| In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto Contributor(s): Pollan, Michael (Author) |
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ISBN: 1594201455 ISBN-13: 9781594201455 Publisher: Penguin Press OUR PRICE: $22.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 2008 * Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: From the author of the bestselling "The Omnivores Dilemma" comes this bracing and eloquent manifesto that shows readers how they might start making thoughtful food choices that will enrich their lives and enlarge their sense of what it means to be healthy. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Health & Fitness | Diet & Nutrition - Nutrition |
| Dewey: 613 |
| LCCN: 2007037552 |
| Lexile Measure: 1390 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.94" W x 8.46" (0.83 lbs) 256 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: #1 New York Times Bestseller from the author of How to Change Your Mind, The Omnivore's Dilemma, and Food Rules Food. There's plenty of it around, and we all love to eat it. So why should anyone need to defend it? Because in the so-called Western diet, food has been replaced by nutrients, and common sense by confusion--most of what we're consuming today is longer the product of nature but of food science. The result is what Michael Pollan calls the American Paradox: The more we worry about nutrition, the less healthy we see to become. With In Defense of Food, Pollan proposes a new (and very old) answer to the question of what we should eat that comes down to seven simple but liberating words: Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. Pollan's bracing and eloquent manifesto shows us how we can start making thoughtful food choices that will enrich our lives, enlarge our sense of what it means to be healthy, and bring pleasure back to eating. |