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Michael Pollan Stumbles with His Latest Booknew

Big claims, not too much support, mostly unconvincing. That's my nutshell response to Pollan's most recent answer to "the supposedly incredibly complicated and confusing question of what we humans should eat in order to be maximally healthy."
The Texas Observer  |  James E. McWilliams  |  03-26-2008  |  Nonfiction

Food, Not Fadsnew

Michael Pollan takes on food science and the Western diet in his follow-up to The Omnivore's Dilemma
Eugene Weekly  |  Molly Templeton  |  02-07-2008  |  Nonfiction

Michael Pollan's Manifestonew

Post-Omnivore's Dilemma, the doomsday prophet of the U.S. diet lets us know what we can eat.
Willamette Week  |  Ben Waterhouse  |  02-06-2008  |  Author Profiles & Interviews

The Food Book to Read This Yearnew

Michael Pollan sets out to determine why the so-called Western diet is the unhealthiest in the world; how, despite a full-fledged societal obsession with food and nutrition, Americans have gotten to the perverse point where we are both overweight and undernourished.
The Portland Mercury  |  Alison Hallett  |  12-27-2007  |  Nonfiction

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