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In Defense of Food
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An edition of In Defense of Food
(2008)
In Defense of Food
An Eater's Manifesto
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by Michael Pollan
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An edition of In Defense of Food
(2008)
In Defense of Food
An Eater's Manifesto
1 edition
by Michael Pollan
- 16 Ratings
- 117 Want to read
- 2 Currently reading
- 26 Have read
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What to eat, what not to eat, and how to think about health: a manifesto for our times"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." These simple words go to the heart of Michael Pollan's In Defense of Food, the well-considered answers he provides to the que
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In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
January 1, 2008, Penguin Press HC, The
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First Sentence
"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants."
Table of Contents
| Introduction: An Eater'sManifesto | ||
| I. The Age of Nutritionism | ||
| One: From Foods to Nutrients | ||
| Two: Nutritonism Defined | ||
| Three: Nutritionism Comes to Market | ||
| Four: Food Science's Golden Age | ||
| Five: The Melting of the Lipid Hypothesis | ||
| Six: Eat Right, Get Fatter | ||
| Seven: Beyond the Pleasure Principle | ||
| Eight: The Proof in the Low-Fat Pudding | ||
| Nine: Bad Science | ||
| Ten: Nutritionism's Children | ||
| II. The Western Diet and the Diseases of Civilization | ||
| One: The Aborigine in All of Us | ||
| Two: The Elephant in the Room | ||
| Three: The Industrialization of Eating: What Do We Know | ||
| 1) From Whole Foods to Refined | ||
| 2) From Complexity to Simplicity | ||
| 3) From Quality to Quantity | ||
| 4) From Leaves to Seed | ||
| 5) From Food Culture to Food Science | ||
| III. Getting Over Nutritionism | ||
| One: Escape from the Western Diet | ||
| Two: Eat Food: Food Defined | ||
| Three: Mostly Plants: What to Eat | ||
| Four: Not Too Much: How to Eat | ||
| Acknowledgments | ||
| Sources | ||
| Resources | ||
| Index |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 206-228) and index.
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