In defense of food. The manifesto of the eater

A deep study of the modern culture of food consumption from expert Michael Pollan. By food, the author understands healthy, real, simple food, and not the one that we see in stores - in attractive packages and declared as healthy.
In his book, he calls to stop studying the lists of hard -to -pronounced ingredients on packages, abandon fashionable diets and re -figure out what is proper and healthy diet. Following his simple tips, you can make the optimal diet for you to maintain health and feel happy.
It"s time to love food again.
For whom this book
For everyone who cares about proper nutrition for themselves and their loved ones.
For those who have tested a lot of diets and want to find the optimal for themselves to go to nutrition.
From the author
Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.
In these short tips, in general, it reflects almost all the most importantly. They will be useful to you if, having realized the complexity and diversity of theories, practices and methods of "proper nutrition", you still continue to look for the answer to the question: how and what you need to eat healthy?
We are omnivorous, that is, we can consume a lot of what nature is able to offer us. It also means that if we want to maintain good health, we need to diversify the diet, and not abuse a product with any one type. Therefore, for us, what is there? " - The question is more complicated than, say, for cows. Nevertheless, over the most part of its history, mankind found an answer to this question without the help of experts. Instead of the latter, we always had general norms at our disposal, which, at least when it comes to food, were the covenants of the ancestors. What to eat, in what quantity, in what order and with whom - people used to know and passed information from generation to generation about all this, without doubt about the correctness of such instructions.
However, over the past few decades, the authority of the elders in how to properly compose a menu for the whole family has been lost, and representatives of large companies producing products and scientists began to lead this part of everyday life