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 di...
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
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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....
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.
目录
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I. The Age Of Nutritionism
One: From Foods to Nutrients
Two: Nutritionism Defined
Three: Nutritionism Comes to Market
Four: Food Science’s Golden Age
Five: The Melting of the Lipid Hypothesis
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I. The Age Of Nutritionism
One: From Foods to Nutrients
Two: Nutritionism Defined
Three: Nutritionism Comes to Market
Four: Food Science’s Golden Age
Five: The Melting of the Lipid Hypothesis
Six: Eat Right, Get Fatter
Seven: Beyond the Pleasure Principle
Eight: The Proof in the Low-Fat Pudding
Nine: Bad Science
Ten: Nutritionism’s Children
II. The Western Diet And The Diseases of Civilization
One: The Aborigine in All of Us
Two: The Elephant in the Room
Three: The Industrialization of Eating: What We Do Know
1. From Whole Foods to Refined
2. From Complexity to Simplicity
3. From Quality to Quantity
4. From Leaves to Seeds
5. From Food Culture to Food Science
III. Getting Over Nutritionism
One: Escape from the Western Diet
Two: Eat Food: Food Defined
Three: Mostly Plants: What to Eat
Four: Not Too Much: How to Eat
Acknowledgments
Sources
Resources
Index
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同意论点，完全不同意论据和辩论方式。 的确如作者所说，现在营养学的研究有很多弊端。他攻击的几种，比如over simplification, failure to address confounder的确是主流研究里面非常常见的。 但是啊，他用来当作证据的内容，suffers from exactly the same fallacy in desi...
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We have heard plenty of criticism about the Western diet. We have learned lots about nutrition. And we all know lots about eating (of course!). All this seems like common sense, but have we ever thought about how we view our food and whether it is appr...
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1 有用 那些妄想 2017-03-15 00:04:19
感觉作者过于执着于回归自然，而现状是回归自然的成本是大多数人无法承担的
0 有用 蛋花汤的温暖大碗 2021-06-11 13:44:30
有声书，老在午饭的时候听，过了三天有点烦，怎么老是一本正经教训人呐
1 有用 雪地里的水煮蛋 2011-03-12 11:02:40
科学，逻辑。。。都很匮乏。名词和"seem", "might", "maybe"很多。可以参照Lies, damned lies and science 这本来读。
1 有用 追随我心1802 2014-03-27 09:52:54
"Eat FOOD; Not too much; Mostly plants."
0 有用 采花贼欧亨利 2013-12-22 15:45:57
good book!
0 有用 伊丽莎白 2024-01-18 11:47:01 北京
感觉flexitarian的life style值得尝试一下啊，一觉醒来咖啡都要少放奶了 #买给爸妈给他们洗脑系列
0 有用 小蒋不素小蒋 2023-10-19 16:07:39 上海
比较老了 但也有启发 就是啰嗦
0 有用 ballsirius 2023-03-26 04:46:08 美国
作者有些anti-science, 但看到后面还是被洗脑，第三部分方法论最精彩也实用。Eat food, not too much, mostly vegetables. 好好吃饭，做个有责任有意识有情怀的食者!
0 有用 Ino 2022-01-16 07:56:00
从 VA 开回来一路上正好听完，大众健康科普。
0 有用 蛋花汤的温暖大碗 2021-06-11 13:44:30
有声书，老在午饭的时候听，过了三天有点烦，怎么老是一本正经教训人呐