In Defense of Food : : an Eater's Manifesto

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Eat Food. Not Too Much. Mostly Plants. submitted by Sara W on July 31, 2012, 3:50pm In Defense of Food focuses on journalist Michael Pollan's attempt to make sense of what is means eat well among today's confusing dietary landscape.

He breaks down his research along simple rules, some of which are "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants" while going into detail about how food manufacturing and marketing has made following those basic rules more difficult than ever.

Pollan traces the history of things like white bread, and the proliferation of snack foods and eating according to nutrients instead of eating whole foods, and he always brings it back to where these changes have gotten us: our current overweight and unhealthy statistics.

Great Advice submitted by majean on August 17, 2018, 7:09pm Not preachy, but sound advice.

This book is about knowledge and general guidelines submitted by Susan4Pax -prev. sueij- on August 25, 2018, 5:44pm More really good stuff from the guy who wrote _The Omnivore's Dilemma_.

If you know about livestock getting hormones and antibiotics, if you worry about farmers planting monocultures, if you wonder about how Rice Krispies can actually be considered a reasonable source of any vitamin, if you've heard about pesticides affecting workers and getting into the foods we eat, if the American epidemic of obesity and its effect on children and health care seems like a problem, you might wonder what we're supposed to do about it.

That's what this book is about. His basic recommendation takes seven words: Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.

Somewhat surprisingly, there's a lot to say to help make those three small recommendations make sense and be do-able. And he says it really well. This book is about knowledge and general guidelines, not condemnations and recipes. Well worth the read.

In submitted by smr on July 5, 2020, 10:35am Food in the independent

Another good one submitted by crp on July 29, 2020, 1:39pm We really enjoyed The Omnivore's Dilemma; This is another solid good one.