Total Page : 329
Publisher : Large Print Distribution
Publication Date : 2009 05 21
>> Pithy and Powerful
Eat food Not too much Mostly plants writes Pollan It s been a few weeks since I read the book and I still remember that Words to live by The book expands on those simple sentences in the subsequent chapters The book is short and well written and dare I say life changing I was already a fairly healthful eater but now my consciousness has been raised a bit more and I am seriously focusing on eating food The book suggests not eating anything that has more than 5 ingredients or has ingredients you don t recognize I have been reading package labels much more closely now and have been forced to abandon the cereal bar that I used to eat each morning in my car on the way to work And that is another point he makes why are we Americans always eating on the run I also just switched from skim to whole milk after learning how harmful the processing of skim milk is Whole milk tastes better anyway Another good point he makes is that healthful food sometimes may cost more but in the long run if the food keeps you healthy it pays off
There wasn t really that much in the book that I hadn t read or heard before but the way Pollan pulls it all together makes it impactful So much of our culture and lifestyle seems to work against healthful eating but this book has given me new resolve to try harder I believe this book will motivate most readers to make some changes in their eating habits
>> priceless advice
Eat food not too much mostly plants That is the great advice that Pollan explores and eventually concludes with He investigates and traces the history of the Western diet the fallacies of industrialized processed and capitalistic foods and nutritional science The book examines the history of the Western diet and the problems and limits of nutritional science While some of his logic is a bit weak his basic premise is utterly sound and packed with common sense and good news we can and should eat real and delicious foods Eating real whole foods from environmentally sound practices is not only morally sound and good for our planet but also good for us Perhaps more importantly our diet our eating should be a bigger part of our lives We should enjoy food growing it cooking it and eating it We will in every way benefit from this Great read inspiring encouraging and helpful Grade A
>> Great Book
We ve bought at least six copies of this book to give as gifts We will probably end up buying more
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