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Book: In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto
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  1. Michael Pollan _ In Defense of Food: An Eater's

    Watch out for those health claims."
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  2. Michael Pollan _ In Defense of Food: An Eater's

    Americans are consuming a diet that is at least half sugars in one form or another-calories providing virtually nothing but energy. The energy density of these refined carbohydrates contributes to obesity in two ways. First, we consume many more calories per unit of food; the fiber that's been removed from these foods is precisely what would have made us feel full and stop eating. Also, the flash flood of glucose causes insulin levels to spike and then, once the cells have taken all that glucose out of circulation, drop precipitously, making us think we need to eat again. While the widespread acceleration of the Western diet has given us the instant gratification of sugar, in many people-especially those newly exposed to it-the speediness of this food overwhelms the ability of insulin to process it, leading to type 2 diabetes and all the other chronic diseases associated with metabolic syndrome.
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  3. Michael Pollan _ In Defense of Food: An Eater's

    How a people eats is one of the most powerful ways they have to express, and preserve, their cultural identity...To make food choices more scientific is to empty them of their ethnic content and history; --Harvey Levenstein
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  4. Michael Pollan _ In Defense of Food: An Eater's

    Nutritionism prefers to tinker with the Western diet, adjusting the various nutrients {lowering the fat, boosting the protein} and fortifying processed foods rather than questioning their value in the first place.
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  5. Michael Pollan _ In Defense of Food: An Eater's

    Indeed, the surest way to escape the Western diet is simply to depart the realms it rules: the supermarket, the convenience store, and the fast-food outlet.
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  6. Michael Pollan _ In Defense of Food: An Eater's

    In order to eat well we need to invest more time, effort, and resources in providing for our sustenance, to dust off a word, than most of us do today.
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  7. Michael Pollan _ In Defense of Food: An Eater's

    When most of us think about food and health, we think in fairly narrow nutritionist terms-about our personal physical health and how the ingestion of this particular nutrient or rejection of that affects it. But I no longer think it's possible to separate our bodily health from the health of the environment from which we eat or the environment in which we eat or, for that matter, from the health of our general outlook about food {and health}.
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  8. Michael Pollan _ In Defense of Food: An Eater's

    People eating a Western diet are prone to a complex of chronic diseases that seldom strike people eating more traditional diets.
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  9. Michael Pollan _ In Defense of Food: An Eater's

    century ago, the typical Iowa farm raised more than a dozen different plant and animal species: cattle, chickens, corn, hogs, apples, hay, oats, potatoes, cherries, wheat, plums, grapes, and pears. Now it raises only two: corn and soybeans.
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  10. Michael Pollan _ In Defense of Food: An Eater's

    EAT LIKE AN OMNIVORE.
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  11. Michael Pollan _ In Defense of Food: An Eater's

    IF YOU HAVE THE SPACE, BUY A FREEZER.
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  12. Michael Pollan _ In Defense of Food: An Eater's

    YOU ARE WHAT WHAT YOU EAT EATS TOO.
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