Food isn't what it once was. Actually, much of what we eat today may not be food at all. That is the main lesson drawn from Michael Pollan's new book, In Defense of Food, a meticulously researched, self-described "eater's manifesto."
The book, which is very much a companion piece to Pollan's earlier book, The Omnivore's Dilemma, continues his argument that in recent decades, we have shifted from the traditional diets of our ancestors to what he calls the "Western diet" -- industrialized food, reconstituted, repackaged and redefined to conform with the latest whims of nutritional science.
It is a shift that Pollan says has set us adrift in a "treacherous food environment," bereft of "cultural tools to guide us through it." All this has brought us increased obesity, high blood pressure and diabetes along with the troubling paradox that "the more we worry about nutrition the less healthy we become."
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