In Defense of Food

I actually really liked this book. Even though it wasn't a story with a plot line, I still found it really interesting because it applied to modern day life. The motto throughout the book was "eat food. not too much. mostly plants." This motto really captures what the book was about. Micheal Pollan talks about how over the past thirty or forty years, actual food has been disappearing. Actual food has been replaced by substitutes of over processed food and even food that is said to be "healthy", but in retrospect is really not. Pollan also touches on the issue that people are worrying too much about what they put into their mouths. He talks about how food should be enjoyable and natural and people shouldn't be obsessing about what they put into their mouths. He talks about the issue of "nutritionism". This is where people see food that is enhanced with nutrients and they assume that it is healthier. This is not true though. It could actually be less healthy. Overall, I thought that this book was very well written and that it was very interesting even though I'm not super into food.