Reviews
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“A useful and funny purse-sized manual that could easily replace all the diet books on your bookshelf.”
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It doesn’t get much easier than this. Each page has a simple rule, sometimes with a short explanation, sometimes without, that promotes Pollan’s back-to-the-basics-of-food (and-food-enjoyment) philosophy.
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His work has been updated and made youth-friendly in a new edition, “The Omnivore’s Dilemma for Kids: The Secrets Behind What You Eat.” The target audience is 8- to 12-year-olds, though it might also appeal to adult readers turned off by drier nutrition- and environment-oriented tomes.
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Originally written for adults and now adapted for teens, this “must read” tells you much of what you need to know about the foods you put into your body on a daily basis.
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Based on Pollan’s best-selling adult book of the same title, this (slightly) shortened version will appeal to thoughtful, socially responsible teens.
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Not bedtime reading, but certainly food for thought, made slightly easier to chew thanks to graphs, and drawings.
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The subject of Michael Pollan’s fine new book, “In Defense of Food,” is the technological abyss toward which humankind with its tacit consent is being driven by the industrialized American diet. Pollan’s critique of the American food industry and the plague of obesity, diabetes, coronary disease, cancer, and untimely death for which it is largely…
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With his lucid style and innovative research, Pollan deserves his reputation as one of the most respectable voices in the modern debate about food.
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“In Defense of Food” is Pollan’s answer, the needle through which we must squeeze our fatted high-fructose selves to find salvation.
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Written with Pollan’s customary bite, ringing clarity and brilliance at connecting the dots.
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In this slim, remarkable volume, Pollan builds a convincing case not only against that steak dinner but against the entire Western diet.
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What should I eat for dinner tonight? Here is Pollan’s brilliant, succinct and nuanced answer to this question: “Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.”