In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

As you might guess, my yoga practice has helped me become even more aware of how important I think a holistic approach to health is. And I think that, in a vast majority of respects, American attitudes (often including my own) about food, cuisine, nutrition, health, bodies, and the interactions between all those things are the antitheses of holistic. So, I'm obsessed with Michael Pollan because he presents a simple, logical, yet compassionate possible answer on how to allow food to make you both happy and well: Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. It says that right on the cover, but like Omnivore's Dilemma, Pollan expands his guidelines in the book with humor, research, and an investigative journalist's eye. Don't read this book if you want to be told WHAT food to eat (or what food you should feel bad about eating). Read this book if you want to learn a kinder, gentler (dare I say exponentially healthier?) way HOW to eat food.