In Defense of Food is Worth a Read

Mrs Vache Folle read me a lot of the good parts of Michael Pollan's "In Defense of Food". His principal point is that we ought to eat food and not just ingest nutrients, that "nutritionism", as he calls it, reduces the complexity of whole foods to individual chemicals which may, or more likely may not, work as well when taken out of the context of the whole food item, the meal or the whole diet. HIs advice is to eat real food, not too much of it, and mostly plants.

Mrs VF and I have tried to be more mindful of what we eat and where it comes from, and "In Defense of Food" provides some helpful guidelines. If the product has more than five ingredients, especially if you don't know what some of them are or can't even pronounce them, it ain't food. Run away from the health claims.

This is a great follow up to his "Omnivore's Dilemma".