![]() ![]() He points out how food, or what passes as ‘food’ has evolved dramatically since the Industrial Age. Pollan begins his book by defining the phenomenon he calls, The Age of Nutritionism. In his book, Pollan deconstructs the typical North American diet and how we also tend to eat far more than we need to thrive, and how very little of our diets contain the readily available foods that best meet our dietary needs: fresh fruits and vegetables. Instead for many of us, our diets consist mainly of food ‘products’, edible substances that have been engineered in a science lab. ![]() ![]() I know this sounds deceptively simple and maybe even boring at first glance for those looking for the next diet craze, but Pollan spends the next 201 pages patiently and clearly pointing out how much of the food that we eat today just isn’t ‘real food’ (as in fresh as possible with very little processing, or in other words, something that our great grandparents would recognize as food). ![]() I also have seen Michael Pollan on TED.com and on youtube and am very interested in his viewpoints on food, nutrition and agricultural practices. This book has been high on my list of ‘things to read’ for years as a few friends have highly recommended it. I was very excited when I finally found Michael Pollan’s book In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto recently in my local secondhand bookstore. ![]()
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