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In defense of food : an eater's manifesto / Michael Pollan

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Penguin Books, 2009Description: 244 pagesContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780143114963
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 613
Contents:
I. The age of nutritionism
One. From foods to nutrients
Two. Nutritionism defined
Three. Nutritionism comes to market
Four. Food science's golden age
Five. The melting of the lipid hypothesis
Six. Eat right, get fatter
Seven. Beyond the pleasure principle
Eight. The proof in the low-fat pudding
Nine. Bad science
Ten. Nutritionism's children
II. The western diet and the diseases of civilization
One. The Aborigine in all of us
Two. The elephant in the room
Three. The industrialization of eating :
What wed do know
From whole foods to refined
From complexity to simplicity
From quality to quantity
From leaves to seeds
From food culture to food science
III. Getting over nutritionism
One. Escape from the western diet
Two. Eat food : food defined
Three. Mostly plants : what to eat
Four. Not too much : how to eat
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-228) and index.

I. The age of nutritionism

One. From foods to nutrients

Two. Nutritionism defined

Three. Nutritionism comes to market

Four. Food science's golden age

Five. The melting of the lipid hypothesis

Six. Eat right, get fatter

Seven. Beyond the pleasure principle

Eight. The proof in the low-fat pudding

Nine. Bad science

Ten. Nutritionism's children

II. The western diet and the diseases of civilization

One. The Aborigine in all of us

Two. The elephant in the room

Three. The industrialization of eating :

What wed do know

From whole foods to refined

From complexity to simplicity

From quality to quantity

From leaves to seeds

From food culture to food science

III. Getting over nutritionism

One. Escape from the western diet

Two. Eat food : food defined

Three. Mostly plants : what to eat

Four. Not too much : how to eat

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