. 117 |
| The Aborigine in All of Us | p. 119 |
| The Elephant in the Room | p. 125 |
| The Industrialization of Eating: What We Do Know | p. 142 |
| From Whole Foods to Refined | p. 148 |
| From Complexity to Simplicity | p. 159 |
| From Quality to Quantity | p. 164 |
| From Leaves to Seeds | p. 172 |
| From Food Culture to Food Science | p. 184 |
| Getting Over Nutritionism | p. 191 |
| Escape from the Western Diet | p. 193 |
| Eat Food: Food Defined | p. 204 |
| Mostly Plants: What to Eat | p. 223 |
| Not Too Much: How to Eat | p. 251 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 279 |
| Sources | p. 285 |
| Resources | p. 325 |
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