nutrition

Book Review: In Defense of Food

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In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto Michael Pollan 2008 201 pages While I blog about many different goals on this site, the first and foremost goal is to maintain my health.  My health is the dealbreaker – without it I can’t enjoy the fruits of reaching any of my other goals.  This is why … Read more

Raw Notes: In Defense of Food

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In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto Michael Pollan 2008 201 pages p.1 Eat food.  Not too much.  Mostly plants. p.28 In the case of nutritionism, the widely shared but unexamined assumption is that the key to understanding food is indeed the nutrient.  Put another way:  Foods are essentially the sum of their nutrient parts. … Read more