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In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
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Editorial Reviews (Courtesy of Amazon.com)
The companion volume to The New York Times bestseller The Omnivore's Dilemma
Michael Pollan's lastbook , The Omnivore's Dilemma, launched a national conversation about the American way of eating; now In Defense of Food shows us how to change it, one meal at a time. Pollan proposes a new answer to the question of what we should eat that comes down to seven simple but liberating words: Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. Pollan's bracing and eloquent manifesto shows us how we can start making thoughtful food choices that will enrich our lives, enlarge our sense of what it means to be healthy, and bring pleasure back to eating.
Amazon.com Review
Amazon Significant Seven, January 2008: Food is the one thing that Americans hate to love and, as it turns out, love to hate. What we want to eat has been ousted by the notion of what we should eat, and it's at this nexus of hunger and hang-up that Michael Pollan poses his most salient question: where is the food in our food? What follows in In Defense of Food is a series of wonderfully clear and thoughtful answers that help us omnivores navigate the nutritional minefield that's come to typify our food culture. Many processed foods vie for a spot in our grocery baskets, claiming to lower cholesterol, weight, glucose levels, you name it. Yet Pollan shows that these convenient "healthy" alternatives to whole foods are appallingly inconvenient: our health has a nation has only deteriorated since we started exiling carbs, fats--even fruits--from our daily meals. His razor-sharp analysis of the American diet (as well as its architects and its detractors) offers an inspiring glimpse of what it would be like if we could (a la Humpty Dumpty) put our food back together again and reconsider what it means to eat well. In a season filled with rallying cries to lose weight and be healthy, Pollan's call to action?"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants."--is a program I actually want to follow. --Anne Bartholomew
Table of Contents (Courtesy of Barnes & Noble.com)
Introduction: An Eater's Manifesto 9
I The Age of Nutritionism 29
1 From Foods to Nutrients 31
2 Nutritionism Defined 42
3 Nutritionism Comes to Market 49
4 Food Science's Golden Age 55
5 The Melting of the Lipid Hypothesis 59
6 Eat Right, Get Fatter 73
7 Beyond the Pleasure Principle 77
8 The Proof in the Low-Fat Pudding 84
9 Bad Science 88
10 Nutritionism's Children 112
II The Western Diet and the Diseases of Civilization 117
1 The Aborigine in All of Us 119
2 The Elephant in the Room 125
3 The Industrialization of Eating: What We Do Know 142
1 From Whole Foods to Refined 148
2 From Complexity to Simplicity 159
3 From Quality to Quantity 164
4 From Leaves to Seeds 172
5 From Food Culture to Food Science 184
III Getting Over Nutritionism 191
1 Escape from the Western Diet 193
2 Eat Food: Food Defined 204
3 Mostly Plants: What to Eat 223
4 Not Too Much: How to Eat 251
Acknowledgments 279
Sources 285
Resources 325