博客來囊括紐約時報等8大暢銷排行榜第一名！
掀起全美飲食革命的話題巨作！
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本書將一舉揭穿營養學的國王新衣，
告訴你食品界令人震驚的幕後事實，
以及真正的食物被營養主義淹沒的真相！
我們究竟應該吃什麼？答案就在這本書裡！
你到底在吃什麼？
現在的食物供給不虞匱乏，然而大部分的人所吃下肚的，卻都不是真正的食物。愈來愈多的人每餐食不知味，或者草草了事，這不能叫做「吃」食物，而只是在消費「看起來像食物的可食物質」。
那些非天然、而是來自食品科學的產物，最大的特色就是號稱健康，卻正足以昭告天下它們最不健康。今日的飲食型態，已演變成輕食物而重營養素，在過去幾十年間，母親們已經喪失了晚餐菜色的決定權，取而代之的是科學家和食品行銷商，以及兩者通常會形成的聯盟。
假如真正的食物要站出來替自己辯護，那麼它們要反抗的對象，一個正是食品產業，另一個則是營養科學！這兩個投機者抓住一般人不知道「要吃什麼」的弱點而大發利市。諷刺的是，那些號稱權威的營養建議，不但毀掉了美味的餐點，還讓我們變得更加多病、癡肥！
那我們究竟應該吃什麼呢？飲食文化的研究權威麥可．波倫在本書中提出了全新的答案，並提供了簡單的衡量標準，包括：不會壞的東西千萬不要吃；商品中含有陌生、念不出來的成分千萬不要吃；食物買貴一點，吃少一點；吃正餐，並且慢慢吃……等等，幫助你重新學習正確的飲食方式，讓「吃」再度變成一件值得享受的事！
★本書中譯本《食物無罪》由平安文化出版
What to eat, what not to eat, and how to think about health: a manifesto for our times
"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." These simple words go to the heart of Michael Pollan's In Defense of Food, the well-considered answers he provides to the questions posed in the bestselling The Omnivore's Dilemma.
Humans used to know how to eat well, Pollan argues. But the balanced dietary lessons that were once passed down through generations have been confused, complicated, and distorted by food industry marketers, nutritional scientists, and journalists-all of whom have much to gain from our dietary confusion. As a result, we face today a complex culinary landscape dense with bad advice and foods that are not "real." These "edible foodlike substances" are often packaged with labels bearing health claims that are typically false or misleading. Indeed, real food is fast disappearing from the marketplace, to be replaced by "nutrients," and plain old eating by an obsession with nutrition that is, paradoxically, ruining our health, not to mention our meals. Michael Pollan's sensible and decidedly counterintuitive advice is: "Don't eat anything that your great-great grandmother would not recognize as food."
Writing In Defense of Food, and affirming the joy of eating, Pollan suggests that if we would pay more for better, well-grown food, but buy less of it, we'll benefit ourselves, our communities, and the environment at large. Taking a clear-eyed look at what science does and does not know about the links between diet and health, he proposes a new way to think about the question of what to eat that is informed by ecology and tradition rather than by theprevailing nutrient-by-nutrient approach.
In Defense of Food reminds us that, despite the daunting dietary landscape Americans confront in the modern supermarket, the solutions to the current omnivore's dilemma can be found all around us.
In looking toward traditional diets the world over, as well as the foods our families-and regions-historically enjoyed, we can recover a more balanced, reasonable, and pleasurable approach to food. Michael Pollan's bracing and eloquent manifesto shows us how we might start making thoughtful food choices that will enrich our lives and enlarge our sense of what it means to be healthy.
作者簡介
麥可．波倫Michael Pollan
一九五五年生於紐約長島，加州大學英語碩士，現為《紐約時報雜誌》長期專欄作家，以及柏克萊大學新聞系教授。他專精於食物本質的探討，包括食物鏈、消費文化、營養素等等的演變，在全美掀起了熱烈討論，也改變了無數美國人的飲食習慣。而在本書中，他更進一步讓我們知道如何從每一餐開始做出改變！麥可．波倫另著有五本作品，其中包括《到底要吃什麼？》和《慾望植物園》兩本紐約時報暢銷書。他現在與畫家妻子茱蒂絲．貝澤以及兒子以撒住在舊金山灣區。
Michael Pollan is the author of four previous books, including The Omnivore's Dilemma and The Botany of Desire, both New York Times bestsellers. A longtime contributor to The New York Times, he is also the Knight Professor of Journalism at Berkeley.
