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Listened to this #roll100 pick while I got a jump on Xmas cross stitch gifts. This cute pattern is for my niece ☺️ #audiostitching #litsycrafters

While I enjoyed this and felt like Pollan‘s approach to food, eating, and health is similar to my own, I would have liked to have heard more about how to eat healthy when you‘re short on time, money, opportunities. His recommendations reeked of privilege and didn‘t acknowledge food deserts, etc. 😕

Shut the front door. I cackled out loud at this coincidence. What are the odds of a book you‘re actively reading referencing another book you‘re actively reading?!?

Only connect, indeed.

#george #roll100 #1001books

It may be the case of the author preaching to someone who already believes in the idea - but I really enjoyed the book and strongly believe in the point he puts forward - Eat Food. Not too much.Mostly Plants.
Definitely recommended if you are interested in understanding food vs nutrients.

Overfed & undernourished, that‘s the ridiculous paradox we find ourselves in. In the western world we‘ve processed our food to the point where we‘ve stripped it of nutrients to create a larger quantity. He gives obvious tips, like make sure you read ingredients & shop farmers markets, but he backs it up w/the research explaining how the food industry has changed over the past few years. I got a lot out of the book, & hope the tips stick with me.

I wish there was an updated version (or if there already is that my library had it!), but I found this fascinating. It‘s easy to read if a little difficult to swallow. It renewed my dedication to following a mostly whole-foods diet, which I‘ve slipped and slid from over the past year (pandemic, lockdown, having hubby deployed for five months, etc). Third finish of #20in4 with @Andrew65

My corn has tassels! It‘s a miracle! Might even get to eat homegrown corn this summer. #victorygarden #urbanfarm

A thoughtful and organized argument of everything that‘s wrong with our modern Western relationship with food. Pollan lays out where things went off course and gives guidance on how we can get back on track. His mantra of “eat food, not too much, mostly plants” will stay with me.

My favourite part of summer - reading in the evenings out on the balcony while the dog watches the world go by.

#dogsoflitsy

I love Michael Pollan!!!! This book was so good and definitely made me reevaluate things (I was in fact eating fries from Burger King as I finished this). Food farming, diet, and disease are such complicated, intricate issues in western culture and he does such a good job with his research, giving readers simple explanations with sometimes humorous insight. Simply put, Pollan always educates me AND makes me want to be better.

A refreshing read on food, as well as the scientific and cultural places it holds across several societies. It‘s a read for anyone who finds themselves constantly confused by nutritionism and the ways their food is marketed to them.

A criticism I do have is that in a post-2016 world, this book often adopts a tone of “what They don‘t want you to know!!” Luckily this attitude that often comes off as smug is outweighed by being heavily sourced.

Thinking about this excerpt a lot.

I did a lot of extra study on nutrition in vet school & have had my dog on a prescribed diet since. I fully believe this is why he is alive at 17 when he was predicted to die at 7.

That said, the breaking of nutrients away from their traditional dietary contexts certainly hasn‘t done a lot for western people, including me. If Sara Lee sold imitation bread, would you buy it? Because that‘s what most is.

I‘m taking a hard look at my health, ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Current armchair situation - all three are fantastic in their own ways. And the tagged is my textbook, so I‘m reading with real purpose!

A grounding place in a time of rampant nutritionism (a form of religious zeal) that shows the failure of reductionist thinking, and the Western world's never-ending quest for the holy grail of optimal food item, may it come packaged and profitable.

The book shows where "nutrition science" mixed with self-interested governing bodies and poor journalism came together to make a disaster of westernized food, especially the American type.

Looking for Health & Wellness / Fitness & Nutrition books...any suggestions?

After eating all the feels today, I decided to hit up the library and checkout this book on food. I've been meaning to read it for awhile now, here goes!

My first book I received for Christmas this year during my family's celebration on the 27th of Christmas II. I really enjoyed The Omnivore's Dilemma so I think I'll like this too!

This pretty much just reinforced all the things I already believe about America‘s food system. The knowing and the doing are two different things. Definitely motivated me to hit the farmers market more often and maybe eat fewer Woppers and 🍟.

Summer fruit and finally reading this book that has been on my shelf for ten years. And it is still pretty on point.

Reading in this tiny urban park in Andover, Mass until Daughter gets off work and retrieves me. 📚🌿💚

“. . . a food of humbling complexity . . . “

Try as I might, it‘s difficult to escape reminders of the train wreck that is the current administration. Sigh.

