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I bought it years ago, and because of my habit of buying books (much) faster than I can.

A writer of great subtlety, Pollan doesn’t preach to the choir in fact, rarely does he preach at all, preferring to lets the facts speak for themselves. Truth time: This book wasnt as compelling as I expected it to be. By food, Michael Pollan means real, proper, simple food - not the. The first section of his three-part essay refutes the authority of the diet bullies, pointing up the confluence of interests among manufacturers of processed foods, marketers and nutritional scientists—a cabal whose nutritional advice has given rise to “a notably unhealthy preoccupation with nutrition and diet and the idea of eating healthily.” The second portion vivisects the Western diet, questioning, among other sacred cows, the idea that dietary fat leads to chronic illness. In Defence of Food (English, Paperback, Pollan Michael). Examining the question of what to eat from the perspective of health, this powerfully argued, thoroughly researched and elegant manifesto cuts straight to the chase with a maxim that is deceptively simple: “Eat food, not too much, mostly plants.” But as Pollan explains, “food” in a country that is driven by “a thirty-two billion-dollar marketing machine” is both a loaded term and, in its purest sense, a holy grail. His new book takes up where the previous work left off. , Pollan traced a direct line between the industrialization of our food supply and the degradation of the environment. Examining the question of what to eat from the perspective of health, this powerfully argued, thoroughly. In his hugely influential treatise The Omnivore’s Dilemma His new book takes up where the previous work left off.