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 Americans hate to love, and love to hate - food. In Defense of Food asks the question: Where is the "food" in our nutrient-deficient food? Michael Pollan helps us navigate the nutritional minefield of our food culture and presents answers to this question that we can live with. We fill our grocery baskets with processed foods that claim to lower cholesterol, weight and glucose levels, but our health as a nation has deteriorated since we began eating these "health foods." This book shows what it would be like if we could put our food back together again and reconsider what it means to eat well.
Pollan is famous for his call to action: Eat food, not too much, mostly plants! He explains that food in this country is driven by a multimillion dollar marketing machine. He unmasks the diet bullies and points out the convenient coming together of interests of manufacturers, marketers and nutritional scientists. He also questions the idea that dietary fat leads to chronic illness.
This is a nutrition book that doesn't promote a new diet, and the message is plain and simple: Go back to nature, eat wholesome foods and don't bother with dieting. Don't overeat, eat slowly and enjoy your meals.
In Defense of Food is eye-opening. It makes us think twice about what we put into our mouths, and it reveals a major step toward a much healthier lifestyle . . . merely by changing the foods we eat.
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