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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: During the twentieth century, we began talking about consuming nutrients rather than eating food instead.
Chapter 3: Saying that nutrients define a food’s healthiness can often cause us to misread its overall health content.
Chapter 4: Founded on a mere hypothesis, the United States Dietary Goals opened the way to a new golden age in food science.
Chapter 5: Trading pleasure-based diets for a scientific eating approach has not produced any noticeable effects on our health.
Chapter 6: The primary cause of our declining health is the Western diet.
Chapter 7: We must begin viewing food as a relationship, and health as the outcome of actively participating fully within it.
Chapter 8: Industrial agriculture’s achievements (rapid production and long preservation) have arrived with a steep and significant cost.
Chapter 9: We must abandon the Western diet and revive a traditional food culture today.
Chapter 10: What should we eat? 1: Pick natural, simple, unpretentious foods.
Chapter 11: What should we eat? 2: Emphasize plants; they deliver the most nutrients from soil, but ensure that the soil itself is healthy.
Chapter 12: Remember, even when following a healthy diet, you must still ensure that you don’t eat too much.
Description
In Defense of Food is a close examination of the rise of nutritionism in our culture, and a historical account of the industrialization of food. An expert in food ecology, author Michael Pollan takes a look at the way in which the food industry shifted our dietary focus from “food” to “nutrients,” and thus narrowed the objective of eating to one of maintaining physical health – a goal it did not accomplish.
Who Should Listen
- Anyone concerned about his or her diet and health, and looking to improve them
- Anyone interested in the actual impact of nutritionism on our physical health
- Anyone seeking alternatives to the Western diet