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 enlarge | Author: Michael Pollan
Publisher: Penguin Press HC, The
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  168 reviews
Sales Rank: 123
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 256
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.2 x 5.5 x 1.1
ISBN: 1594201455
Dewey Decimal Number: 613.2
EAN: 9781594201455
ASIN: 1594201455
Publication Date: January 1, 2008
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 Nostalgia by a Luddite January 22, 2008
29 out of 75 found this review helpful
This book cherry picks nutritional findings when it wishes to add a little scientific credibility to its arguments, but then implies that nutritional science will always get it wrong. In this way it implies there is no difference between the discredited lipid hypothesis and the carbohydrate hypothesis which has so recently been brilliantly documented by Gary Taubes. Pollan then wanders off into unsubstantiated claims that vegetarians live longer and endorses the customary liberal feel good arguments about farmers' markets and natural food. While charmingly written, it is basically a literary work and not a book with useful nutritional information.
 Great Book Everyone Should Read January 18, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book really opened my eyes as to how I should be looking at food. I have told everyone I know about it and even have bought a copy for my parents. It's that good.
Admiration from another nutrition writer January 18, 2008
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
This is a better book than mine. IN DEFENSE OF FOOD and HONEST NUTRITION cover some of the same topics, but Michael Pollen does it better than I did. Buy it!
Much of popular ideas and literature about nutrition is false. Pollen does very well at presenting what is true, and making it simple.
Loved this book January 17, 2008
6 out of 13 found this review helpful
I savored omnivore's delima took my time and read it carefully in order not to miss something. This short easy to read book was the opposite. I sat down and read the whole thing. I agree with everything Michael Pollan has to say about the western diet, even though I have been less than careful about avoiding it. I feel inspired to eat better and be more careful than ever about what I buy. it is probably the best "diet book" I have ever read. Not to mention it is entertaining, funny and does not insult my intelligence.
A good follow up for "The Omnivore's Dilemma" January 16, 2008
2 out of 5 found this review helpful
Having read, and enjoyed, "The Omnivore's Dilemma" last year, I was really looking forward to reading through this book. The book feels almost like a sequel to the last book, laid out almost as if Michael Pollan is answering the questions that the reader inevitably would have had from reading "Omnivore".
The concept here is simple, which is to eat food. This seems so easy, but unless you pick up the containers in the grocery store, you would assume everything that is edible is food. Wrong. Pollan reinforces a similar idea that I have heard on a few occasions, which is when you are in the supermarket, stay on the outside of the store and not inside. Try to not eat things that have more than five ingredients, and make sure you can pronounce the ingredients. Whole foods are the key here, which is something that was essentially the underlying idea behind the previous book. Know your food and know who grows your food.
I want to take a point off for it being so short (and so good that I could hardly put it down, making it feel that much shorter), but that really is not fair.
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