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Pros
The book is not at all rabid or hectoring, which can be a danger with books that consider industrialised food processes. Pollan describes how to enjoy food and urges you to spend more than 20mins preparing and eating food in front of the tv. Very inte... Read More
This book is simply superb. I must admit you begin to feel a little hopeless at this point, however this is where the real brilliance begins.
As part of an ongoing'reductionism' which gets applied to almost everything. He fleshes out what he means by this and made it simple. It is informative, empowering and reassuring.
Cons
Pollan irritatingly conflates western with american.
Highlights
Quality
What he defends is taking pleasure in food and reestablishing a wholesome relationship with the food we choose to eat
The author outlines the problems with the western diet and with nutritional research
Packaging/appearance
Throw out the faddy diet books throw out the supplements throw out the science often bad science eg margarine being better fo... Read More
Competitiveness
We are after all a major palm oil producer in the world
He urges us not to follow faddy diets which all look at food through single nutrient zealotry eg the atkins diet the gi diet t... Read More
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- This product had a total of 2,915 reviews as of our last analysis date on Mar 19 2023.
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For the past few years i tried reading socalled “real food” blogs that come at healthy eating like the food industry is out to ruin our lives
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However i liked the authors idea on nutritionism
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
We are all used to thinking about how much protein fat or carbohydrate we eat never mind whether this comes from real food or from engineered products
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This focus is wrong and getting back to basics is the best way to stay healthy and avoid fat gain
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Also pollan dismisses supplements also entirely and i feel that certain supplements do have their place
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If you live in america and live on a diet of processed or take away foods from restaurants and i use the word so loosely here then you are in big big trouble
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The author says eat food not too much and mostly plants and offers a quick shortcut to healthy eating suggesting that you shouldnt eat anything that your great grandmother wouldnt recognize as food
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While ignoring the more beneficial natural sources
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