英文名著--In Defense of Food_ An Eaters Manifesto - Michael Pollan.pdf

In Defense of Food Michael Pollan Also by Michael Pollan Second Nature A Place of My Own The Botany of Desire The Omnivore’s Dilemma FOR A NN A ND GERRY, With gratitude for your loyal friendshi and ins ired editing INTRODUCTION AN EATER’S MANIFESTO E at food. Not too much. Mostly plants. hat, more or less, is the short answer to the supposedly incredibly complicated and confusing question of what we humans should eat in order to be maximally healthy. I hate to give the game away right here at the beginning of a whole book devoted to the subject, and I’m tempted to complicate matters in the interest of keeping things going for a couple hundred more pages or so. I’ll try to resist, but will go ahead and add a few more details to flesh out the recommendations. Like, eating a little meat isn’t going to kill you, though it might be better approached as a side dish than as a main. A nd you’re better off eating whole fresh foods rather than processed food products. hat’s what I mean by the recommendation to “eat food,” which is not quite as simple as it sounds. For while it used to be that food was all you could eat, today there are thousands of other edible foodlike substances in the supermarket. hese novel products of food science often come in packages elaborately festooned with health claims, which brings me to another, somewhat counterintuitive, piece of advice