![]() ![]() Want quick save-able, share-able bullet points on this book? Check out the Memo: How to eat for pleasure & still be healthy – Michael Pollen (memod. You can also get a free weekly email about the Book Insight of the week. Like what you hear? Be sure to like & subscribe to support this podcast! Also leave a comment and let us know your thoughts on the episode. *It also encourages us to experience the full pleasures of eating, and reminds us how food connects us to nature and to cultures going back hundreds of years. *Both a manifesto and a manual, In Defense of Food offers clear guidelines about what to eat (in short, only foodstuffs your grandmother would recognize) and what to avoid (step forward, high fructose corn syrup). But when it comes to food, we do have power, says Pollan. Here he explains how industrialization, supposed advances in nutrition and manufacturing, and misleading media have colluded to distance us from simple, healthy eating. Michael Pollan Quotes There are many aspects of our lives where we feel like we have very little power. *Pollan is a voice of reason amid the earnest, often ill-informed clean eating and wellness debates. Mostly plants – is what gives it its power, all the more so when contrasted with the dizzying, conflicting dietary advice and convoluted lists of ingredients we are faced with on a daily basis. ![]() *The common sense and clarity of Michael Pollan’s message – Eat food. ![]()
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