In Defense of Food: a brief review

taken from Goodreads.com

I'm in the middle of reading Jen Hatmaker's book 7, and in it she mentions that she read this book, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto. I'll save the backstory for when I finish and review 7, but let's just say that she convinced me to check this book out. And it's incredibly interesting. Pollan's main argument is that we need to be eating food, not food products or imitation processed food or things that resemble food. He takes you through the history of how our Western diet has evolved over the course of the last couple generations, and how there is very little about our diet now that our ancestors would recognize. He explains the politics and nutritionism behind all of the food-related rules and standards we take for granted as being based in truth, when in reality they have been leading us further and further away from real food for decades. He has definitely made me think about some tweaks that can be made to help bring in more whole foods and less processed foods/food products.