How to Truly Eat Well | Books Insights on In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan

*The common sense and clarity of Michael Pollan’s message – Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants – is what gives it its power, all the more so when contrasted with the dizzying, conflicting dietary advice and convoluted lists of ingredients we are faced with on a daily basis. 

*Pollan is a voice of reason amid the earnest, often ill-informed clean eating and wellness debates. Here he explains how industrialization, supposed advances in nutrition and manufacturing, and misleading media have colluded to distance us from simple, healthy eating. 

*Both a manifesto and a manual, In Defense of Food offers clear guidelines about what to eat (in short, only foodstuffs your grandmother would recognize) and what to avoid (step forward, high fructose corn syrup). 

*It also encourages us to experience the full pleasures of eating, and reminds us how food connects us to nature and to cultures going back hundreds of years.

Theme 1: Rise of nutrition - 0:29

Theme 2: Why are we so sick? - 8:35

Theme 3: Eat and live well - 15:49

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Full Title: In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

Year of Publication: 2009

Book Author: Michael Pollen

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Book Insight Writer: Laura Gladwin

Editor: Tom Butler-Bowden

Producer: Daniel Gonzalez

Production Manager: Karin Richey

Curator: Tom Butler-Bowden

Narrator: Kristi Burns