![]() ![]() I have always carried around much guilt for spending money on organic, high-quality foods. A wonderful guide when navigating the grocery store aisles! I also appreciated his research on how Americans spend so much less on food than in other countries. Perhaps what I most enjoyed about this book was Pollan’s simple tip to not eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn’t recognize. It’s a dizzying dance of corruption and capitalism that has taken something so simple – our food – and made it into something that might resemble food, but has a very long list of ingredients that really make it a “food-like substance.” It is not simply “fuel.” Michael Pollan exposes how the “nutritionism” of food has led the food industry into a pendulum of different diets and fads based on any given studies of the moment – many of which are later proven wrong (such as the marketing of margarine as good for heart health). In Defense of Food is a wonderful book that argues a very simple case – that food is more than the sum of its nutritional components. ![]()
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