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| In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto | 
 enlarge | Author: Michael Pollan
Creator: Scott Brick
Publisher: Penguin Audio
Category: Book
List Price: $29.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  198 reviews
Format: Audiobook
Media: Audio CD
Edition: Unabridged
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 5
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 5.7 x 5.2 x 0.8
ISBN: 0143142747
Dewey Decimal Number: 613
EAN: 9780143142744
Publication Date: January 1, 2008
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Amazon.com Review
Amazon Significant Seven, January 2008: Food is the one thing that Americans hate to love and, as it turns out, love to hate. What we want to eat has been ousted by the notion of what we should eat, and it's at this nexus of hunger and hang-up that Michael Pollan poses his most salient question: where is the food in our food? What follows in In Defense of Food is a series of wonderfully clear and thoughtful answers that help us omnivores navigate the nutritional minefield that's come to typify our food culture. Many processed foods vie for a spot in our grocery baskets, claiming to lower cholesterol, weight, glucose levels, you name it. Yet Pollan shows that these convenient "healthy" alternatives to whole foods are appallingly inconvenient: our health has a nation has only deteriorated since we started exiling carbs, fats--even fruits--from our daily meals. His razor-sharp analysis of the American diet (as well as its architects and its detractors) offers an inspiring glimpse of what it would be like if we could (a la Humpty Dumpty) put our food back together again and reconsider what it means to eat well. In a season filled with rallying cries to lose weight and be healthy, Pollan's call to action"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants."--is a program I actually want to follow. --Anne Bartholomew
Product Description
What to eat, what not to eat, and how to think about health: a manifesto for our times.
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