We are what we eat

Tue, 01/29/2008 - 4:00pm by Maxine

Michael Pollan, author of the popular The Omnivore's Dilemma has written another highly persuasive book on what he considers eating well, i.e., "...Don't eat anything your great-great-grandmother wouldn't recognize as food." In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto, examines the question of what to eat based on what is healthy, not to his mind any packaged product that makes extraordinary claims about its health benefits. People generally eat what the brilliant marketers tell them is good to eat, says Pollan, not seeing beyond the multi-million dollar "food" business. Pollan also debunks, having done his homework, popular notions including the idea that dietary fat causes chronic illness. Here, Pollan's plea is, "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants."