In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto | Michael Pollan

In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto | Michael Pollan | Eat better, live longer

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In Defense of Food...

	In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto Michael Pollan Penguin Press HC, The, 2008 - 256 pages average customer review:based on 178 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Food has a new meaning for me now

Easy to read, straight to the point, a must-read for anyone who cares about what they ingest! I wish Pollan had provided a distillation of his main points in a tear-out sheet one could take to the grocery store. He didn't, but it was easy to make one for myself from his chapter on the basic ways to get REAL food.

Eat better, live longer

Here's a quick synopsis, but I strongly recommend you read this book and formulate your own opinions.

Don't shop supermarks..but if you must, stay outside of the middle aisles. Keep to the produce/meat/dairy sections which undoubtedly are located on the perimeters. Eat organic, if you can and your budget permits. Organic vegetables/fruits contain more micronutrients than those that are laced with pesticides and grown in chemically enriched soils. Utilize your local farmers' market, keep money in your community and out of corporations. Eat a diverse diet. Don't eat fat-free versions of food that shouldn't be fat-free (eg. fat free cheese, fat free chocolate, fat free butter). Eat less but better quality meats. Cereal isn't as good as advertised. Food should expire [with the exception of honey], if it doesn't, don't eat it. And most importantly, eat ethnic foods, the Western diet is the downfall of health care in America.

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What & How We Should Eat

I already knew I would like this book before I read it. What food items we see advertised on television and what colorfully and cleverly packaged items we find in mass quantities on our grocery store shelves is not really food. To quote the author-Instead of food, we are consuming "edible foodlike substances"-no longer the products of nature but of food science. I have believed for years that we have over processed and over industrialized our diets. If you really want to learn some cold hard facts, check out the Nutrition Action Newsletter, published by the Center for Science in the Public Interest.
There is real food out there and that is what we should be eating...

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Interesting and Well Written

First, it's obvious the author put in his research. This is the first book I've read by Mr Pollan and I found it to be a quick, enjoyable read. The book doesn't really bring anything new to the table (no pun intended) but does bring it all together quite concisely. The information on misguided nutritionism is very interesting. I recommend this book to anyone who cares about what they put into their body.

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