In defense of food : an eater's manifesto

Pollan, Michael.

Large Print 2008

"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 industry marketers, nutritional scientists, and journalists. As a result, we face today a complex culinary landscape dense with bad advice and foods that are not "real."...

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Food habits

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ISBN:

9781594133329
9781410405371

Description:

331 pages (large print) ; 23 cm
large print

Notes:

"The text of this Large Print edition is unabridged."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-327) and index

Contents:

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
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
Getting over nutritionism. Escape from the Western diet ; Eat food : food defined ; Mostly plants : what to eat ; Not too much : how to eat

LCCN:

2007050670

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2910767

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