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In Defense of Food
- An Eater's Manifesto
- Narrateur(s): Scott Brick
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- Catégories: Santé, forme physique et régime, Mise en forme, régime et nutrition
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Number-one New York Times best seller from the author of How to Change Your Mind, The Omnivore's Dilemma, and Food Rules
Food. There's plenty of it around, and we all love to eat it. So why should anyone need to defend it? Because in the so-called Western diet, food has been replaced by nutrients, and common sense by confusion - most of what we’re consuming today is longer the product of nature but of food science. The result is what Michael Pollan calls the American Paradox: The more we worry about nutrition, the less healthy we seem to become.
With In Defense of Food, Pollan proposes a new (and very old) answer to the question of what we should eat that comes down to seven simple but liberating words: "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." Pollan’s bracing and eloquent manifesto shows us how we can start making thoughtful food choices that will enrich our lives, enlarge our sense of what it means to be healthy, and bring pleasure back to eating.
"Michael Pollan [is the] designated repository for the nation's food conscience." (Frank Bruni, The New York Times)
"A remarkable volume . . . engrossing . . . [Pollan] offers those prescriptions Americans so desperately crave." (The Washington Post)
Michael Pollan’s most recent food book Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation - the story of our most trusted food expert’s culinary education - was published by Penguin Press in April 2013, and in 2016 it served as the inspiration for a four-part docuseries on Netflix by the same name. Pollan is also the author of How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence.
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"[Narrator] Scott Brick brings the necessary energy, pacing, and articulation to what promises to be one of this year's most popular and provocative titles.... Brick carries this manifesto against nutrition science and food manufacturers with the voice of indictment - unflinching, unflagging, and fired by conviction." (AudioFile)
"A tough, witty, cogent rebuttal to the proposition that food can be reduced to its nutritional components without the loss of something essential... [a] lively, invaluable book." (Janet Maslin, The New York Times)
"In Defense of Food is written with Pollan's customary bite, ringing clarity and brilliance at connecting the dots." (The Seattle Times)
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- Amazon Customer
- 2021-10-20
Some good messages but very preachy
Having enjoyed The Botany of Desire, I was excited to give this a listen. Sadly it’s a book-long holier-than-thou rant as Pollan positions himself as an authority who knows better than everyone else about how to eat well - only he admits multiple times he’s no scientist or authority at all (save a trip here and there to a nutrition conference). Narrator had nasally, sardonic voice, and I’m not sure whether it contributed to my perceptions of this pretentiousness or nailed the tone of the book. I’m guessing the latter.
There are definitely some good ideas in here and it’s a useful book for practicing more mindfulness about eating habits (though common sense makes most of said ideas unoriginal). That said, I would have liked a little more of the anthropological dives into the relationships people have had with food over history that drew me in with Botany of Desire.
Instead, there’s a condescension towards American lifestyles without adequate acknowledgment about the economic systems in place making it difficult for families to buy “healthier” foods. He claims the majority of Americans can afford to spend more money on less food and encourages the buying or organic produce and the practice of cultivating gardens, but this advice comes from a place of privilege that he fails to acknowledge.
Also it really irked me that he failed to do thorough enough research to realize that “Indian”, “Aborigine”, and “Eskimo” are all outdated terms or straight up racial slurs for indigenous peoples. It just contributed to making the book feel sloppy.
TL;DR Save yourself 7 hours of an old white man preaching how he’s better than you and take the time to use common sense to improve your eating habits.
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- 2018-11-27
A life changer book on food and diet
Micheal Pollan is a genius using a journalistic approche seeking the answers of those two questions: why food made us so fat over the last decades and what should we eat to be healthy. This book is a game changer. It explains why the « real food » has to be defended from the « food industry » and even from experts and scientists. You will understand what went wrong with our food over the last decades and why the « edible food-like substances » that fills our grocery stores and our fast-food restaurants that we confise with real food made us fat and completely unsatisfied with what we eat. And most important, you will have all the guidelines you need to radically change the way you eat and get healthier, leaner and for the first time in your life, in peace with food.
