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ISBN: 9781594201455 : $21.95 1594201455 Personal Author: Pollan, Michael. Title: In defense of food : an eater's manifesto / Michael Pollan. Publication Information: New York : Penguin Press, 2008. Physical Description: 244 p. ; 22 cm. Contents: pt. 1. The age of nutritionism. -- From foods to nutrients -- Nutritionism defined -- Nutritionism comes to market -- Food science's golden age -- The melting of the lipid hypothesis -- Eat right, get fatter -- Beyond the pleasure principle -- The proof in the low-fat pudding -- Bad science -- Nutritionism's children -- pt. 2. The Western diet and the diseases of civilization. -- The Aborigine in all of us -- The elephant in the room -- The industrialization of eating : what we do know : From whole foods to refined ; From complexity to simplicity ; From quality to quantity ; From leaves to seeds ; From food culture to food science -- pt. 3. Getting over nutritionism. -- Escape from the Western diet -- Eat food : food defined -- Mostly plants : what to eat -- Not too much : how to eat. Subject Term: Nutrition. Food habits.

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