Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.
An edition of In Defense of Food
(2008)
In defence of food
the myth of nutrition and the pleasures of eating
by Michael Pollan
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Michael Pollan's bracing and eloquent manifesto shows us how we might start making thoughtful food choices that will enrich our lives and our palates and enlarge our sense of what it means to be healthy.
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Nutrition, nyt:paperback_nonfiction=2009-10-25, Food habits, New York Times bestseller, Food, Research, Cooking & Food, Medical, Nonfiction, Sociology, Natural foods, Large type books, Analysis, Diet Fads, Nahrungsaufnahme, Speise, Ernährung, Food and drink, Nutrition and dietetics, Voedingsgewoonten, Ernährungserziehung, Zivilisationskrankheit, Ernährungsgewohnheit, Nutritional Physiological PhenomenaShowing 5 featured editions. View all 15 editions?
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In defence of food: the myth of nutrition and the pleasures of eating
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In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
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Table of Contents
The age of nutritionism. From foods to nutrients ; Nutritionism defined ; Nutritionism comes to market ; Food science's golden age ; The melting of the lipid hypothesis ; Eat right, get fatter ; Beyond the pleasure principle ; The proof in the low-fat pudding ; Bad science ; Nutritionism's children
The Western diet and the diseases of civilization. The Aborigine in all of us ; The elephant in the room ; The industrialization of eating : what we do know. From whole foods to refined
From complexity to simplicity
From quality to quantity
From leaves to seeds
From food culture to food science
Getting over nutritionism. Escape from the Western diet ; Eat food : food defined ; Mostly plants : what to eat ; Not too much : how to eat.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-228) and index.
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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 que
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