The conclusion of this book is quite simple: EAT REAL UNPROCESSED WHOLE FOODS THAT YOU HAVE COOKED YOURSELF, NOT TO MUCH QUANTITIES, MOSTLY PLANTS WITH LIMITED AMOUNT OF MEAT.
By understanding why processed foods made by a money-driven industry are so bad for us with there obsession to make profits with there highly addictive palatable foods made with mostly from cheap and shelf stable ingredients that are refined sugar, refined carbs, unhealthy fats, salt and many other chemicals, you will be able to make a radical change in what you eat. Replacing water in our foods by those ingredients makes it non-perishable and almost eternal. But is it still food? Why even molds don’t want to eat that stuff? Did you know that the industrial grain-based diet that replace the algae and grass-based diet of our fish, cows and other animals has completely unbalance our ratio intake of omega-3 fatty acids (antiinflammatory) and omega-6 fatty acids (proinflammatory)? Knowing that, will you choose grass-feed beef even if it’s a bite pricier? Those are the types of eye-opener provided in this book.
In a matter of weeks after reading and re-reading this book, I have completely change the way I see food, the food I buy, the energy I put in cooking and the appreciation of a good family meal. Doing that, I have lost a lot of weight, I am healthier and most of all I feel completely satiated. This book had change my life. Let me know if it has changed yours by sending me an email at simonletendre@cableamos.com
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- James
- 2010-06-03
Life and Death
After years of surging insulin resistance and the accompanying host of metabolic disorder symptoms (high cholesterol, high triglycerides, high blood sugar) I now follow the simple rules in this book. I still eat meat but a tiny fraction of what I ate for my first 50 years. I eat mostly plants, not too much. I avoid packaged, processed food. I've lost 100 pounds, LDL went from 285 to 83 and my insulin resistance has vanished. This book has saved my life, seriously.
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- ann
- 2010-06-29
DRAMATISE IT FROM THE ROOF TOPS!
This is the most down to earth (pardon the pun;-) and sensible diet book I have ever listened to. At the end, I thought "I can do this" and still enjoy my food. Scot Brick's dramatisation and pausing at just the moments when I needed to consider an important point, really made the listening easy and enjoyable. Bravo! Bravo!
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- M. Michele M.
- 2009-05-29
Lovely follow-up to An Omnivore's Dilemna
This is a very informative, easy-to-listen-to book. An Omnivore's Dilemna is an excellent account of the writer's exploration of how food gets from the farm to the plate, and this book answers the question he most often received after publishing the first, "What should we eat?" Very pratical, realistic and soundly written, he discusses the nature of the food industry and food itself. Enjoyable and worthwhile.
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- Kathryn
- 2009-07-30
Wonderful!
A great followup to The Omnivore's Dilemma. Kudos to Pollan for his smart, high-quality research and clean writing. Kudos to Brick for a near-perfect narration.
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- Brandon
- 2009-05-17
If your looking for a Diet book read this first!
Many nutrition books aspire to show you insight on your body chemistry and its link to the food you eat. Fortunately this is not a book on nutrition, this is a book on "nutritionism". Most of this book explores the food industry and how the media, government, and nutritionists have corrupted what humans have been doing correctly for thousands of years, namely eating real FOOD. While Michael Pollan does show some points on what processed food is doing to our body, he mainly focuses on the misinformation we generally receive about food. He concludes with some diet advice a little more detailed than just "eat food&". The best part about his advice is it makes sense, common sense. It will make you say "I already knew that" but at the same time say "so why have I not been doing it?". This is the first book I have read(heard) by Michael Pollan but I plan on reading(hearing) more. The only downside you may find is the reading by Scott Brick. I have heard many books read by him and I am used to his style and actually enjoy it, but I can see some people finding it distracting. This is an EASY 5 stars, no reason not to buy it. (and no I'm not getting paid to say that lol)
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- Joe
- 2014-04-07
Prepare to change your habits
The best books affect you, make you think and sometimes they even make you change your day to day habits. This is one of those books, a short read of ground shifting potential. And like all great books I’ve read, it starts with a simple premise and a simple question: Western culture is, by and large, health obsessed and has been for a while. We count calories, we examine fat content, we examine with finite prevision the nutritional makeup of our foods. So why, in a culture of nutritional obsession are we getting sicker and sicker every year?
