In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan

Eat Food.
Not too much.
Mostly plants.

So begins and ostensibly ends Michael Pollan's In Defense of Food a book which encourages us to pay less attention to health studies and go back to eating tradition foods that our grandmothers, or even our grandmothers grandmothers would eat.

Refined foods, Pollan argues, have lost their nutrient value leaving us over-fed but undernourished. Even with essential vitamins added back in, refined food does not compensate for real food. There is some magic in the interaction of vitamins, or perhaps, undiscovered vitamins and nutrients in real food, that we need.

Markedly there are studies comparing Western (sweet meat) diets with traditional diets. Only cultures eating the Western diet suffer from high rates of Western diseases like cancer, heart disease, and tooth decay. Diseases that enter developing countries when they adopt the diet.

Spend more and eat less, Pollan concludes. Keep food food, make it part of your culture, eat well, live well.

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