In Defense of Food

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author = Michael Pollan
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country = USA
language = English
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publisher = Penguin Press
pub_date = January 1, 2008
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media_type = Hardcover
pages = 256
isbn = 978-1416567356
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preceded_by = The Omnivore's Dilemma
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"In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto" is a 2008 book by Michael Pollan. It was number one on the "New York Times" Non-Fiction Best Seller List for six weeks. The book grew out of Pollan's 2007 article "Unhappy Meals" published in the "New York Times Magazine". [Maslin, Janet. [http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/03/books/03masl.html "Obsessed With Nutrition? That’s an Eating Disorder"] . "New York Times" (January 3, 2008).] Pollan has also said that he wrote "In Defense of Food" as a response to people asking him what they should eat after having read "The Omnivore's Dilemma", his previous book.Shapiro, Laura. [http://www.slate.com/id/2180504/ "The Holy Church of Food"] . "Slate" (December 31, 2007).]

In the book, Pollan postulates that the answer to healthy eating is simply to "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=17725932 'In Defense of Food' Author Offers Advice for Health] . NPR Morning Edition (January 1, 2008).] Pollan argues that nutrition science has overly complicated and harmed American eating habits. He says that rather than focusing on eating nutrients, people should focus on eating the sort of food that their ancestors would recognize.

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* [http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/28/magazine/28nutritionism.t.html?ref=books Unhappy Meals] . New York Times article by Pollan which inspired the book.

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