What the author poses as an answer is, to use his words, that we have removed culture from our eating habits (culture being a word that means your mother). So he examines the food industry for all its faults and suggests an alternative: eat food, not too much, mostly plants. It’s strange that someone would need to spend a whole book defending food but most of what we eat is not, strictly speaking, food. You should read this book, it has made an impact in my life. So go on, get cooking.
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- Kimberly
- 2009-06-27
Good book, but read The Omnivore's Dilemma first
I enjoyed the book, but if you haven't read The Omnivore's Dilemma, read it first - not as a prequel, but just because it's a more in depth discussion of our industrialized food system and how it's failing us. You may not be convinced of this by In Defense of Food, but you will be by The Omnivore's Dilemma.
If you have The Omnivore's Dilemma, this book is a bit like preaching to the choir, but still well worth the read.
Also, I hate to "dis" the narrator, but he distracts from the book. I've heard his narration of other books and enjoyed them, but they were all fiction. He put a little too much drama into his reading of this non-fiction book about food.
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- Ann Cartee
- 2011-10-11
Excellent, both text and performance
This book, "In Defense of Food," is galvanizing, offering a holistic re-orientation to the whole realm of food and all that's involved in it.
Pollan gives us a useful new villain, "nutritionalism" (a term previously coined by another author), which is our (and more so, "the pro's" - researchers, dieticians, etc)tendency to want to think of foods in terms of individual nutrients - carbs, protein, fat, micronutrients (vitamins, minerals, co-factors, enzymes, etc), and the omnipresent calorie. This is inculcated through our whole culture, and Pollan suggests it is a BARRIER. He suggests that ESCAPING that fragmented, malfunctioning mindset is our salvation, and offers holistic means of achieving the health and dietary peace that evades us.
(One very little hitch in all this gitalong: Though at each point along the way, Pollan guides the reader such that his various recommendations seem feasible at each step, with the reader nodding in agreement that yes, this is something I could do - at the very end (the VERY end) he picks up a huge amount of speed and arrives at the finish line a bit breathless - with the reader - well, THIS reader - thinking um, I'm not sure about this, you left me in the dust a little ways back there! But... I guess that's another book.)
Otherwise, excellent: brilliantly conceived, creatively researched, beautifully written. And the reading is simply top-notch, the pairing of book & reader is a marriage made in heaven. Scott Brick's delivery is as articulate, as accurate, as brisk, and as bitingly accusatory as David Hyde Pierce, while being as soothing, helpful, hopeful and compassionate as the movement of the text demands.
It is a big topic Pollan has taken on, in terms of the technical scope of the material as well as the social reach of his analysis, and I think he's done a marvelous job, really hit the nail on the head, or very nearly so. I have his other book, "Omnivore's Dilemma" in my library and can't wait to get to it next.
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- Jeff
- 2010-04-16
good book but terrible narration
I really don't want to give this or any book a bad review because I'm usually not in the habit of criticizing others, but Michael Pollan's book which, I would enjoy if I read, was not so pleasant to listen to because of the overly exaggerated tone of the narrator. I'm sure Scott Brick is wonderful with fiction, but non-fiction with a continues sarcastic tone is really too much. For what it's worth, I recommend buying the book.
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- Kathleen
- 2011-02-24
Engrossing and Informative
I knew I would learn from this book, but I didn't realize how much I would enjoy it. I found myself really engrossed in this book - so much so I wanted to do the dishes so I'd have an excise to put in headphones. I have really changed my perspective on food and loved the way it debunked so many myths of "nutritionism" in favor of sense.
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