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In Defense of Food
Michael Pollan
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Michael Pollan's manifesto challenges nutritional pseudoscience with three simple rules: "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." Selected for Wisconsin-Madison's Common Read, this New York Times bestseller sparked nationwide debates about our relationship with food, revolutionizing how millions approach their dinner plates.

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When Food Became a Science Experiment-And Why Your Grandmother Was Right All Along

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Walk into any American supermarket today and you're confronted with 45,000 items screaming their nutritional virtues at you. "Low-fat!" "High-fiber!" "Now with Omega-3s!" Your great-grandmother wouldn't recognize most of these products as food. She certainly wouldn't understand why a box of cereal needs a PhD to decode. Yet here we are, a nation simultaneously overfed and malnourished, spending billions on diet books while getting progressively sicker. How did eating-the most natural human activity-become so complicated? The answer lies in a quiet revolution that transformed food from nourishment into a collection of nutrients, and eating from a cultural practice into a medical intervention. Something fundamental shifted in the 1980s. Food stopped being food and became a delivery system for nutrients. This wasn't accidental-it represented the triumph of "nutritionism," an ideology that reduces eating to its chemical components.

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The Ideology That Conquered Your Plate and Created a Profitable Partnership

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The Great Fat Fiasco and Industrial Food's Triumph

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Why Nutrition Science Keeps Getting It Wrong

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The Western Diet: A Modern Epidemic of Industrialized Food

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Your Grandmother's Wisdom: Culture, Not Chemistry

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Reclaiming Your Plate: The Revolutionary Act of Real Food

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