In Defense Of Food Essay

Michael Pollan’s novel, “In Defense of Food”, is a follow-up to his prior novel, “The Omnivore’s Dilemma”. The book is explaining the issue with the food industry in America, but does not explain how you can change the way you eat. This is where the novel of “In Defense of Food” comes in. He starts out with the seemingly simple phrase of “eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants (1)”. Going more in depth into the book, though, you see that this is not exactly that easy. He goes on to explain how the food industry and food scientists started the “Age of Nutritionism”. This clever title of nutritionism is defined by the fact that it is more of an ideology than an actual science, even though the people using this are scientists. He illustrates the fact that this idea of nutritionism is extremely new and only recently …show more content…
The French ideal of enjoying what you eat versus the amount that you eat. Meals in France are usually smaller proportions that taste a lot better. He also talks about the “French Paradox” and how they tend to be the country that has the highest intake of saturated fat and dietary cholesterol but they also tend to be the one of the countries with the mortality rate related to chronic heart disease. This is strange because for many years, nutritionists have come to say that these two: saturated fat and dietary cholesterol have a direct link to chronic heart disease. He goes on to explain how this ideal from nutritionists is based solely on two studies. There are numerous other studies that are inconclusive on finding a link between these two. Here in America, we have our own sort of paradox. While we are a country with one of the highest mortality rates from chronic heart disease, we are also a country that is most concerned with its health and eating healthy foods. Changing this constant worry of people can help America actually become healthier, according to