In Defense of Food

What to Eat: Food. Not Too Much. Mostly Plants.

As I was feeding the dog, it occurred to me that dogs have a very straightforward relationship with food. Our Labrador’s philosophy seems to be “eat everything you can get and as much of it as possible, whether it’s food, ice cubes, pine cones, wood, or anything else you can chew or swallow.” In two

What’s for Dinner?

Sep 30, 2008Harriet A. Hall, MDBook Reviews, Nutrition, Science-based Medicine Blogcarbohydrates, food, In Defense of Food, lipids, Michael Pollan, Nutrition, nutritionism, organic farming

Diet advice changes so fast it’s almost a full-time job to keep up with it. Avoid cholesterol; no, avoid saturated fats; no, avoid trans-fats. Avocados are bad; no, avocados are good. Wheat germ is passé; now omega 3s are de rigueur. The supermarket overwhelms us with an embarras de richesses, a confusing superabundance of choices