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.
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.
發表於2024-05-13
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今天上課,班裏的美國朋友推薦我讀的 她正好要去圖書館還這本書,我就正好去圖書館藉過來 寫的非常棒 讓我重新審視自己的飲食瞭.
評分本周讀物:《為食物辯護》,講營養學的神話以及應該如何“健康地吃”。其實全本書有點拖遝,想說的內容、大原則可以壓縮到1/3容量。另外就是感覺該書是寫給吃得過多過快過精細的美國胖子看的,某些內容還沒到需要國人擔憂的程度。個人評分3.5/5 作者主要建議擷選: 1. 要吃食物...
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"Eat FOOD; Not too much; Mostly plants." 作者雖然是記者而非學者,但本書還是很有道理的,提觀點,擺事實,顛覆瞭我不少關於食物和進食習慣的看法,好書。
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評分good book!
評分讀過以後發現繞超市一圈買不到東西。。。。
評分可以說是Whole30的古早廣告。 Quick takeaway:如果食物包裝上有五個以上你不認識不會念的成分就彆買瞭
In Defense of Food 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載