In Defense of Food

出版者:Penguin Press

作者:Michael Pollan

页数:256

出版时间:2008-1-1

价格:CAD 26.50

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9781594201455

具体描述

What to eat, what not to eat, and how to think about health: a manifesto for our times

"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." These simple words go to the heart of Michael Pollan's In Defense of Food, the well-considered answers he provides to the questions posed in the bestselling The Omnivore's Dilemma.

Humans used to know how to eat well, Pollan argues. But the balanced dietary lessons that were once passed down through generations have been confused, complicated, and distorted by food industry marketers, nutritional scientists, and journalists-all of whom have much to gain from our dietary confusion. As a result, we face today a complex culinary landscape dense with bad advice and foods that are not "real." These "edible foodlike substances" are often packaged with labels bearing health claims that are typically false or misleading. Indeed, real food is fast disappearing from the marketplace, to be replaced by "nutrients," and plain old eating by an obsession with nutrition that is, paradoxically, ruining our health, not to mention our meals. Michael Pollan's sensible and decidedly counterintuitive advice is: "Don't eat anything that your great-great grandmother would not recognize as food."

Writing In Defense of Food, and affirming the joy of eating, Pollan suggests that if we would pay more for better, well-grown food, but buy less of it, we'll benefit ourselves, our communities, and the environment at large. Taking a clear-eyed look at what science does and does not know about the links between diet and health, he proposes a new way to think about the question of what to eat that is informed by ecology and tradition rather than by the prevailing nutrient-by-nutrient approach.

In Defense of Food reminds us that, despite the daunting dietary landscape Americans confront in the modern supermarket, the solutions to the current omnivore's dilemma can be found all around us.

In looking toward traditional diets the world over, as well as the foods our families-and regions-historically enjoyed, we can recover a more balanced, reasonable, and pleasurable approach to food. Michael Pollan's bracing and eloquent manifesto shows us how we might start making thoughtful food choices that will enrich our lives and enlarge our sense of what it means to be healthy.

作者简介

Michael Pollan

Michael Pollan is the author of four five books: Second Nature, A Place of My Own, The Botany of Desire, which received the Borders Original Voices Award for the best nonfiction work of 2001 and was recognized as a best book of the year by the American Booksellers Association and Amazon, and the national bestellers, The Omnivore's Dilemma, and In Defense of Food.

A longtime contributing writer to The New York Times Magazine, Pollan is also the Knight Professor of Journalism at UC Berkeley. His writing on food and agriculture has won numerous awards, including the Reuters/World Conservation Union Global Award in Environmental Journalism, the James Beard Award, and the Genesis Award from the American Humane Association.

读后感

《食物无罪》 麦可·波伦 “营养”这个词现在已经无人不知无孔不入了，一个没多少文化知识的农村老头老太也能告诉你：“我们吃得很营养，我们每顿都在吃肉，很多蛋白质！” 究竟发生了什么，使得地球最遥远的角落、从来没学习过有机化学的人，都着魔似地念念有词。更别提...  

饮食的态度，之前因为在减脂健身，所以看了很多关于饮食营养方面的书，所以之后对食物，很多时候都是将它分为脂肪，蛋白质，碳水化合物等各种来看，也变得比较关注营养成分的标签。这本书里面有一个问题也是我之前想过的，如果天然食物和加工食品他们在营养成分上看相差不大，...  

作者认为源于清教徒的美国上流社会将从美食中获取感官享受视如性欲会将人与动物联系起来，吃作为一种赤裸裸的行为不应得到放任，追求烹饪的目的比满足食欲和口福要高尚的多。所以美国人对外来移民一大块动物蛋白加上几种蔬菜一锅炖的饮食尤为反感。于是借助营养主义者之手，通...  

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很好

其实很简单的道理：自己做菜，多吃菜少吃肉，别吃太饱，不知道为什么实践起来越来越难，决定今年开始从“不吃零食”做起。

[有声书] 边开长途边听完结尾，然后我在高速上找了个麦当劳，点了个麦香鱼汉堡，不到5分钟吃完，准备继续赶路… 简直就是这书里讲的典型的快餐型食者！不过平时的饮食还是比较平衡的啦… 听完本书让我对超市里卖的食物有了新的认识，以后逛边缘的produce部分而不是中间的processed foods部分；也可以考虑在家里种点简单的蔬菜，比如爱吃的小葱！也才知道whole foods本身就是个词，与processed foods相对，指没怎么被处理的“完整的食物”…

good book!

Michael Pollan is certainly an influential figure...Cynical but eye-opening. All societies have their problems.