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Brand new: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See the ...
Release Year
2009
ISBN
9780143114963
Book Title
In Defense of Food : an Eater's Manifesto
Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
Item Length
8.4 in
Publication Year
2009
Format
Uk-B Format Paperback
Language
English
Item Height
0.7 in
Author
Michael Pollan
Genre
Social Science, Health & Fitness, Medical
Topic
Nutrition, Health Care Issues, Diet & Nutrition / Nutrition, Healthy Living, Agriculture & Food (See Also Political Science / Public Policy / Agriculture & Food Policy)
Item Weight
9.6 Oz
Item Width
5.5 in
Number of Pages
256 Pages

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Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0143114964
ISBN-13
9780143114963
eBay Product ID (ePID)
70956993

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Book Title
In Defense of Food : an Eater's Manifesto
Number of Pages
256 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2009
Topic
Nutrition, Health Care Issues, Diet & Nutrition / Nutrition, Healthy Living, Agriculture & Food (See Also Political Science / Public Policy / Agriculture & Food Policy)
Genre
Social Science, Health & Fitness, Medical
Author
Michael Pollan
Format
Uk-B Format Paperback

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Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
9.6 Oz
Item Length
8.4 in
Item Width
5.5 in

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Trade
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
"Michael Pollan [is the] designated repository for the nation's food conscience."---Frank Bruni, The New York Times "A remarkable volume . . . engrossing . . . [Pollan] offers those prescriptions Americans so desperately crave."-- The Washington Post "A tough, witty, cogent rebuttal to the proposition that food can be redced to its nutritional components without the loss of something essential... [a] lively, invaluable book."--Janet Maslin, The New York Times " In Defense of Food is written with Pollan's customary bite, ringing clarity and brilliance at connecting the dots."-- The Seattle Times, " Michael Pollan [is the] designated repository for the nation's food conscience." -Frank Bruni, The New York Times " A remarkable volume . . . engrossing . . . [Pollan] offers those prescriptions Americans so desperately crave." -Jane Black, The Washington Post " In Defense of Food is written with Pollan's customary bite, ringing clarity and brilliance at connecting the dots." - The Seattle Times, " Michael Pollan [is the] designated repository for the nation's food conscience." -Frank Bruni, The New York Times " A remarkable volume . . . engrossing . . . [Pollan] offers those prescriptions Americans so desperately crave." -Jane Black, The Washington Post " In Defense of Foodis written with Pollan's customary bite, ringing clarity and brilliance at connecting the dots." -The Seattle Times, "Michael Pollan [is the] designated repository for the nation's food conscience."---Frank Bruni, The New York Times "A remarkable volume . . . engrossing . . . [Pollan] offers those prescriptions Americans so desperately crave."-- The Washington Post "A tough, witty, cogent rebuttal to the proposition that food can be redced to its nutritional components without the loss of something essential... [a] lively, invaluable book."--Janet Maslin, The New York Times " In Defense of Food is written with Pollan's customary bite, ringing clarity and brilliance at connecting the dots."-- The Seattle Times, Michael Pollan [is the] designated repository for the nation’s food conscience.” —Frank Bruni, The New York Times A remarkable volume . . . engrossing . . . [Pollan] offers those prescriptions Americans so desperately crave.” —Jane Black, The Washington Post In Defense of Foodis written with Pollan’s customary bite, ringing clarity and brilliance at connecting the dots.” —The Seattle Times, " Michael Pollan [is the] designated repository for the nation's food conscience." -Frank Bruni, The New York Times " A remarkable volume . . . engrossing . . . [Pollan] offers those prescriptions Americans so desperately crave." - The Washington Post "A tough, witty, cogent rebuttal to the proposition that food can be redced to its nutritional components without the loss of something essential... [a] lively, invaluable book."--JanetMaslin, The New York TImes " In Defense of Food is written with Pollan's customary bite, ringing clarity and brilliance at connecting the dots." - The Seattle Times, " Michael Pollan [is the] designated repository for the nation's food conscience." --Frank Bruni, The New York Times "In this slim, remarkable volume, Pollan builds a convincing case not only against that steak dinner but against the entire Western diet." -- The Washington Post "A tough, witty, cogent rebuttal to the proposition that food can be reduced to its nutritional components without the loss of something essential . . . [a] lively, invaluable book." --Janet Maslin, The New York Times "What should I eat for dinner tonight? Here is Pollan's brilliant, succinct and nuanced answer to this question: 'Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.'" -- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette " In Defense of Food is written with Pollan's customary bite, ringing clarity and brilliance at connecting the dots." -- The Seattle Times "This is an important book, short but pithy, and, like the word 'food,' not simple at all." --New York Post "With his lucid style and innovative research, Pollan deserves his reputation as one of the most respectable voices in the modern debate about food." --The Financial Times, " "Michael Pollan [is the] designated repository for the nation's food conscience." --Frank Bruni, The New York Times "In this slim, remarkable volume, Pollan builds a convincing case not only against that steak dinner but against the entire Western diet." -- The Washington Post "A tough, witty, cogent rebuttal to the proposition that food can be reduced to its nutritional components without the loss of something essential... [a] lively, invaluable book." --Janet Maslin, The New York Times "What should I eat for dinner tonight? Here is Pollan's brilliant, succinct and nuanced answer to this question: "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants."" -- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette " In Defense of Food is written with Pollan's customary bite, ringing clarity and brilliance at connecting the dots." -- The Seattle Times "This is an important book, short but pithy, and, like the word "food," not simple at all." --New York Post "With his lucid style and innovative research, Pollan deserves his reputation as one of the most respectable voices in the modern debate about food." --The Financial Times, " Michael Pollan [is the] designated repository for the nation's food conscience." -Frank Bruni, The New York Times " A remarkable volume . . . engrossing . . . [Pollan] offers those prescriptions Americans so desperately crave." - The Washington Post "A tough, witty, cogent rebuttal to the proposition that food can be redced to its nutritional components without the loss of something essential... [a] lively, invaluable book." --Janet Maslin, The New York TImes " In Defense of Food is written with Pollan's customary bite, ringing clarity and brilliance at connecting the dots." - The Seattle Times
Grade From
Twelfth Grade
Dewey Decimal
613.2
Grade To
UP
Table Of Content
In Defense Of Food Introduction: An Eater's Manifesto I. The Age Of Nutritionism One: From Foods to Nutrients Two: Nutritionism Defined Three: Nutritionism Comes to Market Four: Food Science's Golden Age Five: The Melting of the Lipid Hypothesis Six: Eat Right, Get Fatter Seven: Beyond the Pleasure Principle Eight: The Proof in the Low-Fat Pudding Nine: Bad Science Ten: Nutritionism's Children II. The Western Diet And The Diseases of Civilization One: The Aborigine in All of Us Two: The Elephant in the Room Three: The Industrialization of Eating: What We Do Know 1. From Whole Foods to Refined 2. From Complexity to Simplicity 3. From Quality to Quantity 4. From Leaves to Seeds 5. From Food Culture to Food Science III. Getting Over Nutritionism One: Escape from the Western Diet Two: Eat Food: Food Defined Three: Mostly Plants: What to Eat Four: Not Too Much: How to Eat Acknowledgments Sources Resources Index
Synopsis
#1 New York Times Bestseller from the author of This is Your Mind on Plants, 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., #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. "Michael Pollan is the] designated repository for the nation's food conscience."--Frank Bruni, The New York Times " A remarkable volume . . . engrossing . . . Pollan] offers those prescriptions Americans so desperately crave." --The Washington Post "A tough, witty, cogent rebuttal to the proposition that food can be redced to its nutritional components without the loss of something essential... a] lively, invaluable book."--Janet Maslin, The New York Times " In Defense of Food is written with Pollan's customary bite, ringing clarity and brilliance at connecting the dots."-- The Seattle Times Michael Pollan's most recent food book Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation --the story of our most trusted food expert's culinary education--was published by Penguin Press in April 2013, and in 2016 it served as the inspiration for a four-part docuseries on Netflix by the same name. Pollan is also the author of How to Change Your Mind What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence
LC Classification Number
RA784.P643 2009

