In defense of food : an eater's manifesto /

"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." These simple words go to the heart of food journalist Pollan's thesis. Humans used to know how to eat well, he argues, but the balanced dietary lessons that were once passed down through generations have been confused and distorted by food indu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pollan, Michael (Author)
Corporate Author: Go Big Read (Program)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Penguin Press, 2008.
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Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. 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
  • pt. 2. 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
  • pt. 3. Getting over nutritionism.
  • Escape from the Western diet
  • Eat food : food defined
  • Mostly plants : what to eat
  • Not too much : how to eat.