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.
本书的作者迈克尔•波伦,是美国饮食界的“文化担当”,被誉为“食物之神”。他的作品曾经多次获得詹姆斯·比尔德奖,这可是美食界的奥斯卡奖。他就像一位美食侦探,奔波在农场、超市和厨房之间,深入研究西方饮食对人类社会造成的影响。并为真实的食物发声,反抗食品工业和...
评分 评分这书的问题在于两处,第一,如果和作者在饮食方面的想法或者说认识一致,那么这本书就显得篇幅过长(虽然也只有230页这么少,但还是啰嗦了);第二,如果对作者的观点不认同,估计也不会把这本书读下去。回过头来说书的内容,如果你想知道怎么吃,请直接读最后一章即可,如果你...
评分 评分在这个日益注重个人健康的时代,吃什么以及怎么吃成了每个人都会关心的事情。然而让人意想不到的是,在有了如此之多的营养科学指导之后,人们反而因为饮食问题罹患了更多的疾病。是食物的问题,还是社会的问题,抑或是营养科学的问题?针对这些疑问,作者写下了本书《为食物辩...
书的前半部分基本上讲一些理论上的有关食物安全的问题或者工业化食物。后半部分讲方法,怎样吃健康,但是我读完并没有茅塞顿开的感觉。
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”…
评分术语太多 一句话说完不就得了
评分食物营养进化: where is the food in our food?
评分good book!
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