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.
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.
本周读物:《为食物辩护》,讲营养学的神话以及应该如何“健康地吃”。其实全本书有点拖沓,想说的内容、大原则可以压缩到1/3容量。另外就是感觉该书是写给吃得过多过快过精细的美国胖子看的,某些内容还没到需要国人担忧的程度。个人评分3.5/5 作者主要建议撷选: 1. 要吃食物...
评分最近在看Yale开放课程中有关食物的一堂课,非常有意思。可能是老妈在食品公司工作的缘故,从小就不停给我灌输各种加工食品的知识,中心思想就是这些东西都不健康,还是吃老妈自己做的菜最好。来了美国后,大脑受到高糖高脂高添加剂的食品的诱惑和欺骗,短时间内就染上了和很多...
评分有一个朋友小A经常向我抱怨,她现在每天只吃一顿午饭,其他时候只吃水果,晚上还要去跑步,饿了就喝水,但还是“喝口水都会长胖”,我很好奇她中午吃什么,结果大吃一惊,火锅串串烤肉涮羊肉猪扒饭,好吧,敢情你是一次性把一天的饭吃完了,你如果不胖简直没天理了。 小A就属于...
评分无机客 选择吃什么、不吃什么,愈来愈成为了时下众多追求健康的男女老少们每日考虑的问题,各种各样的健康食谱大行其道,生活中更是不乏将营养补剂当作灵丹妙药的“健康”人士。 《为食物辩护》的作者迈克尔·坡伦观察到人类产生了一种“对于健康饮食的不健康的痴迷”。在...
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评分To me it's just an introduction to journalistic writing. Too tedious to read, folks.
评分术语太多 一句话说完不就得了
评分"Eat FOOD; Not too much; Mostly plants."
评分[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”…
评分其实很简单的道理: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。
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