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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 ... read more
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Memorable Quotes
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“Be the kind of person who would take supplements, and then save your money.”
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“Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”
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“Most of the nutritional advice we've received over the last half century (and in particular the advice to replace the fats in our diets with carbohydrates) has actually made us less healthy and considerably fatter.”
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“We are becoming a nation of orthorexics: people with an unhealthy obsession with healthy eating.”
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“The scientists haven't tested the hypothesis yet, but I'm willing to bet that when they do they'll find an inverse correlation between the amount of time people spend worrying about nutrition and their overall health and happiness.”
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“Don't eat anything incapable of rotting.”
First Sentence
If you spent any time at all in a supermarket in the 1980s, you might have noticed something peculiar going on.
Table of Contents
I. The Age of Nutritionism
1. From Foods to Nutrients
2. Nutritionism Defined
3. Nutritionism Comes to Market
4. Food Science's Golden Age
5. The Melting of the Lipid Hypothesis
6. Eat Right, Get Fatter
7. Beyond the Pleasure Principle
8. The Proof in the Low-Fat Pudding
9. Bad Science
10. Nutritionism's Children
II. The Western Diet and the Disease of Civilization
1. The Aborigine in All of Us
2. The Elephant in the Room
3. The Industrialization of Eating:
- What We Do Know:
1. From Whole Foods to Refined
2. From Complexity to Simplicity
3. From Quality to Quantity
4. From Leaves to Seeds
5. From Food Culture to Food Science
III. Getting Over Nutritionism
1. Escape from the Western Diet
2. Eat Food: Food Defined
3. Mostly Plants: What to Eat
4. Not Too Much: How to Eat
Acknowledgements
Sources
Resources
Index
Awards
- James Beard Foundation Award (2009: Cookbook: Writing and Literature)
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