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Author Says Simplicity is Secret to Nutrition, Health, Wellness

Michael Pollan is an award-winning journalist whose books address an important and timely topic: food. His latest book, “In Defense of Food”, offers seven simple words of advice: Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.

The following excerpt from the author's website provides a look into his philosophy about healthy eating:

Most of what we’re consuming today is not food … we’re consuming ‘edible, foodlike substances’ [that are] no longer the products of nature but of food science. … In this so-called Western diet, food has been replaced by nutrients, and common sense by confusion.

The result is what Michael Pollan calls the American paradox: The more we worry about nutrition, the less healthy we seem to become.

In his book, Pollan makes a case for simplified eating rules, and returning eating to its proper context – out of the car and back to the table.

June 28, 2009

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