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This was pubbed in 2008 around the same time I started chasing ethical food knowledge, so there weren't as many new takeaways for me as there will be for others. What I will say about this book/manifesto that I've never been able to say about anything similar in length, is that I agree with everything he wrote, and everything is still applicable. Pollan puts the common sense back into eating, and I recommend it for anyone who eats. #Recommendsday

Michael Pollan's voice has been replaced for me by the narrator's. Potential future scenario: Someone who looks an awful lot like Michael Pollan walks up to me.

HIM: Hi, I'm Michael Pollan.
ME: Bullshit.

I feel like this disaster could be avoided if, in audiobooks and when possible, authors introduced their narrators and then said something at the end as well. This is only my 2nd #audiobook though. Do any authors already do this?

"You are what what you eat eats too."

I hit a brick wall with every other book I was reading. I‘m flying through this gem to build momentum. This is a “fun” read for me.

Happy Thanksgiving to those who celebrate! May your shared meals be delicious and fun! 🧡💛🧡💛

#quotsynov17 #family

But I no longer think it's possible to separate our bodily health from the health of the environment from which we eat or the environment in which we eat or from the health of our general outlook about food and health. If my explorations of the food chain have taught me anything, it's that it is a food chain, and all the links are linked: the health of the soil to the health of the plants & animals we eat to the health of the food culture & us.

Today these 4 crops [corn, soy, wheat and rice] account for two thirds of the calories we eat. When you consider that humankind has historically consumed some 80,000 edible species, and that 3,000 of these have been in widespread use, this represents a radical simplification of the human diet. Why should this concern us? Because humans are omnivores, requiring somewhere between 50 and 100 different chemical compounds and elements to be healthy.

But who knows what else is going on from in the soul of a carrot?

Indeed, to look at the chemical composition of any common food plant is to realize just how much complexity lurks within it.

"One of the most troubling features of nutritionism is... 'If foods are understood only in terms of the various quantities of nutrients they contain,' Gyorgy Scrinis wrote, then 'even processed foods may be considered to be "healthier" for you than whole foods if they contain appropriate quantities of some nutrients.'

How convenient."

Just listening to this on audiobook. Anyone read it? What did you think? I find his views rather interesting. 🥗

This is lurking on my TBR, along with a few other Michael Pollan books I picked up after watching Cooked on Netflix. He's definitely a fan of #vegetables and I love his philosophy for how to eat. Chocolate is a plant, right? #junebookbugs

Now I'm watching the PBS documentary on Netflix because the Talk Green to Me book club decided to watch documentaries and have a free-for-all discussion. If you're not up to reading a nonfiction movie, I recommend the show. Both are eye opening and not preachy.

#maybookflowers There's a lot of #truth in this book.

It's all a scam! Capitalism is the real evil.

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This slim yet very informative ‘food manifesto' made me reexamine my habits in relationship to food. Not only what I consider as food, but also where it comes from & how I select it. If we really want a change in our health, it has to start close to home; be it by buying local at farmer‘s markets, eating seasonally whenever possible, or better yet from our own garden! But we have to actively make the choice & effort to choose quality.👍💪

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Lunchtime reading😋.....kind of a perfect pairing, don't cha think? 😉😁

???❤ #Bookmarks #CurrentReads

Brand new bookmarks that my wonderful thoughtful beau surprised me with- "just because"?!
He knows me so well!??

......ok, now back to reading?

Reading this engaging nonfiction as I wait for my daughter to emerge from basketball practice.

What's a birthday celebration without some book buying? My husband and I survived 3 different breweries AND dinner tonight. Can I also just say that now that it's getting cold, I'm excited to see what Litsy's first winter is like? I know everyone on this app knows how to get cozy AF with a good book and I can't wait to see how we all evolve in the winter months. Cheers!

Sometimes popcorn, but always my home brewed kombucha. #readingsnacks

Look what I found in the wild - if you call Jamba Juice the wild! Michael Pollan's work is well-done. He puts effort into his research and writes to a general public so it's not stuffy.

I gave up on this one. I really liked a couple of his other books, but this one didn't really have a narrative like those, and it's a bit preachy. I totally agree with him, but I don't think I need to read the rest of a book that I've been slogging through to know that.

Reading about rising obesity while listening to the sound of rain and fireworks is honestly the most American thing I've done today. #oops

It's late, after long hours of packing, but gotta read while you can.

Seems like appropriate breakfast reading.

In an age where food is processed ingredients and a meal is a burger in the car stuck in traffic, Michael Pollan and this book serve to remind us that real food is worth slowing down for. Grow food, cook and revel in the pleasure of eating. And absolutely read this book.