In Defense of Food
There’s so much of
it, so many decisions, and so many factors. I’m talking about food. The little
things you need to know and the big things as well. What the difference is from
what you need and what you want. Michael Pollon wrote In Defense of Food,
a wonderful book, he does a great job describing what it means to eat healthy.
He set the stage right by writing this book and not using it as a guide on how
to eat, it’s simply a book defending what food has become.
Pollon wrote Omnivores
Dilemma prior to writing In Defense of Food. Omnivores Dilemma
captured the attention of many. After reading it people became curious to what
they should eat. As the world questions what we “should” eat Pollon can only
say it in a few simple words, “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” Well
that seems easy, but still there is wonder to what are we are supposed to eat.
Ok mostly plants, what about everything else in this world. You need nutrients as Pollan describes, you
need the food that is full fat rather than low fat. The labels on the products
are tricking the world and we need to understand what’s right to eat. As the
book continues on Pollon describes with great detail how a lot of the food we
eat today has changed more than ever over that past hundreds of years and what
we need to do about it. He is very persuasive and uses good examples and
information to support his arguments to show the reader to believe in what he
is saying.
Food has changed,
yes that is very true. Food is becoming more processed and full of chemicals.
The world isn’t recognizing what is good and bad for you. Pollon explains what
America is mainly eating today is not essentially “real” food. Then we question
what is “real” food. He describes that the food our country should eat is the
food our ancestors would recognize as “real” food. That is so true. The food
most people eat today is full of chemicals, colors and all this weird stuff,
words we cant even pronounce. Our ancestors would have been shocked seeing some
of the food we eat today. To eat good and healthy, eat what our ancestors would
have eaten. Eat what is essential, Pollon explains.
As the book goes
into detail about food, there was one thing that stuck out to me. Pollon did a
great job showing me what is important when it comes to food. We need to find
what is good for us, and escape the food that isn’t “real”. There is “real”
food out there for us, in fact it’s good food, there just needs to be patient
and dedication to finding that “real” food, as Pollon explains. You may in the
end have to spend more time and money on food, making a decision to eat better,
but truly it is better in the long run, for your health as Pollon describes it
is better for everyone to eat healthier. Pollon truly believes the best way to
be healthy is to “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” That’s it.
His book is not a
book advising people to what to eat. It’s a book advising us to “eat food” and
“to see it in a more positive light and count ourselves fortunate indeed that
there is once again real food for us to eat.” Pollon doesn’t want us to give
up, we have the opportunity to eat right and it’s worth it!
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