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Health knowledge made personal
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Health knowledge made personal
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I just finished an incredible and informative book about the state of the standard American diet. It is called "In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto" by Michael Pollan. The book is easy to follow. Pollan has a way of making fact after fact interesting. He is also the author of "The Omnivore's Dilemma."
You're going to eat anyway. Make choices that feed and heal your body. Forego packaged foods with health claims splashed across their labels. And if you can, grow something. If you are limited on space it may be just the herbs you'll use in cooking. How nice to take your basil right from the plant and onto your sandwich. If you are going to buy at the grocer, choose locally grown and pay more for organic. America is obsessed with cheap food but at what cost, higher rates of obesity and soaring health care expenditures. I recommend paying for your health on the front end and purchasing the best, most nutritious and whole foods that money can buy. I will look forward to reading whatever Michael Pollan has to say about food in subsequent books. Read "In Defense of Food" and let me know what you think. Thanks for reading. Tamara ZumMallen
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