After seeing In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto reviewed on a few other blogs I frequent, I was intrigued. Proposing neither a diet nor an eating method, Michael Pollan asks some thoughtful questions about what we eat, how we eat it, and if it's really doing us any good, questions like:
- Of what does the Western diet truly consist?
- With all the health claims on the labels of our food, why are we getting fatter and sicker?
- Why are we developing heart disease and diabetes at alarmingly increasing rates?
- Is there a connection between the food pyramid, the food conglomerates, and the medical establishment?
- Why are people in other countries who eat their culture's traditional diet healthier regardless of that diet's fat or carb content?
- Would what I eat even pass for food in my grandmother or great-grandmother's day?
I recommend In Defense of Food to anyone willing to take a look at what's really on your plate.
4 comments:
I'll have to check this out. I'm currently reading "The End of Overeating So far it's been about how foods are processed and layered in our country in such a way to lead to overstimulation and addiction. Very enlightening. I think this book would be a good follow up. Thanks!
nourishing traditions... sally fallon & mary enig... great addition to your collection
Oh, yes, this was an interesting book! What exactly DO we put in our mouths...? Makes ya wonder.
Have you read Freakonomics? There's a new Superfreakonomics book out now. I betcha you'd like those.
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