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In Defense of Food: Author, Journalist Michael Pollan on Nutrition, Food Science and the American Diet

Acclaimed author and journalist Michael Pollan argues that what most Americans are consuming today is not food but "edible food-like substances." His previous book, The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, was named one of the ten best books of 2006 by the New York Times and the Washington Post. His latest book, just published, is called In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto. [includes rush transcript]

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• vegetarian
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[mosesxiaomin]

Go back to your grandmother's way of eating and cooking.

[MommaStorm]

The only way that we are going to make whole, real, foods affordable is at the grassroots level. We no longer have the luxury of opening the fridge and staring at the packages and not really -thinking- about how and where we obtain the food we eat, and what it means, politically, to eat the way that we do!

[PainefulMass]

Read Gary Taubes. These two are saying almost exactly the same things, except there are a few differences. Follow Taubes who has actually studied all of the studies. There is no correlation between red meat and heart disease. None. Not a single study has found this. It is a myth from exactly the McGovern panel he refers to. It is weird this guy knows that saturated fat was falsely blamed, yet doesn't realize there is not red meat link at all.

[tehflambo]

Pollan makes a lot of interesting points, and his advice is solid. Still, listen carefully to the way he speaks - he is, wisely, not objective.

[tehflambo]

@mosesxiaomin My grandmothers' way of eating was to make quick meals from canned goods. If we go back to our *great* grandmothers' ways as Pollan suggets, we have to throw out all sorts of foreign fare. Pizza? Not in your great grandmothers' time.

[MMMima]

@mosesxiaomin sooooo true!

[AxiomofDiscord]

whats wrong with added gluten to bread or vitamin c ... I make mine homemade and if i add low gluten grains to it i often add a little gluten to help with the rise along with vitamin C powder or whey and even cheeses for taste