In Defense of Food

An Eater's Manifesto

Michael Pollan
Health Communications Inc
ISBN 10: 1594201455
ISBN 13: 978-1594201455

The evolution of food in Western society has left many of us pondering about its quality and its impact on our physical health. In Michael Pollan’s In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto, he explores the symptoms of our present confusion about healthy foods and how we as a society have complicated its simple notion. This is accomplished through an eye opening analysis of the past, present and future of our society’s food consumption and how with increased research and official nutritional advice, we’ve become more unhealthy and obese then ever before. Michael takes a sharp-edge approach in defending real food — which he defines as “the sort of food our great-grandmothers would recognize as food” — in contrast to “edible food-like substances” that we have adapted to, which are no longer products of nature, but food science. Michael says it best when he states: “Food has been replaced by nutrients and common sense by confusion”. In Defense of Food shows us how we can escape the Western diet and most of the chronic diseases that diet causes. This witty and to the point paperback is an excellent choice for anyone looking for simple and practical answers to a complex question: “What we humans should eat in order to be maximally
healthy? Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”

Compiled By Doris Ohlmann