![]() ![]() The rules are phrased in everyday language I deliberately avoid the vocabulary of nutrition or biochemistry, though in most cases there is scientific research to back them up. ![]() Pollan believes that ‘nutritionism,’ what he says is the belief that food is the sum of its parts, is an ideology. In this short, radically pared-down book, I unpack those seven words of advice into a comprehensive set of rules, or personal policies, designed to help you eat real food in moderation and, by doing so, substantially get off the Western diet. The ‘choice’ between convenience and healthfulness that Pollan presents is a false dichotomy- you don’t have to sacrifice one for the other. ![]() It is much less about theory, history, and science than it is about our daily lives and practice. The focus of this book is very different. Fortunately for both of us, I realized that the story of how simple a question as what to eat had ever gotten so complicated was one worth telling, and that became the focus of that book. ![]() But it was also somewhat alarming, because my publisher was expecting a few thousand words more than that. This was the bottom line, and it was satisfying to have found it, a piece of hard ground deep down at the bottom of the swamp of nutrition science: seven words of plain English, no biochemistry degree required. “I had a deeply unsettling moment when, after spending a couple years researching nutrition for my last book, In Defense of Food, I realized that the answer to the supposedly incredibly complicated question of what we should eat wasn’t so complicated after all, and in fact could be boiled down to just seven words: ![]()
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