{"id":7379,"date":"2008-07-26T02:13:00","date_gmt":"2008-07-26T02:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dogeardiary.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/in-defense-of-food.html"},"modified":"2023-06-13T18:35:30","modified_gmt":"2023-06-13T22:35:30","slug":"in-defense-of-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dogeardiary.com\/2008\/07\/in-defense-of-food\/","title":{"rendered":"In Defense of Food"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_HcW_QK7WCrY\/SIqIn5AMbZI\/AAAAAAAADjw\/QcZr72P2u3A\/s1600-h\/Defense-of-food.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5227140536414793106\" style=\"cursor: pointer; float: left; margin: 0 10px 10px 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_HcW_QK7WCrY\/SIqIn5AMbZI\/AAAAAAAADjw\/QcZr72P2u3A\/s200\/Defense-of-food.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>I read this book all in one day, because it&#8217;s due back at the library and someone else has dibs on it there. I certainly got what I wanted. It is crammed with facts (where <a href=\"http:\/\/dogeardiary.blogspot.com\/2008\/07\/botany-of-desire.html\"><span style=\"font-style: italic;\">The Botany of Desire<\/span><\/a> felt more like a storytelling of plants&#8217; natural history). <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">In Defense of Food<\/span> contains journalist Michael Pollan&#8217;s &#8220;eater&#8217;s manifesto&#8221; that we should: eat food in its natural state- not processed food products, eat less of it, and eat mostly green plants- cutting back on meats and seeds (flour, corn products, etc). He goes into great detail explaining why and how. The first part of the book talks about nutritionism- particularly how faulty the science behind it is. (This part really made my head swim. I almost got lost in the threads of logic a few times). Then he discusses how the &#8220;Western diet&#8221; of refined foods and food products originated, why it&#8217;s become so widespread, and how it affects us. In the final chapters Pollan outlines his plan for healthier eating, giving guidelines that don&#8217;t tell you <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">what<\/span> to eat in particular, but just <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">how<\/span> to choose good, healthy food. The strongest impression I came away with after reading this book was: less <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">is<\/span> more (you feel more satiated eating better quality food), and the whole <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">is greater than<\/span> the sum of its parts (additives will never make up for what processing has removed from foods). These are rules of design I learned in art school, but they apply to food as well! This book has really solidified my desire to feed my family from the backyard garden and shop more at local farmer&#8217;s markets or at least stores like Trader Joe&#8217;s (my daughter loves to go there because they give out free balloons!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read this book all in one day, because it&#8217;s due back at the library and someone else has dibs on it there. I certainly got what I wanted. It is crammed with facts (where The Botany of Desire felt more like a storytelling of plants&#8217; natural history). 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