He says that as long as we are eating a Western diet it will be impossible to overcome this situation and his recommendation is a return to local, seasonal foods and traditional dietary patterns. Pollen brings our attention to the American paradox: “a notably unhealthy population preoccupied with nutrition and diet and the idea of eating healthfully”. He claims that we don’t need to rely on nutrition experts to tell us what to eat and instead he encourages a back-to-basics approach and a return to traditional ways of eating. Pollen puts forth the idea that food is more than the sum of its parts or its composition of individual nutrients. The book, which grew out of an essay that Pollan wrote for The New York Times Magazine, challenges some of the major concepts of nutrition. Mostly plants.” This is the premise of Michael Pollen’s book, In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto. In Defense of Food: Michael Pollen Background
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