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  • one of my favorite authors

    I LOVED "The Botany of Desire"... I LOVED "The Omnivore's Dilemma"... But "In Defense of Food" was repetitive of "Dilemma" and boring in some places. Michael's advise on what to eat let me down as i am a huge advocate of Hemp seed for nutrition, not only is it delicous, has a balanced amount of Omega 3 & 6, and is jam packed with protein so many amazing nutrients... and he never mentioned it once....does he not know about HEMP? I do agree with his advise to eat food, mostly plants (as i am a vegetarian) and am working on not much of it~

  • Amazing piece of literature.

    Buy this book!! This book is very well written. It's broken down into three main parts "Eat food", "Not too much", and "Mostly Plants.". Pollan goes on to explain more fully what these simple rules mean. This book can definitely help you to understand how food can influence your entire life. This makes food choices more readily understandable for those without a degree in nutrition. I would recommend this book to ANYONE, and I'm actually trying to get my entire circle of family and friends to read it now!

  • Pollan = good

    I like Pollan's ideas. I recommend reading his books

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  • Eat more real food and less food products

    Easy to read. Not too technical but has lots of examples and data. Makes you think about when and why you started changing your eating style for the worse and how it isn't that difficult to return to good eating habits with real, simple but healthy food. Enjoy cooking and eating again with family and friends.

  • very good

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