Cover: In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan
As policy makers in Washingon DC squabble over the solution to our nation’s healthcare crisis, private citizens wait and wonder what their future medical costs will be. While many of us feel powerless in this debate, there is more we can do than wait. Leaving aside political affiliations, the truth is we could all be doing more to maintain our health.
Stuck with where to begin? How about eating habits? To get started try Michael Pollan’s latest IN DEFENSE OF FOOD: An Eater’s Manifesto. The book proposes an alternative to our food industry’s general practive of isolating vitamins and nutrients from their original food source and creating new food-like products. This friendly, well-researched and logical text is a good source for the inspiration and information you’ll need to make reasonable changes to your diet that will have long term impact on your health.
You can start as soon as today. Pollan has broken down his prescribed overhaul of the complicated Western diet into seven simple words: Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. Take that a step further with his advice: If your great-grandmother wouldn’t recognize it, don’t eat it.
It’s that simple. You might not need to read the book to benefit but it’s a good idea that you do. It offers the inconvenient facts about our convenience diets that will change your mind about the way you eat maybe forever. There is also a valuable Resource section and Index so you can continue to refer back to the book as you endeavor to make better your choices about your health.
Happy eating!
